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	Robocop ran DOS Virtually no sci-fi or action flick these days is complete without a computer scene showing a few screens of mysterious scrolling text and a 3D wire-frame model. But where does this vaguely tech-looking stuff come from? Well, more often than not, it comes from a Website, app, or startup screen from the real world at the time the movie was made. Read on for some of the most unexpected tech cameos in movies. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM The Information Agenda Guide for Financial Markets CIOs need relevant information to achieve both short-term and long-term strategic goals. Read this guide to find out how an IBM Information Agenda can help financial institutions address a wide variety of business tasks, as well as unlock the value of their information, by using it in entirely new ways. Read Now In this Issue Microsoft exec mocks iPhone 4, dubs it Apple's Vista Apple Burning Corporate Bridges with iPhone 4 Response Do we REALLY care about what executives have to say? Privacy Watchdog, ESRB, Itself Leaks A Thousand Emails Can Sprint afford a WiMAX flop? Microsoft confirms Russian spy was employee, report says Windows XP SP2 and 7 other things Microsoft has killed this year Microsoft fixes buggy patch for Windows Server 2008 Upgrade Your Motherboard the Easy Way WEBCAST: Meraki Take Your WiFi to the Cloud This Webcast will detail the simplicity and savings of cloud-managed Wi-Fi. Learn how Meraki's wireless solution delivers savings of up to 50% over traditional solutions and scales for networks of all sizes. View now! Microsoft exec mocks iPhone 4, dubs it Apple's Vista Kevin Turner, Microsoft's chief operating officer, today compared Apple's iPhone 4 to his own company's problem-plagued Vista operating system. Read More Apple Burning Corporate Bridges with iPhone 4 Response The original iPhone represents a watershed moment in both the concept of smartphones, and in the blurring of the line between consumer and corporate technology. With the stubborn, stumbling response to issues with the iPhone 4, though, Apple threatens to destroy the credibility it has earned with IT administrators, and reverse the progress it has made toward corporate acceptance as a smartphone platform. Read More Do we REALLY care about what executives have to say? I am wondering if I am alone out here on the USS CEO Boredom? Do you as an engineer actually care enough about what a CEO has to say that you'll wait in line or stop what you doing to hear it? Or is the Cliff Notes version enough? Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Virtualize your end-to-end IT infrastructure A virtual storage infrastructure available only from HP can double your capacity utilization and cut management costs in half with innovations that unlock trapped capacity in individual servers or in enterprise disk arrays. Learn how. Read Now Privacy Watchdog, ESRB, Itself Leaks A Thousand Emails An employee for a privacy group made a rookie mistake by sending a Reply-All email and actually breached the privacy of people who had emailed their concerns to the group about their privacy. The irony of this story about the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) is something to be marveled over. Read More Can Sprint afford a WiMAX flop? For a carrier that is just starting to recover from massive losses to both its subscriber base and its profitability, the thought of failing to capture the early 4G market is none too pleasant. Read More Microsoft confirms Russian spy was employee, report says Microsoft has reportedly confirmed that the "12th alleged member" of the recently exposed Russian spy ring worked for Microsoft. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Setting Up a Seven-Figure IT Cost Avoidance at JEA Learn how storage acquisition costs are 67% lower, performance is faster, recovery takes minutes instead of days, and a seven figure cost avoidance lies ahead. Read Now Windows XP SP2 and 7 other things Microsoft has killed this year Microsoft's official curtailing this week of support and patches for Windows 2000 and Windows XP Service Pack 2 marks the latest in a string of moves by the company to kill off products and technologies that either outlived their usefulness or never became useful in the first place. Read More Microsoft fixes buggy patch for Windows Server 2008 As part of its routine Patch Tuesday updates, Microsoft re-released patch MS10-024 for Windows Server 2008 and R2 that was itself causing problems. The revised patch was not mentioned in the company's heads-up alerts issued on Thursday. Read More Upgrade Your Motherboard the Easy Way Even accomplished geeks shy away from motherboard upgrades on their main PCs. Years ago, I would often upgrade gaming and test systems in my own basement lab, but keep chugging along with a production machine using a two-year-old motherboard and CPU. Read More
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