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	Oracle sues Google over Java use in Android Oracle has filed a lawsuit against Google, charging that its Android phone software infringes on Oracle patents and copyrights related to Java, Oracle said on Thursday. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Forrester: IT Platform to Optimize and Consolidate In this report, Forrester investigates the reasons why you should consider WAN optimization solutions as the best way to gain better IT performance, cost savings, and greater flexibility for your business. And it's also a smart network improvement investment over the long-term. Get the facts about WAN optimization in this study. Read now! In this Issue 8 MORE geek videos that aren't viral...yet! Droid 2 Teardown: 4 Findings 5 tips to protect yourself on Facebook Getting Ready For Internet Explorer 9 CA buys cloud consulting company 4Base News podcast: Network World 360 Oracle v. Google: Far-Reaching Implications of Lawsuit Open source software a frequent flier on Virgin America Big Brother's Creepy Little Brother Snoops as Productivity Tool Einstein's helpers discover neutron star via grid computing project WHITE PAPER: Insight How to Reduce Overall Storage Costs By 10x Discover how IT can better optimize its storage infrastructure, enabling administrators to deliver a cost-effective, scalable information management platform that is: * Easy to manage. * Delivers the performance and availability competitive businesses require. Read now! 8 MORE geek videos that aren't viral...yet! Videos so wrong you don't want to be right. Read More Droid 2 Teardown: 4 Findings Unlike R2-D2, Motorola's Droid 2 is not a sentient being, so there's nothing cruel about iFixit's teardown of the latest Android phone. Read More 5 tips to protect yourself on Facebook After news hit this week that Facebook developers are furiously trying to fix a bug that lets spammers harvest users' names and photos, the issue of online safety has reared its ugly head again. Read More WHITE PAPER: Websense Seven Criteria for Evaluating SaaS The right Security-as-a-Service solution can perform reliably and effectively and deliver the flexibility and control associated with on-premise solutions — at a significantly lower cost — without compromising privacy and security. Read More Getting Ready For Internet Explorer 9 After four platform previews aimed at demonstrating the power of the underlying Internet Explorer 9 engine to developers, Microsoft is ready to unveil a public beta of the IE9 Web browser on September 15. Many organizations are still struggling with the decision to move from IE6 to IE8, so what should businesses expect from the new Microsoft browser? Read More CA buys cloud consulting company 4Base Betting that moving to the cloud won't be as easy as vendors promise, CA on Thursday bought 4Base, a consulting firm that helps companies adopt and implement the cloud. Read More News podcast: Network World 360 Hewlett-Packard's board of directors has been hit with a shareholder lawsuit alleging mismanagement and breach of fiduciary duties following last week's abrupt departure of Chairman and CEO Mark Hurd. Also, India may ask Google, Skype and other online service providers to allow the country's law enforcement agencies to access communications on their networks, the head of an Internet association said on Friday. (4:09) Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Cooperative Control Architecture Learn how a controller-less approach to WLAN keeps costs linear and predictive regardless of network size or deployment type. This architecture provides the capital cost advantages of autonomous APs and the technical advantages of controller-based approaches. Read now! Oracle v. Google: Far-Reaching Implications of Lawsuit Oracle has filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming that Google's Android software infringes on seven Oracle patents and copyrights related to Java. The suit was filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco and seeks a jury trial. Read More Open source software a frequent flier on Virgin America Virgin America's CIO says free and open source software (FOSS) is giving the fast growing airline a competitive edge in providing guest services vs. airlines relying mainly on more expensive and less flexible proprietary programs. Read More Big Brother's Creepy Little Brother Snoops as Productivity Tool I've heard of hiding in plain sight, but some people choose to lift the veil protecting their privacy and expose all for the world to see. In this radical approach to privacy, some people want everything to be made public. Read More Einstein's helpers discover neutron star via grid computing project The Einstein@Home project – one of dozens of grid computing projects that rely on the CPU cycles of volunteers' home and office computers – is being credited with discovery of a new radio pulsar. Read More
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