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	The 22 Best Android Apps Not sure what to download from the Android Market? Try these top titles, including Barcode Scanner, BeyondPod, and SkyFire. Read More WHITE PAPER: Gigamon Systems Gigamon in the Data Center "Downtime in the data center" is a concept that should be forbidden in any organization. Yet the only way to eliminate that unspeakable word is to prevent it from happening at all. How so? Data Access Switches that allow complete visibility and secure access to monitor and analyze all mission critical data, 24/7. Learn More In this Issue The Commodore 64 lives again - as a modern PC running Ubuntu Spammers exploit second Facebook bug in a week Symantec, Trend Micro rivalry heats up over antivirus tests, new products VMware's plan for the Apple iPad still taking shape Google Instant: A to Z A brighter future for Google Wave: A lesson for others Military mobile apps store gets $6.4M to open News podcast: Network World 360 HP introduces microserver for small businesses Apple matches Mozilla, patches DLL hijacking bug in Safari Preventing Bad Behavior with Policy Based Management HTML5 may help Web pages talk, listen WEBCAST: Infoblox Learn 4 Concepts to Network Automation Join this webinar to learn where to start introducing network automation into your organization so you can: • Address Hidden IT Costs • Support Key Initiatives • Achieve Operational Optimization • Apply IT Resources More Strategically View Now! The Commodore 64 lives again - as a modern PC running Ubuntu Some of you may remember the now-infamous Carpet Cleaner Computer that's Personal (CCCP), an old Bissell carpet washer that I converted to a PC because, well, just because. The fun continues with another entertaining waste of time and money, converting a Commodore 64 to a genuine contemporary PC. Yes, it can be done, again with a little custom engineering and an unusual circuit board. Read More Spammers exploit second Facebook bug in a week Facebook today said it has fixed the bug that allowed a spamming worm to automatically post messages to users' walls earlier this week. Read More Symantec, Trend Micro rivalry heats up over antivirus tests, new products A spitting match related to antivirus product tests has erupted between Symantec and Trend Micro, as each Wednesday unveiled the 2011 editions of their consumer desktop antimalware packages. Read More VMware's plan for the Apple iPad still taking shape VMware previewed a desktop virtualization client for the Apple iPad, but isn't saying when it will be commercially available. Read More DOWNLOAD: BlackBerry Improve Enterprise BlackBerry Control & Security Download your free copy of BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express and achieve; improved end-user productivity,advanced IT control and support, proven security and manageability. Download Today! Google Instant: A to Z Google announced its Google Instant feature today, which performs your searches before you even finish typing in the search bar. It basically eliminates the Search button and the Return key, saving you time when you're searching. Read More A brighter future for Google Wave: A lesson for others Google Wave is dead, long live Google Wave? Shortly after the company announced that it was mothballing the Wave platform, the company is now pushing "Wave in a Box," as an open source second try for the dead platform. Read More Military mobile apps store gets $6.4M to open The US military wants cool mobile apps just like the rest of us and with an award today of $6.4 million to the Corporation for National Research Initiatives to build an app store, it has taken a giant step toward getting theirs. Read More News podcast: Network World 360 Hewlett-Packard is suing its former CEO, Mark Hurd, who was named co-president of rival Oracle on Monday, saying his hiring violates the terms of a severance agreement he signed with HP. Also, Amazon may be preparing a move into gaming after hiring away Microsoft's director of games platform strategy. (2:00) Read More WEBCAST: Certeon Going Virtual with WAN Optimization Software This Webcast will provide you with the necessary information required to deploy high performance virtualized infrastructures that support remote access to resources and applications. Learn More HP introduces microserver for small businesses Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday announced a low-cost, entry-level server for small businesses that bundles advanced features in a small package. Read More Apple matches Mozilla, patches DLL hijacking bug in Safari Apple yesterday patched three vulnerabilities in Safari, including one in the Windows version that quashed a bug Microsoft said individual developers had to fix themselves. Read More Preventing Bad Behavior with Policy Based Management SQL Server 2008 supports Policy Based Management. When it was first announced it was called the Declarative Management Framework but PBM has stuck. It's SQL Server's version of Group Policy but luckily Active Directory is not involved at all. In fact, that was a requirement. I think Microsoft learned their lesson with Exchange 2000. It's a SQL Server feature pure and simple. Read More HTML5 may help Web pages talk, listen The World Wide Consortium is investigating integrating speech capabilities into Web standard. Read More
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