Microsoft, Adobe CEOs meet to discuss Apple; major security updates on tap from Oracle, Microsoft

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	Report: Microsoft, Adobe CEOs meet to discuss Apple The CEOs of Microsoft and Adobe reportedly met recently to discuss how best to deal with their common foe -- Apple -- and whether a Microsoft buyout of Adobe might be in the cards. Read More WHITE PAPER: ArcSight Building a Successful Security Operations Center This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center In this Issue Oracle, Microsoft ready major security updates Apple iOS 4.1 "Greenpois0n" jailbreak tool set for 10/10/10 Seems everything is the Facebook of something 1 in 4 babies on Internet before they're born Twitter revamps search engine IBM makes the mainframe young again Firefox 4 for Android arrives in beta version Media sites target of politically motivated DDoS attacks Facebook's new groups feature worries some One more time: Verizon iPhone rumored for next year WHITE PAPER: Cisco Considering Cloud-Based Security? This technology dossier contains four papers that address security considerations in cloud computing. It includes IDG Research results on what IT managers have to say about cloud security, executive viewpoints on blending cloud solutions to optimize security, and a strategy paper that addresses protecting data. Read now! Oracle, Microsoft ready major security updates Microsoft isn't the only company planning a boatload of security patches for next week. Oracle plans to fix 81 vulnerabilities in its database, middleware and operating system products on Tuesday, the same day Microsoft's fixes are due. Read More Apple iOS 4.1 "Greenpois0n" jailbreak tool set for 10/10/10 A member of the Chronic Dev Team has tweeted that the heavily anticipated greenpois0n Apple iOS 4.1 jailbreaking solution will be released on Sunday: 10/10/10 at 10:10:10 a.m. Some have celebrated that jailbreaking iOS 4.1 will mean opening up not just iPhones and iPads but even the Apple TV, which also uses that operating system. Read More Seems everything is the Facebook of something Those incessant commercials for "The Social Network" serve to drive home the fact that Facebook was known as "The Facebook" early on. And it got me thinking about Facebook imitators -- not only other social networks, but everything else billed as "the Facebook of" whatever. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetApp ESG Analyst Report: "Changing the Way You Purchase Storage" Most organizations are still buying storage based on outmoded ways of thinking. Find out why it's time to modernize your approach and the key criteria you need to consider before making your next IT investment. Read now! 1 in 4 babies on Internet before they're born The average child has an online presence by the age of 6 months, thanks to their parents' Facebooking and other online activities, and nearly a quarter of kids make their Internet debut before they're even born. Read More Twitter revamps search engine Twitter has overhauled the back-end infrastructure of its search engine, boosting its speed and capacity to index posts, process queries and deliver results, while making the system more stable and better suited for the addition of new features. Read More IBM makes the mainframe young again IBM recently announced its sixth annual Master the Mainframe Contest for high school, college and university students across the United States and Canada. The contest is designed to get the younger set away from their iPhones and Droids and get involved with some serious mainframe applications. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetApp Storage-Purchasing Today: Forget About Capacity Most organizations are still buying storage based on outmoded ways of thinking. Find out why it's time to modernize your approach and the key criteria you need to consider before making your next IT investment. Read now! Firefox 4 for Android arrives in beta version Mozilla has released the first beta versions of Firefox 4 for mobile phones. Versions are available for download for Android-based smartphones and for the Nokia N900, Mozilla said in blog post on Thursday. Read More Media sites target of politically motivated DDoS attacks A large Web hosting company in France is striving to protect the Web sites of its European media customers, which has meant fending off distributed denial-of-service attacks. The enduring pattern of these DDoS attacks suggests they are triggered by angry readers raging against political news that they don't like. Read More Facebook's new groups feature worries some This week's overhaul of Facebook groups quickly led to an outcry over the way the service works, but the bigger lesson may be simply this: Be careful who you befriend. Read More One more time: Verizon iPhone rumored for next year Verizon will have the iPhone by the beginning of next year, the Wall Street Journal reports. Read More
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