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	The price of China's tech metal monopoly China is using its dominance of the rare metals production business to cut exports, raise prices and to get U.S. electronics makers to open more plants in the country. 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. 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Read now! 10 spooktacular Halloween Android apps Android app developers have been working overtime this year to help you transform your favorite device into a high-tech scarephone. Have they succeeded? Well, we'll let you be the judge. For your benefit we've compiled the 10 spoooooookiest Android apps for you to enjoy this Halloween. Read More Sourcefire to crash next-generation firewall party Sourcefire Wednesday said it will enter the next-generation firewall market in mid-2011 with appliances that combine firewall/VPN functionality with intrusion prevention, Web URL and anti-virus filtering. Read More Oracle: Google 'directly copied' our Java code Oracle has updated its lawsuit against Google to allege that parts of its Android mobile phone software "directly copied" Oracle's Java code. Read More Mozilla patches Firefox zero-day bug in 48 hours Less than 48 hours after receiving a report of a critical flaw in Firefox, Mozilla issued an emergency update on Wednesday that patched the problem. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Making the Promise of Cloud a Reality Whether a business builds out its own cloud or buys cloud services from someone else, they need to be sure the end results are optimized for the speed users require. This paper identifies where the limitations of cloud computing exist and provides actionable strategies to unleash cloud performance. Read now! China unveils powerful, 2.5-petaflop supercomputer China is unveiling a new supercomputer on Thursday that incorporates thousands of graphics chips and can reach a sustained performance of 2.5 petaflops, making it one of the fastest systems in the world. Read More Palin e-mail snoop begs court for leniency Lawyers for 22-year-old David Kernell, whose criminal prying into Sarah Palin's personal e-mail account caused an uproar two months before the 2008 presidential election, is asking a judge for probation instead of the jail term being sought by prosecutors. Read More Cisco study finds video surpassing P2P Cisco this week updated its Visual Networking Index Usage Study and found that video has surpassed peer-to-peer filing sharing as the largest category of Internet traffic. P2P is now 25% of global broadband traffic, down from 38% last year, while streaming video, flash and Internet TV make up 26%. Read More Writing for Phone 7 'a no-brainer,' developer says Although the wireless carrier Sprint won't have Phone 7 devices for sale until the first half of next year, developers are already taking an interest in writing apps to run on phones on Sprint's U.S. network. And Microsoft is happy to encourage them. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetApp How Efficient is your Storage Environment? Store the maximum amount of data for the lowest possible cost, without compromising performance. The key is selecting a platform that supports thin provisioning, data deduplication and virtualization. Dramatically lower your capacity requirements and costs. Read More! The Firesheep firestorm The Firesheep exploit -- a Firefox browser extension that lets an attacker snoop on a Wi-Fi connection to collect Website usernames and session IDs -- raises some interesting issues for Web security. Read More Fighting botnets: Service rates reputation of IP addresses Startup service provider ipTrust today said it was offering a program that lets businesses avoid botnets and infected machines by letting them know whether IP addresses are linked to suspicious behavior. Read More Stars, e-books, and a mighty fine NAS Gibbs gets all environmental, continues e-bookishly, and concludes with a great NAS. Read More Angry Birds Halloween sells a million in six days Just in time for Halloween weekend, developer Rovio announced this morning that its sold a million downloads of Angry Birds Halloween in just six days on the App Store. Read More
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