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Apple patches critical 'drive-by' Safari bugs
Apple today patched 27 vulnerabilities in Safari for Mac OS X and Windows, 85% of them critical bugs that could be exploited to hijack Macs or PCs. Read More


E-GUIDE: IBM

eGuide: A New Look at BI
Craft better IT strategies, build new, targeted products and achieve operational savings. These are just some of the benefits derived from business intelligence (BI) software. This expert guide from CIO, Computerworld, InfoWorld and Network World provide an overview of recent BI trends and how to leverage its most powerful features. Learn more.

WEBCAST: IBM

Cloud as the Next Generation of Service Delivery
Exceptional growth in data is driving a need to transform the delivery of services. Understand the "road map" to transform and learn how IBM adds value at every step from virtualization, consolidation, automation, and ultimately cloud computing. Learn More

HPC experts look past petaflop to the exascale
High-performance computing researchers consider the billion-dollar investment required to usher in the exascale era. Read More

Who will build the next enterprise architects?
Bringing the next generation of enterprise architects up to speed won't be an easy task. While most experts agree that the job is a critical one, given the corporate emphasis building business infrastructure in the most technically efficient way, training these future experts has proven difficult.  Read More

H-1B: The voices behind the visa
Twenty years into its existence, the controversial H-1B visa for foreign workers in specialty occupations shows no signs of inciting less discord as it ages. Read More


WHITE PAPER: NeuStar, Inc.

Holiday Readiness Guide for Ecommerce
This white paper is all about Internet Gifting Essentials as it is critical that merchants ready their sites from both a performance and selling perspective. Based on the e-tailing group's Annual Mystery Shopping Survey, highlighted Internet gifting essentials were present in three-out-of-four of the 100 websites we surveyed last holiday season. Read More

Software bug derailed Windows bid to top Linux in supercomputing speed
A few days ago, we told you about Microsoft's surprising bid to join the petascale computing age. Windows HPC Server, it seems, was able to hit petaflop speeds on Japan's largest supercomputer, but the achievement was not recognized by the bi-annual Top 500 list because Linux performed better on the same machine. Read More

Supercomputing Top500 brews discontent
IBM, Intel, others question the usefulness of the Top500 key metric, the Linpack test. Read More

What Open Source Community is the Healthiest?
When thinking of an open source developer, most us of probably think of a male in his 30's, overweight, long beard, and socially awkward. While this is just a stereotype and not a true reflection of all open source developers, there is some truth in the weight category. Read More


WEBCAST: Aruba Networks

Managing a Global Wireless LAN-Best Practices from Intel IT
In this webinar, Intel IT explains how they overcame challenges associated with managing their global WLAN across 150 Intel sites in 63 countries, supporting more than 45k simultaneous users every day. Intel highlights best practices for managing a global WLAN and how they cut support costs. Learn more!

Airports Can Legally Opt-Out, Kick TSA Program to the Curb, and Instead Hire Private Security Screeners
Airports are not required to have TSA screeners checking passengers at security checkpoints and can instead opt to hire private security screeners. Did you know that U.S. airports could choose to kick the TSA program to the curb? Read More

European banks see new ATM skimming attacks
Banks in Europe are seeing innovative skimming attacks against ATMs, where fraudsters rig special devices to the cash machines to record payment card details. Read More

US court eJuror system could lead to whole new list of jury duty excuses
Now you can say your jury duty request got lost in the cloud or the network was down or the Internet ate it.  That's because the US District Court system is close to completing a rollout of its national eJuror system the lets prospective jurors have option of responding to their jury questionnaire or summons online. Read More



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SLIDESHOWS

Microsoft Windows after 25 years: A visual history
More than nine out of 10 computers run some version of Windows. But no one could have predicted that would be the case when Windows 1.0 launched 25 years ago as a graphical front end for MS-DOS. Here's a look at Windows through the years and some thoughts on what the future might hold.

Cool Yule favorites: 15 techie gifts we like
Ho Ho Ho, it's time again to get our holiday wish lists together. Here are our 15 favorite products from the 140+ products submitted and tested in this year's Cool Yule Tools holiday gift guide.

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