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	Oracle awarded $1.3 billion in SAP lawsuit A jury has awarded Oracle $1.3 billion in damages in its corporate theft lawsuit against SAP. Read More WHITE PAPER: ParAccel Stop Fraudulent Transactions Outdated legacy analytic solutions do not deliver responses within the accelerated timelines demanded by fraud detection today. Learn how high-performance analytics is architected to run complex computations on massive amounts of data without time-wasting or static workarounds - no pre-defined indexes, summarize data or materialized views required. Read now! In this Issue One less thing: Apple bans Steve Jobs doll Facebook's Christmas Tree virus only a hoax Ex-Comverse CEO to forfeit $46M in backdating scandal Cisco and Brocade are Fed up HTTPS Everywhere gets Firefox "Firesheep" protection What to expect from next month's Verizon LTE launch SAP's co-CEOs: Are two heads better than one? First look: Office 365 beta shows promise but lacks polish Can Dell 'convertible' really be both notebook and tablet? Why your next PC will be a tablet WEBCAST: Iron Mountain Are You Ready for Optimized Exchange Migration? Despite what you've heard, not everything is moving to the cloud. For example, BY 2014, 72% OF THE EXPECTED 470 MILLION EXCHANGE SERVER MAILBOXES worldwide WILL REMAIN ON-PREMISE. Tune into this exclusive webinar from Iron Mountain to learn why on-premise archiving can be the right choice for your Microsoft Exchange-hosted e-mail environment. View Now. One less thing: Apple bans Steve Jobs doll Apple's sharp-shooting legal swat team has put the frighteners on a firm selling an action figure doll of its CEO Steve Jobs. Read More Facebook's Christmas Tree virus only a hoax Security vendor Sophos says Facebook users can relax and stop warning each other about a supposed computer crashing Christmas tree-themed app disguised as a virus since the whole thing is just a hoax. Read More Ex-Comverse CEO to forfeit $46M in backdating scandal Former Comverse Technology CEO Kobi Alexander has agreed to forfeit $46 million to help cover shareholder lawsuits against the company he founded. Read More WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies Electronic Software Delivery IDC : Those that are focused on providing an exceptional software acquisition are increasingly utilizing technology that helps create and measure a positive user experience. In this IDC whitepaper, review the benefits and processes of electronic software delivery. Learn the components of a successful solution that is optimal to the end user. Learn more Cisco and Brocade are Fed up The Feds have it in for Cisco this quarter... and for rival Brocade. After a pretty solid Q4, Brocade bombed with news that its Q1 would be flat to down some. It pinned the finger right where Cisco did in its Q2 guidance: at The Feds. Read More HTTPS Everywhere gets Firefox "Firesheep" protection The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has rolled out a version of HTTPS Everywhere that offers protection against "Firesheep" and other tools that seek to exploit webpage security flaws. Read More What to expect from next month's Verizon LTE launch Now that Verizon has started cranking up its hype machine for its LTE commercial launch next month, it's fair to wonder just what types of devices will initially run on the network. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Storage Virtualization isn't About Storage With real storage virtualization, according to the report, you can improve operational efficiency and drive down costs. And you can do this without sacrificing – or while even improving flexibility – giving you the ability to "continuously migrate" applications as a part of normal business operations. Read Now SAP's co-CEOs: Are two heads better than one? Nearly a year into their tenure as co-CEOs of SAP, Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe are saying all the right things and getting good marks from industry analysts -- proving that a dual-CEO model is not a recipe for disaster. But the duo still faces significant challenges. Read More First look: Office 365 beta shows promise but lacks polish Microsoft's cloud productivity suite has big ambitions, but feels poorly integrated and may leave admins wanting more. Read More Can Dell 'convertible' really be both notebook and tablet? Dell introduced a surprisingly clever product offered as a unique approach to a tablet computer. The Inspiron duo is what Dell calls a convertible tablet because it operates as a conventional notebook computer or as a tablet, a la the Apple iPad. But at more than twice the weight of an iPad, portability might be a problem. Read More Why your next PC will be a tablet The world of computing is at a crossroads. The primary computer for most users today is not a PC; it's a phone. While the PC sits on a desk at the office or on a coffee table at home, smartphones go everywhere with us and integrate into every part of our lives. But despite getting smarter and smarter, phones are too small to replace PCs completely. We need a device that bridges the gap between what PCs do and what mobile phones do. That device has arrived. Welcome to the age of the tablet. Read More
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