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	20 awesome tech products at DEMO Build-your-own iPhone and Android apps, cloud services, photo tools and more on display at DEMO Spring 2011. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Ten Ways to Establish a Strategic Advantage This paper offers ways that your company can establish a strategic advantage in managing change. It offers a structured approach to managing change in a rapidly evolving software development environment, helping you manage complex smarter product development processes — and more. Read Now In this Issue Open source expert takes on the hardest job at Microsoft Anonymous forces HBGary Federal CEO to step down Google patches 19 Chrome bugs week before Pwn2Own hacking contest Verizon to offer cloud-based unified communications Will the hottest thing about iPad 2 be the price? Update: Intel completes $7.68B McAfee buyout What I Like About Juniper's QFabric Texas Gov. Rick Perry flunks Twitter 101 Lighting the dark: Must you make your application wiretap-able? Windows Live Mesh goes live without support for Linux Mr. Linux goes Hollywood for the Oscars Helzberg Diamonds tries 'tokenization' for PCI compliance Videos from DEMO and CEBIT DEMO 2011: JetStreamHD streams video to iPad from home network DEMO 2011: PhotoRocket aims to improve photo sharing DEMO 2011: NeuroSky brain wave monitor game CEBIT: A Nao robot performs at Intel's Cebit news conference CEBIT: Asus' Wavi Xtion brings Kinect-like control to a PC RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Netezza Get Proof. Not Promises. Take the Netezza TestDrive. Your site. Your data. Our technology. Experience the high-performance and operational simplicity of the IBM Netezza data warehouse appliance firsthand. Our open Proof of Concept allows you to test a Netezza appliance with your most demanding, real-world analytics challenges. Learn More. Open source expert takes on the hardest job at Microsoft Gianugo Rabellino traded his Linux and Mac PCs for a Windows 7 laptop, left the open source company he founded and moved to Redmond for a new job with Microsoft. His goal: improve Microsoft's credibility within open source circles. Read More Anonymous forces HBGary Federal CEO to step down The hactivist group Anonymous has won for now its skirmish with the CEO of HBGary Federal, the network security firm whose e-mails were stolen and posted on the Internet, leaving the company red-faced over the content as well as the ease with which its network was hacked. Read More Google patches 19 Chrome bugs week before Pwn2Own hacking contest Google on Monday patched 19 vulnerabilities in Chrome, paying nine researchers $14,000 in bug bounties for reporting the flaws. Read More Verizon to offer cloud-based unified communications Verizon is getting set to offer its customers unified communications services that can include presence information, instant messaging, videoconferencing and fixed-mobile call handoffs through a Cisco Systems-based cloud infrastructure. Read More Will the hottest thing about iPad 2 be the price? The general consensus is that iPad 2 will be improved but not revolutionary, adding either one or two cameras, possibly a faster processor, boosting RAM, and some other tweaks like making it thinner and so on. Or as former equities analyst Anton Wahlman puts it, "in the big scheme of things, nothing too exciting." Read More Update: Intel completes $7.68B McAfee buyout Intel has completed its $7.68 billion acquisition of security vendor McAfee, the chip maker announced on Monday. Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade The Distinction between FBC and FBI A fabric-based computing architecture can support virtualization and cloud computing. Distinguishing between fabric-based computers and fabric-based data centers is critical to select the best technologies and products. Read this paper to learn more. Read now! What I Like About Juniper's QFabric Ever since I first heard about Juniper's "Project Stratus" about 2 years ago, I've been poking around to get more details about this top secret initiative. Despite many glasses of red wine, my Juniper contacts remained silent but I did get a few hints at the project from some big Juniper customers. Last week Juniper finally gave some details. Read More Texas Gov. Rick Perry flunks Twitter 101 There is only one reason why Texas Gov. Rick Perry would block certain journalists from following his Twitter account: He must believe it will stop them from following his Twitter account. It won't, of course. But it will guarantee that I won't be the only one calling him Gov. Rick Petty. Read More Lighting the dark: Must you make your application wiretap-able? Law enforcement has a problem, and you may be part of it. If your company makes an Internet application that enables its users to communicate with each other and you do not have a way to hand over those communications in real time to law enforcement, then you are part of the problem. If one grants that there is a problem, as I do, the question becomes: "Is the solution worse than the problem?" Read More Windows Live Mesh goes live without support for Linux On March 31, Microsoft will stop supporting the beta version of Live Mesh. Users of the file synching service must manually upgrade to the full production Windows Live Mesh service or lose the data stored in their folders. This cloud service synchs files between multiple Windows machines and Macs, but because it doesn't support Linux, other services like Dropbox still have an edge. Read More Mr. Linux goes Hollywood for the Oscars Linus Torvalds and his wife attend the Night Before Oscars party and awkwardly mingle with Mila Kunis, Natalie Portman and Warren Beatty. Read More Helzberg Diamonds tries 'tokenization' for PCI compliance Jewelry retailer Helzberg Diamonds has struggled to achieve compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) data-security standards, so it is trying a new tactic: technology called tokenization that lets the retailer "hide" sensitive card data in plain sight. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Defining a Framework for Cloud Adoption Read this white paper to understand IBM's framework for cloud computing adoption which establishes common definitions, delivery models and services and identifies key aspects required for a successful cloud computing execution. Read Now Videos from DEMO and CEBIT Read More DEMO 2011: JetStreamHD streams video to iPad from home network Video: The JetStreamHD device connects to a home network and lets you stream video, songs and photos to an iPad, or even AppleTV, remotely. It adapts to the W-Fi or 3G network for the best possible bandwidth stream. Read More DEMO 2011: PhotoRocket aims to improve photo sharing Video: PhotoRocket lets you share photos among multiple photo sharing sites and friends with a single-click. The service eliminates e-mailing, resizing, uploading and attaching issues with photo sharing. Read More DEMO 2011: NeuroSky brain wave monitor game Video: The NeuroSky MindWave monitors EEG brain wave impulses from the forehead to determine mental states as "attention" and "relaxation." The bundled games can help educators figure out a student's focus, among other situations. Read More CEBIT: A Nao robot performs at Intel's Cebit news conference Video: A Nao robot performs at Intel's Cebit news conference. Read More CEBIT: Asus' Wavi Xtion brings Kinect-like control to a PC Video: Hoping to do for personal computers what Microsoft has done for gaming, Asus will soon put on sale a motion-sensing device that looks and works like the Xbox Kinect. Read More
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