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	Mozilla ships Firefox 6, patches 10 vulnerabilities Mozilla today released Firefox 6, the second edition since it shifted to a rapid-ship cycle that delivers a new version of the browser every six weeks. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Moving to a Cloud-based Delivery Model Help Desk software as a service is attractive to many IT departments. It offers the same benefits of traditional IT help desk solutions, in addition to reducing capital expenses, accelerating implementation, and providing easier upgrades. This paper explores considerations for implementing IT service management in-house or as a service. Read Now! In this Issue Sorry Angry Birds, texting still the most popular smartphone app Ten Most Ridiculous Tech Lawsuits of the 21st Century Fired techie created virtual chaos at pharma company 20 years of Linux: Then and Now Brace for email-attachment malware spree Sinofsky Finally Speaks on Windows 8 Dell expects Windows 8, Android to boost tablet market ICANN chief Beckstrom to step down Business Apps on the iPhone: Dos and Don'ts WHITE PAPER: Fujitsu Midmarket Blades Lead the Pack A rock solid base for Dynamic Infrastructures. For IT organizations the blade server environment, in combination with virtualization technologies on various levels, is the IT infrastructure of choice to achieve considerable consolidation benefits and ensuring flexible usage of server resources. Read now! Sorry Angry Birds, texting still the most popular smartphone app You can keep your fancy Angry Birds games and NFC-based wallets because old-fashioned text messaging is still the most popular application for smartphone users in the United States. Read More Ten Most Ridiculous Tech Lawsuits of the 21st Century A woman sues Google for bad directions, another claims she's allergic to Pentium processors. These are real lawsuits from our tech-obsessed 21st century. We sifted through the dockets to find ten examples of weird litigation. Read More Fired techie created virtual chaos at pharma company Logging in from a Smyrna, Georgia, McDonald's restaurant, a former employee of a U.S. pharmaceutical company was able to wipe out most of the company's computer infrastructure earlier this year. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Ensuring Reliable Service Delivery Learn how integrating infrastructure management tools with existing application performance management solutions will allow IT to promote holistic management that spans silos. Read Now 20 years of Linux: Then and Now LinuxCon kicks off on Wednesday and I'll be there to report on the keynotes, the news, the fun stuff. To kick it off, the Linux Foundation sent out this then-and-now graphic of how far Linux has come in its 20 years. Note the number of lines of code, the numbers of patents and the number of "Linux-based" cell phones out there (thanks to Android). Read More Brace for email-attachment malware spree A sizeable spike in malicious email attachments is just subsiding, but if history is any indicator, several smaller spikes are about to follow that use even more deceptive means than their predecessors. Read More Sinofsky Finally Speaks on Windows 8 Some Microsoft bosses like to develop out in the open, letting us follow almost every move (IE team, anyone?). Then there's Steve Sinofsky, former head of the Office team and now leading up Windows. In addition to his penchant for dressing like Steve Jobs, he tends to operate as secretively as Jobs as well. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Integrated Service Management and Cloud Computing Today, success demands agility. If your IT staff spends all of their time worrying about security, uptime and capacity problems, they won't be working with you to drive innovation. Read now Dell expects Windows 8, Android to boost tablet market Dell expects both Windows 8 and Android to be credible options for tablet customers next year, and indicated it plans to offer products built around the two operating systems, a company executive said on Wednesday. Read More ICANN chief Beckstrom to step down The head of the organization chartered with managing some of the Internet's complex routing systems is stepping down. Read More Business Apps on the iPhone: Dos and Don'ts Techies love features and functions; business users are more focused on simplicity and speed. CIOs must seek to balance both worlds when developing a business app for the iPhone. Read More
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