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	First Look: Amazon Kindle Fire Key features of Amazon's would-be iPad "killer" Read More WHITE PAPER: GFI Software PCI-DSS Compliance and GFI Software Products The intent of this document is to provide you with GFI's understanding of the requirements, and how the GFI Software product line can assist you to meet PCI compliance as outlined in the PCI DSS Requirements. Read now! In this Issue Six factors slowing adoption of converged I/O Will advanced biometrics automate future war machines? Amazon unveils Kindle Fire, its entry into the tablet fray Samsung to pay Microsoft royalties for Android Romance scams plague UK: 200,000 victims? Teach your router new tricks with DD-WRT Hurd sees long Sparc, Solaris roadmap Zenprise offers iPad app for secure SharePoint access Cloud CIO: What "Consumerization of IT" Really Means to CIOs How to speed Web performance (part 2) WHITE PAPER: GFI Software Messaging and Web Security Best Practices for 2011 In this white paper, Osterman Research discusses how the daily occurrence of malware within organizations has become decidedly worse over the past several years. Read More Six factors slowing adoption of converged I/O So if converging the I/O infrastructure in data centers is all the rage, what's taking IT shops so long to do it? Read More Will advanced biometrics automate future war machines? Biometric security breakthroughs are coming that would let the military capture from a distance an iris and facial scan of an individual and immediately match it to a biometrics-based "Watch List" of suspected terrorists, combatants or criminals. Read More Amazon unveils Kindle Fire, its entry into the tablet fray Amazon unveiled its tablet computer, the US$199 Android-based Kindle Fire, on Wednesday during a Manhattan launch event. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Using IBM Tivoli Security Management for z/OS Administration can be a complex world where security is concerned. The resources spent on administration, management, auditing and compliance can be considerable. Watch the demo, "Using IBM Tivoli Security Management for z/OS," and see how IBM® can help you protect your business—simply, efficiently and more effectively. Learn More Samsung to pay Microsoft royalties for Android Microsoft has scored another giant patent licensing deal from yet another Android device maker. Samsung will pay Microsoft royalties as part of a broad-scope patent portfolio exchange, Microsoft announced today. Some say that this deal throws ice water on Google's attempts to provide patent protection for Android makers with its pending acquisition of Motorola Mobility. Read More Romance scams plague UK: 200,000 victims? Research out of the UK today says that perhaps as many as 200,00 people in that country have been victims of online romance scams and the same study says over 1 million people personally know someone who has been scammed by one of these heartless fraudsters. Read More Teach your router new tricks with DD-WRT With each passing year, hardware devices grow less dependent on proprietary components and more reliant on open source technologies. Network routers are among the main beneficiaries of this trend, especially those that can support a variety of third-party open source firmware projects. One variant, DD-WRT has become a common out-of-the-box option for many routers, but also exists in stand-alone implementations that can be placed on routers that support it. Hundreds of routers can run DD-WRT firmware, including nearly 100 Linksys models alone. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Hardware Load Balancing A comprehensive F5 solution readies application infrastructure for a successful implementation of the re-engineered Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Learn More! Hurd sees long Sparc, Solaris roadmap Oracle has developed a hardware roadmap that it hopes can pull Sparc away from its Sun Microsystems legacy. Read More Zenprise offers iPad app for secure SharePoint access Positioned as a data loss prevention tool, the app and server software focus on enforcing SharePoint content policies on iOS devices Read More Cloud CIO: What "Consumerization of IT" Really Means to CIOs The consumerization of IT isn't just about employees using consumer devices and apps at work. It's about consumers becoming the primary users of internal IT applications, and it has serious ramifications for how CIOs operate and scale their IT infrastructures. Read More How to speed Web performance (part 2) June 30, 2010 - Joshua Bixby from Strangeloop Networks continues his whiteboard discussion of Web performance problems and new technologies that can speed up sites. Read More
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