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	iPhone 5 rumor roll-up for the week ending Sept. 2 This week's iPhone 5 rumor harvest shows a certain desperation and perhaps oxygen starvation: The iOSsphere is living on rumors built on rumors built on other rumors. This week, a generic drawing in an application "reveals" the iPhone 5, the lost or theft of another prototype may be phony, an early upgrade for Android phone users at one carrier means good news for iPhone users, and no big-screen iPhone 5. Read More WHITE PAPER: GFI Software Economics of Spam Email security threats do not discriminate. Whether you're an organization with 50 employees or a global corporation with 50,000, the reality is that spam and viruses can wreak havoc on your business, drain users' productivity and take a major toll on IT resources. Read now In this Issue HP's trusty 12c financial calculator turns 30 Chatbots gone wild – and nasty BlackBerry PlayBook getting the TouchPad deep discount treatment The Web vs. the World: 9 Epic Battles Oracle vows to continue IP theft suit against SAP Age bias in IT: Should you sue? Man gets six years for hacking girls to extort photographs The Magical World of Tablets and Touchscreens Software Discipline and Open Source You can play Doom in Germany after 17 year ban ends LinkedIn Deciphers the Entrepreneur Sister organizations pool their resources to share SIEM and logging How Writing a Book Can Boost Your IT Career and Your Income WHITE PAPER: Schooner Information Technology The Short Guide to MySQL High-Availability Options The Short Guide to MySQL High-Availability Options: An analysis of today's MySQL high-availability challenges and what asynchronous, semi-synchronous and fully synchronous replication offer toward reducing downtime, achieving full data consistency, automating failover, and simplifying administration. Read now! HP's trusty 12c financial calculator turns 30 Designed for dealmakers, the 12c is engineered to handle complex formulas for calculating loan payments, determining bond yields, and constructing depreciation schedules. It's a cult classic among finance and business professionals. Read More Chatbots gone wild – and nasty A demo of two robots chatting that a pair of Cornell University Ph.D. students cobbled together for an artificial intelligence course has exploded into a viral video over the past week that has amassed nearly 1.4 million views on YouTube. The video, "AI vs. AI. Two chatbots talking to each other" (see below) is based on a Web-based chatbot called Cleverbot that the students gussied up with a text-to-speech... Read More BlackBerry PlayBook getting the TouchPad deep discount treatment It seems the only way to beat Apple in the tablet market these days is to knock down your prices to the point of unprofitability. Best Buy this weekend is hoping to replicate the recent sales magic generated from selling $100 HP TouchPads by slashing the price of Research in Motion's BlackBerry PlayBook by $50 for the 16GB and 32GB models and by $150 for the 64GB model. In other words, you can now buy a 64GB PlayBook for $549, or just $100 more than the $449 of the 16GB model. Read More The Web vs. the World: 9 Epic Battles Is the Internet ruining our lives or making them better? When you consider epic struggles like these, it's hard to say for sure. Read More WHITE PAPER: ExtraHop Application Performance Management In this eGuide, Network World, with sister publication CIO, offer news on the latest trends, best practices, and straightforward advice on these solutions and the challenges of managing application performance. Learn More! Oracle vows to continue IP theft suit against SAP A defiant Oracle Thursday vowed to continue its legal battle against rival SAP, saying it will reject a federal Judge's compromise plan. Read More Age bias in IT: Should you sue? Age discrimination complaints are on the rise. In the last 10 years, according to figures from the U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the number of age discrimination charges filed with the commission rose from roughly 16,000 in 2000 to more than 23,000 in 2010. Read More Man gets six years for hacking girls to extort photographs A 32-year-old paraplegic was sentenced to six years in prison for infecting more than 100 computers in a quest for financial information, nude photographs and thrills. Read More The Magical World of Tablets and Touchscreens "Flower gleam and glow. Let your powers shine. Make the clock reverse. Bring back what once was mine. Heal what has been hurt. Change the fates' design. Save what has been lost. Bring back what once was mine..." -Rapunzel, Tangled Read More WHITE PAPER: Kaseya How to Launch a Successful IT Automation Initiative In this paper, we'll look at IT automation from the corporation's perspective, and discuss the steps organizations should take before launching such an initiative. We'll hear from companies that successfully implemented computer automation platforms, what their early steps were and what they would do differently if they could repeat the process. Read now Software Discipline and Open Source Good software is developed by good software developers. It involves a discipline not found in most programmers. Rigorous version and configuration management, checklists for style and review, "desk" checking reviews before commits, automated (continuous) builds, and fully automated test frameworks are all necessary steps to successfully, reliably delivering executable software that works. Read... Read More You can play Doom in Germany after 17 year ban ends The classic video game Doom can now be bought and played in Germany after a 17-year ban on the program. The German government agency that controls such things, the Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons (Bundesprufstelle) had banned the video game 1994 saying it was "likely to harm youth." The game was treated like porn in Germany and could be had in adult stores. Read More LinkedIn Deciphers the Entrepreneur Are you destined to be the next Steve Jobs? Maybe, if you studied entrepreneurship at Stanford University, are between the ages of 30 and 39, have worked at Yahoo and currently reside in San Francisco. Read More Sister organizations pool their resources to share SIEM and logging You've heard the expression, "Two can live as cheaply as one," but can five log as cheaply as one? Five sister clubs of the Canadian Automobile Association pooled their resources to acquire one high-end SIEM and logging system from LogRhythm to meet their logging requirements for PCI compliance. Read More How Writing a Book Can Boost Your IT Career and Your Income Writing a book gives IT professionals credibility that they can parlay into lucrative speaking and consulting engagements. Here, four IT professionals who've published books offer their advice on how to get started and whether to self-publish or go with a traditional publisher. Read More
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