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	Microsoft's botnet take-down helps protect Mac users Mac users can thank Microsoft for taking down a small but dangerous botnet -- Kelihos. Read More WHITE PAPER: Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewall for Dummies eBook This book provides an in-depth overview of next-generation firewalls. It examines the evolution of network security, the rise of Enterprise 2.0 applications and their associated threats, the shortcomings of traditional firewalls, and the advanced capabilities found in next-generation firewalls. Read now! In this Issue Samsung to pay Microsoft royalties for Android Digg scrapes Facebook for Diggers' real identities and photos, changes profiles Nokia lays off 3,500 employees Windows Phone Mango: 10 things you need to know Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango": Top new business features Microsoft offers ideas for users to beat the BEAST threat Reimagining Microsoft without Ballmer: Employees left company meeting 'in droves' NEC to ship OpenFlow switch for Microsoft Windows Server 8 Hyper-V Microsoft promises patch to block BEAST attacks Microstrategy targets Excel users with Cloud Personal BI WHITE PAPER: Palo Alto Networks Application Usage Report The Palo Alto Networks' Application Usage and Risk Report summarizes application traffic assessments performed between October 2010 and May 2011 on more than 1,253 networks worldwide. Read now! 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 Digg scrapes Facebook for Diggers' real identities and photos, changes profiles As Facebook often causes privacy concerns by automatic opt-in and lack of privacy-by-design, so too has Digg changed some Diggers' account profiles to reflect real identity instead of Digg alias. Digg responded to privacy concerns about modifying Digg account profiles with full names and photos pulled from Facebook, as well as how to opt-out. Read More Nokia lays off 3,500 employees Nokia is planning to lay off an additional 3,500 employees, as the company continues to restructure after announcing its decision to focus on Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix 5X capacity on-demand.No new hardware. NetScaler Pay-as-You-Grow. 5x capacity on-demand. No new hardware. The Iron Age is officially over. The Cloud Age is here. Read now Windows Phone Mango: 10 things you need to know I was fortunate to sit down this morning with Microsoft's Paul Bryan, Windows Phone senior director of product management and enterprise experiences, to discuss the new software at the company's offices in Cambridge, Mass. And I learned quite a few facts that anyone interested in WP7.5 should know. Read More Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango": Top new business features On Tuesday, Microsoft announced that U.S. wireless carriers have started rolling out its latest mobile OS, Windows Phone 7.5 (WP7.5), formerly known as "Mango," to Windows Phone customers. All users can expect to get the new software by the end of October. Read More Microsoft offers ideas for users to beat the BEAST threat Microsoft is urging customers to update vulnerable versions of SSL to a newer one that is not susceptible to a recently published exploit called BEAST, but in the meantime it recommends steps that lessen the risk of being victimized. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel Converged Infrastructure: Enterprise and Mid-Market Storage Download this Solution Brief to learn about agile, efficient, virtualized private cloud storage for the Converged Data Center. Read now Reimagining Microsoft without Ballmer: Employees left company meeting 'in droves' Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said during the BUILD developer conference that Microsoft is "reimagining" itself. Addressing Microsoft's future, Ballmer said: "In a sense you could say that if Windows 8 is Windows reimagined, we're also in the process—and Windows 8's an important step of that—of reimagining Microsoft." Read More NEC to ship OpenFlow switch for Microsoft Windows Server 8 Hyper-V Chalk up another big partnership win for Microsoft's Hyper-V from the world of virtual, programmable switching. NEC's OpenFlow-based network fabric, ProgrammableFlow, will be integrated with Windows Server 8 and Hyper-V when Windows Server 8 becomes available, NEC says. Read More Microsoft promises patch to block BEAST attacks Microsoft today said it will issue a Windows security update to plug a long-known hole in the protocol that secures websites. Read More Microstrategy targets Excel users with Cloud Personal BI Microstrategy is hoping to get its BI (business intelligence) software in front of people looking to get more out of Microsoft Excel with a new service, Cloud Personal, that is being offered at no charge. Read More
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