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	Padlock salesman trades 30-pound sample case for 1.35-pound iPad Padlock salesman William Tway traded in his 30-pound sample case of locks for a 1.35-pound iPad 2. Life is easy...and fun. Read More WHITE PAPER: i365 Trusted Data Assurance in the Cloud Cloud-based services are here to stay. Cloud services are even more attractive for companies who are being hit with the high cost of meeting compliance requirements - especially for small and mid-size companies that have shrinking or no information security budget. Read now! In this Issue Road warrior roadkill: 2011's mobile technology losers Verizon LTE network back online Java apps have most flaws, Cobol apps the least, study finds IBM buys e-commerce analytics vendor Demandtec for $440 million RIM PlayBook Stuck Between A Rock (Apple) And A Hardplace (Android) US charges Romanians in multimillion dollar point-of-sale hack scheme Kindle Fire likely to be a hit despite middling reviews, says Morgan Stanley analyst Microsoft, GE forming healthcare joint venture Mythbusters' cannonball misfire still reverberating Brawny/brainy MIT students star in 2012 Bad Boys wall calendar Social networking, ignorance, and apathy Exploiting the Fear of Cell Phone Related Cancer WHITE PAPER: BMC Three Steps to Effective Cloud Planning & Design Before you build your cloud, there are many considerations. Are there security requirements? Compliance rules? Will you use public cloud resources as well? Learn more about how to plan a cloud effectively – from defining requirements to identifying the costs - in this compelling white paper from BMC Software. Learn More! Road warrior roadkill: 2011's mobile technology losers Spectacular flameouts and products that simply ran out of gas litter the road to the mobile future we're all traveling Read More Verizon LTE network back online Verizon says that it has restored its LTE data services less than a day after acknowledging some customers had been knocked down to 3G speeds. Read More Java apps have most flaws, Cobol apps the least, study finds There is a lot of badly engineered software in the world that's creating a lot of risk to businesses and organizations, and accumulating so-called 'technical debt.' Read More IBM buys e-commerce analytics vendor Demandtec for $440 million IBM is buying analytics vendor DemandTec for US$440 million in a bid to build out its line of e-commerce software, the companies announced Thursday. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of next year. Read More WEBCAST: IBM IBM InfoSphere MDM Solutions for Insurance Master data management helps make insurers smarter. MDM enables them to connect disparate pieces of customer information across policy systems, departments, and channels, into a single, actionable view that is customer-centric rather than policy-centric. View Now RIM PlayBook Stuck Between A Rock (Apple) And A Hardplace (Android) Research In Motion (RIM) the company behind Blackberry smartphones and the fairly new PlayBook tablet computer has been getting hammered by Wall Street, most recently around an announcement that they have had to take a nearly half a billion dollar write down due to disappointing sales of their Playbook tablets Read More US charges Romanians in multimillion dollar point-of-sale hack scheme The US Department of Justice said four Romanian nationals have between indicted for allegedly operating a massive, multimillion dollar point-of-sale hacking scheme. According to the federal indictment, from approximately 2008 until May 2011, the four men conspired to remotely hack into more than 200 US-based merchants' point-of-sale or "checkout" computer systems in order to steal customers' credit,... Read More Kindle Fire likely to be a hit despite middling reviews, says Morgan Stanley analyst While Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet has received mixed reviews from the tech press so far, one Morgan Stanley analyst thinks it's all a big misunderstanding. Read More Microsoft, GE forming healthcare joint venture Microsoft and General Electric's healthcare IT business are setting up a 50:50 joint venture to develop and market an open, interoperable technology platform and clinical applications for enabling better population health management, the companies said Thursday. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sybase Sybase IQ Supercharges Predictive Analytics This white paper introduces you to Sybase® IQ—a high-performance, scalable column-store database engine which has been repeatedly proven to meet the predictive analytics needs for a wide variety of businesses. Read now. Mythbusters' cannonball misfire still reverberating By now most of you know that the Mythbusters let a cannonball loose on a San Francisco neighborhood Monday. According to legend - neither confirmed nor busted at this time - members of the Mythbusters cast tweeted a handful of photographs before the mayhem commenced and then deleted them after the seriousness of the damage became clear. Read More Brawny/brainy MIT students star in 2012 Bad Boys wall calendar MIT is back with its latest Bad Boys of Boston calendar, which features 12 hunky/geeky guys, all in the name of charity (Camp Kesem). The brainy-yet-brawny Men of MIT are shown at the beach, flexing muscles, with a snake and even covered in flour. Read More Social networking, ignorance, and apathy Social networking services really do a bad job with managing our privacy ... and the problem apparently is that we and they don't know and don't care to fix it Read More Exploiting the Fear of Cell Phone Related Cancer Do cell phones really cause cancer? The majority of existing research says probably not, but a Florida company still is trying to scare consumers into buying a "cancer safe" handset. Read More
	SLIDESHOWS 25 free open source projects IT pros will love We asked SourceForge's new community manager and longtime open source coder, Rich Bowen, to sniff out a few of the cool, lesser-known projects he thinks IT folks will love. What follows are his picks, along with a few of our own. GOODIES FROM MICROSOFT SUBNET Everyone who enters will win free training from Webucator. Grand prize: a SharePoint training class worth $2,375. All who enter will be awarded a self-paced class of their choosing. Enter here: http://www.networkworld.com/community/contests. Enter here. MOST-READ STORIES CNET accused of wrapping malware in Windows installer for Nmap security tool 10 most powerful cloud companies 25 top network and IT industry news stories of 2011 Picture this: Steve Jobs gets bronzed What's really going on with Carrier IQ on your phone FAQ: CNET's "Trojan" installer IPS: Best of breed or integrated solution? New Cisco cloud computing framework pushes management, collaboration Cloud computing disrupts the vendor landscape Microsoft slates Windows 8 beta for late February 2012
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