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	MacIT show puts enterprise shine on Apple platforms Macworld in 2012 spins off a separate conference focused on Apple's unlikely success in the enterprise. MacIT launches this week with some 40 sessions, and plenty of practical advice. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Avaya Avaya Mobile Collaboration Read a complimentary Frost & Sullivan white paper: Prepare Your Enterprise for the Mobile Revolution. The world is becoming increasingly mobile. Learn how to keep costs in check, boost user productivity, deliver a consistent experience, and maintain a single, manageable corporate identity for all end-users. In this Issue Researchers expose flaws in popular industrial control systems Celebrity sightings at CES 2012 FBI busts programmer for stealing US Treasury code Reduce the conflicts between IT administrators and information security personnel $21.7 million and he can't afford a financial planner? Windows' cut of Microsoft revenue drops to two-year low No blackout for SOPA/PIPA? We know who you are. Google+ now boasts 90 million users World Tech Update, Jan. 19, 2012 5 Tips to Keep IT Outsourcing on Track as Global Providers Cut Staff RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn Provide instant on-demand remote support with LogMeIn Rescue Without pre-installed software, quickly connect to PCs, Macs, smartphones and tablets anywhere in the world. Get in, solve the problem, and be done in a flash. Plus, Rescue's SaaS-based platform means free upgrades and zero maintenance. Try it free today. Researchers expose flaws in popular industrial control systems Researchers showcased unpatched security flaws in software used to control critical industrial systems by oil, gas, water and electrical distribution plants at the 2012 SCADA Security Scientific Symposium (S4) on Thursday. Read More Celebrity sightings at CES 2012 Justin Bieber, Snooki, Will Smith and others hawk latest gadgets (and themselves) at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Read More FBI busts programmer for stealing US Treasury code The FBI said it arrested a computer programmer in New York this week and charged him with stealing proprietary software code from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The software known as the Government-Wide Accounting and Reporting Program (GWA) handles all manner of U.S. government financial transactions. Read More WEBCAST: VMware & NetApp Path to Cloud: Virtualizing Business Critical Applications NetApp and VMware experts discuss how customers can virtualize business-critical applications leveraging common resource pools as key elements to delivering IT as a service. Learn More! Reduce the conflicts between IT administrators and information security personnel Sometimes the simplest solutions to problems evade us because we cannot see the forest through all the trees. In this case, the forest and trees I'm referring to are the people and policies that are in place to manage the operations and the information security of business networks. A few common-sense practices can reduce the conflicts between teams with a shared mission but disparate approaches. Read More $21.7 million and he can't afford a financial planner? Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs last year earned $21.7 million in total compensation, up 23% over the paltry $17.6 million he took home in 2010. And as part of that handsome pay package, Jacobs received a specified sum -- $25,000 -- for "financial planning." Don't ask me why. Read More Windows' cut of Microsoft revenue drops to two-year low Windows' contribution last quarter to Microsoft's revenue hit its lowest point since Vista's swan song more than two years earlier, according to figures released by the company Thursday. Read More WHITE PAPER: Raritan Why Managing VMs is So Complex Because virtual servers coexist with nonvirtualized ones, it effectively doubles the tools and efforts relevant to data center administration. Discover how a unified, out-of-band approach that aggregates management tools into a single, consolidated platform, renders the virtual and physical layers transparent from an IT management perspective. Read now! No blackout for SOPA/PIPA? We know who you are. Yesterday saw many major Web sites going into blackout to protest SOPA and PIPA ... but, to their shame, a few of the biggest opted out Read More Google+ now boasts 90 million users Say this for Google+: It no longer has fewer total users than MySpace. Read More World Tech Update, Jan. 19, 2012 Coming up on World Tech Update this week, protestors rally against SOPA and PIPA, Yahoo's Yang resigns, Sony teases a universal remote gadget, the heated battle between Apple and Samsung rages on, the AR Drone 2 gets easier to fly and more. Read More 5 Tips to Keep IT Outsourcing on Track as Global Providers Cut Staff Are you prepared as global IT outsourcers shrink onshore staff? These tips will help you keep projects moving as offshore IT service provides cut back on the on-site staff that used to work as liaisons between customer and provider. Read More
	SLIDESHOWS 12 available devices to test drive Windows 8 Here are a dozen off-the-shelf devices that Microsoft says it uses in its labs to put Windows 8 through its paces. You, too, can buy one if you haven't already. CISCO SUBNET Looking for a place where everyone understands your joy and pain with Cisco routers, switches and other gear? Check out our Cisco Subnet, a community of Cisco experts blogging on the latest network topics. Enter here. MOST-READ STORIES iPad 3 rumor rollup for the week ending Jan. 18 Can employee-owned devices save companies money? Hacking critical infrastructure systems now as easy as pushing a button? Anonymous takes out DoJ, RIAA in response to Megaupload.com take-down U.S. losing high-tech jobs, R&D dominance to Asia Tips for Facebook Timeline Apps: Beware what you share Megaupload.com shut down, execs jailed Galaxy Nexus smartphone a worthy upgrade Top 7 truths about consumerization of IT Another reason for Cisco to pound its chest
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