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	10 fun (and safe) ways to pretend to be a hacker Enjoy hacking, Hollywood-style, with these video games Read More WEBCAST: HP, Microsoft & Intel Appliance video The first appliance in the industry which consolidates and manages thousands of databases, integrates hardware, software and support and is scalable to meet your changing business needs. Learn more In this Issue AOL unplugs 10,000 servers, saves $5 million Threat of a bullet in the face keeping cybercrooks cautious Fake 'The Roar of the Pharaoh' Android app latest Trojan scam Researchers smash Kelihos botnet with dose of its own poison IT jobs will grow 22% through 2020, says U.S. Amazon posts human genetic details of 1,700 people Will RIM ever recover? Prognosis: Negative. Google to sell Android tablets online, report says And now, the final nail in WiMAX's consumer handset coffin How to Be Ready for Big Data WHITE PAPER: Oracle Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database This white paper describes configuration considerations, best practices and performance results of TimesTen running on Exalogic. Learn More! AOL unplugs 10,000 servers, saves $5 million AOL decommissioned almost 10,000 servers and saved itself US$5 million along the way to winning a contest that highlights the cost of running inefficient or underutilized IT equipment. Read More Threat of a bullet in the face keeping cybercrooks cautious Scott Borg, director of a cybersecurity research institute, kicked off the SecureWorld Expo Boston with an uplifting talk about the end of the cybersecurity world as we know it. Sure, more sophisticated threats are on the way, but those in cybersecurity also have new opportunities to defend threats and even enable economic growth. Read More Fake 'The Roar of the Pharaoh' Android app latest Trojan scam It may look like an app for a Chinese game called "The Roar of the Pharaoh," but it's actually just another fake Android app that's really a malware Trojan in disguise, according to security researchers warning about it today. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Shorten The Gap Between Customers and Development Value It's a fine line to walk—trying to balance between the costs and the benefits of procuring development and test IT assets. Read this white paper to learn about the challenges that CIOs, IT managers and application development managers face as they attempt to select a cloud computing vendor to help find the right path. Learn More Researchers smash Kelihos botnet with dose of its own poison Security researchers from four different organizations last week brought down a botnet by turning a supposed strength of the criminals' spamming network into a fatal weakness. Read More IT jobs will grow 22% through 2020, says U.S. U.S. officials Thursday said that offshoring will hurt the growth of programming jobs in in this decade, though expansion of health care IT and mobile networks will increase demand for software developers, technical support and system analysts. Read More Amazon posts human genetic details of 1,700 people Amazon Web Services today announced that genomic information of 1,700 individuals has been placed in its public cloud and can be accessed by anyone in the world. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Workload Automation Challenges and Opportunities This Executive Brief discusses IDC's perspective on how enterprise workload management requirements are changing and highlights the ways that workload automation solutions can address these emerging requirements. Learn More! Will RIM ever recover? Prognosis: Negative. Well, it looks as though Research in Motion has now officially entered the "fire-everyone-and-hope-for-the-best" phase. Former co-CEO Jim Balsillie was the biggest head to roll today but he was hardly alone. Via Crackberry, here's the full scope of the carnage: Read More Google to sell Android tablets online, report says Google will open an online store where it will market and sell tablets directly to consumers, with some of the devices potentially being co-branded with Google's name, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Read More And now, the final nail in WiMAX's consumer handset coffin Back in the heady days of 2008, Sprint had a dream: It was going to level the playing field with rivals Verizon and AT&T by being the first carrier to deploy mobile WiMAX and thus deliver the fastest mobile Internet experience in the country. Read More How to Be Ready for Big Data Big Data is coming, but for most organizations it's three-to-five years away. That doesn't mean you shouldn't prepare now. Analyzing Big Data will require reference information like that provided by a semantic data model. And once you mine the data, you need to secure it. Read More
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