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iPhone 5 rumor rollup for the week ending June 15

10 Gadgets and Gifts for your favorite Geek Dad (or Grandpa) | Honeynet Project tackles USB-carried malware like Flame

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iPhone 5 rumor rollup for the week ending June 15
Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference rescued the iOSphere from terminal radiation cooling and created a powerful thermal inversion: the hot air of refueled rumoring trapping the cool air of reason. Read More


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File Sharing — A Security Vulnerability. Are you at risk?
What happens when employees go around IT and use their own Dropbox-like services, webmail or USB drives to send company information? This practice presents significant security and compliance risks including: Loss of control over who has access to files and data, lack of visibility and audit trails, risk of data breaches and compliance violations Join us, on June 19th or June 20th, for a quick 29-minute webinar. Experts Michael Osterman and Ipswitch's David Boone discuss the issues. You'll learn the top 3 things required for a user-acceptable, IT-governed business-class file sharing solution.

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Your IT Career Roadmap
This unique session is designed with you, the IT professional in mind. How can you build your personal brand, and properly design a career plan? How do you work with your staff to create a plan that retains your best talent? Come to IT Roadmap Denver for valuable information on how today's IT leaders build successful careers. Click to continue

10 Gadgets and Gifts for your favorite Geek Dad (or Grandpa)
A Father's Day shopping guide for Star Wars fans, car guys and gamers. Read More

Honeynet Project tackles USB-carried malware like Flame
A nonprofit security research group is building technology to trap malware spread from PC to PC via USB storage drives, the method used to infect computers with the Flame cyber-espionage malware. Read More

Former tech-challenged Russian spy hits the modeling runway
The red-headed Russian whose spy ring made tech blunder after tech blunder on its way to being summarily deported from the U.S. is now prowling the catwalk at fashion shows. Read More

Android Tablets Beating Out iPad in Business and IT: Report
Apple's iPad may still be considered the king of tablets in many quarters, but new research data casts a shadow of doubt over how long that will continue. Read More


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WAN Optimization eGuide
In this eGuide, articles from Network World examine the maturing WAN optimization market, collect advice from experts and users on how best to implement these products, and look at new trends. Read on to discover how to make the most of WAN optimization in enterprise networks. Read now.

Reddit bans major publications for allegedly spamming and/or cheating
Reddit, a popular link-sharing and discussion site, announced this week that it has begun blocking content from entire domains - including some belonging to the Atlantic, Business Week, Phys.org, Science Daily, and Discover Magazine - for "spamming and/or cheating." Read More

Apple, Motorola patent suit revived by US Judge
A U.S. Judge has scheduled an injunction hearing in a patent dispute between Apple and Motorola Mobility, after raising the possibility last week that the case may be dismissed as neither side had established a right to relief. Read More

Should Microsoft buy Nokia? Bad idea, say analysts
Nokia's announcement that it plans to cut 10,000 job in coming months resurrected speculation that Microsoft should buy the cell phone maker in order to prop up its struggling Windows Phone platform. Read More

What Hadoop can, and can't do
The lure of using big data for your business is a strong one, and there is no brighter lure these days than Apache Hadoop, the scalable data storage platform that lies at the heart of many big data solutions. Read More


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Transforming Tier 1 Applications through Virtualization
This Technology Spotlight will explore the benefits of virtualizing tier 1 applications and discuss the role that EMC Consulting plays in virtualizing top tier Microsoft applications (including Exchange, SharePoint and SQL) on the VMware platform. Learn More

Ford deploys BYOD mobile security
Ford Motor Company is deploying a new security system to support its "bring your own device" (BYOD) strategy around the world. Read More

Ripping DVDs and making websites mobile
After all these years DVD ripping is, it seems, still a topic of mystery and experimentation. I've tried ripping DVDs many times with varying degrees of success, and today a friend on my favorite email list just raised the topic again: "What do people on this list use to rip a DVD to their hard drive so they can, for example, watch it on a laptop or a tablet? This was something I'd assumed would come up in a Google search, but I had a surprisingly hard time finding a solution." Read More

Vizio enters PC business, ships Ivy Bridge systems starting at $898
Vizio entered the PC business on Thursday, announcing new laptops and all-in-ones that all start at the same price, US$898. Read More

Microsoft eats its own dog food, runs Bing on Server 2012
At Microsoft, they like to say they eat their own dog food. That is to say they run the company on the software they make, often long before the rest of us. Such is the case with its Bing search engine, which is now running on the Release Candidate of Windows Server 2012. Microsoft delivered the Release Candidate (RC) of Windows Server 2012 on May 31 for final testing, which was at that point feature-complete.... Read More

10 Trends Driving Big Data in Financial Services
When it comes to Big Data, the financial services sector has been somewhat slow on the uptake. Neil Palmer, partner of SunGard Consulting Services' Advanced Technology Business, explains it as a cautious approach to innovation driven by the heavily regulated nature of the industry. Here are 10 trends that SunGard's Palmer says will shape Big Data initiatives across all segments of the financial services industry in 2012. Read More

Robot toys! Japan's Tomy shows little dogs, boxers with gesture controls.
The Japanese toy and game developer is displaying a host of innovative controls for its creations at the International Tokyo Toy Show. Read More



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First Look: Apple's "beautiful" new MacBook lineup
Apple rolled out major upgrades for both of its main notebooks today at WWDC. Here's a quick look at the new MacBook Pro and MacBook Air.

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