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	Price tag for Microsoft piece of Flame malware $1M, researcher says Back when the Microsoft Update piece of the Flame espionage-software package was still undetected it could have sold for $1 million on the malware black market, a security researcher says. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CIO Perspective Bringing the CEO Perspective to the CIO Role Mike Skinner balances a unique dual role - CEO of Eurpac Brokerage Operations, and CIO of Eurpac Service, Inc. Hear his compelling presentation of how he adds value for suppliers and customers alike, and how the CIO role has prepared him for the challenges ahead at CIO Perspectives Washington, DC. Click to continue In this Issue The Great Verizon Network Extender rip-off 9 Open Source Big Data Technologies to Watch iPhone 5 rumor rollup for the week ending June 8 Researcher: Interdependencies could lead to cloud 'meltdowns' How Charles Dickens helped crack your LinkedIn password How to More than Triple Your WAN Performance - Without WAN Optimization iPad price cut has sparked tablet computer price free fall Microsoft to repair Internet Explorer fault discovered at hacking contest Microsoft opens Azure to IaaS, Linux Can't find the gadgets you want? Here are the parts to build your own Gmail outage likely hit several million on Thursday E3 2012: Microsoft makes plays for Xbox to become entertainment center, even for non-gamers WHITE PAPER: Extreme Networks Mobility in the Network: A Phased Technology Approach The evolution of the network to provide the intelligence needed to address user, device and application mobility is underway. In this white paper, Extreme Networks® outlines the five phases required to bring mobility into the network. Learn more. The Great Verizon Network Extender rip-off A few months ago I started writing about my saga of getting AT&T U-verse DSL service established at the new location of the Gibbs Universal Industries Secret Underground Bunker. Read More 9 Open Source Big Data Technologies to Watch With more and more companies storing more and more data and hoping to leverage it for actionable insights, Big Data is making a big splash these days. Open source technology is at the core of most Big Data initiatives. Here are nine key open source Big Data technologies to keep an eye on. Read More iPhone 5 rumor rollup for the week ending June 8 With Apple's annual Worldwide Developer Conference just days away, the yearning iOSphere seethes with rumors, alarums and frights. Read More Researcher: Interdependencies could lead to cloud 'meltdowns' As the use of cloud computing becomes more and more mainstream, serious operational "meltdowns" could arise as end-users and vendors mix, match and bundle services for various means, a researcher argues in a new paper set for discussion next week at the USENIX HotCloud '12 conference in Boston. Read More WHITE PAPER: Limelight Web Acceleration: The Rules Have Changed Optimizing your web page loading time is essential for retaining your website visitors. Download Web Acceleration: The Rules Have Changed to learn how front-end optimization can improve Time to Action for your web and mobile content, and how it can be done in front of your existing CDN with minimal integration required. Learn More! How Charles Dickens helped crack your LinkedIn password Kevin Young, a computer security expert who studies passwords, is nearly at a loss for words. Literally. Read More How to More than Triple Your WAN Performance - Without WAN Optimization We've heard about a lot of benefits driving SDNs, but this week we found about a new one of particular importance to anyone building multi-site networks: Google is using an SDN to improve its WAN investment by more than three times. Read More iPad price cut has sparked tablet computer price free fall Apple's announcement in March, upon releasing the new iPad (a.k.a. iPad 3), that it was lowering iPad 2 pricing to $399 has forced other tablet computer makers to slash pricing on their devices as well. That proved to be a major reason for the average selling price of tablets falling 21% to $386 in Q1, according to IMS Research. Read More Microsoft to repair Internet Explorer fault discovered at hacking contest Next week's Patch Tuesday will feature a fix for a vulnerability in Internet Explorer that came to light at the celebrated Pwn2Own hacking competition held earlier this year at CanSecWest. Read More WHITE PAPER: Splunk Ongame Uses Splunk to Optimize Gaming Services This analyst ROI case study reveals how Ongame, a leading online gaming platform, used Splunk to gain greater visibility and efficiency from their application production process. Discover how Ongame improved DevOps collaboration and reduced downtime by more than 30%. Read Now! Microsoft opens Azure to IaaS, Linux Microsoft unveiled new capabilities for Azure that move the cloud offering from a platform as a service into the competitive landscape of infrastructure as a service, while embracing open-source operating systems. Read More Can't find the gadgets you want? Here are the parts to build your own At the massive Computex exhibition in Taipei this week, hundreds of vendors hawk shiny new tablets, phones and computers. Read More Gmail outage likely hit several million on Thursday Google's Gmail webmail service was unavailable for more than 90 minutes on Thursday, an outage that may have affected almost 4.8 million users. Read More E3 2012: Microsoft makes plays for Xbox to become entertainment center, even for non-gamers At E3 Microsoft announced a number of partnership and expanded features on its Xbox 360 game console.Follow IDG News Service's Nick Barber on Twitter @nickjb. Read More
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