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	5 things OS X Mountain Lion can teach Windows 8 Apple's OS X Mountain Lion will launch Wednesday, so it's a good time for Windows users to peer across the border at what features in Mountain Lion might prove useful. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks Get Your WI-FI Ready For Airprint and Airplay Let your users wirelessly print from iPads, project in conference rooms, and share content using Apple TVs. Aruba AirGroup makes it possible to use Apple Bonjour services in the enterprise or in classrooms. With AirGroup, only the necessary set of services are made visible to mobile devices, based on the user identity and location. Read now. In this Issue Microsoft beefs up anti-exploit tool with tech from $250K contest finalist INSIDER Deep dive into Office 2013 Microsoft needs to buy a vowel A better Windows 8 system refresh with Slimware's RecImg Manager Trash can moves to where you toss the trash Black Hat: Microsoft incorporates BlueHat Prize finalist defensive tech & releases EMET 3.5 Preview Microsoft mum on whether it can tap Skype phone calls Gov't surveillance 'unreasonable' & violated the 4th amendment 'at least once' Domestic drones: security and privacy game changer Dell to introduce new Wyse thin clients for Windows 8 OS WHITE PAPER: Silver Peak Systems, Inc. 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. Microsoft beefs up anti-exploit tool with tech from $250K contest finalist Microsoft launched a security toolkit preview that includes anti-exploit technologies created by one of the three finalists in the company's $250,000 BlueHat Prize contest. Read More INSIDER Deep dive into Office 2013 Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made an off-handed remark in calling Office 2013 "magical," a comment often cited of Apple products. But this time around it seems Microsoft got some stuff right, according to testers. Read More Microsoft needs to buy a vowel I can sympathize because I've committed my fair share of typos over the years. Never this large, though. Read More WEBCAST: Blue Coat Systems, Cisco Systems, and Citrix Systems Best Practices for SaaS from the Branch Office Ed O'Connell from Blue Coat and Greg Smith from Citrix join Robin in reviewing the unique challenges branch office users face when using SaaS applications. Solutions to the problems of response time, security and provisioning are detailed along with the best way to architect the branch office for Cloud and SaaS access. Learn more. A better Windows 8 system refresh with Slimware's RecImg Manager I know why you're excited ... you can't wait for Microsoft to release Windows 8 this fall. Read More Trash can moves to where you toss the trash Just in case you haven't quite gone paperless yet, here's a prototype trash can that moves to where you toss those scrunched up balls of paper over your shoulder. The invention, out of Japan, appears to use a Microsoft Kinect sensor system to spy incoming trash, including drink cans and stuffed animals. Read More Black Hat: Microsoft incorporates BlueHat Prize finalist defensive tech & releases EMET 3.5 Preview It has only been a few months since the close of the BlueHat Prize entry period and today Microsoft announced that it has already incorporated one of the BlueHat Prize finalist's defensive technologies. It's designed to mitigate attacks that leverage Return Oriented Programming (ROP), into its latest Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) 3.5 Technology Preview. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Lower Total Cost of Ownership for Applications Oracle Tuxedo is cost-effective, reliable, and extremely scalable (up to hundreds of thousands of transactions per second). Finally, Tuxedo protects mainframe investments through reuse of existing IT assets in modern service-oriented architecture while significantly reducing operational costs. Read More Today! Microsoft mum on whether it can tap Skype phone calls Microsoft may or may not have the ability to tap Skype phone calls, but the company just won't say, and it's not clear why. Read More Gov't surveillance 'unreasonable' & violated the 4th amendment 'at least once' It's official; the government's spying efforts exceeded the legal limits at least once, meaning it is also officially "unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment." Read More Domestic drones: security and privacy game changer Do you recall when researchers from the University of Texas hijacked a drone via GPS spoofing? Read More Dell to introduce new Wyse thin clients for Windows 8 OS It's been just 60 days since Dell completed the acquisition of thin-client company Wyse, but the business unit is moving forward with plans to release new thin clients designed to work with Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 OS. Read More
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