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	Take our 'Microsoft Word at 30' quiz Everybody knows Microsoft Word now, but what do you know about where it came from? Read More   WHITE PAPER: CDW Protect Your Business & Simplify IT Restore entire virtual guests and critical virtualized Microsoft applications across VMware and Hyper-V. Learn about the features in Backup Exec V-Ray that deliver disk and tape backup and recovery across both your physical and virtual infrastructure with a single solution. Read Now In this Issue Cisco/Insieme 40G coming in close to 10G The one real reason Bitcoin isn't a serious alternative currency Apple iPad 5, new Macs live blogs: Take your pick Wikipedia bans 250 accounts on pay-for-article concerns Facebook users get a bumpy Monday log in Geek-themed Meme of the Week: Not Asking Too Much Edition Geek-Themed Meme of the Week Archive Q&A: Clement Lefebvre: The man behind Linux Mint Wireless feature disabled on pacemaker to stop hackers from assassinating Cheney IBM rolls "Internet of Things" starter kit WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel®   Cloud Computing for CIOs No longer is moving to the cloud only spearheaded by small IT groups - increasingly, CIOs and CFOs are getting involved in the process. This white paper discusses how CIOs that establish a combined approach with CFOs on cloud IT investments are seeing more real business value for their organization. Learn more. Cisco/Insieme 40G coming in close to 10G As the November 6 launch date gets closer, more details are emerging on Cisco/Insieme's Nexus 9000 and Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) introduction. Read More   The one real reason Bitcoin isn't a serious alternative currency I love the idea of Bitcoin. I really, really do. I love the concept of separating money from government control and of enabling truly anonymous electronic transactions. I love the fact that it's decentralized and open source. I even love the notion of "mining" Bitcoins. It's so much cooler than, say, printing money, much less having to earn it. Read More   Apple iPad 5, new Macs live blogs: Take your pick Apple on Tuesday, Oct. 22 at 10 a.m. PST/1 p.m. EST is expected to make iPad, OS X Mavericks and Mac Pro announcements, and a host of media outlets will be on hand to give blow-by-blow accounts via live blogs for those unable to score invites to the event at San Francisco's Yerba Bueno Center. Read More   Wikipedia bans 250 accounts on pay-for-article concerns Amid news reports of groups paying users to write Wikipedia entries, the online encyclopedia has blocked or banned more than 250 accounts, the site announced Monday. Read More   Facebook users get a bumpy Monday log in Many Facebook users got an unpleasant surprise on Monday as they logged into their accounts only to find that some of the services were not working properly. Read More   Geek-themed Meme of the Week: Not Asking Too Much Edition   Here's No. 18 in our Geek-Themed Meme of the Week series and while I did not author it myself I could not possibly agree more with its sentiment. If an article does not carry a date, I'll just go ahead and assume that it's too old to matter. Next. Want more? Check out the "Geek-themed Meme of the Week Archive": Read More   Geek-Themed Meme of the Week Archive They are inescapable on the Internet. Most are awful. A few are not, so we have started publishing a selection of memes that amuse me. One every week. Here's the archive. Read More   Q&A: Clement Lefebvre: The man behind Linux Mint Linux Mint, an Ubuntu and Debian-based Linux distribution, has seen tremendous growth in community support and installed base in recent years. Since arriving on the scene in 2006 with its first release called "Ada," Mint has become the most popular FOSS operating system on DistroWatch.com, surpassing both Ubuntu and Debian themselves. Read More   Wireless feature disabled on pacemaker to stop hackers from assassinating Cheney It would be a safe bet to guess that former Vice President Dick Cheney agreed to be interviewed by Dr. Sanjay Gupta on CBS's "60 Minutes" in order to help sell his new book, Heart, but some of the details from, and comments on, that interview are worth repeating. Read More   IBM rolls "Internet of Things" starter kit IBM today said it teamed up with wireless sensor builder Libelium to offer what it calls an Internet of Things starter kit that would let customers deploy dozens of different sensor applications. Read More
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