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	New malware scanner finds 5% of Windows PCs infected One in every 20 Windows PCs whose users turned to Microsoft for cleanup help were infected with malware, Microsoft said this week. Read More WHITE PAPER: Ping Identity Centralized Cloud Identity Management for Enterprise Now that employees are leaving the relative safety of the firewall to use online SaaS applications, enterprises need to adjust the way they manage employee identities. This White Paper from Ping Identity addresses why we need to centralize employees' IDs across applications. Read now In this Issue Microsoft downplays IE 'cookiejacking' bug Preston Gralla: Microsoft's biggest mobile money-maker is Android, not Windows Phone 7 IT Blogwatch: Windows 8 tablet PC OS release: iPad 3 showdown Preston Gralla: Beginning of the end for Microsoft's Ballmer? Hedge fund "star" says he should resign. IT Blogwatch: Hello, Microsoft? Fire Steve Ballmer! (Developers-developers-developers) WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems, Inc. Social Technologies Add Business Value Social technologies are moving from the consumer space into the enterprise, and Enterprise Social Software (ESS) is changing how people work. A white paper based on a Forrester Consulting survey commissioned by Cisco reveals the benefits and inhibitors faced by decision makers and how ESS is transforming business processes. Read the white paper now. Microsoft downplays IE 'cookiejacking' bug Microsoft today downplayed the threat posed by an unpatched vulnerability in all versions of Internet Explorer (IE) that an Italian researchers has shown can be exploited to hijack people's online identities. Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft's biggest mobile money-maker is Android, not Windows Phone 7 Microsoft may be spending enormous amount of money and development effort on Windows Phone 7, but for now, it's making more money off of Android than it is from Windows Phone 7. So says Citi analyst Walter Pritchard in a just-released report.   Read More WEBCAST: Dell and Riverbed Data Protection for Healthcare IDN Data protection within an Integrated Healthcare Network can be challenging on many fronts. Increasing and expanding regulations, exponential data growth, and stretched IT resources all place a burden on ensuring the resiliency of your data system. Learn more! IT Blogwatch: Windows 8 tablet PC OS release: iPad 3 showdown Rumor has it that Microsoft (MSFT) will demonstrate a Windows 8-based tablet PC OS next week. That puts it on-course for a release around the time that the iPad 3 is predicted. Few are expecting an iPad 3 killer, but Redmond has to do something to respond to Apple and Android. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers reach out and touch something.   Read More Preston Gralla: Beginning of the end for Microsoft's Ballmer? Hedge fund "star" says he should resign. There have been plenty of people in the technorati who have said that the only way Microsoft will thrive is if CEO Steve Ballmer steps down. But now someone with a lot more influence is saying he should resign: Influential hedge fund manager David Einhorn says it's time for Ballmer to go.   Read More IT Blogwatch: Hello, Microsoft? Fire Steve Ballmer! (Developers-developers-developers) A "star" hedge-fund is calling for the Microsoft (MSFT) board to give CEO Steve Ballmer the old heave-ho. Greenlight Capital president David Einhorn thinks Ballmer's replacement would rally the company's snoozing stock price. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers will miss all the sweaty developers-developers-developers gags.   Read More
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