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	First look: Google+ lets you hang with a small (or large) circle of friends Google+, the search giant's latest try at social networking, lets users limit who gets which message -- a strategy that could eventually challenge Facebook's "one list fits all" approach. Read More WHITE PAPER: Argent What's the biggest bottleneck in VMware? Do more CPUs improve VMware?    Using VMware NIC Teaming?    Does TCP/IP affect VMware? (You'll be surprised)    Get this essential FREE white paper now    11 pages of technical details, not sales fluff     Click to continue In this Issue E-Verify needs to be improved, Obama says Can Google+ dethrone Facebook? IBM announces computer memory breakthrough Los Alamos shuts down supercomputers as fire advances Cius is about giving control back to IT, Cisco says From CIO.com: Forrester: No End in Sight for IE Enterprise Slide Al-Qaida communications knocked offline, says expert EnterpriseDB adds HP-UX support With FBI raid, law enforcement circles LulzSec LightSquared faces more turbulence over GPS Dell looks to increase focus on midmarket CA to buy application testing company ITKO QuickPoll: Do you think Google+ will take Facebook down a notch? IT Blogwatch: HP TouchPad isn't even iPad 2 killer, let alone iPad 3 WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems, Inc. Social Technologies Transform Business 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. E-Verify needs to be improved, Obama says The Internet-based E-Verify employment eligibility system can be an important enforcement tool in the fight against illegal immigration, but only if it can be made error-free and reliable, President Obama said on Wednesday. Read More Can Google+ dethrone Facebook? Can Google+, the new social network from Google, lure users away from Facebook, the world's largest social network? It won't be easy, say analysts. Read More IBM announces computer memory breakthrough IBM researchers have successfully stored multiple bits of data in the cells of phase-change memory chip. This will allow the creation of non-volatile memory with as much capacity as NAND flash but with vastly greater performance and longevity for enterprise-class applications. Read More Los Alamos shuts down supercomputers as fire advances The Los Alamos National Lab has shut down two of its largest supercomputers, as wildfires continue to burn near this sprawling New Mexico facility. Read More Cius is about giving control back to IT, Cisco says Cisco officials want to drive home a point about the Cius tablet coming on July 31: It's aimed at business users, not consumers. Read More From CIO.com: Forrester: No End in Sight for IE Enterprise Slide Despite Windows dominance and a surge in Windows 7 enterprise upgrades, corporate use of Internet Explorer continues to decline due to more workplace consumerization that emphasizes choice and an increase in browser-agnostic apps. Read More Al-Qaida communications knocked offline, says expert Terror group al-Qaida has been left without a trusted operational channel on the Internet for distributing its media and propaganda, according to a terrorism expert. Read More WHITE PAPER: Red Hat How Top Virtualization Vendors Stack Up Understanding the differences in capabilities of major virtualization solutions can have a dramatic impact on the level of deployment achieved. This paper you'll read: • VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Features Comparison • Overcoming virtualization barriers • Tips to achieve wide-spread adoption of virtualization Read now! EnterpriseDB adds HP-UX support Version 9.0 of EnterpriseDB's Oracle-compatible database is now available, with new support for Hewlett-Packard's HP-UX operating system, the company announced Thursday. Read More With FBI raid, law enforcement circles LulzSec Time may be running out for the members of LulzSec as police continue to step up their inquiries into the hacking group. Read More LightSquared faces more turbulence over GPS There's little disagreement about what a test report expected this week will say about LightSquared's proposed LTE network: It knocks out GPS on many devices. There's far less consensus about what causes the problem and what to do about it. Read More Dell looks to increase focus on midmarket Dell on Wednesday said it was increasing focus on the midmarket as the company looks to offer new cloud computing, security and data management services to customers. Read More CA to buy application testing company ITKO CA said on Wednesday it plans to acquire Interactive TKO, which offers a simulation platform designed to reduce the time it takes to develop and test complex applications, for US$330 million in cash. Read More QuickPoll: Do you think Google+ will take Facebook down a notch? After much speculation, Google is finally taking on Facebook with Google+. Check out our first-look review, then cast your vote. Read More IT Blogwatch: HP TouchPad isn't even iPad 2 killer, let alone iPad 3 HP (NYSE:HPQ) launches its TouchPad tomorrow, in competition with the Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad 2 and rumored iPad 3. HP allowed reviewers to talk about it last night, but the reception wasn't wonderful. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers crowdsource the reviews. Read More
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