For students, it's a post-Basic world

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	For students, it's a post-Basic world There was a time when anyone could try programming, thanks to the ubiquity of Basic. But Basic's a non-starter these days, so what will entice a new generation? 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 Feds bust international gangs distributing scareware products Update: Microsoft's cloud BPOS suite suffers outage again EMC to add 500 jobs in Utah Winklevoss twins give up Facebook fight Microsoft: Cloud computing won't hurt us Preston Gralla: Mango is a solid step for Windows Phone 7 -- but it's still not enough From CIO.com: Dolby sues RIM, wants all BlackBerry sales stopped in U.S. and Germany Sharon Machlis: 3 iPad disappointments VMware's Maritz sees 'post-document' era Brazilian government, energy company latest LulzSec victims Cerf: Streaming network crunch could be eliminated LulzSec members to be outed by hacking group Pentaho courts business users with new UI IT Blogwatch: Facebook-baiting Winklevoss twins finally give up... or not WHITE PAPER: SAP A Guide for Midsize Companies Find out how to recognize the signs your company needs a business intelligence solution and what you should look for in a vendor. Learn more about BI components and approaches to implementing a solution to improve your company's efficiency and effectiveness. Read now! Feds bust international gangs distributing scareware products Federal law enforcement authorities working in cooperation with their counterparts in more than 10 countries have disrupted the operations of two gangs responsible for distributing malicious scareware programs to more than 1 million people. Read More Update: Microsoft's cloud BPOS suite suffers outage again Microsoft's BPOS cloud-hosted communication and collaboration suite suffered an outage on Wednesday, the latest in a string of technical problems in recent months. Read More EMC to add 500 jobs in Utah EMC plans to hire 500 new workers by the end of 2015 to staff a new customer support facility in Utah. Read More Winklevoss twins give up Facebook fight The Winklevoss twins have decided to drop their legal battle with Facebook and its founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and accept an earlier $65 million settlement. Read More Microsoft: Cloud computing won't hurt us Cloud computing is widely perceived as a threat to Microsoft, because the maker of Windows and Microsoft Office earns the lion's share of its money selling licenses for packaged software. Read More Preston Gralla: Mango is a solid step for Windows Phone 7 -- but it's still not enough By all accounts, Mango is a solid upgrade for Windows Phone 7. But it's still not a cure for what ails Microsoft's smartphone operating system. Read More From CIO.com: Dolby sues RIM, wants all BlackBerry sales stopped in U.S. and Germany RIM is facing another patent infringement suit that could lead to suspended BlackBerry sales in the U.S. and Germany. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: SAP The Real-time Value of BI Today's top performing organizations have developed a strategy to manage growth in data volume & complexity while exploiting that data to create quicker business insight. Learn how best-in-class companies are delivering broader access to information in a shorter timeframe to facilitate substantial improvement in key business performance metrics. Click to continue Sharon Machlis: 3 iPad disappointments Yes, Apple fans, there's much to like about the iPad. But no it's not perfect. After close to a month with the iPad 2, here are three things that annoy me. Read More VMware's Maritz sees 'post-document' era The PC era is giving way to a world centered on data, where devices and infrastructure are shaped by the information that users want to get from them, VMware President and CEO Paul Maritz said. Read More Brazilian government, energy company latest LulzSec victims Websites belonging to the Brazilian government and energy giant Petrobras were knocked offline Wednesday in a series of cyberattacks. Read More Cerf: Streaming network crunch could be eliminated With sufficient bandwidth, video streaming would be rendered unnecessary, Vint Cerf says. Read More LulzSec members to be outed by hacking group A hacking group in the Netherlands promises to publish photos, phone numbers and addresses of LulzSec members in response to similar treatment by LulzSec. Read More Pentaho courts business users with new UI Pentaho revamps the user interface for its flagship business intelligence software. Read More IT Blogwatch: Facebook-baiting Winklevoss twins finally give up... or not Mark Zuckerberg's archnemeses, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, who claim to have invented Facebook, have finally admitted defeat. They've given up in their quest to have the Supreme Court rule that Facebook pulled the wool over their eyes in the 2008 settlement. So now they're going to sue Facebook for some other slight. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers roll their eyes. Read More
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