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	High on iCloud, Apple slates MobileMe's demise Apple told MobileMe subscribers Monday that the sync and storage service will be shuttered next year. 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 Apple's iCloud and iOS 5: New challenges for the enterprise Reality check: Southern scales back desktop virtualization The platform-as-a-service cloud: Developers are in charge Microsoft Windows 8 demos spur developer worry Sarah Palin fans try to rewrite history on Wikipedia Apple iOS 5 cuts iPhone, iPad loose from computers, embraces the cloud From CIO.com: 10 Essential Facebook Tips and Tricks for All Users Sony offers Playstation apology, look ahead with Vita, 3D bundle After hack, RSA offers to replace SecureID tokens Hackers may try to disrupt World IPv6 Day IDC lowers forecast for PC sales this year Motorola backtracks on CEO comments Free Press files tethering complaint against Verizon Jonny Evans: WWDC: Apple's iCloud is 'one cloud to rule them all' IT Blogwatch: Windows 8 developers: Silverlight/.NET/XAML are M.I.A., M.I.A., M.I.A. RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Microsoft Is Microsoft Desktop Virtualization for you? Desktop Virtualization provides a comprehensive suite of solutions that enables companies to give their employees flexibility to work everywhere; simplifying compliance and management through a centralized and unified infrastructure. Learn how IT is empowering users with Desktop Virtualization with this on-demand roundtable. Click to continue Apple's iCloud and iOS 5: New challenges for the enterprise Although many of the features Apple talked up Monday during the WWDC keynote could be a boon to enterprise IT shops, some could pose security challanges, says columnist Ryan Faas. Read More Reality check: Southern scales back desktop virtualization Southern Co. had been planning to move most of its employees into a virtual desktop environment within two to three years but will now tackle a much smaller-scale deployment over time. Read More The platform-as-a-service cloud: Developers are in charge Current PaaS offerings focus mainly on individual developers, but analysts expect enterprise-class offerings to emerge Read More Microsoft Windows 8 demos spur developer worry Thanks to two brief demonstrations of Microsoft's next-generation operating system, third-party Microsoft Windows developers are expressing frustration over what they consider a lack of clear direction on how to develop applications for Windows 8. Read More Sarah Palin fans try to rewrite history on Wikipedia A battle is in full swing on Wikipedia over Sarah Palin and her recent take on Paul Revere's historical ride. Read More Apple iOS 5 cuts iPhone, iPad loose from computers, embraces the cloud Apple outlined the changes that iOS 5, due for release this fall, will bring to iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users. The devices are being cut free from computers and tied more closely into new cloud services. Read More From CIO.com: 10 Essential Facebook Tips and Tricks for All Users Make your account more secure, manipulate your personal settings and more, with these ten Facebook tips and tricks that every user should know. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Rewriting the rules of Patch Management IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager helps organizations automatically manage patches for multiple operating systems and applications across hundreds of thousands of endpoints regardless of location, connection type or status. Read now Sony offers Playstation apology, look ahead with Vita, 3D bundle Sony opened its E3 press conference Monday with an apology for the multi-week PlayStation Network outage. Read More After hack, RSA offers to replace SecureID tokens In an acknowledgement of the severity of its recent computer compromise, RSA Security it will replace SecureID tokens for any customer that asks. Read More Hackers may try to disrupt World IPv6 Day Hundreds of popular websites -- including Google, Facebook, Yahoo and Bing -- are participating in a 24-hour trial of a new Internet standard called IPv6 on June 8, prompting worries that hackers will exploit weaknesses in this emerging technology to launch attacks. Read More IDC lowers forecast for PC sales this year Analyst firm IDC has lowered its expectations for the global PC market this year, blaming the drop on the demand for tablets computers, the economy and a bad first quarter. Read More Motorola backtracks on CEO comments Motorola is backtracking on comments its CEO made last week about the impact Android apps have on phone performance. Read More Free Press files tethering complaint against Verizon Verizon Wireless is violating FCC rules by blocking users from using third-party tethering applications on Android smartphones, media reform group Free Press said in a complaint to the agency Monday Read More Jonny Evans: WWDC: Apple's iCloud is 'one cloud to rule them all' Perhaps you see Apple CEO Steve Jobs sitting somewhere muttering the mantra, "One cloud to rule them all." Perhaps you prefer to see him as a wizard, raising the warriors of the West. Whatever your preference, Apple today introduced iCloud -- the most eagerly-awaited set of online services the world's seen yet. Really. This was so important Jobs took time out from his extended medical absence to tell the world about the next evolution of Apple's connected device plans. Read all about it in this three page special report on Apple at WWDC. Read More IT Blogwatch: Windows 8 developers: Silverlight/.NET/XAML are M.I.A., M.I.A., M.I.A. Microsoft (MSFT) continues to dodge the question of whether its third-party developers (developers, developers) will be able to use XAML, .NET, and Silverlight. Sure, they can write classic Windows apps, but what about the "modern" or "Jupiter" Windows 8 tiled apps? Tumbleweed, tumbleweed, tumbleweed. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers blog, blog, blog. Read More
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