Mozilla Firefox 5 is here -- with a whimper, not a bang

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	IT Blogwatch: Mozilla Firefox 5 is here -- with whimper, not bang Mozilla has launched Firefox 5 and you can download it now. But don't expect too much: this is the first of the new rapid release cycle builds, so there's not a lot to show for the new major version number. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers ask, "What's in a number?" Not to mention: The Microsoft "bar" code ... Read More WHITE PAPER: SAP A Corporate Guide to Better Decisions through IT Get timely, accurate information, and use it wisely to allocate your small or midsize company's resources for maximum effect. Assess your business and IT systems to ensure you have the right information at the right time – to stay ahead of competitors by making better decisions faster. (Technology Evaluation Centers, 2007) Read now! In this Issue Preston Gralla: Will Microsoft buy RIM? Darlene Storm: Can geeks save bitcoin after hellish week of hack, heist, trojan and a crash? Jonny Evans: Apple's 'jaw-dropping' Final Cut Pro X hurts Adobe Michael Horowitz: Five approaches for defending a Windows PC prove their worth Jonny Evans: September song: Apple A5 iPhone 5 'twice as fast' The Agile Business: Rebuilding IT post-recession: Hire for the future, not the past Sharky: Whaddya mean, sometimes? WHITE PAPER: Cray Cray Supercomputers in Climate, Weather and Ocean Modeling Read why Cray supercomputers are the systems of choice in these communities. Read Now Preston Gralla: Will Microsoft buy RIM? Here's the quickest way for Microsoft to finally become a big player in mobile: Buy Research in Motion. Bloomberg reports that RIM's stock price has declined so precipitiously that it's now at bargain basement prices -- and a number of financial analysts have said Microsoft would be an ideal buyer. Read More Darlene Storm: Can geeks save bitcoin after hellish week of hack, heist, trojan and a crash? After a nearly $9 million bitcoin virtual heist and an attack on MtGox, the biggest bitcoin exchange, the value of the virtual currency crashed. There was a previous half million bitcoin theft and a trojan in the wild is stealing from bitcoin digital wallets. Then the EFF stopped accepting bitcoins as donations. After this hellish week, can geeks and hackers save the P2P bitcoin currency? Read More Jonny Evans: Apple's 'jaw-dropping' Final Cut Pro X hurts Adobe Apple has struck again, with the introduction of its own true 64-bit pro-video editing super-hero, Final Cut Pro X, introducing important changes in the way the software handles, ingests, encodes and manages video production workflow. And its available only via the Mac App Store -- at a fraction the price of Adobe Premiere. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Systems, Inc. Unite Communications Across Multiple Devices Mobile devices, delivery models, and new applications are redefining our jobs. Find out how your company can unite communications across multiple devices, allowing you to communicate with employees, customers, and partners on any device, anywhere. View this demo to see how unifying your communications transforms your work and productivity. Click to continue Michael Horowitz: Five approaches for defending a Windows PC prove their worth Has the previous Defensive Computing advice offered in this blog been worthwhile? I think so. Read More Jonny Evans: September song: Apple A5 iPhone 5 'twice as fast' The iPhone 5 seems set to be twice as fast with nine times the graphic performance of the current generation device. Speculation is intensifying with the device predicted to appear in September. Some are saying the iPhone nano, iPad 3HD -- and even an Apple-branded, Samsung-made television might also be on way. Read More The Agile Business: Rebuilding IT post-recession: Hire for the future, not the past Your budget is now back to pre-recession levels, and you're hiring again. But it's a new world, and you're leveraging very different technologies. What are the skills to look for in new talent? Read More Sharky: Whaddya mean, sometimes? User comes to this pilot fish's office to complain that the printer won't print his job until he puts paper in tray 4. Why would it do that? Read More
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