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	Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support Unnoticed in the Tuesday release of Firefox 5 was Mozilla's decision to retire Firefox 4, the browser it shipped just three months ago. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell PCI 2.0: What's New? What Matters? What's Left? The inclusion of virtualization in PCI 2.0 demonstrates that the PCI DSS standard can keep pace with new technologies. This paper discusses what's new in PCI 2.0 and offers guidance on closing gaps that still need attention particularly in the areas of storage encryption, wireless networking, and physical security. Learn more. In this Issue View and sort the 100 Best Places to work in IT 2011 PC era giving way to 'contextual intelligence,' say top IT execs New LightSquared GPS plan faces attack, uncertainty Google builds developer tool for Chrome browser to flag web app vulnerabilities CIO wannabes told to think outside the box Jonny Evans: September song: Apple A5 iPhone 5 'twice as fast' From CIO.com: Cloud CIO: In Defense of Corporate IT Preston Gralla: Will Microsoft buy RIM? For B&N, e-books outsell physical books three to one IBM's Netezza rolls out large-scale analytic appliance GPL faces test in German court Tech firm's co-owner sentenced for E-Rate fraud IT Blogwatch: Mozilla Firefox 5 is here -- with whimper, not bang WHITE PAPER: ADTRAN Adopting Unified Communications: Key Steps to Consider The faster your business can locate, gather and share information, the more productive and competitive you can be. That's why small and medium enterprises are upgrading to a unified communications (UC) system, which can improve customer service, streamline product development and speed response to new opportunities. Learn more. >> View and sort the 100 Best Places to work in IT 2011 Find the top employer that best suits your needs. Sort the Best Places to Work by key criteria, such as training days, and add filters by region and/or organization size. Read More PC era giving way to 'contextual intelligence,' say top IT execs Top IT executives speaking at at the Computerworld Honors awards ceremony Monday talked of a post PC era in which specific devices become mostly irrelevant. Read More New LightSquared GPS plan faces attack, uncertainty The coast is not yet clear for LightSquared's hybrid satellite-LTE network despite the company's announcement on Monday that it has found a solution to interference with GPS. Read More Google builds developer tool for Chrome browser to flag web app vulnerabilities Google has released an experimental extension for its Chrome browser that developers can use to scan their Web applications and flag code that could make them vulnerable to malware attacks. Read More CIO wannabes told to think outside the box IT workers who want to be a CIO need to think outside the box -- like pushing for staff to spend 10% of their time working on something other than operational tasks, according to advice at a recent CIO conference. 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 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 From CIO.com: Cloud CIO: In Defense of Corporate IT The threat that cloud computing poses to CIOs and IT professionals' careers does not stem from cloud computing rendering corporate IT departments irrelevant. Rather, it comes from CIOs' and IT professionals' failure to face the revolution that cloud computing brings and to assume much more important positions inside their firms. Read More 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 precipitously that it's now at bargain basement prices --- and a number of financial analysts have said Microsoft would be an ideal buyer. Read More For B&N, e-books outsell physical books three to one Barnes & Noble on Tuesday said it sold three times as many digital books through its website compared to physical books during the fourth fiscal quarter. Read More IBM's Netezza rolls out large-scale analytic appliance IBM's Netezza division is rolling out a new analytic appliance that can analyze up to 10 petabytes of data "in a matter of minutes," the company is expected to announce Wednesday during the Enzee Universe conference in Boston. Read More GPL faces test in German court A major challenge to the principles of free software was mounted in a German district court on Tuesday. Read More Tech firm's co-owner sentenced for E-Rate fraud A former co-owner of an Ilinois networking firm is sentenced to a year in prison for an E-Rate bribery conspiracy. Read More 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?" Read More
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