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	Researchers praise Facebook for paying bug bounties Facebook's move today to follow Google, Mozilla and Hewlett-Packard in offering bounties for bugs got a unanimous thumbs up from security researchers. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Why Sharepoint Needs Riverbed WAN Optimization In this analyst report from ESG, you'll discover how, much like Microsoft Exchange and other collaboration applications, companies deploying SharePoint can benefit from WAN optimization solutions, ensuring that they make the most of its productivity and information sharing capabilities. Read Now. In this Issue Facebook to pay hackers for bugs Judge gives second AT&T iPad hacker more time to make plea deal Google wants e-mail in Android suit redacted From CIO.com: A Simple Strategy for Acing a Job Interview Phisher who hit 38,500 gets long prison sentence Debt reduction deadlock a drag on corporate capital spending Linux 3.0 a steady step forward Toshiba to fix Thrive tablet sleep-mode bug next week CA buys maker of cloud monitoring tools Update: Despite challenges, Motorola still expects a profitable year Preston Gralla: Five things Microsoft can do to save Windows Phone 7 Michael Horowitz: A new online banking scam JR Raphael: Gingerbread, anyone? Richi Jennings: It's Sysadmin Appreciation Day (hurrah) #SysAdminDay WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Accelerating Data Migration with WAN Optimization Migrating large amounts of data over distance can be costly and time consuming. It's also necessary for IT tasks such as remote office backup, data center moves, and cloud computing models. The good news is that WAN optimization gets the job done effectively, efficiently, and affordably. Read this technology brief to learn how. Learn More Now. Facebook to pay hackers for bugs Facebook is going to pay hackers to find problems with its website -- just so long as they report them to Facebook's security team first. Read More Judge gives second AT&T iPad hacker more time to make plea deal A federal judge has put the case against a man charged with hacking AT&T's website on hold to allow plea negotiations to continue, court documents show. Read More Google wants e-mail in Android suit redacted Google wants the judge overseeing the lawsuit Oracle filed over the Android mobile OS to redact a potentially damaging e-mail written by a Google employee, saying it was supposed to remain confidential and that Oracle wrongly revealed it. Read More From CIO.com: A Simple Strategy for Acing a Job Interview If you want to ace a job interview, you need to get inside the hiring manager's mind. Here's how. Read More Phisher who hit 38,500 gets long prison sentence A California man was sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison Thursday for his role as the brains behind a widespread phishing scam that took in more than 38,000 victims. Read More Debt reduction deadlock a drag on corporate capital spending The U.S. debt reduction deadlock in Congress is already taking a toll on how much companies are spending on property, buildings and equipment, including computer hardware and software, according to a new survey by ChangeWave Research. Read More Linux 3.0 a steady step forward Linux Torvalds has designated the new release of the Linux operating system kernel posted Friday as version 3.0, even while maintaining that the release is only a routine update. Read More VIDEO: Cisco Leadership Through Innovation True innovators need to do more than develop ideas. They must shape those ideas into tools that will help customers improve their own businesses. True leaders need to do more than bring successful products to market. They must partner with their customers to help ensure their success. Cisco can help. Learn More> Toshiba to fix Thrive tablet sleep-mode bug next week Users of Toshiba's latest Thrive Tablet early next week will receive a software update to resolve a bug that causes the tablet to not wake up from sleep mode. Read More CA buys maker of cloud monitoring tools CA Technologies is purchasing WatchMouse, a maker of SaaS-based tools for monitoring mobile and on-demand applications. Read More Update: Despite challenges, Motorola still expects a profitable year Motorola reported a loss of $56 million, or 19 cents a share, on net revenue of $3.3 billion for the second quarter, as the phone and tablet maker continues to struggle to make 4G products. Read More Preston Gralla: Five things Microsoft can do to save Windows Phone 7 Windows Phone 7 has been languishing ever since launch, and a recent survey found that only 7% prefer it over rival smartphones. That doesn't mean that Windows Phone 7 is doomed. Here are five things Microsoft can do to help revive it. Read More Michael Horowitz: A new online banking scam A new variation of the Man-in-the-Browser attack makes it all the more important to be as secure as possible when banking online. In this context: Linux good, Windows bad. Read More JR Raphael: Gingerbread, anyone? Google's Android 2.3 upgrade is spreading like wildfire this week, with seven phones starting rollouts and six more getting promising news for the future. Read More Richi Jennings: It's Sysadmin Appreciation Day (hurrah) #SysAdminDay It's the last Friday of July, which can only mean one thing: it's System Administrator Appreciation Day! Started in 2000 by Ted Kekatos, this holiday-free holiday has grown from strength to strength. Let's feel the Friday love, in The Long View... Read More
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