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	Windows XP PCs breed rootkit infections Machines running the decade-old Windows XP make up a huge reservoir of infected PCs that can spread malware to other systems, a Czech antivirus company said today. Read More WHITE PAPER: Rackspace Moving your Infrastructure to the Cloud This paper details the significant benefits that Cloud Computing brings and provides guidance to IT decision makers to help their decision making process. This is especially important given the plethora of vendors in the marketplace today. Read Now! In this Issue Macs infringe S3 patents, could face U.S. import ban Google service rewrites Web pages for speed Sprint, LightSquared strike 15-year deal for LTE wholesale network Richi Jennings: IBM tries offshoring yet more jobs Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: +1 for Google+ QuickPoll: Is Google+ being too pedantic about using real names? 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Click to continue Macs infringe S3 patents, could face U.S. import ban A trade agency judge has ruled that some Macs infringe patents held by S3 Graphics and could be barred from the U.S., according to a decision made public Wednesday. Read More Google service rewrites Web pages for speed Google has developed a hosted service that analyzes Web pages, rewrites their code to make them perform better and serves them up from Google servers. Read More Sprint, LightSquared strike 15-year deal for LTE wholesale network Sprint and LTE technology provider LightSquared announced a 15-year deal Thursday that gives Sprint $9 billion in cash, primarily for spectrum hosting and LTE network services it would provide LightSquared. Read More Richi Jennings: IBM tries offshoring yet more jobs IBM (NYSE:IBM) has kicked off a huge research program to improve how it manages its customers' IT systems. It aims to bring scientific rigor to outsourcing. But I can't help thinking this is just about moving more jobs overseas. Let me explain, in The Long View... INSIDER (registration required) Read More Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: +1 for Google+ It gets a lot of things right, especially the idea that not all 'friends' are created equal. Read More QuickPoll: Is Google+ being too pedantic about using real names? Google is adjusting the real-name policy of its Google+ social service to appease angry users -- many kicked off without notice. But Google will still not allow pseudoymns. Is Google+ being too pedantic about using real names? Read More ARM could breathe new life into laptops A stagnant laptop market could be reinvigorated with the arrival of ARM processors, which will enable lighter machines with all-day battery life, industry observers said. Read More Oracle releases Java SE 7 In what is the first major update to the programming language in more than five years, Oracle has shipped Java Platform Standard Edition 7 (Java SE 7), the company announced Thursday. 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> E-commerce sites based on open source code under attack About 100,000 Web pages for e-commerce sites based on the open source OS Commerce software have been compromised with malware through a mass iFrame injection attack, according to security firm Armorize. Read More SAP, Rent-a-Center in battle over millions in fees SAP and Rent-a-Center are locked in a legal battle over whether the rent-to-own chain owes the vendor about $9 million in fees for excess use of its Business Objects analytics software. Read More Novell to close Vibe Cloud collaboration suite Novell has decided to shut down its Web-hosted Vibe Cloud enterprise social collaboration suite, which bombed with customers although the market is hot for competing products. Read More FTC targets online business listing operation The U.S. Federal Trade Commission says an online business listing company billed small businesses and nonprofit groups for unwanted listings. Read More IBM boosts services arm with research help Hoping to boost its services offerings, IBM is assigning 200 of its researchers to the help the company manage its customers' business systems with more scientific precision. Read More Oracle buys InQuira to boost Fusion CRM Oracle is buying knowledge management vendor InQuira in order to improve the capabilities of its Fusion and Siebel CRM applications. Read More From CIO.com: Cloud Security: Will Your Business Data Be Safe In the Cloud? Is the cloud is a safe place for your critical business data to be? Cloud security consultant Ara Trembly tells you what you need to know and consider before you decide. Read More Preston Gralla: Consumers give thumbs-down to Windows Phone 7 If Microsoft is looking for a reason why Windows Phone 7 has languished, it needs look no further than what consumers have to say --- a recent survey found that only seven percent of shoppers prefer Windows Phone 7 over competing smartphone operating systems, barely edging out RIM Blackberry. Read More
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