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	Microsoft flips 'kill switch' on all DigiNotar certificates Microsoft today updated Windows to permanently block all digital certificates issued by a Dutch company that was hacked months ago. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: FileMaker Resource: iOS White Paper and Deployment Kit Quickly Develop and Deploy iOS Solutions. With FileMaker Pro, iPad and iPhone solutions can be prototyped and completed in hours or days versus weeks or months. No iOS application programming or design experience is required. Read the white paper and download the kit. 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This Forrester report discusses why WAN optimization is the best way to gain better performance and cost savings for your business. Read More Hitachi announces 1TB-per platter drives Hitachi today announced that is has achieved yet another milestone by squeezing 1TB capacity onto a single disk. Read More Google+ causes stir with Suggested User list Google+ is trying to help users expand their Circles by offering them a new Suggested User list. The only problem is that some users are taking exception to what they're calling an elitist system. Read More Ransomware plays pirated Windows card, demands $143 Cybercriminals are trying to trick Windows users into paying [euro]100 ($143) by claiming that they're running a counterfeit copy of the operating system, a security expert said today. Read More Sprint sues to block AT&T-T-Mobile merger Sprint isn't letting the Department of Justice have all the fun when it comes to filing suits against the proposed AT&T-T-Mobile merger. Read More From CIO.com: CIO Alert: Five Cures for What Ails IT IT groups often struggle to stay efficient as a business grows and evolves. Here are five tips for CIOs needing to improve budgeting and vendor relationships and align IT and business priorities. First step: Go to lunch. Read More NSA extends label-based security to big data stores The National Security Agency has submitted new label-based data store software, called Accumulo, to the Apache Software Foundation, in hopes that other parties will further develop the technology for use in secure systems. Read More Comodo hacker claims credit for DigiNotar attack The hacker responsible for a stunning attack on a Dutch company that issues security certificates for websites warned on Monday that he would "strike back again," after previously breaching another company earlier this year. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Using Data Reduction Solutions to Manage More with Less This white paper explores one of the pressing issues for storage administrators today: managing and securing a growing tidal wave of data. It discusses specific problems and describes IBM Tivoli, IBM System Storage, and IBM ProtecTIER solutions that can help address them. Read now Google puts Desktop app out to pasture Google is retiring Desktop, an application it launched in 2004 that is designed to let people search for files and data stored in their computers' hard drives. Read More Big is not always better with smartphone screens Product launches at the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin are giving consumers an unprecedented choice of screen sizes. But analysts are questioning whether consumers can learn to love them all. Read More Nearly 300,000 Iranian IP addresses likely compromised Close to 300,000 unique IP addresses from Iran requested access to google.com using a rogue certificate issued by Dutch digital certificate authority DigiNotar, according to an interim report by security firm, Fox-IT, released on Monday. Read More Infor ERP software user fights 'absurd' demand for $400,000 A customer of ERP (enterprise-resource-planning) vendor Infor has filed suit in hopes of warding off the company's demand for roughly $400,000 in additional license fees, which it calls an "absurdity." Read More OpenText buys Operitel for learning software Open Text has purchased Operitel, maker of learning and portal software that is integrated with Microsoft SharePoint, the companies announced Tuesday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft to users --- the Windows 8 ribbon is here to stay Ever since Microsoft revealed that the ribbon interface is coming to Windows 8, Microsoft has faced plenty of criticism and complaints. But Windows chief Steven Sinofsky says that employing the ribbon in Windows 8 makes a lot of sense, and it's here to stay. Read More Jonny Evans: 2012: Apple v. Samsung for the future of TV Apple and Samsung will begin competing on an all-new front in 2012, because that's when both firms will challenge each other for the future of television. Will iTunes, the iPad and iPhone win this battle for Apple? Read More
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