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	'Obstinate' Conficker worm infests millions of PCs years later The long-suppressed Conficker botnet is still actively infecting millions of new machines, giving Windows enterprise users a two-and-a-half-year headache. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn LogMeIn Central Free Trial Get a free trial of a powerful management console that lets you manage, monitor and automate tasks on hundreds of computers from one location. Get total control. Download now! In this Issue Why is Apple CEO slamming laptop/tablet hybrids? First BlackBerry 10 smartphone to launch in October, reports say One in 10 second-hand hard drives in U.K. contain personal data Microsoft re-releases Office for Mac 2011 upgrade after fixing bugs From CIO.com: Are Zombies Sucking the Life Out of Your Data Center? Intel researchers plot a smarter, personalized cloud Amazon Web Services eases private cloud creation ZestCash brings Big Data to consumer lending 97% of enterprise tablet users got an iPad in Q1, survey finds Canonical gears Linux upgrade to the cloud Babelverse real-time human voice translation service opens public beta Preston Gralla: Apple is "ten years behind Microsoft" on security says security firm Kaspersky Jonny Evans: Apple WWDC 2012: iOS 6, iCloud, OS X and Macs JR Raphael: Google engineer explains Nexus and Xoom Ice Cream Sandwich delays WHITE PAPER: Limelight Web Acceleration: The Rules Have Changed Optimizing your web page loading time is essential for retaining your website visitors. Download Web Acceleration: The Rules Have Changed to learn how front-end optimization can improve Time to Action for your web and mobile content, and how it can be done in front of your existing CDN with minimal integration required. Learn More! Why is Apple CEO slamming laptop/tablet hybrids? When Apple CEO Tim Cook dissed the whole idea of hybrid mobile computers, he may have been showing unease about the rise of laptop/tablet hybrids. Read More First BlackBerry 10 smartphone to launch in October, reports say Reports indicate that the first BlackBerry 10 smartphone will be announced by mid-August and will be launched in October, somewhat earlier than expected. Read More One in 10 second-hand hard drives in U.K. contain personal data A study by the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office found that more than one in 10 second-hand hard drives sold or given away in Britain contains recoverable personal information of the original owner. Read More Microsoft re-releases Office for Mac 2011 upgrade after fixing bugs Microsoft yesterday re-released Office for Mac 2011 Service Pack 2 (SP2) after fixing a bug that wormed into the original update. Read More From CIO.com: Are Zombies Sucking the Life Out of Your Data Center? If your organization operates its own servers and switches, it's likely that a percentage of them are zombies--steadily gobbling up resources but doing no work. Cleaning up a zombie server infestation takes good management and stringent documentation. Read More Intel researchers plot a smarter, personalized cloud Intel researchers hope the cloud will provide a new model to deliver accurate information about the quality of air and weather within meters of where a user is standing, which could ultimately help improve the quality of life. Read More Amazon Web Services eases private cloud creation Amazon Web Services said it has made it possible to create private clouds using CloudFormation, which automatically creates stacks of resources described using templates. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Private Cloud: Lessons Learned Along the Way A recent IDG Research Services study confirms that the private cloud is indeed full of promise. Agility. Efficiency. Cost savings. But realizing those rewards can be an arduous path. Now, you can leverage what Cisco learned on their own path to the private cloud. View Now ZestCash brings Big Data to consumer lending ZestCash, an online lending service for lower-income borrowers, has begun using a new big data-driven decision-making method that it claims will allow it to lend to 25% more people and improve repayment rates by 20%. Read More 97% of enterprise tablet users got an iPad in Q1, survey finds Apple's dominance over Android in the corporate tablet market grew in the first quarter, according to a survey from mobile device management and wireless email vendor Good Technology. Read More Canonical gears Linux upgrade to the cloud Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS will feature the Essex release of the OpenStack cloud fabric layer Read More Babelverse real-time human voice translation service opens public beta Babelverse, a service designed to enable users to directly contact a human translator anytime, anywhere, opened a public beta of their service in Amsterdam on Thursday. Read More Preston Gralla: Apple is "ten years behind Microsoft" on security says security firm Kaspersky Macs are about to be swamped by a new wave of malware attacks, and are risk because Apple is "ten years behind Microsoft" when it comes to security, says Eugene Kaspersky, founder and CEO of the security firm Kaspersky. If he's right, the recent Flashback Trojan attack is the shape of things to come Read More Jonny Evans: Apple WWDC 2012: iOS 6, iCloud, OS X and Macs Announced yesterday, Apple's WWDC extravaganza sold out in just two hours as 5,000 developers coughed-up $1,600 each to attend, netting the company a cool $8 million as they did. So, what can we expect from this year's show? Read on for the crazy Apple rumors guide: Read More JR Raphael: Google engineer explains Nexus and Xoom Ice Cream Sandwich delays For the first time, we're getting some insight into why it's taking so long for some of Google's flagship devices to get their Android 4.0 upgrades. Read More
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