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	Time to de-Flash your site? Flash is a problem for iDevices, which makes mobile access to a website problematic. Here's what smart shops are doing about it. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: VeriSign VeriSign SSL, now from Symantec. We're moving beyond the standard SSL. Added features now include Vulnerability assessment, Malware scans & Seal-in-Search. Provide more robust security functionality to your website while protecting your customers with VeriSign SSL, now from Symantec. Click to learn more! In this Issue Mozilla blocks Java in Firefox for some Mac users Yahoo's new CEO lays out strategy for smaller, more focused company Oracle considered buying RIM and Palm, Ellison says HVault announces holographic storage system with petabytes of capacity Intel's first Ivy Bridge chips will be high-end quad-core parts Healthcare IT Spotlight: Glitz, glam and the glimmer of a new age in health care From CIO.com: How to avoid the perils of virtualization and cloud stall Yahoo earnings rise, but revenue treads water IBM posts flat revenue, falling hardware sales Intel profit dips as PC and server chip sales decline Apple, Samsung agree to patent settlement talks Open-source hardware movement wants legitimacy Intel Shows Off Pricey 'Cove Point' Ultrabook-Tablet Hybrid California's $500M state pension software system wracked by backlogs IT Blogwatch: SKU news: Windows 8 and RT make bloggers barf WHITE PAPER: Amazon Web Services Microsoft SharePoint on the AWS Cloud Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides services & tools for deploying Microsoft® SharePoint® workloads on its cloud infrastructure platform. This white paper discusses general concepts regarding how to use these services and provides detailed technical guidance on how to configure, deploy, and run a SharePoint Server farm on AWS. Deploy SharePoint quickly at lower total cost on AWS Cloud. Learn how Mozilla blocks Java in Firefox for some Mac users Mozilla this week began blocking outdated versions of a Java plug-in in Firefox for some Mac users after calling the threat posed by the Flashback malware "evident and imminent." Read More Yahoo's new CEO lays out strategy for smaller, more focused company Yahoo plans to cut about 50 properties and refocus on its core business, CEO Scott Thompson said in an earnings call. Read More Oracle considered buying RIM and Palm, Ellison says Oracle considered buying Palm and BlackBerry maker Research In Motion as part of an aborted effort to build its own smartphone, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said in court Tuesday. Read More HVault announces holographic storage system with petabytes of capacity Start-up hVault announced it plans to begin shipping a holographic disc library later this year that will enable companies to store petabytes of data for at least 50 years without any degradation. Read More Intel's first Ivy Bridge chips will be high-end quad-core parts Intel said Tuesday that it would announce its first Core processors based on the Ivy Bridge microarchitecture next week, and the first chips won't be for ultrabooks, but will be quad-core parts for high-end desktops and laptops. Read More Healthcare IT Spotlight: Glitz, glam and the glimmer of a new age in health care It's clear that IT has a significant opportunity to help increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the healthcare industry. Read More From CIO.com: How to avoid the perils of virtualization and cloud stall Virtualization and cloud computing offer the promise of cost savings, efficiency and flexibility, but organizations must plan their transitions carefully or risk finding themselves stuck with a bundle of sunk costs and no path forward. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Delivering rapid deployment of a modular data center Implementing an energy-efficient, compact data center can potentially reduce your operating costs-and carbon footprint-while making better of unused, outdoor space and equipment. Learn More. Yahoo earnings rise, but revenue treads water Yahoo reported Tuesday that its first-quarter profit came to $286 million, up 28% from the same quarter last year, but the company's total revenue revealed much more modest gains. Read More IBM posts flat revenue, falling hardware sales While IBM continues to financially excel at selling software and systems, its hardware revenue for the past three months has been sluggish, according to the latest quarterly results posted by IBM on Tuesday. The hardware results didn't help the company's overall revenue, which was flat for the quarter. Read More Intel profit dips as PC and server chip sales decline Intel on Tuesday reported its first-quarter earning results for fiscal 2012, with profit dropping on a slowdown in PC and server chip sales. Read More Apple, Samsung agree to patent settlement talks Apple and Samsung Electronics have agreed to attend a settlement conference in an ongoing patent lawsuit between the two companies, according to court documents. Read More Open-source hardware movement wants legitimacy Inspired by the success of the open-source software movement, a group of technology enthusiasts is looking to unite the fragmented open-source hardware community in an effort to promote hardware innovation. Read More Intel Shows Off Pricey 'Cove Point' Ultrabook-Tablet Hybrid Intel's latest concept for an Ultrabook-tablet hybrid is beautiful, but it's not cheap. Read More California's $500M state pension software system wracked by backlogs A long-troubled software program for California's pension system that went live last year has stumbled out of the gate, with some areas of service dealing with significant backlogs, according to a report released by officials at the California Public Employees' Retirement System. Read More IT Blogwatch: SKU news: Windows 8 and RT make bloggers barf Oh dear. Microsoft has announced the names and product editions for Windows 8, the backlash is palpable -- especially over the choice of name for the ARM edition: "Windows RT." In IT Blogwatch, bloggers complain and moan. Read More
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