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	Forecast for systems administrators: Cloudy Cloud computing and virtualization are redefining the role of the systems administrator. Here's how smart sysadmins are staying ahead out of the wave. Read More WHITE PAPER: Framehawk An Interactive eGuide: Bring Your Own Device BYOD brings some concerns, blurring the line between personal and corporate use raises security, compliance, and ownership issues. Does the BYOD trend actually make workers more productive, or is IT simply caving in to employee demand? Read Now! In this Issue Chrome up, Chrome down in browser share battle Apple asks court to punish Samsung for releasing documents in iPhone suit Update: Judge sides with HP, rules that Oracle must continue porting software to Itanium Project monitors price of stolen credit card data EMCs interest in China, servers continues to grow Sharp ramps up production of rumored Apple screens Samsung building new mobile flash storage chips Huawei checking claims of flaws in its routers Apple asks court to sanction Samsung by ordering in its favor White House pushes for stalled cybersecurity bill Audit: Police wasted millions on software, crime-fighting tech they never used U.S. will push for open markets, free expression at ITU meeting JR Raphael: Verizon's tethering fiasco: A lesson in deception and denial Richi Jennings: Windows 8 is gold: Release date just days away RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: FileMaker, Inc Create, deploy and manage custom business apps for iPad The FileMaker Platform is a complete software suite to create, deploy, and manage custom business apps for iPad and iPhone. Design and build stunning iOS apps. Integrate mobile apps into existing enterprise systems. Deploy and instantly update your apps. Secure your apps with industry-standard authentication. Learn more, Watch overview video, Read the white paper > Chrome up, Chrome down in browser share battle Google's Chrome lost usage share for the fifth time in the last seven months, while Mozilla's Firefox gained share for the second consecutive month, a Web measurement company said Wednesday. Read More Apple asks court to punish Samsung for releasing documents in iPhone suit Apple will ask a federal court to sanction Samsung Electronics for releasing documents that were not allowed as evidence in the companies' dueling patent-infringement suits. Read More Update: Judge sides with HP, rules that Oracle must continue porting software to Itanium A California court on Wednesday ordered Oracle to continue porting its software to the Intel Itanium chips used by Hewlett-Packard in a number of its servers. Read More Project monitors price of stolen credit card data A new security project is monitoring in real time the price of stolen credit-card data sold in underground forums, which may eventually reveal emerging cybercrime trends. Read More EMCs interest in China, servers continues to grow Its new partnership with Lenovo takes EMC even further into the data center. With plans now to begin selling storage and servers in the Chinese market, could that partnership stress EMC's existing relationships? Read More Sharp ramps up production of rumored Apple screens Japanese display maker Sharp said Thursday it is ramping up production of a screen technology rumored to be favored by Apple for its new devices, even as its yearly outlook plunged toward another large fiscal loss. Read More Samsung building new mobile flash storage chips Samsung Electronics has started producing new smartphone and tablet flash storage chips, which the company said is four times faster than its predecessors. Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC Transform End User Computing Turn to EMC to bring new simplicity, power, and efficiency to end user computing-any user, any device, anywhere. Click to continue Huawei checking claims of flaws in its routers Huawei Technologies said on Thursday it was verifying claims that its routers contained critical vulnerabilities, after security researchers disclosed alleged problems last weekend. Read More Apple asks court to sanction Samsung by ordering in its favor Apple has requested a court in California to sanction Samsung Electronics in a patent infringement dispute by granting judgment in favor of Apple, after the South Korean company released to the press documents including exhibits that were not allowed as evidence in the suit. Read More White House pushes for stalled cybersecurity bill It's urgent for the U.S. Senate to pass a cybersecurity bill now stalled because of opposition from several lawmakers, officials from the U.S. White House said Wednesday. Read More Audit: Police wasted millions on software, crime-fighting tech they never used Police in Oakland, California, have spent about US$1.8 million in recent years on software and other crime-fighting technologies that they either never used or drastically underutilized, according to a report released Wednesday by city auditor Courtney Ruby. Read More U.S. will push for open markets, free expression at ITU meeting The U.S. government will try to persuade other nations to abandon proposals to regulate the Internet at an upcoming United Nations treaty-writing conference by showing them the success of open markets, the U.S. ambassador to the conference said. Read More JR Raphael: Verizon's tethering fiasco: A lesson in deception and denial Verizon may have agreed to adjust its policies on smartphone tethering, but the carrier continues to mislead and deceive its customers about what's really going on. Read More Richi Jennings: Windows 8 is gold: Release date just days away Windows 8 has gone gold, and the release date just days away -- unless you're a mere pleb, in which case you'll have to wait until October. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is crowing about reaching the release to manufacture (RTM) milestone. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers blog the Build 9200 hoopla. Read More
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