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	Big data, big jobs? As companies embrace big data, they're in the market for high-level strategists and communicators. Do you have the chops to snag a big data job? Read More 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 > In this Issue Microsoft: Patch for critical IE zero-day bug coming Friday An end to the free online tax ride nears HP announces more Sleekbooks as cheaper ultrabook alternatives Sprint says Virgin Mobile users are safe from account hijacks Galaxy Note set to be deployed to 17,000 American Airlines flight attendants Sharon Machlis: What Google owes Nik Software users Preston Gralla: Lights, camera...Microsoft? Latest Samsung attack ad mocks crowds waiting for iPhone 5 iPhone 5 specs hint at international LTE roaming -- eventually Facebook heat maps pinpoint data center trouble spots New CEO steps in for T-Mobile USA's next chapter What's it like to land NASA's Space Shuttle? We find out Germany files charges over HP bribery allegations Salesforce.com's Benioff invites customers to join 'social revolution' New IE exploit variant distributes PlugX malware, researchers say Richi Jennings: iOS 6 release date: Time to update or wait a while? RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Drobo Drobo SAN for Business Live Demo Daily! We want you to learn from the very best–Drobo experts–available every day. Participate in live interactive sessions to see a live demo of Drobo products, ask questions, validate deployment ideas. Our experts cover configuration, sizing, network best practices, and infrastructure monitoring–and talk VMware, Hyper-V, iSCSI, Tiering, SSD acceleration. Join us for a live demo every business day, Monday to Friday Microsoft: Patch for critical IE zero-day bug coming Friday Microsoft released a stopgap defense that protects Internet Explorer against attacks until the company issues a patch on Friday. Read More An end to the free online tax ride nears Ken Knezek, who owns a business that sells footwear, understands the importance of a sales tax. His business is in Texas, which doesn't have an income tax. Read More HP announces more Sleekbooks as cheaper ultrabook alternatives Hewlett-Packard on Thursday announced new Pavilion Sleekbooks, which the company is pitching as laptops that are cheaper than ultrabooks but competitive in weight and thickness. Read More Sprint says Virgin Mobile users are safe from account hijacks Sprint denied that subscribers of its Virgin Mobile subsidiary are vulnerable to account hijacking attacks, as claimed by an independent software developer this week. Read More Galaxy Note set to be deployed to 17,000 American Airlines flight attendants American Airlines Wednesday said it plans to deploy 17,000 first-generation Samsung Galaxy Note devices to flight attendants for use onboard its planes. Read More Sharon Machlis: What Google owes Nik Software users Yes, Google's been on a buying binge, so no, we shouldn't be shocked that it's made another moderate-sized acquisition. Still, I wasn't alone in my surprise to hear that it's purchased Nik Software. "Holy crap! Definitely didn't see that one coming," posted well-known Lightroom blogger and trainer Matt Kloskowski on Google+. Read More Preston Gralla: Lights, camera...Microsoft? Microsoft is making a big move into producing Hollywood-style series and movies for its Xbox platform, with the hiring of a former CBS executive who helped develop TV series such as "Survivor," "C.S.I.," and "Two and a Half Men." It's a great move for the company looking to find its place in a post-PC future. Read More Latest Samsung attack ad mocks crowds waiting for iPhone 5 A new attack ad by rival Samsung pokes fun at Apple customers who wait in line outside stores for the iPhone 5. Read More WHITE PAPER: Polycom Orlando Health Speeds Stroke Assessment and Treatment Serving more than 1.6 million residents of Central Florida, the nine hospitals of Orlando Health are leading providers of stroke treatment. To accelerate the assessment and treatment of stroke patients, Orlando Health turned to Polycom-based video collaboration. View More iPhone 5 specs hint at international LTE roaming -- eventually U.S. buyers of the iPhone 5 won't have international LTE roaming when the highly anticipated device hits the street on Friday, but information from Apple, the FCC and carriers offers glimmers of hope that foreign LTE networks will be in reach eventually. Read More Facebook heat maps pinpoint data center trouble spots Faced with the challenge of overseeing the health of large caching systems, a Facebook engineer developed heat-map software to quickly pinpoint problems in the social network's data centers. Read More New CEO steps in for T-Mobile USA's next chapter T-Mobile USA will officially start a new chapter when a new CEO, John Legere, takes over later this week. Read More What's it like to land NASA's Space Shuttle? We find out We're barrelling down the runway at the Kennedy Space Center at about 300 kilometers per hour, and the Space Shuttle is well to the left of the center line. Read More Germany files charges over HP bribery allegations Germany indicted one HP employee and some former ones following a bribery investigation into a $45.7 million deal to supply Russia's General Prosecutor's Office with IT equipment. Read More Salesforce.com's Benioff invites customers to join 'social revolution' Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff doubled down on the company's embrace of social networking software, urging customers, partners and prospects to join him in a "social revolution," during a keynote address at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. Read More New IE exploit variant distributes PlugX malware, researchers say Researchers from security vendor AlienVault have identified a variant of a recently discovered Internet Explorer exploit that is used to infect targeted computers with the PlugX remote access Trojan (RAT) program. Read More Richi Jennings: iOS 6 release date: Time to update or wait a while? Apple's iOS 6 release date is here, but is it time to update your iPhone or should you hold off until 6.01? It's out of beta, so it's time for one of Richi's review roundups. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers sharpen the bleeding edge. Read More
	SHARK TANK OF THE DAY Just her way of saying thanks Teacher at this elementary school has a brainstorm: She can teach a quick video editing class. The only issues: She doesn't know anything about video-editing -- and she's in a hurry. CAST YOUR VOTE IN THIS WEEK'S QUICKPOLL Apple's iPhone 5 smartphone will feature a larger screen, 4G LTE network and iOS update. Is the iPhone 5 likely to shake up the smartphone market? COMPUTERWORLD'S IT SALARY SURVEY 2012 A majority of IT workers say they're under pressure to increase productivity and take on new tasks. But the vast majority are still happy they picked IT as their career. NEW COMPUTERWORLD JOB BOARD Search multiple listings now and get new job alerts as they are posted.
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