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	IT career mapping done right Career maps are a win-win for companies and employees, giving everyone a bird's eye view of the IT employment landscape. 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 OS X Mountain Lion grabs 20% share of all Macs Highest paid engineers are in mobile tech Researchers find critical Java 7 flaw hours after release Rogue Microsoft Services Agreement emails lead to latest Java exploit Apple takes aim at Samsung's Galaxy S III in amended patent complaint IBM and Oracle present rival chips for 'big iron' servers HP releases two beta versions of open-source webOS Amazon makes storage service more web-friendly Video: Boot up showdown - Windows 8 vs Windows RT Hybrid tablets and 4K TVs top trends at IFA in Berlin Elgan: Software that lies (so you don't have to!) Tech CEOs' first jobs: Housekeeper, scuba diver and more With Galaxy S III, startup carrier Ting goes live on Sprint's LTE network Facebook to allow apps to send notifications directly to users Browser plug-in and website warn about data harvesting by Facebook apps Richi Jennings: New iPhone 5 release date and feature rumor roundup Dan Lohrmann: What do business, government and football have in common: Numbers Richi Jennings: #AntiSec: FBI has data on 12 million iPhone/iPad users Michael Horowitz: Despite new patch, Java 7 is still dangerous. Go with version 6. 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 OS X Mountain Lion grabs 20% share of all Macs One in five Mac users has adopted OS X Mountain Lion, the upgrade launched five weeks ago, according to Web analytics company Net Applications. Read More Highest paid engineers are in mobile tech Engineers working on communications technology were paid the highest in the profession last year, according to new IEEE-USA survey data. Read More Researchers find critical Java 7 flaw hours after release Security researchers from Poland-based security firm Security Explorations claim to have discovered a vulnerability in the Java 7 security update released Thursday that can be exploited to escape the Java sandbox and execute arbitrary code on the underlying system. Read More Rogue Microsoft Services Agreement emails lead to latest Java exploit Hackers are distributing rogue email notifications about changes in Microsoft's Services Agreement to trick people into visiting malicious pages that use a recently circulated Java exploit to infect their computers with malware. Read More Apple takes aim at Samsung's Galaxy S III in amended patent complaint Shortly after a major win against Samsung in a federal court in California, Apple added products including versions of the Samsung Galaxy S III in an amended patent infringement complaint before the court in a separate patent case against Samsung. Read More IBM and Oracle present rival chips for 'big iron' servers IBM and Oracle shared more details this week about new RISC chips they're building for server customers, the Power7+ in the case of IBM and the T5 for Oracle. Read More HP releases two beta versions of open-source webOS Hewlett-Packard released two beta versions of its open source webOS on Friday: one for developers that runs on the Ubuntu Linux desktop, and one for the "OpenEmbedded" development environment, intended to help developers port webOS to new devices. Read More Amazon makes storage service more web-friendly Amazon is adding a Cross-Origin Resource Sharing capability to its S3 Simple Storage Service, allowing developers to more easily build web applications that access data stored in the company's cloud. Read More Video: Boot up showdown - Windows 8 vs Windows RT We tested the boot up of a Samsung ATIV Tab running Windows RT and an ATIV Smart PC running Windows 8 at IFA. One got smoked. Find out which one and by how much. Read More WHITE PAPER: Eagle Creek Software Services Implementation of Mission Critical Information Systems While commercial uncertainty & caution prevail, companies continue to drive IT investment perpetuating the demand for skilled personnel. Faced with bringing more staff on or expanding existing outsourcing relationships - more companies are witnessing skills shortages, rising rates, turnover, and mediocre delivery. Learn More. Hybrid tablets and 4K TVs top trends at IFA in Berlin This year at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin vendors introduced and demonstrated a plethora of ultra-high resolution TVs, hybrid tablets based on Microsoft's upcoming operating systems, as well as the first device based on Windows Phone 8. Read More Elgan: Software that lies (so you don't have to!) Mike Elgan uncovers a massive lies-for-sale industry in the mobile and social networking world. Read More Tech CEOs' first jobs: Housekeeper, scuba diver and more Before their corporate jobs, some tech CEOs got their hands dirty scrubbing oils stains off asphalt, cleaning bathrooms or shoveling monkey cages. Here are their stories. Read More With Galaxy S III, startup carrier Ting goes live on Sprint's LTE network Mobile startup Ting, which delivers its voice, text and data offerings over Sprint Nextel's network, has become the newest LTE service provider by shipping its first device that uses the fast 4G technology. Read More Facebook to allow apps to send notifications directly to users Facebook is tweaking its development platform to allow third-party applications to communicate directly with their users by sending notifications to their profiles. Read More Browser plug-in and website warn about data harvesting by Facebook apps Secure.me has launched a website and a browser plug-in designed to make Facebook users aware of the personal information that gets harvested by third-party applications. Read More Richi Jennings: New iPhone 5 release date and feature rumor roundup Here's this week's roundup of new iPhone 5 release date and features rumors. This leaked list is carefully compiled and triangulated, despite Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) CEO Tim Cook's 'keen' desire to keep details secret before his big reveal on 9/12. But the cynic in me supposes that Apple PR isn't sad to see continued chatter about the upcoming smartphone. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers ponder one more thing. Read More Dan Lohrmann: What do business, government and football have in common: Numbers "Numbers never lie." This mantra has become the all-encompassing truth that business executives, government technology leaders, security analysts, academic gurus and even sports historians universally accept. Of course metrics matter and we need trustworthy measurements regarding our progress. But while there is no doubt that compiling reliable statistics is an essential 21st century activity for business and government, what if the right numbers tell the wrong story? What if you get the right answer to the wrong question? Or, what if "the system" is busy pumping out metrics that reconfirm what you wanted to hear in the first place? Mark Twain once said: "There are three kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies, and statistics." Read More Richi Jennings: #AntiSec: FBI has data on 12 million iPhone/iPad users Our Anonymous 'friends' at LulzSec have reappeared, this time alleging that the FBI is tracking iOS device users. They claim to have copied information from an FBI laptop that lists more than 12 million Apple Unique Device IDs, with their associated personal information. They've published a small sample -- suitably redacted -- as proof. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder how -- if true -- such data collection could be legal. Read More Michael Horowitz: Despite new patch, Java 7 is still dangerous. Go with version 6. Just hours after Oracle released a patch to Java 7, it has been found to be buggy again. It's Groundhog Day (the movie). Read More
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