Are you a social zombie? Rise of the mobile dead

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	Darlene Storm: Zombie games: Are you a social zombie? Rise of the mobile dead At the Derbycon security conference, Tom Eston and Kevin Johnson gave a very interesting talked titled, Social Zombies: Rise of the Mobile Dead. While not quite 'zombies ate my neighbors,' perhaps you or your social media friends are playing zombie games without even realizing it? What if you and your friends are the zombies who bring on the zombie apocalypse? Read More WEBCAST: IBM How to Take Business Analytics to the Next Level By viewing this webcast you will learn how you can implement an effective BA strategy that will deliver maximum strategic value to your company. View Now In this Issue Richi Jennings: IBM and AT&T offer cloud mish-mash for fearful firms JR Raphael: Android off-contract: My prepaid journey, 3 months later Michael Horowitz: Flash Player updates missing in action on Android Preston Gralla: Microsoft Office for the iPad is trouble for Windows 8 tablets but good news for Microsoft Shark Tank: Basement. Computer. Water pipes. Raised floor? Nope RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Hortonworks Live Webinar Series: The Future of Apache Hadoop Hadoop has evolved rapidly to become the leading platform for managing, processing and analyzing big data. Join us in this 4-part series with the core committers of the Apache Hadoop projects to gain insight into Pig, Ambari, Zookeeper and YARN. Learn use-cases and best practices on how to get started with Hadoop and live Q&A. Register now! Richi Jennings: IBM and AT&T offer cloud mish-mash for fearful firms IBM (NYSE:IBM) and AT&T (NYSE:T) will get together to offer a cloud IaaS to big enterprises in 2013. The pair claim that it'll be more secure and manageable than other cloudy infrastructures, and should overcome the worries of companies who fear for lack of control or suspect security. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers cut to the chase. Read More JR Raphael: Android off-contract: My prepaid journey, 3 months later It's been nearly three months since I ditched Verizon and moved to a prepaid smartphone setup, and let me tell you: Life is good outside of the carriers' chains. Read More WEBCAST: VMware Virtualizing Exchange Microsoft Exchange is the most widely used e-mail system in the world. Yet it is still subject to many of the limitations inherent in most applications running directly on physical hardware. View Now! Michael Horowitz: Flash Player updates missing in action on Android Four Android devices are not seeing the October 8th updates to the Flash Player. Even worse, they are all missing the previous Flash Player updates from the end of August. What gives? Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft Office for the iPad is trouble for Windows 8 tablets but good news for Microsoft Microsoft is already facing an uphill fight trying to eat into the iPad and Android tablets' market share. An announcement that Office will be available for iOS and Android next year makes the fight that much harder for Windows 8 tablets. Despite that, though, bringing Office to iOS and Android is a very good move for Microsoft. Read More Shark Tank: Basement. Computer. Water pipes. Raised floor? Nope It's the late 1990s, and this pilot fish is working as a consultant to a big staffing company -- one that apparently really needs tech advice. Unfortunately, when the company inherits a new computer room, the advice isn't heeded. Read More
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