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	Climate change research gets petascale supercomputer Scientists studying Earth system processes, including climate change, are now working with one of the largest supercomputers on the planet. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T VoIP Solutions Provide Enterprises With Various Benefits VoIP migration is a top telecom priority for many North American enterprises. Do you know why? Find out in this Forrester study, which reveals the opinions of telecommunications decision-makers like you. Read the report. In this Issue How to make a map in Google Fusion Tables Survey of IT managers suggests preference for Microsoft mobile platforms Cyberthieves loot $400,000 from city bank account Seagate unveils three enterprise-class hard drives What will an $8 billion check from Softbank buy Sprint? AT&T to sell LG Optimus G Nov. 2 for $200 Seniors can learn a new trick -- social networking Facebook removes two-factor authentication mobile numbers from search Foxconn finds underage interns working at factory in China Richi Jennings: Android virus alert: FBI launches laughable list of malware maladies RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn LogMeIn Central: Automate, Monitor and Manage PCs. LogMeIn lets you Monitor and Manage PCs, deliver patches and updates to multiple PCS simultaneously. Central helps IT deliver seamless support that keeps employees productive and up and running. LogMeIn Central - automate routine tasks and do more. Free Trial How to make a map in Google Fusion Tables This free data tool isn't as well known as Google Maps or Spreadsheets, but Fusion Tables provides an easy way to map a data set by regions such as states or counties. Read More Survey of IT managers suggests preference for Microsoft mobile platforms Almost half of IT managers in a survey last month said that they plan to standardize their company's mobile platform on devices running Microsoft operating systems, including smartphone OSes Windows Phone 7.5 and Windows Phone 8 and tablet OS Windows RT, according to ThinkEquity, a research and institutional investment banking services firm. Read More Cyberthieves loot $400,000 from city bank account Burlington, Wash., officials have notified hundreds of employees and residents that their bank account information was compromised last week when hackers broke into city systems and stole more than $400,000 from a city account at Bank of America. Read More Seagate unveils three enterprise-class hard drives Seagate announced three new enterprise-class hard disk drives aimed at traditional data centers and emerging private and public cloud infrastructures. Read More What will an $8 billion check from Softbank buy Sprint? If $8 billion shows up in Sprint Nextel's wallet as planned in Softbank's proposed takeover, the No. 3 U.S. mobile operator may pay off debt, speed up its rollout of LTE, or even buy its network partner, Clearwire. Read More 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! AT&T to sell LG Optimus G Nov. 2 for $200 AT&T's version of the quad-core LG Optimus G will go on sale Nov. 2 for $199.99 with a two-year contract. Pre-orders will start Tuesday, AT&T announced. Read More Seniors can learn a new trick -- social networking An 89-year-old woman used to find computers intimidating. Today, she's not only using a computer, she's on a social network, emailing with her family and getting pictures from her grandson in Australia. Read More Facebook removes two-factor authentication mobile numbers from search Facebook users who have associated a mobile phone number with their accounts in order to enable the "Login Approvals" security feature can no longer be found on the website based on those phone numbers, the company said Monday. Read More Foxconn finds underage interns working at factory in China Electronics manufacturer Foxconn Technology Group said on Tuesday that students as young as 14, below the legal working age, were found employed at a company factory in China that has been said to make products for Japanese gaming firm Nintendo. Read More Richi Jennings: Android virus alert: FBI launches laughable list of malware maladies The FBI's IC3 department warns of Android viruses. It's published a list of anti-malware advice for smartphone and tablet users. It's calling out two nasties called 'Loozfon' and 'FinFisher' for special attention. But it turns out that they're 'just' Trojans. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder if the sky is falling, or if Chicken Little just joined the feds. Read More
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