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	Microsoft patches 20 bugs, including critical Word flaw Microsoft today patched 20 vulnerabilities in Word, Office, Windows, SharePoint Server, SQL Server and other products in its portfolio, including a critical bug in the company's popular Word program and another already used to attack the company's own online services. 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 Analyst: Microsoft to price Surface RT tablet at $400 to $500 Watch out, Pinterest, Facebook tests Collections tool Sprint's fall lineup includes Galaxy Tab 2 10.1, LG Optimus G smartphone on LTE Google upgrades Search Appliance for enterprises Symantec adds disaster recovery capabilities to Veritas Cluster Server Malware-infected computers rented as proxy servers on the black market Huawei: Critical House report motivated by politics 6,500 workers at McGladrey get tablets Box adds links to third-party web apps, sites Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: The shocker that wasn't: Intel CEO disses Windows 8 RSA boss Coviello calls for privacy law overhaul New Acer Windows 8 tablet matches iPad's $499 starting price Regulation is only way to stop social networks from learning more than we want, says researcher Quantum computing pioneers from U.S., France win 2012 Nobel Prize W3C launches Web standards documentation site Jonny Evans: Your iPhone 5 is already your 'iWallet' while Samsung warns NFC isn't working yet 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 Analyst: Microsoft to price Surface RT tablet at $400 to $500 Microsoft's new Surface tablet, slated to ship later this month, will be priced between $399 and $499, an analyst said today. Read More Watch out, Pinterest, Facebook tests Collections tool Watch out, Pinterest. Facebook is testing a new feature called Collections, which is set up to enable businesses to showcase and sell their products. Read More Sprint's fall lineup includes Galaxy Tab 2 10.1, LG Optimus G smartphone on LTE Sprint will offer four new devices this fall for high-speed LTE networks, including the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 tablet and the LG Optimus G smartphone. Read More Google upgrades Search Appliance for enterprises Google upgraded its Search Appliance for the enterprise in an effort to help workers find information stored anywhere in their organization. Read More Symantec adds disaster recovery capabilities to Veritas Cluster Server Veritas Cluster Server now monitors applications running in virtual machines, and can take action to recover them if they go down as well as migrate VMs without downtime. Read More Malware-infected computers rented as proxy servers on the black market Cybercriminals are using computers infected with a particular piece of malware to power a commercial proxy service that funnels potentially malicious traffic through them, according to security researchers from Symantec. Read More Huawei: Critical House report motivated by politics Chinese telecommunication equipment vendor Huawei Technologies has dismissed a U.S. House of Representatives report questioning the company's ties to the Chinese government, with a Huawei official suggesting the report was politically motivated. Read More 6,500 workers at McGladrey get tablets Accounting firm McGladrey LLP rolled out 6,500 tablets recently to all of its workers in less than two months using AT&T's mobility services expertise, AT&T said Tuesday. 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! Box adds links to third-party web apps, sites Box announced on Tuesday an HTML5 framework that makes it possible for customers and other vendors to fully integrate features of its file sharing and cloud storage software into websites and enterprise applications. Read More Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: The shocker that wasn't: Intel CEO disses Windows 8 Intel, as in Wintel, says Windows 8 won't be ready when it ships. But since when did anyone believe Windows 8 would ever be ready to ship? Read More RSA boss Coviello calls for privacy law overhaul In order to keep hackers at bay there must be changes in security budgets and privacy regulations, RSA Executive Chairman Art Coviello said Tuesday. Read More New Acer Windows 8 tablet matches iPad's $499 starting price Acer on Tuesday assigned a starting price of $499 for its new Iconia W510 tablets, which will have Windows 8 and Intel's Atom chip code-named Clover Trail. Read More Regulation is only way to stop social networks from learning more than we want, says researcher Online social networks are gathering information about their users that those people never intended to disclose, and government regulation may be the only way to stop the practise, a researcher said Tuesday. Read More Quantum computing pioneers from U.S., France win 2012 Nobel Prize An American and a Frenchman have won the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on quantum optics, which could one day lead to faster computer processors, better telecommunications or more accurate timepieces. Read More W3C launches Web standards documentation site In an effort to better acquaint Web developers with the open technologies that can be used to build Web applications, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has launched a Web site with tutorials and other documentation that cover most of today's Web standards, including the emerging HTML5 set of standards. The site has also been designed to provide more user feedback to the developers of the Web standards themselves. Read More Jonny Evans: Your iPhone 5 is already your 'iWallet' while Samsung warns NFC isn't working yet Apple's decision not to put NFC inside the iPhone 5 is irrelevant -- not only are NFC services fragmented, but the device has already become your "iWallet" thanks to third-party vendors, NFC proponents and integration with solutions such as Passbook. Meanwhile Samsung says consumers aren't using the tech when they have it in their phones... Read More
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