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	Social media gains in regulated industries Healthcare, financial services firms and others are getting social-media advantages, even while awash in rules. Here's how they do it.INSIDER (registration required) 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 Microsoft move hints at the death of Windows service packs After Congress' report, what next for China's tech firms? Mozilla yanks Firefox 16 one day after release Time has come for chief analytics officers Up close: BlackBerry 10 on Dev Alpha B HP, Lenovo battle for top spot in PC market iPhone hacker dream team edges closer to iOS6 jailbreak Conficker worm still being tracked, but evidence collection slows Hackers steal thousands of student records from computers at Florida college Missing Pirate Bay founders tracked down Enterprise IT now competing with apps stores, mobile devices Facebook patches security hole that allowed mass harvesting of phone numbers Lenovo hopes to reach US customers faster with 'Made in USA' computers Richi Jennings: IBM and AT&T offer cloud mish-mash for fearful firms 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! Microsoft move hints at the death of Windows service packs Microsoft's first-time move Tuesday to update Windows 8 before the OS launches is a sign of the company's continued edging toward practices long held by rivals Apple and Google. Read More After Congress' report, what next for China's tech firms? The House intelligence report issued Monday will bring more scrutiny to joint efforts and agreements by U.S. and China technology companies at least, but trade problems can't be ruled out either. Read More Mozilla yanks Firefox 16 one day after release Mozilla yesterday took the unusual step of yanking Firefox 16 from distribution just a day after its release. Read More Time has come for chief analytics officers Enterprises looking to enable pervasive data analytics should consider a company-wide CAO-led organization. Read More Up close: BlackBerry 10 on Dev Alpha B BlackBerry 10 will offer smartphone users some novel features when it finally ships next year, including text prediction software and BlackBerry Balance, an approach that separates work from personal data. Read More HP, Lenovo battle for top spot in PC market After years as the top PC maker in the world, Hewlett-Packard may be pushed aside by a quick-moving Lenovo. Read More iPhone hacker dream team edges closer to iOS6 jailbreak A trio known for their prowess in hacking Apple's iPhone software indicated on Thursday they may be edging closer to breaking the improved security measures in iOS 6. Read More WEBCAST: Riverbed Virtualize Your ADI: Are You Ready to Unbox? Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2012, 2:00 PM EDT Traditional application delivery controller (ADC) architectures focus on load balancing and lack the efficiency required in today's IT environment. Join Kavitha Mariappan, Product Marketing Director at Riverbed Technology, to discuss the benefits of an updated ADC. Learn more. Conficker worm still being tracked, but evidence collection slows The notorious malware known as the Conficker worm still infects computers, a sort of wild horse with no rider, but investigators appear no closer to finding its creator. Read More Hackers steal thousands of student records from computers at Florida college An information breach at a Florida college has compromised information of about 279,000 students and employees, the Florida Department of Education said on Wednesday. Read More Missing Pirate Bay founders tracked down Illness and legal advice stopped two founders of The Pirate Bay from speaking at the Hack in the Box security conference on Wednesday. Read More Enterprise IT now competing with apps stores, mobile devices Enterprises will either embrace a mobile device strategy that allows workers to do their job securely, or those workers will do an end-run around IT staffers, according to experts at a consumerization-of-IT conference. Read More Facebook patches security hole that allowed mass harvesting of phone numbers Facebook has restricted the rate at which users can perform phone number searches on its mobile website in order to block a recently disclosed method of harvesting phone numbers. Read More Lenovo hopes to reach US customers faster with 'Made in USA' computers Lenovo hopes that computers made in its first U.S. manufacturing facility will attract more buyers, while also making the delivery of ThinkPad laptops and tablets faster to U.S. customers. Read More 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
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