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	Mozilla bakes Facebook features into Firefox 17 Mozilla Tuesday released Firefox 17, which debuts technology that lets developers integrate social networks -- for now, Facebook -- with the browser. Read More WHITE PAPER: Innotas The Smart Approach to IT Resource Management This whitepaper from Innotas- the leader in cloud solutions for Project Portfolio and Application Portfolio Management - identifies why effective resource management is crucial for any IT department. Read Now! In this Issue Security firm finds SCADA software flaws; won't report them to vendors NTSB drops BlackBerry for Apple's iPhone South Carolina faults IRS standard in massive data breach AT&T iPad hacker plans to appeal felony conviction Sen. Leahy has not caved on e-privacy, aide says Facebook to roll out HTTPS by default to all users Lenovo poised to top smartphone market in China by 2013 Sharon Machlis: Create simple, free charts with Datawrapper Preston Gralla: Windows 8 sales are sluggish and disappointing at retail and in enterprises. Will they pick up in 2013? Richi Jennings: HP vs. Autonomy: FIGHT! Let's cut to the chase... 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 Security firm finds SCADA software flaws; won't report them to vendors Malta-based security start-up firm ReVuln claims to be sitting on a stockpile of vulnerabilities in industrial control software, but prefers to sell the information to governments and other paying customers instead of disclosing it to the affected software vendors. Read More NTSB drops BlackBerry for Apple's iPhone The National Transportation Safety Board in the U.S. plans to drop the BlackBerry smartphone from Research In Motion for Apple's iPhone, citing performance issues. Read More South Carolina faults IRS standard in massive data breach South Carolina's governor faulted an outdated Internal Revenue Service standard as a contributing factor to a massive data breach that exposed Social Security numbers of 3.8 million taxpayers plus credit card and bank account data. Read More AT&T iPad hacker plans to appeal felony conviction A man who exposed a major privacy weakness that divulged email addresses of iPad users on AT&T's network plans to appeal his conviction on two felony charges. Read More Sen. Leahy has not caved on e-privacy, aide says The chairman of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has not reversed course on email privacy and has not proposed to give U.S. agencies access to email and other electronic communications without search warrants, despite a news report to the contrary, an aide to Sen. Patrick Leahy said Tuesday. Read More WEBCAST: Cloudera Modernizing Your IT Infrastructure This webinar will speak to businesses expectations of big data, benefits of analytic platforms built on Hadoop, business challenges that led to evaluation of big data technologies, and the framework for success. View Now! Facebook to roll out HTTPS by default to all users Facebook started encrypting the connections of its North American users by default last week as part of a plan to roll out always-on HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) to its entire global user base. Read More Lenovo poised to top smartphone market in China by 2013 Lenovo, already China's top PC seller, is expected to take the title for the country's top smartphone vendor in 2013, Gartner said. Read More Sharon Machlis: Create simple, free charts with Datawrapper Datawrapper's online service will let you create five types of charts that they'll host on their Amazon AWS account. Or you can install the open-source project code on a server of your own. Read More Preston Gralla: Windows 8 sales are sluggish and disappointing at retail and in enterprises. Will they pick up in 2013? The results are in from multiple sources, and it seems quite clear: Windows 8 sales have been sluggish and disappointing. The big question is whether they might pick up next year. Read More Richi Jennings: HP vs. Autonomy: FIGHT! Let's cut to the chase... HP ain't happy about its 2011 Autonomy buy. Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) accuses Autonomy's ex-management of selling it a pup, alleging dodgy accounting and other naughtiness. But there are two sides to every story—sometimes three. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers seek out all viewpoints. Read More
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