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	Darlene Storm: Team GhostShell hackers dump 1.6M records, the digital dirt on Pentagon, NASA, Interpol As an early Christmas present,Team GhostShell hackers leaked 1.6 million account records, dumping the 'juicy' digital dirt on the Pentagon, NASA, Interpol, and many others. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Amazon Web Services Set up and run SQL Server on the Amazon Web Services Cloud Amazon Web Services RDS for Microsoft SQL Server® makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale SQL Server deployments in the cloud. With Amazon RDS, you can deploy multiple editions of SQL Server (2008 R2 and 2012) including Express, Web, Standard and Enterprise, in minutes with cost-efficient and re-sizable compute capacity. Get started for free. Get Started for Free with Amazon RDS for SQL Server! Reduce the complexity and cost of provisioning and managing your SQL Server databases, and focus on your application development, with Amazon RDS for SQL Server. In this Issue Richi Jennings: GhostShell dumps 1.6 MILLION users' personal data in #ProjectWhiteFox @TeamGhostShell Jonny Evans: Rumor: Apple plans June iPhone 5S with TSMC New York-made processors Nicholas D. Evans: The world's most innovative companies: Ranking the best of the best innovators Preston Gralla: Microsoft has only 20% of total computer market, half of Google and trailing Apple, says Goldman Sachs Chris Poelker: Will cloud computing kill the storage area network? Leigh Jasper: ISO 27001 is the litmus test for information security Jonny Evans: 2012: Apple's annus horribilis Shark Tank: Anything ELSE? WHITE PAPER: IBM PowerVM Virtualization Technology Advantages This technical white paper presents benchmark results showing greater VM consolidation ratios than demonstrated in previous benchmarks and demonstrating the extent of the performance lead that PowerVM virtualization technologies deliver over x86-based add-on virtualization products. Read Now Richi Jennings: GhostShell dumps 1.6 MILLION users' personal data in #ProjectWhiteFox @TeamGhostShell Team GhostShell is crowing about its latest data dump: 1,600,000 rows of private, personally-identifiable data. The Anonymous-spinoff hacking group claims the data were stolen from insecure government and industry databases, and says there's much more where that came from. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers feel a little bit of déjà vu. Read More Jonny Evans: Rumor: Apple plans June iPhone 5S with TSMC New York-made processors Fresh speculation warns Apple's plans for 2013 currently include an iPhone 5S with NFC support. What's also interesting is that these seem likeley to be equipped with chips manufactured by TSMC, possibly at a new factory in New York. Lower cost iPhones and an Apple television also appear in the frame for 2013. Read More Nicholas D. Evans: The world's most innovative companies: Ranking the best of the best innovators Every year, we see a number of publications issue their Top 50 lists of the World's Most Innovative Companies. In recent years, there have been rankings issued by Forbes.com, Fast Company, and MIT Technology Review to name just a few. Looking back across 2012, I wanted to find out which companies ranked "Best of the Best Innovators" across all these Top 50 lists by combining them to gain a broader perspective that leverages the unique evaluation criteria of each individual study. Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft has only 20% of total computer market, half of Google and trailing Apple, says Goldman Sachs Microsoft's total market share for computers including tablets and smartphones has plummeted from 97% to 20%, and by the end of this year its market share will be less than half of Google's, and will trail Apple's. So says Goldman Sachs in a recent report. Read More WEBCAST: Verizon Machine-to-Machine Communications Transform Business Learn how Machine-to-Machine (M2M) technology is fueling such applications as business intelligence (BI) and the smart electrical grid. And learn how to get started deploying M2M technology. Learn More Chris Poelker: Will cloud computing kill the storage area network? The acceptance of server and storage virtualization has enabled a paradigm shift in how data center infrastructure is purchased and deployed. Read More Leigh Jasper: ISO 27001 is the litmus test for information security With increasing reliance on collaboration tools to improve information management in regulated industries – such as financial services, healthcare and construction – organizations must demand the highest levels of security from their external service providers in order to avoid data breaches and other incidents. Focusing on the physical data center that hosts the online collaboration service provider's application isn't enough. Read More Jonny Evans: 2012: Apple's annus horribilis It should have been another great year as Apple emerged from mourning the loss of its great leader, Steve Jobs, equipped with a raft of exciting new product ideas -- but sadly 2012 became Apple's annus horribilis. Read More Shark Tank: Anything ELSE? Programmer pilot fish at a county agency is working on a major project, but he's also tapped for small fixes when they're needed -- but there is a price to pay. Read More
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