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	Richi Jennings: Closing time at YouTube: Shutting down in Google spring-clean offensive #bestvideo YouTube is shutting down. Closing. It will cease to be. The experiment has expired. It is an ex-Google-product This is the end. Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is getting rid of YouTube. In its latest bout of spring cleaning, the video experiment is going the way of Wave, Reader, and Buzz. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers try to nail it to its perch. Read More WHITE PAPER: Moovweb 3 Steps to a Cost-Effective Mobile Strategy In the new Moovweb white paper, "Creating the Right Mobile Strategy: What You Need to Know Before You Get Started", get the insight you need to make an educated decision on the move to mobile. Read Now! In this Issue JR Raphael: Facebook phone? An Android launcher makes more sense Jaikumar Vijayan: Overhyped or not, the Spamhaus attacks are important Preston Gralla: Why Microsoft's new 7-inch design specs will help Windows 8 tablets succeed Sharky: Hello, Mr. Chips WHITE PAPER: Message Systems, Incorporated Send High Volume Email Without Getting Blocked or Berated For many companies, sending large volumes of email is business as usual. Social networking sites are known to send a few billion emails a day. Whatever "high volume" means to your business, our guide reveals how to send more email without getting blocked by an ISP or eliciting customer complaints. Learn More JR Raphael: Facebook phone? An Android launcher makes more sense Rumors are running wild that Facebook will finally launch its own Android-based phone or OS, but a custom Android launcher might be the more sensible approach. Read More Jaikumar Vijayan: Overhyped or not, the Spamhaus attacks are important Questions over whether CloudFlare exaggerated the impact of the denial of service attacks on Spamhaus should not be allowed to divert attention away from the real security threat highlighted by the attacks. Any distributed denial of service attack involving 300Gbps of traffic -- or even half that amount -- is noteworthy, regardless of whether it choked portions of the Internet or not. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Best Practices for Secure Software Development As part of the software development process, security professionals must make choices about where to invest their budget and staff resources to ensure that homegrown applications are as secure as possible. This research brief details these best practices for all organizations that would like to produce more secure applications. Learn more. Preston Gralla: Why Microsoft's new 7-inch design specs will help Windows 8 tablets succeed Newly published design specs will allow hardware companies to create 7-inch Windows 8 tablets. That's clearly designed to help Microsoft compete in the growing small tablet market. Here's why it will help Microsoft gain serious market share. Read More Sharky: Hello, Mr. Chips Flashback to the early 1970s, when this pilot fish is in the army and working at what the military is calling a "Data Processing Center" -- and it's time to renew the tradition of pulling a prank on the new guy. Read More
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