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	Richi Jennings: OOPS! Adobe abode hacked: Credit cards copied, source silently snatched Time to fire the head of security? Adobe (NASDAQ:ADBE) is in a deep hole (perhaps it should stop digging). It regrets to announce that hackers have broken in and grabbed a bunch of customer details, including payment card data and some source code. Adobe Chief Security Officer, Brad Arkin, maintains that the card details were encrypted, but isn't giving us any details that would reassure much. All this on top of Adobe's chronically poor reputation for security practice, and widespread dissatisfaction with the company forcing customers to the cloud. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder if it's time to fire Brad Arkin. Read More WEBCAST: Dell Wyse and VMware Capitalizing on Desktop Virtualization As more than half of those surveyed by IDG move to virtual desktop infrastructure, mastering its complexities has never been more important. With the right best practices and trusted partners, you can do just that--thus accelerating time to value, simplifying deployment and management, and creating organizational agility. View Now In this Issue Preston Gralla: Does Microsoft's offer to HTC mean Windows Phone will become a freebie for all? JR Raphael: Hands on: 7 cool things about the Galaxy Note 3 Darlene Storm: Jelly Bean is crowned king as alleged Android 4.4 Kitkat screenshots leak Preston Gralla: Microsoft beats Yale in the "Bing It On" search challenge Michael Horowitz: The Microsoft way John Martin: Designing cloud storage? Ditch the LUN! Sharky: Not safe for AOL either, apparently WHITE PAPER: Datawatch Foster Better Decisions with Big Data Visualization Read this paper to learn how strong visualization tools are providing better, simplified business intelligence from a variety of sources, whether real-time or industry-specific - to allow your organization to make better business decisions faster. Learn More Preston Gralla: Does Microsoft's offer to HTC mean Windows Phone will become a freebie for all? Microsoft's offer to give HTC Windows Phone software for free or close to it may well mean that Microsoft is taking a page from Google's Android playbook -- give away the software to all device makers, and make money off consumers via advertising and services. Read More JR Raphael: Hands on: 7 cool things about the Galaxy Note 3 Samsung's Galaxy Note 3 is big, bold, and brimming with features -- and some of them are actually pretty interesting. Read More Darlene Storm: Jelly Bean is crowned king as alleged Android 4.4 Kitkat screenshots leak As Jelly Bean is crowned king in October, running on almost half of all Androids, alleged screenshots of 4.4 KitKat show an early build with new features and apps. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Applying Best Practice DevOps for Mission Success Joe User has a great idea for a new application that could help him and other agency users do their jobs better and faster. How can Joe's agency take this vision and transform it into a real working app that will move the agency mission forward? Read now! Preston Gralla: Microsoft beats Yale in the "Bing It On" search challenge Microsoft and a Yale professor have been engaged in a nasty spat over the company's "Bing It On" blind test which Microsoft claims shows that people prefer Bing to Google. Microsoft clearly beats Yale here. But it's not for reasons you might think. Read More Michael Horowitz: The Microsoft way Some observations on the latest bug in Internet Explorer and a look at how Microsoft handled the problem. It illustrates a lot about the way the company functions. Read More John Martin: Designing cloud storage? Ditch the LUN! I'm always surprised that so many people still want to build their private and public cloud on logical units, served out by Fibre Channel SANs. From my point of view, we should have ditched the LUN years ago: Storage management problems at scale created by the LUN presents some of the toughest IT challenges, and those problems are a direct result of the massive success of virtualization. Read More Sharky: Not safe for AOL either, apparently It's the late 1990s, and this big company uses Lotus Notes. But one employee has a personal AOL account, and when he goes on vacation he forwards his business mail there to make sure he doesn't miss anything important. Read More
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