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	Richi Jennings: Oracle trolls open-source in DoD white paper Stop! Pay Larry. Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) is ruffling penguin feathers with its latest salvo against open source. Without a hint of irony, the company known for open-source projects such as Java and MySQL is telling military customers to ditch free software -- in preference to its own, proprietary code, natch. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers feed the trolls... Read More   WHITE PAPER: SAS Gaining Insights from Social Media on Product Quality Descriptive statistics, text analytics and social network analysis provide a way for to determine how customers purchasing decisions are affected by what they see on the Internet. This paper describes how analytics can be applied to social media for monitoring and addressing perceptual quality. View Now In this Issue Jonny Evans: What to expect from Apple's October 22 Mac/iPad special event... Preston Gralla: Microsoft admits it blew naming the Surface RT, ignores bigger RT woes JR Raphael: How to customize Google's new Web app launcher Darlene Storm: Cyber-poaching: Hacking GPS collar data to track and kill endangered tigers Greg Lambert: Urgent fixes for Patch Tuesday's 10th anniversary Sharky: The meeting probably wasn't wild about him either WHITE PAPER: CDW Managing Essential tools for greater productivity People are interacting with software from the moment they wake up (hearing an alarm on a smartphone) to the time they relax in the evening (reading or shopping online). And in between, software affects virtually every work function in some way, whether in the executive suite or on the shipping dock. Read Now Jonny Evans: What to expect from Apple's October 22 Mac/iPad special event... Apple has despatched invitations to its much-hyped October 22 special event, with the smart money predicting new iPads, Macs and perhaps more from Cupertino next week. Read More   Preston Gralla: Microsoft admits it blew naming the Surface RT, ignores bigger RT woes Microsoft has finally admitted one part of the problem with its Surface RT strategy: Its naming caused "some confusion" among people who didn't understand the difference between the Surface and Surface RT. But there's a much bigger problem Microsoft refuses to face, one that likely dooms the RT platform to irrelevency. Read More   JR Raphael: How to customize Google's new Web app launcher Google's new Web app launcher is everywhere -- and with a quick two-minute tweak, you can make it look and work any way you want. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Virtual Instruments Infrastructure Performance Management: The Next Game Changer Employees and customers expect access to applications anytime and from any device. Is your IT infrastructure able to support the constant demands placed on it and continually operate at peak performance? View now>> Darlene Storm: Cyber-poaching: Hacking GPS collar data to track and kill endangered tigers After poachers allegedly hacked into an account to access the GPS tracking collar data of an endangered Bengal tiger, it's being dubbed cyberpoaching -- a "first-of-its-kind of cybercrime.' Read More   Greg Lambert: Urgent fixes for Patch Tuesday's 10th anniversary   On this 10th anniversary of Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released eight updates, four rated as Critical and the remaining four rated as Important. Microsoft first announced a monthly patch cycle at the inaugural session of the Microsoft Worldwide Conference in 2003 -- when Windows 2000 was still around and a major security concern. Read More   Sharky: The meeting probably wasn't wild about him either This big insurance company hires a new programmer, and he really delivers results: a brilliant guy who writes concise, clear and well-documented code that;s tested and ready on or ahead of schedule. There's just one hitch. Read More
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