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10 fun (and safe) ways to pretend to be a hacker
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AOL unplugs 10,000 servers, saves $5 million
AOL decommissioned almost 10,000 servers and saved itself US$5 million along the way to winning a contest that highlights the cost of running inefficient or underutilized IT equipment. Read More

Threat of a bullet in the face keeping cybercrooks cautious
Scott Borg, director of a cybersecurity research institute, kicked off the SecureWorld Expo Boston with an uplifting talk about the end of the cybersecurity world as we know it. Sure, more sophisticated threats are on the way, but those in cybersecurity also have new opportunities to defend threats and even enable economic growth. Read More

Fake 'The Roar of the Pharaoh' Android app latest Trojan scam
It may look like an app for a Chinese game called "The Roar of the Pharaoh," but it's actually just another fake Android app that's really a malware Trojan in disguise, according to security researchers warning about it today. Read More


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Researchers smash Kelihos botnet with dose of its own poison
Security researchers from four different organizations last week brought down a botnet by turning a supposed strength of the criminals' spamming network into a fatal weakness. Read More

IT jobs will grow 22% through 2020, says U.S.
U.S. officials Thursday said that offshoring will hurt the growth of programming jobs in in this decade, though expansion of health care IT and mobile networks will increase demand for software developers, technical support and system analysts. Read More

Amazon posts human genetic details of 1,700 people
Amazon Web Services today announced that genomic information of 1,700 individuals has been placed in its public cloud and can be accessed by anyone in the world. Read More


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This Executive Brief discusses IDC's perspective on how enterprise workload management requirements are changing and highlights the ways that workload automation solutions can address these emerging requirements. Learn More!

Will RIM ever recover? Prognosis: Negative.
Well, it looks as though Research in Motion has now officially entered the "fire-everyone-and-hope-for-the-best" phase. Former co-CEO Jim Balsillie was the biggest head to roll today but he was hardly alone. Via Crackberry, here's the full scope of the carnage: Read More

Google to sell Android tablets online, report says
Google will open an online store where it will market and sell tablets directly to consumers, with some of the devices potentially being co-branded with Google's name, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Read More

And now, the final nail in WiMAX's consumer handset coffin
Back in the heady days of 2008, Sprint had a dream: It was going to level the playing field with rivals Verizon and AT&T by being the first carrier to deploy mobile WiMAX and thus deliver the fastest mobile Internet experience in the country. Read More

How to Be Ready for Big Data
Big Data is coming, but for most organizations it's three-to-five years away. That doesn't mean you shouldn't prepare now. Analyzing Big Data will require reference information like that provided by a semantic data model. And once you mine the data, you need to secure it. Read More



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