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Microsoft offers Web server for developers
14 January 2011, 5:23 pm

Microsoft began shipping this week  IIS (Internet Information Services) Express 7.5, a free version of its IIS Web server optimized for developers. The company also unveiled an embedded database upgrade and an open source content management tool.

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Tomcat 7 finalized
14 January 2011, 5:50 pm

The volunteer developers behind Apache Tomcat have released version 7.0.6 of the open-source Java servlet container.

"This is the first stable release of the Tomcat 7 branch," developer  Mark Thomas wrote in an email announcing the release on various Tomcat  developer mailing lists.

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Oracle continues to make Sun customers miserable
17 January 2011, 5:00 am

I've been putting off writing about my ongoing saga with Sun Oracle, because I have yet to reach anything resembling satisfaction. But I can't stop myself from venting anymore. You simply would not believe how frustrating it is to get any kind of Sun hardware or software support from Oracle.

In fact, to put it succintly: You can't. At least, I certainly haven't been able to.

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WebOS and BlackBerry are running out of time: What can they do?
17 January 2011, 5:00 am

It's crunch time for Research in Motion and Hewlett-Packard.

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How to bypass sales-speak and get the info you need
17 January 2011, 5:00 am

In a perfect world, we'd all have the time and resources to evaluate every potential solution. But more often than not, we're asked to make critical decisions with very little time to do proper research and weigh the alternatives.

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With Apple's Jobs on leave, many questions and few answers
17 January 2011, 12:42 pm

With Steve Jobs taking another medical leave, Apple customers, investors, partners and employees are again left to wonder what implications this will have for the company's stock, financial performance, product development and business operations.

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Facebook con artists on the rise
17 January 2011, 5:00 am

I recently got an unusual email from a friend I don't hear from very often. The message described a desperate scenario where he and his wife had been mugged, beaten, and robbed. While his wife was lying in the hospital with broken ribs, he was trying to check out of their hotel, but without money or credit cards, this was proving difficult. The gist of the message was that they needed money fast to settle with the hotel and catch their flight home. Callous and heartless person that I am, I chuckled and went about my day.

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Facebook tools to help data thieves
17 January 2011, 2:02 pm

Just when you thought the conflagration over Facebook privacy issues was winding down, Facebook has stoked the fire once again.

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Passwords alone can't protect your network
18 January 2011, 5:00 am

A German researcher's claim that he has found a way to leverage Amazon's EC2 service to crack wireless passwords raises an important question: Have passwords outlived their usefulness?

InfoWorld analyst Ted Samson reported this week that the researcher was able to use customized software running on multicomputer cloud system to crack wireless WPA preshared keys in as little as six minutes for a few dollars or less.

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Stupid user tricks 5: IT's weakest link
18 January 2011, 5:00 am

You can deploy monitoring software, diagnostic software, and a Halon fire suppression system, as well as access multiple grids for power and Internet access, but nothing can save you from the most dire threat facing IT pros today: end-users.

Everywhere you look, technology is advancing. Unfortunately for IT, no one has come up with an algorithm to fail-safe systems from stupidity.

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The government is driving some people away from the cloud
18 January 2011, 5:00 am

Paul Carr from TechCrunch did a good job making the case why some of us may want to reconsider blanket uses for the cloud: "I've been growing increasingly alarmed by stories such as the U.S. government subpoenaing Twitter (and reportedly Gmail and Facebook) users over their support of WikiLeaks.

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Coming soon: A new way to hack into smartphones
18 January 2011, 7:16 am

More than three years after the iPhone was first hacked, computer security experts think they've found a whole new way to break into mobile phones -- one that could become a big headache for Apple, or for smartphone makers using Google's Android software.

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Kinect: Coming soon to the corporate world?
18 January 2011, 10:34 am

If you think the Kinect is just a great game-playing device, you're not thinking outside the box.

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Microsoft adds to security tools for developers
18 January 2011, 2:21 pm

Microsoft is expanding its roster of SDL (security development lifecycle) tools and services this week with the beta release of an attack surface analyzer tool as well as the introduction of consulting services on secure development.

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Details emerge of patents Novell is selling to Microsoft
18 January 2011, 4:16 pm

Additional details have emerged regarding the more than 800 patents Novell is selling to the Microsoft-led consortium CPTN Holdings for $450 million, about two months after the deal was first announced.

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