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Microsoft's Attack Surface Analyzer sheds light on software vulnerabilities
20 January 2011, 8:43 am

While nobody would claim that Microsoft's just-released Attack Surface Analyzer can make your systems secure, it does provi

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Box.net moves cloud storage further into business collaboration
20 January 2011, 3:00 pm

The beauty of the cloud is that it makes it easy for people to get technology in place when they need it. The ugliness of the cloud is that it lets employees bring in technology that the business is unaware of, potentially exposing confidential information or worse. Cloud storage provider Box.net is trying to square that circle with a new version of its Box.net service, which begins rolling out today. The rollout to the company's 5 million customers should be complete in 30 days.

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Schmidt to step aside as Google CEO, Page taking over
20 January 2011, 3:36 pm

Google cofounder Larry Page will take over as Google CEO in April from Eric Schmidt, who will remain with the company as executive chairman.

The change is an attempt to streamline the company's top-level decision making process, the company said on Thursday, when it reported its 2010 fourth quarter earnings.

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The Verizon iPhone, Microsoft, Intel, and Google kick off 2011
20 January 2011, 2:46 pm

What with the holidays, hellish trade shows, and hellacious hangovers, the reader mail has been piling up in my Cringeville inbox, so I thought I might clear it out and start fresh for the new year. You guys had a lot to say on a wide range of topics, including new iPhones and old tech marriages.

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The InfoWorld news quiz: Jan. 21, 2011
21 January 2011, 5:00 am

 Slug:    NQ110121            Dek:    Jobs takes his leave, iPad hackers hope for reprieve            Byline:    Dan Tynan            Source:    InfoWorld            Overview:    The biggest news this week offered almost little actual information: Steve Jobs, the savior of Apple and spiritual father of the iPod, iPhone, and iPad, is taking his third medical leave in six years. What happens beyond that? Your guess is as good as ours. Otherwise, it was a week dominated by low crimes and misdemeanors: The Facebook movie won big at the Golden Globes, a pair of AT&T/iPad hackers were arrested, a supercomputer proved itself smarter than two "Jeopardy" geniuses, and an eighth grader managed to topple Angry Birds from its perch atop of the iPhone app charts. Do you have what it takes to top our quiz master? Give yourself 10 points each time you get one right. Now get started (and no asking precocious middle-schoolers for help).

The InfoWorld news quiz: Jan. 21, 2011   No            Article Type:    News            Hide Publication Date:    No              Quiz Result - Off the Grid              Quiz Result - Challenged              Quiz Result - Skimmer              Quiz Result - Tapped In              Quiz Result - Overinformed          

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Amazon mooches from Tomcat as it bets on Java in the cloud
21 January 2011, 5:00 am

The fact that Amazon.com selected the open source Apache Tomcat as the Java application server powering Amazon.com's entry into the Java platform-as-a-service market came as little surprise to Java vendors and industry watchers. Amazon.com's pricing strategy, on the other hand, will surely surprise some vendors and IT decision makers.

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For tablets, does size matter?
21 January 2011, 5:00 am

Are 10 inches better than 7? Or are they just too much to handle? Conversely, are 7 inches too few to do the job well? The debate rages on as the world prepares for an onslaught of Android tablets and the RIM PlayBook tablet this spring, a year after the iPad shipped and created a whole new category of computing.

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Openfire: Excellent, free open source chat server
21 January 2011, 5:00 am

The ever-expanding world of chat clients and servers makes selecting a solution an exercise worthy of a trade study. In our search for the right instant messaging solution, we tried many that were too big and many that were too small. But we found one that was just right: an easily configured XMPP (aka Jabber) server that is compatible with the majority of today's key clients (Jabber, Momentum, Pidgin, and so on). It's also nice that this server -- Ignite Realtime's Openfire -- is open source and saved us money.

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The Mac App Store's hottest productivity apps
21 January 2011, 5:00 am

 Dek:    A rundown of the most popular free and paid productivity apps on the newly launched Mac App Store             Source:    Network World              No          

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RIM's BlackBerry agenda: SharePoint and deeper enterprise integration
21 January 2011, 5:10 am

In an enterprise-oriented road map for its BlackBerry smartphone platform, RIM (Research in Motion) is planning a BlackBerry client for Microsoft's SharePoint collaboration platform as well as middleware capabilities for enterprise application integration and cloud-based mobile device management.

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RIM's BlackBerry plan to retake its business base
21 January 2011, 5:10 am

In an enterprise-oriented road map for its BlackBerry smartphone platform, RIM (Research in Motion) is planning a BlackBerry client for Microsoft's SharePoint collaboration platform as well as middleware capabilities for enterprise application integration and cloud-based mobile device management.

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Gartner slams Cisco's single-vendor network vision
21 January 2011, 7:45 am

Businesses are better off deploying multivendor networks, no matter what Cisco and other large network vendors may tell you, according to a recent report from Gartner.

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Top 10 inkjet multifunction printers
22 January 2011, 5:00 am

The prices of these inkjet multifunctions -- which combine printing, scanning/copying, and sometimes faxing -- range from less than $100 to $400 on the street. As always, price and quality don't always go hand in hand, and pricey inks can quickly turn a would-be bargain into a burden. Three of these printers -- the HP OfficeJet Pro 8500A Plus, Canon Pixma MG8120, and Epson Artisan 725 Arctic Edition -- stand out from a field of capable competitors. Find out which win on print quality, print speed, ease of operation, features, and overall value.

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How to divorce your tech vendor
24 January 2011, 5:00 am

Sure, hooking up with a new IT service provider is all cigars and handshakes at first. Promises are made and stars glimmer in your eyes as you sign the contract. The future looks bright.

Then things start to go south. Carefully negotiated deadlines are ignored. Expensive custom apps you paid dearly to be developed suddenly don't work, and your cloud vendor comes down with a case of the vapors. The thrill is gone and it ain't coming back.

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Cloud computing makes users of us all
24 January 2011, 5:00 am

Here's yet another reason cloud computing is not a new idea: For users, corporate computing has always been a cloud. Users have applications they rely on to do their jobs; they load data to crunch on; they interact digitally with coworkers, clients, and partners -- and all of it comes from this amorphous blob known as IT. Without this stuff, most of them would have nothing to do.

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