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	iPhone 5 rumor roll-up for the week ending Sept. 16 We learn this week that the iPhone 5 is a "sight to behold" even though no one writing about it has actually beheld one. Far from dampening rumors, that vacuum of fact causes them to swell and blossom. Read More WHITE PAPER: Shoretel Unified Communications Buyer's Guide The mobility offered by unified communications is just one of the benefits businesses who deploy UC enjoy. This buyer's guide offers tips to make sure you find the right UC solution. It explains how to avoid a complex deployment, the key questions to ask prospective vendors, and how not be fooled by the demo. Read now! In this Issue Windows 8 Metro: The InfoWorld visual tour Obama signs patent overhaul legislation Microsoft CEO hints at 'Metro-ization' of Office AT&T's LTE network to launch Sunday in 5 cities US CTO wants consumers to have instant online access to their energy usage US Energy Dept. finds myriad challenges to building culture of network security Cybersecurity Solution for Anonymous: Hire Hackers vs. 20 Years Jail Time? Oracle: Security flaw could bring down app servers MapR Makes Hadoop better, faster, easier Twitter needs to fix or ditch 'Trends' Mozilla's Rapid Firefox Releases Are Killing Me RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Citrix XenServer is FREE Citrix XenServer is the only free, enterprise-class, cloud-proven virtualization platform available. Organizations of any size can immediately benefit from the power of server virtualization. With features such as live migration, centralized multi-server management, and shared storage support, you can't afford not to download it now – it's free! Click to continue Windows 8 Metro: The InfoWorld visual tour A radical new look is in store for Windows. Get a first look at Windows 8's smartphone-inspired Metro interface. Read More Obama signs patent overhaul legislation U.S. President Barack Obama has signed the America Invents Act, the first major overhaul of the U.S. patent system in about 50 years. Read More Microsoft CEO hints at 'Metro-ization' of Office Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Wednesday strongly hinted that the company will craft a Metro-style version of the next Office suite. Read More WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc. Taming the Cloud This whitepaper explores the components of the cloud computing ecosystem, demonstrates how Akamai is delivering services for cloud optimization, and looks forward into the evolution of this dynamic and growing market. Read now AT&T's LTE network to launch Sunday in 5 cities AT&T will officially launch its faster LTE wireless service on Sunday in five cities: Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. Read More US CTO wants consumers to have instant online access to their energy usage The idea sounds simple enough: you can go to your utility's Web site, click a green button and you get information about your household energy use. Develop the technology that makes such a green button possible, is what US Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra told attendees of this week's GridWeek conference and then posted on the White House Science and Technology blog. Read More US Energy Dept. finds myriad challenges to building culture of network security When it comes to securing the nation's critical energy networks, the Department of Energy says much work remains. Key to that work are the engineers, network administrators, vendors and others behind the security technology -- but they will be leaving the industry in droves in the next five years, according to a Department of Energy security roadmap issued this week. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quest Software Accelerate Recovery Time After a Disaster In this Quest Software white paper authored by the Data Management Institute, learn the key challenges in designing an effective disaster recovery plan. Then discover how a solution based on continuous data protection can rapidly restore your critical applications and get your business running again with virtually no downtime. Read Now! Cybersecurity Solution for Anonymous: Hire Hackers vs. 20 Years Jail Time? I've always thought hackers could save the world if they chose to, so a post on MSDN blogs my eye. I stopped on Terry Zink's Cyber Security Blog and watched the TED video, Hire the hackers! Read More Oracle: Security flaw could bring down app servers Oracle has issued an emergency patch to fix a vulnerability it says could bring down HTTP application servers it sells that are based on Apache 2.0 or 2.2. Read More MapR Makes Hadoop better, faster, easier Continuing a look at the very hot Hadoop space, today I wanted to spotlight a new company that has made a big bang since coming out of stealth back in June of this year. Read More Twitter needs to fix or ditch 'Trends' Regular Twitter users know the site's homepage "Trends" box as the place to look for big breaking news, celebrity deaths (real and fake), as well as hashtag silliness such as #IfTwitterWereHighSchool. Read More Mozilla's Rapid Firefox Releases Are Killing Me Mozilla's insistence on releasing new versions of the Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail client every six weeks is more than just extremely annoying. It kills compatibility and poses a security threat to businesses and consumers, rants CIO.com's Bill Snyder. Read More
	SLIDESHOWS Cloud companies to watch: A product sampler Our Cloud Companies to Watch story gives you the lowdown on a handful of startups looking to make their mark in a business so far dominated by the likes of Amazon, Google, Rackspace and VMware. Here's a closer look at some of the products and services being rolled out by these newcomers. GOODIES FROM MICROSOFT SUBNET We've got books on System Center Opalis Integration Server and Microsoft training of the winner's choice from Webucator.. Enter here. MOST-READ STORIES Buzzblog: Blue screen of death gets a new look in Windows 8 Has Google's CEO stopped using Google+? Enterprise WAN connectivity: MPLS VPN vs. Public Internet Windows 8 coming in 2012? 6 reasons why this could derail Windows 7 now Bot army being assembled, awaiting orders Facebook's new friend lists: 5 things you need to know Stevie Wonder thanks Steve Jobs for making the iPhone and iPad so accessible Survey ranks best IT departments in financial services Windows Server 8: The Microsoft server fork Server 8 benefits from lessons learned with Azure
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