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	FBI: Romance scams in the air as Royal Wedding fever peaks On the day so much love is in the air from across the pond, the FBI's Internet Complaint Center is warning of an uptick in online romance scams. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cloud Leadership Forum Cloud Leadership Forum: June 20 in Silicon Valley Come to the Cloud Leadership Forum 2011 for best-practice approaches to cloud migration, management, governance and more. The enterprise-focused agenda is based upon IDC research and peer-based insights. Learn from case study presentations, interactive sessions and leading cloud providers. Complimentary admission. Learn more. In this Issue Amazon: Bad execution during planned upgrade caused outage CenturyLink angling to become major enterprise broadband carrier NY Yankees staffer accidentally e-mails customer list Cram Giant Amounts of Data Onto These Tiny Storage Drives and Cards Wireless a catalyst for 'Internet of things' After 40 years, email security still elusive, experts say Other Flip casualties: Accessories Why You Should Stop Worrying and Let End Users Have iPads Microsoft Office and Kinect lead growth as Microsoft earnings exceed expectations Five myths about Windows 7 migration debunked Westminster Abbey made from 180,000 LEGOs WHITE PAPER: Netezza, an IBM Company Oracle Exadata and Netezza TwinFin™ Compared This ebook will provide the fundamental differences between the Netezza TwinFin® and Oracle Exadata solutions from the perspectives of query performance, simplicity of operation and value. The ebook will help you determine which solutions best meet your business needs and how to achieve optimal results from your data. Read now Amazon: Bad execution during planned upgrade caused outage Incorrect execution during an upgrade led to Amazon's big cloud outage. Read More CenturyLink angling to become major enterprise broadband carrier For the second time over the last month, Louisiana-based carrier CenturyLink made a major acquisition that will put it in a strong position to become a big-time player in the enterprise broadband market. Read More NY Yankees staffer accidentally e-mails customer list A customer service representative with the New York Yankees accidentally e-mailed out personal details on close to 18,000 season ticket holders, the baseball team said Thursday. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Solving the Top 4 Network Management Challenges Join us for this webinar, featuring Jim Frey, Research Director from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) and Heath Newburn, Program Director from IBM as they discuss Netcool's flexible solutions for a complex and dynamic IT environment. Learn More Cram Giant Amounts of Data Onto These Tiny Storage Drives and Cards These eight cutting-edge hard drives, flash drives, and cards can hold multi-gigabytes of data and yet still slip in a shirt pocket. Read More Wireless a catalyst for 'Internet of things' By 2020, 50 billion devices will connect to wireless networks, say some experts. But not all those devices will have human beings interacting directly with them. Read More After 40 years, email security still elusive, experts say According to the survey, conducted by secure messaging provider VaporSteam Inc., nearly three-fourths of respondents from large companies say they've violated compliance rules via email. Read More WHITE PAPER: Siemens Journey to Unified Communications for SMBs Resource guide for small & mid-size businesses considering unified communications. Key concepts, formulating your vision for UC, calculating potential savings and next steps. Read Now Other Flip casualties: Accessories Cisco's decision to kill off its Flip line of video cameras has also killed off some other products I was looking forward to – accessories that could have made the camera even more valuable. Last September, Cisco announced its Designed for Flip program, giving third-party companies the chance to built accessories for the Flip that could be attached to the camera through a FlipPort, giving it... Read More Why You Should Stop Worrying and Let End Users Have iPads When employees have technology they like, they'll make themselves productive in ways you never dreamed. So let them have their iPads and Android tablets. Read More Microsoft Office and Kinect lead growth as Microsoft earnings exceed expectations Led by strong sales of Microsoft Office and Kinect for Xbox 360, Microsoft raked in $16.43 billion in revenue and and $5.23 billion in profit during the quarter ending March 31, 2011. The numbers lag slightly behind Apple's most recent results but Microsoft still exceeded financial analysts' expectations by reporting earnings per share of 61 cents. Read More Five myths about Windows 7 migration debunked An executive of Unisys is urging more enterprises to migrate to Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system by arguing, somewhat counterintuitively, that it's not as easy a decision as some make it out to be, but it's still a smart move. Read More Westminster Abbey made from 180,000 LEGOs Video slideshow of the four adult LEGO fans who constructed a scale replica of Westminster Abbey (where the royal wedding will take place on Friday). Using more than 180,000 bricks, the Abbey was consructed in about eight weeks. Read More
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