Windows Phone 7 update fiasco teaches Microsoft key lessons

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	Microsoft says it learned key lessons from Windows Phone update fiasco Microsoft did not realize how different smartphones are from PCs until recent software updates broke new Windows Phone 7 devices. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Defending the Assault on Your Data Learn how turning to outside help, specifically designed for small and midsized businesses, can affordably provide the protection you need. It's just one of the resources, along with expert Webcasts and IDG security survey results, you'll find in this data security KnowledgeVault. Learn more. In this Issue IRS e-filing system turns 25 ... and tops 70% participation Facebook Flops: The Social Network's 10 Biggest Mistakes Firewall security issue raised in report ignites vendors' ire Twitter killer in the works? Researchers out to defend Android users from privacy thieves U.S. Census tech makeover includes 'oasis' for innovation Virtualization shoot-out: Citrix XenServer Oracle cautiously pushes Fusion Applications to enterprises US police increasingly peeping at e-mail, instant messages Honey, they shrunk the scanners! WHITE PAPER: BMC Software A Cost-Effective Solution for ITSM If you're tired of the costly upgrades and difficult implementations other vendors put you through, BMC Remedy OnDemand offers an alternative. It can be implemented in days and significantly lower overall IT Service Management costs. Read the white paper to learn more about BMC Remedy OnDemand. Read More Today! IRS e-filing system turns 25 ... and tops 70% participation While many a procrastinating taxpayer will still descend upon Post Office branches come Monday's deadline, their numbers will be a fraction of what they were a quarter-century ago, thanks to the remarkable success of what started in 1986 as a three-city IRS pilot program called e-file. Read More Facebook Flops: The Social Network's 10 Biggest Mistakes Facebook is far from perfect--but here are the ten most significant blunders that the company has made in its short history. Read More Firewall security issue raised in report ignites vendors' ire A test by NSS Labs that found firewalls from five vendors are subject in one way or another to remote exploit by hackers has ignited furious response from vendors Fortinet and SonicWall. That NSS Labs study, released this week, says that independent security testing of six separate vendor firewalls showed five of them to be vulnerable to what's known as the "TCP Split Handshake Attack" that lets a hacker fool the firewall into thinking an IP connection is a trusted one behind a firewall. Read More WHITE PAPER: Siemens Can Unified Communications Change Your Outlook Frost & Sullivan white paper introduces key concepts and potential value of unified communications for the small & mid-size enterprise Read Now Twitter killer in the works? CNN's scoop today that UberMedia is plotting a social network to compete with Twitter - the microblogging site with which it has a love/hate relationship - has naturally generated quite a buzz on Twitter itself today. Twitter in February temporarily banned a couple of UberMedia's Twitter apps, including UberTwitter (now called UberSocial), for violating the company's terms of service. UberMedia's well-known leader Bill Gross, a VC heavyweight, tweeted liberally about that situation but not so far on the Twitter competitor speculation. Read More Researchers out to defend Android users from privacy thieves For Google Android, the best selling mobile OS in the world by some accounts, that popularity comes with a predictable price: Hackers, malware writers and other ne'er-do-wells are all over it. Read More U.S. Census tech makeover includes 'oasis' for innovation The U.S. Census Bureau is in the midst of a tech make-over following criticism over its technology deployments leading up to the 2010 Census. Read More WHITE PAPER: Zetta Organizations Gain Disaster Recovery Advantages With Cloud Aberdeen Group surveyed organizations to learn whether they used public Cloud storage for disaster recovery. Organizations that had moved at least part of their data storage to the Cloud recovered from downtime events almost four-times faster than those with no formal Cloud storage program. Read now! Virtualization shoot-out: Citrix XenServer Citrix tackles server virtualization with a fast hypervisor and enterprise features, but leaves a few rough edges Read More Oracle cautiously pushes Fusion Applications to enterprises Oracle is continuing to take a cautious approach in pushing its new Fusion Applications to enterprises. Read More US police increasingly peeping at e-mail, instant messages Law enforcement organizations are making tens of thousands of requests for private electronic information from companies such as Sprint, Facebook and AOL, but few detailed statistics are available, according to a privacy researcher. Read More Honey, they shrunk the scanners! Keith Shaw reviews the Visioneer Mobility scanner, by Visioneer, and ScanSnap S1100, by Fujitsu Read More
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