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IT consultant accidentally live blogs Bin Laden raid

Sony apologizes, details PlayStation Network attack | Cisco jumps into portable data center market

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IT consultant accidentally live blogs Bin Laden raid
While virtually everyone by now has heard the news that U.S. forces have killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, it was an IT consultant and his Twitter account that provided the earliest news of the successful military raid. Read More


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Why CIOs still embrace RISC/UNIX
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Sony apologizes, details PlayStation Network attack
Sony's PlayStation Network and Qriocity online services will begin a phased resumption this week, after the company took them offline in response to a "very sophisticated" intrusion, the company said Sunday. Read More

Cisco jumps into portable data center market
Cisco Systems launched its first containerized data center on Monday, coming late to the party but offering some unique management features that could help set it apart from other vendors. Read More

Osama bin Laden's death key topic on Internet
The announcement late Sunday of the death of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has set the Internet abuzz, as users searched for information and shared their thoughts on the killing of one of the world's most wanted men. Read More


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In this new Quest Software white paper, you'll see how to get more information that native logging alone can't provide. See how you can get real time, centralized information, and how doing so maximizes Active Directory performance. Read More

Worst-case projected cost of Epsilon breach: $4B
The ultimate fee for the data breach last month at email service provider Epsilon could reach as high as $4 billion, depending on what becomes of the data that was stolen, according to a cyber-risk advisory firm. Read More

Sony finds no apparent Anonymous link to PlayStation attack
Sony said it has found no link between an attack on its PlayStation Network and Qriocity services and Internet activist group Anonymous, which had earlier targeted its systems. Read More

The week in iPhone 5 rumors
Here's the weekly roundup of iPhone 5 rumors from around the Web, and they range from the latest on everything from more white models to wireless charging to the coming of iOS 5. Read More


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13 features that make each Web browser unique
Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera, IE -- innovative features set each browser apart. Read More

IE9 can't stop Microsoft's browser slump
The March launches of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) and Firefox 4 failed to stop Microsoft's and Mozilla's decline in browser share, new Web usage data shows. Read More

LAN design guidelines are changing
In our last newsletter we discussed the overall movement to redesign the typical data center LAN in general and the movement to reduce the number of layers in the design in particular. In this newsletter we will continue that discussion and will include how the traditional assumptions and LAN design guidelines are giving way to a new set of assumptions and guidelines. Read More

Founding engineer of Cisco TelePresence jumps to rival
Another notable Cisco official is leaving the company. Phil Graham, engineering founder of Cisco's TelePresence initiative has joined Avaya to lead its R&D for "next-generation endpoints that improve the user experience and promote effective business collaboration," according to an e-mail from Avaya PR. Read More

Update: Robots find key missing piece of Air France crash black box
Talk about finding a needle in a haystack. Investigators today said they had found the missing piece of the flight data recorder from the undersea Air France Flight 447 wreckage. Read More



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