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	Microsoft expects Internet Explorer exploits within 30 days Microsoft's monthly patches released today include a critical fix for seven holes in Internet Explorer which, if left unpatched, are considered "likely to see reliable exploits developed within the next 30 days." Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CIO 100 CIO 100 Symposium & Awards Ceremony Join your peers in Colorado Springs August 14-16th for this legendary event that brings together technology and business leaders from the world's top companies. Over three days, you'll have access to a topflight group of peers and respected experts who'll help shape your business agenda and IT strategy. Register today! 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Google Apps vs. Microsoft Office 365 Microsoft and Google agree that hosted productivity suites offer unique benefits for evolving business needs. Of course the two behemoths traveled very different paths to reach this conclusion, and bring different strengths to their respective offerings. Which one is right you? Read both sides and decide for yourself. Read More First Look: Thunderbolt accessories strike Storage, video editing and other peripherals exploiting Intel's new high-speed Thunderbolt connection have started to emerge, initially for use with Apple products. Read More Apple tops Exxon Mobil to become most valuable U.S. company Amid all the doom and gloom of this week's stock-market fall comes word of a remarkable ascension: Apple today became the nation's most valuable company ... at least for a time. Read More Privacy Groups Protest Massive DHS Database of Secret Watchlists Homeland Security has a plan to expand its Watchlist Service by duplicating the FBI's existing system of watchlist records and then feed that info into a massive database in which more government people would have immediate access. According to the FBI, the consolidated Terrorist Watchlist is "one of the most effective counterterrorism tools for the U.S. Read More Skytap automates cloud deployments Skytap, a provider of cloud automation software, this week unveiled orchestration and configuration products designed to enable enterprises to easily create virtual environments in the cloud. Read More Visa to make it easier for merchants to adopt chip-based card payments Visa today announced plans that will let qualifying merchants in the U.S. eliminate the need to annually validate their compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standard. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM College Goes Green with Energy-Efficient Data Centre Canadian-based St. Lawrence College needed to increase IT capacity to support a growing student base while minimizing risk, reducing energy costs and demonstrating a commitment to environmental sustainability. Learn how they reached their goals. Read now Electromagnetic interference and 10GBase-T in the data center The majority of data center LAN links use 1000Base-T (Gigabit Ethernet) running on unshielded twisted pair structured cabling (Cat5e, Cat6, Cat6a). While increasing demand for bandwidth is driving a shift to 10G Ethernet, that migration is being slowed by the fact that the 10G links being deployed today are based on optical transceivers or SFP+ Direct Attach copper, neither of which is backward-compatible to Gigabit Ethernet. Read More Out of Touch CEOs: How to Demotivate Your Employees When a CEO tells his employees that he's taking a year off to fulfill a longtime sailing dream, does he honestly expect employees to be happy for him? Read More Raid on Russian firm ChronoPay explains the demise of Mac Defender malware Earlier this Summer, a pesky piece of Mac malware called Mac Defender reared its ugly head. WIth SEO tactics in hand, links to Mac Defender appeared high on Google search results and when users clicked through, they were whisked away to a website where javascript began downloading a .zip file. Read More Verizon makes its satellite dishes available as standard service Verizon is turning its 19 years of responding to hurricanes and disasters with ground-based mobile satellite technology into a standard service for businesses and governments. Read More
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