Businesses may bypass Vista ... EBay to host "Red Team" security conference ... Apple issues Panther security patch

In this issue:
- IBM turns data centers into 'computing clouds'
- Vista in danger of being bypassed by businesses
- EBay to host "Red Team" security conference
- Dell will help corporations go green
- Five favorite Facebook widgets for business users
- Apple issues Panther security patch
- Halo 3 fan punches mom, cops when forced to stop playing
- Win a Wi-Fi Detector T-Shirt!


TODAY'S NEWS

IBM to turn data centers into 'computing cloud'
IBM will release new products next year that turn data centers into a 'cloud' of computing resources that can be assigned wherever they are needed.

Vista in danger of being bypassed by businesses
Vista may be skipped over by business users in favor of Windows 7, the next version of the OS, if Microsoft ships it on schedule.

EBay to host "Red Team" security conference
EBay plans to host its own security conference next February, called 'Red Team eBay'.

OPENWORLD: Dell will help corporations go green
Dell plans to release a reference architecture in the future that will pave the way for enterprises to reduce power consumption and go green in the future, Dell CEO Michael Dell said in a keynote at the Oracle OpenWorld 2007 conference on Wednesday.

Disappearing Gmail messages baffle users
When Jeneane Sessum logged into her Gmail account on the afternoon of Oct. 27, she was greeted with a horrifying sight: an empty inbox.

Apple issues Panther security patch
Mac OS X 10.3.9 Panther users also came in for a software update from Apple last night, in the form of the latest security update for the systems.

Google Android on the defensive
Google has explained the choices it offers developers, at a public demonstration of the Android software development kit in London.

3GSM ASIA: GSM group backs LTE for mobile broadband
The board of the GSM Association voted to back LTE (Long-Term Evolution) as the mobile broadband standard to succeed HSPA (High-Speed Packet Access), the CEO of the group said Tuesday.


FEATURE

Five favorite Facebook widgets for business users
C.G. Lynch, CIO

We scoured the widget libraries and came up with five of our favorites for business users based on their utility for getting the job done. ...Continue


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Halo 3 fan punches mom, cops when forced to stop playing
A Florida teen was enjoying playing Halo 3 on a Sunday night -- like, we mean, really enjoying it. So much so that when his mother told him to stop because it was late, he ignored her. And then when she shut the machine down, he attacked her. And attacked the sheriff's deputies who later arrived on the scene.

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