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Wednesday, August 01, 2012
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MUST READ  Apple: Samsung Copied iPhone, iPad By Charles Babcock Samsung denies charges as day two of infringement trial sees opening statements and first Apple witness.
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Olympics Tap Big Data To Enhance Security
Olympics crime fighters are using big data analysis techniques to identify suspicious activity, imminent threats, and unexpected holes that attackers could exploit.
Dropbox Admits Hack, Adds More Security Features
Flood of email spam blamed on attacker grabbing an internal document containing users' email addresses.
Google Catches Wildfire For Social Marketing
Wildfire Interactive gives Google a social media marketing component to round out its advertising and analytics offerings.
HTC One X: Big Screen In Thin, Fast Phone
HTC's new HTC One X packages a big, beautiful screen in a thin and light phone. Although not perfect, it's a compelling smart phone we'd consider buying ourselves.
Our Sad Future: Take Your Robot To Your Room Or Else
Robot problems? Here's a glimpse of some of the things that go down at Blackhat and DefCon.
Email List Stolen From Hacked Dropbox Employee
An employee's Dropbox account with an insecure password was compromised. A list of user e-mails from that account was used in a spam campaign. The company recommends users get a password manager such as 1password, norton password manager, roboform, or lastpass.
Tired Of Security Problems? Change Rules Of Writing Code
Security researcher Dan Kaminsky says rewriting the rules of computer science is the way to avoid bugs, attacks, and other vulnerabilities.
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Informed CIO: VDI Snake Oil Check
You won't lose your shirt on a desktop virtualization initiative, but don't expect it to be simple to build or free of complications. This report examines the three biggest problems when developing a business case for VDI: storage costs, ongoing licensing, and the wisdom of prolonging the investment in PC infrastructure.
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Competing on Analytics
Companies questing for killer apps generally focus all their firepower on the one area that promises to create the greatest competitive advantage. But a new breed of organization has upped the stakes: Amazon, Harrah's, Capital One, and the Boston Red Sox have all dominated their fields by deploying industrial-strength analytics across a wide variety of activities.
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