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	Mac sales can’t keep pace with cheap PCs, Apple slips to No. 5 While Mac sales in the U.S. were up 31% in the fourth quarter of 2009, Apple failed to keep pace with exploding sales of cheap Windows PCs, and fell to the No. 5 spot, research firm IDC said. Read More SPONSOR: Microsoft DirectAccess and UAG: Better Together Here are some of the key reasons why you would want to run Unified Access Gateway with DirectAccess Click to continue In this Issue DDoS Attacks Are Back (and Bigger Than Before) How will Microsoft, Yahoo respond to Google’s China challenge? GoToMyPC belatedly adds Mac capabilities Make 10.6’s List Stacks look like Grid Stacks Skip Microsoft’s critical patch, focus on Adobe’s, experts urge Sharon Machlis: Is Apple morphing into the Microsoft of smartphones? Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: You don’t need to ‘know’ Linux to use Linux Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Another day, another SUSE/Moblin Linux netbook Other Resources The Business Case for Virtualization SPONSOR: BlueArc Keeping Pace with Storage Growth Learn how to bring intelligent tiered storage into your environment with a flexible and efficient platform. Lower costs, create a more environmentally-friendly data center and optimize your storage environment. Intelligent tiering is a viable option today. Read More! DDoS Attacks Are Back (and Bigger Than Before) DDoS attacks are back in the headlines. Thanks to the rapid proliferation of botnets, the threat may be bigger than the bad guys had even planned. Read More How will Microsoft, Yahoo respond to Google’s China challenge? Analysts say that Google’s threat to abandon its Chinese business in protest of government censorship and cyberattacks on its network could force search rivals Microsoft and Yahoo to follow suit. Read More GoToMyPC belatedly adds Mac capabilities Citrix Systems Inc. has upgraded its market-leading GoToMyPC remote access software, which now allows users to connect from or to their Macs over a distant network. Read More Make 10.6’s List Stacks look like Grid Stacks If you use Stacks in Grid mode in OS X 10.6, and you’ve read this hint, then you know you navigate into (and out of) folders in Grid mode Stacks using the keyboard. If you use List mode Stacks, there’s no need for these techniques, because folders are opened automatically when you mouse over them. (If you’re using the keyboard, you’ll need to press the Right Arrow to expand the currently-selected folder.) Read More SPONSOR: Citrix Driving IT Help Desk Efficiency with Customer-Centric Remote Support The IT help desk is a high-stress environment and sometimes it can feel downright chaotic. While the obvious objective is to resolve technical issues, IT help desks also battle call length, employee dissatisfaction and low morale. IDC predicts that by 2011, 73 percent of the U.S. workforce will be mobile, inevitably increasing the pressure on the IT help desk. That’s why more companies are turning to Web-based, customer-centric remote support to support a burgeoning remote workforce. Read On! Skip Microsoft’s critical patch, focus on Adobe’s, experts urge Microsoft today issued just one security update for Windows, the lowest number on a Patch Tuesday since January 2009, and security experts advised users to focus first on updates coming from Adobe. Read More Sharon Machlis: Is Apple morphing into the Microsoft of smartphones? Apple’s ‘there’s an app for that’ iPhone campaign is essentially boasting about hefty market share. And when a smaller competitor came along that was vulnerable, Apple blocked access to its proprietary data. Read More Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: You don’t need to ‘know’ Linux to use Linux Once upon a time you needed to know shell commands and how to edit configuration files to use Linux. Today, all you need to know is how to handle a mouse. Read More Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Another day, another SUSE/Moblin Linux netbook In all the hurly-burly of CES, a second SUSE/Moblin Linux netbook was quietly released. This one comes from Samsung. Read More
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