Microsoft to issue emergency IE patch Thursday; Firefox, Opera downloads soar after IE warnings; Amazon jacks up e-book royalties

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Microsoft to issue emergency IE patch Thursday
Microsoft will release its emergency patch for Internet Explorer (IE) on Thursday, the company said, as it also admitted that attacks can be hidden inside rigged Office documents. Read More

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

Why Old Servers Cost More Than You Think
You’ll learn how today’s servers – faster, cheaper and easier to maintain – save money, improve performance and contain costs. Also, receive three tools – a power consumption calculator, a memory configuration tool and a breakeven estimator – to analyze the savings new servers can deliver. Read More

Firefox, Opera downloads soar after IE warnings
Mozilla yesterday reported a “huge increase” in downloads of Firefox in Germany after that country’s computer security agency urged IE users to dump the browser and run a rival instead. Read More

Amazon jacks up e-book royalties ahead of Apple’s tablet release
Amazon.com said authors and publishers will get a higher royalty on books using the Kindle Digital Text Platform starting June 30. Read More

Twitter’s growth starts losing steam, study finds
A study of Twitter users and their tweets found that the site’s growth rate is falling, but that it’s users are becoming more active Twitterers. Read More

Stay away from OpenOffice.org until Oracle shows commitment, analyst says
A European IT consulting firm is warning large enterprises and government entities not to deploy OpenOffice.org until Oracle Corp. shows proof that it will invest as heavily in the development of open-source productivity suite as project champion Sun Microsystems Inc. did. Read More

New York Times plans to charge for some online access
The New York Times will start charging readers to access some of its Web site’s content next year, hoping such a move will complement its online advertising revenue, it said on Wednesday. Read More

Report: Apple may replace Google search with Bing
Apple may be in talks with Microsoft to replace the iPhone’s default search engine, Google, with Microsoft’s own offering, Bing, according to BusinessWeek . Read More

Hello World: Bill Gates joins Twitter, Facebook
In a big week for social networking, President Obama and former Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates send their first tweets. Read More

After missing ‘09 deadline, Apple updates Boot Camp
Apple yesterday updated its Boot Camp software to officially support Windows 7, Microsoft’s newest operating system. Read More

Data Center Survival Guide
Today’s data center has become very complex and hard to manage. This drives up costs, power and cooling requirements and provisioning time. It also makes the entire network inefficient, difficult to scale and vulnerable to security breaches. New technologies and services, such as Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Oriented Architecture (WOA), Cloud Computing and Software as a Service (SaaS) will make the situation worse, taking an even bigger bite out of data center performance and bandwidth—and presenting new security challenges. The Juniper Data Center Survival Guide shows IT professionals how to survive in this increasingly complicated environment. It explains how to simplify your infrastructure and network management now with Juniper Networks®. It identifies four of the most difficult challenges you face today in your data center—and the simple steps you can take with Juniper Networks to not only survive the onslaught of new applications and services, but enable your data center to thrive. Read More!

Hackers hit Network Solutions customers
Hackers have managed to deface several hundred Web sites hosted by Network Solutions, the company said Tuesday. Read More

Heartland moves to encrypted payment system
Responding to its widely reported and massive data breach that took place a year ago, Heartland Payment Systems will be moving to an end-to-end encryption system for payment transactions, according to Chairman and CEO Robert Carr. Read More

Scientists use nanotech to prevent heart disease
Researchers at MIT and Harvard Medical School are using nanotechnology to create particles that stick to artery walls and can release medication as needed. Read More

Outsourcer Wipro benefits from improved demand
Wipro achieved revenue growth in its IT services business in the quarter ended Dec. 31, indicating that demand for outsourced services is picking up but is not yet at levels seen before the recession, it said Wednesday. Read More

Opera acquires mobile advertising company AdMarvel
Opera has acquired AdMarvel, which has developed a product suite that manages how ads are delivered to mobile phones, the Norwegian Web browser company said. Read More

Opinion: With smartphones, toss the checklists and focus on the details
It’s not enough to determine whether a feature is present in a device; you have to take a close look at how well it’s implemented. Read More

Amir Lev: Spammer trick: exploiting CAN-SPAM loopholes
Here’s a sneaky trick that some spammers are trying, in an attempt to stay on the right side of the law. When we think of ’spammers’, we usually picture an offshore group of criminal individuals, pushing fake pills from websites that are outside the direct reach of U.S. law. But there’s another group of spammers, who are closer to home… Read More

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Running Ubuntu on an Active Directory network
One reason why some companies won’t consider running a Linux desktop is that it’s not easy to get them to work with Active Directory. Likewise and Canonical have an answer for that. Read More

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