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Cybercriminals honing Android malware skills in Russia

Sophos says they're starting in Russia, but will expand with success
Apple updates Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Developer Preview

Apple has issued an update to its OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Developer Preview 3, but has left developers using the mid-2007 MacBook Pro unable to run the new build.
Firefox on Windows RT 'probably not worth it'

Mozilla will "probably not bother" building a version of Firefox for Windows RT if Microsoft does not allow other browser makers to call important APIs for the new operating system, according to a Mozilla product director.
Anonymous hater claims responsibility for Pirate Bay DDoS attack

A hacker who claims to hate both Anonymous and notorious file-sharing website The Pirate Bay has claimed responsibility for the DDoS attack that the bittorent website has been suffering for the last 24 hours.
Spiceworks social network for IT pros hits 2m users

Spiceworks, the social business platform for IT professionals, has announced that it now has 2 million users, representing nearly 30 percent of all IT pros at small and medium-sized businesses worldwide.
Greenpeace infiltrates Apple's Cupertino campus protesting coal use

Greenpeace infiltrated Apple?s Cupertino campus this week, projecting messages from Twitter and Facebook users who are dismayed at Apple?s use of coal at the data centre that powers its cloud services.
Bing goes social in Microsoft's search war with Google

Microsoft's move to boost Bing's social networking feaures could finally give it an opportunity to truly take on Google's dominant search engine, analysts say.
Adobe u-turn promises free security patches for Creative Suite

Adobe is to issue free security patches for Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash Professional--the company's high-profile Creative Suite applications. The U-turn reverses an attempt to force users to pay for a CS6 upgrade in order to rectify the problems. The security vulnerabilities affected both Mac and Windows platforms.
iOS surpasses Android in BYOD enterprise usage, study says

Consumerisation trends in the enterprise shifted dramatically in the first quarter of 2012, with mobile devices running Apple's iOS operating system showing more activity in the workplace than those running Google's Android, as well as end users migrating from Facebook and to Twitter.
Floating robot sensors track water flow and environmental concerns

Researchers and graduate students who have spent years and millions of dollars developing intelligent water sensors released them into the Sacramento River yesterday, about 80 miles east of San Francisco.

Latest Features

Drag and Drop Search - Speed up searches and reduce typing

Drag and Drop Search is a free Chrome extension that offers an elegant solution to a common problem: Searching on the website that will give you the answers you need. Google is a great engine, but there is no reason to go through it for everything. If you're after quick facts and figures, you might be better off searching Wikipedia directly; if it's videos you're after, then a direct YouTube search might let you find them faster. If you'd like to get a sense for a place, searching for it on Flickr will show you what it's like. With Drag and Drop Search installed, you only need to select a term, then drag and drop it on the name of the search engine you'd like to use.
Top 15 cloud storage tips and tasks

No single cloud service can do everything. Some shine when it comes to streaming a cloud music collection from the Web, but stink at syncing desktop folders. Other cloud services are great for sharing photos, but useless for reviewing a document's revision history.
Crowdfunding - The latest way to get your project funded

Programmers, manufacturers and developers who want to realise their creative vision without signing onerous contracts or relinquishing rights to their intellectual property now have an alternative to venture capitalists. Crowdfunding - the collection of funds directly from a target audience - has taken off. Small donations are adding up to hundreds of millions of dollars, many of them channeled through a service called Kickstarter.
Does BlackBerry still have the juice?

Research in Motion faces huge challenges in its battle to survive and they'll all be on attendees' minds at this week at RIM's annual BlackBerry World conference in Orlando. What will also be on our minds: the ticking clock counting down the time RIM has left to turn around its fortunes.
CISPA: Four viewpoints you should hear

Citing its effort to better protect American infrastructure from foreign attacks, the US House of Representatives passed the Cyber Information and Security Protection Act in spite of worries that consumer data privacy will be compromised if the bill eventually becomes law.
Seven Instagram alternatives for iOS

The dust has yet to settle from last week?s $1 billion purchase of Instagram by Facebook, with many users still wondering what?s in store for the photo-sharing service now that it?s owned by the social networking giant.
What's the fastest browser? Maybe you're measuring it wrong

Among all those very scientific benchmarks we forget one factor: the user. Our human eye is incapable of distinguishing the 221 ms load time of a JavaScript applet in IE9 from the 220 ms load time in Firefox 17. Do we even notice if Chrome opens a website in 778 ms versus IE's 953 ms? Humans think in seconds, not milliseconds.
Five ways to make LinkedIn work for your business

As one of the web's "big three" social networks along with Facebook and Twitter, LinkedIn has grabbed its slice of the limelight as the space where professionals strategise their next career move. But that's an unnecessarily limiting way to view this powerhouse network. Over the last few years, LinkedIn has introduced myriad tools - some free, some paid - to help small businesses drive word of mouth about their brand. Here are just a few ways you can get started.
Why is Instagram so popular?

If you're an active social-media user, you can't deny the phenomenon of Instagram--its trendy derivatives were a hit with PCWorld readers in 2011--and now the app, already popular among iOS gadget owners, is available for Android users as well.
Passion for location data spawns balloons, art photos and 'experiential maps'

Amid the excited rhetoric about the profit potential in location data, the Where 2012 conference this week also exhibited another sign of a truly hot technology: passion projects with no commercial value at all.

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Featured White Papers

Social media: IT nightmare or opportunity?

In most businesses, social media is under the purview of PR and Marketing. But IT needs to be involved in a company's social media efforts, particularly in regard to worrying about security. Companies are using social media sites like Twitter and Facebook, as well as implementing blogs, private and public social networks, wikis, and other similar tools. It is the IT staff who have to live with these sites from a security perspective, and setting social media policies to minimise the company's risk, because social media is bleeding through all the controls and firewalls.
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3 must-haves to securing the social web

There is no denying that the social Web is the new Web. Nearly every enterprise is using it in one way or another. But along with its enormous popularity come enterprise-size risks. So in the race to maximize its potential, enterprises must take due care to protect the business. This whitepaper looks at the three "must-haves" to securing the social Web.
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Embracing social networking

Download this white paper to find out more about how you can manage the risks, and reap the benefits, of social networking.
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Utilising social networks to develop your employees

On the face of it, social software seems an unlikely example of enterprise collaboration. Aren?t social networks a fad? What does sharing photos or connecting with college buddies have to do with getting work done?
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Content Security 2.0: The Impact of Web 2.0 on Corporate Security

'Web 2.0' has become a widely-used term to describe the perceived 'second wave of the Internet', focusing on new collaboration technologies such as blogs, MySpace and Twitter. In early 2007, Clearswift commissioned research to establish how popular these new Web 2.0 technologies and sites really were among office workers to determine the scale of the potential threat to corporate security.
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