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	Cash for clunkers: Old tech equipment boosts the bottom line Rather than paying to recycle, you can get cash or credit for your used tech gear -- if you have a solid asset-management plan in place. Read More WHITE PAPER: Argent What's the biggest bottleneck in VMware? Do more CPUs improve VMware?    Using VMware NIC Teaming?    Does TCP/IP affect VMware? (You'll be surprised)    Get this essential FREE white paper now    11 pages of technical details, not sales fluff     Click to continue In this Issue HP reshuffles executives, prompts departures Spear phishers sharpen skills, craft 'incredible' attacks, say experts High-profile attacks highlight need for defenses against targeted threats Is Facebook's IPO worth $100B? Privacy groups push for U.S. Facebook probe Lady Gaga and the 'big head' effect in mobile apps Apple will pay Nokia to settle patent suit From CIO.com: First, Fire the Executives: iGate Patni CEO on His Merger of Unequals Jonny Evans: Apple sells iPhone 4 unlocked, iPhone upgrade for September AMD pledges sharper graphics with new Fusion chips 13 essential programming tools for the mobile Web HP announces laptops with new AMD Llano chips China blocks some Web searches about migrant protests Lulzsec sets sights on U.S. Senate and game-maker Bethesda IT Blogwatch: Finally! Apple unlocks iPhone 4, no 3G for T-Mobile USA WHITE PAPER: F5 Load Balancing 101: Firewall Sandwiches How to make a ''firewall sandwich''. Read now. Read Now. HP reshuffles executives, prompts departures Hewlett-Packard made seismic level changes to its top management that included the exit of its CIO, Randy Mott, who is leaving "effective immediately." Read More Spear phishers sharpen skills, craft 'incredible' attacks, say experts Recent break-ins at high-profile targets like the International Monetary Fund demonstrate just how proficient hackers have become at 'spear phishing,' researchers said. Read More High-profile attacks highlight need for defenses against targeted threats The recent spate of successful cyberattacks against high-profile organizations has focused fresh attention on the need for enterprises to implement new defenses against targeted threats. Read More Is Facebook's IPO worth $100B? Facebook may not be having its initial public offering until sometime in 2012, but its potential valuation is already generating a lot of buzz. Read More Privacy groups push for U.S. Facebook probe Several privacy groups are asking U.S. regulators to force Facebook to halt plans for its facial recognition service. Read More Lady Gaga and the 'big head' effect in mobile apps It takes more than app development savvy and code crunching to get noticed in Apple's busy App Store. For app developer Appetizer Mobile, it helped to have Lady Gaga. Read More Apple will pay Nokia to settle patent suit Nokia and Apple have settled an almost two-year long legal battle over patents with an agreement that will see Apple pay a lump sum and ongoing royalties to the European cell-phone maker. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Assess Your End-to-End Network Visibility A leading processor of mutual funds and insurance transactions required end-to-end network visibility for business-critical securities transactions. Learn how Riverbed gave them the ability to visualize their complex and intricate architecture and see the interdependencies of data sources, servers and transactional tiers. Learn More From CIO.com: First, Fire the Executives: iGate Patni CEO on His Merger of Unequals iGate Patni CEO Phaneesh Murthy addresses his controversial acquisition of a much larger IT outsourcing company, the debt the combined company has incurred and the way Patni executives were treated during and after the deal. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple sells iPhone 4 unlocked, iPhone upgrade for September Apple has unleashed a new secret weapon in the battle for U.S. smartphone market share -- unlocked iPhone 4s are now available, while expectation of a new model iPhone 5 in September itself gets locked-in. Read More AMD pledges sharper graphics with new Fusion chips Advanced Micro Devices has promised a boost in video and graphics performance from its first Fusion processor aimed at the mainstream PC segment, which will go on sale in laptops later this month and desktops soon after. Read More 13 essential programming tools for the mobile Web HTML5 and a vibrant ecosystem of libraries are making the mobile Web a compelling alternative to developing native code. These tools can help developers build out the mobile Web. Read More HP announces laptops with new AMD Llano chips Hewlett-Packard announced 11 new laptops starting at $399, running AMD's new chips code-named Llano. Read More China blocks some Web searches about migrant protests China is blocking searches on Google and microblogs for the name of a Chinese city where protests have erupted against local authorities. The move is part of an effort to suppress information on the rioting. Read More Lulzsec sets sights on U.S. Senate and game-maker Bethesda The Lulzsec hacking group continues to cause headaches for IT staffers. On Monday, it published data it obtained from servers belonging to the U.S. Senate and Bethesda Softworks, a Rockville, Md., game maker. Read More IT Blogwatch: Finally! Apple unlocks iPhone 4, no 3G for T-Mobile USA Apple is, at last, selling officially unlocked iPhone 4 units in the USA. But it's not as wonderful as it sounds: Yes, you'll be able to use it on T-Mobile; but no, it won't work on that carrier's 3G bands. And it's fiendishly expensive on AT&T. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers scratch their heads and wonder why Apple bothered. Read More
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