10 ways to make Android faster, more productive, and more secure than iPhone

	How to avoid big data spending pitfalls | Scott Thompson out as Yahoo CEO
	Today's InfoWorld Headlines: First Look				Forward this to a Friend >>>
	10 ways to make Android faster, more productive, and more secure than iPhone IPhone users love to brag about their phones. They line up around the block and stand in line for hours when a new one is released. Yet, for many users, Android is clearly the superior platform. Yes, its Achilles' heel is a big one: security. Android's openness and large market share mean that it's a juicy target for attackers. Yet, Android's openness also provides serious benefits. With a little tweaking, you can speed up and optimize Android in ways that will make iPhone users' heads spin. Read More WHITE PAPER: Amazon Web Services Microsoft SharePoint on the AWS Cloud Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides services & tools for deploying Microsoft® SharePoint® workloads on its cloud infrastructure platform. This white paper discusses general concepts regarding how to use these services and provides detailed technical guidance on how to configure, deploy, and run a SharePoint Server farm on AWS. Deploy SharePoint quickly at lower total cost on AWS Cloud. Learn how In this Issue How to avoid big data spending pitfalls Scott Thompson out as Yahoo CEO Facebook proposes more changes to privacy policy Adobe backpedals, will now patch recent Creative Suite versions for free Amazon Web Services personalizes CloudFront Web hosting service WEBCAST: HP How to overcome challenges with database solutions. Your business is growing. How is your IT handling increased business transactions, stringent SLAs and increasing budget pressures? Join Richard Winter, President at WinterCorp, and Ajaya Gummadi, HP NonStop WW Database Product Manager, as they discuss the challenges enterprises face with database solutions, and how to overcome them with HP. Learn more. How to avoid big data spending pitfalls Big data is a powerful lure, promising to turn the massive and ever-increasing volumes of data inside an organization into a pool of intelligence that promises deep, actionable insight into every aspect of a business. However, that lure can lead you into an expensive trap if you don't plan carefully. Read More Scott Thompson out as Yahoo CEO Embattled Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson has left the company, Yahoo announced Sunday, after more than a week of controversy over questions about embellishments to his resume. Ross Levinsohn, who is the company's head of global media, will serve as interim CEO while the board searches for a permanent replacement. Fred Amoroso has been named chairman of the board, Yahoo also announced. Those changes are effective immediately. Read More Facebook proposes more changes to privacy policy Facebook says it intends to make further changes to its privacy policy in order to respond to an audit by the Irish government, but privacy advocates saw the move as an inadequate attempt to quell privacy concerns prior to Facebook's planned initial public offering. Read More Adobe backpedals, will now patch recent Creative Suite versions for free After being pummeled by customers and security experts for telling users to spend hundreds of dollars on upgrades because it wasn't going to patch critical bugs in older versions of its software, Adobe has reversed course. The company will now fix the eight vulnerabilities in the one-year-old Illustrator and Flash Professional CS5.5, and the two-year-old Photoshop CS5, an Adobe spokeswoman said via email late Friday. Read More Amazon Web Services personalizes CloudFront Web hosting service Amazon Web Services has extended its CloudFront Web hosting service to include dynamic content that can be personalized for each visitor. Websites already using CloudFront to host or cache static page elements can now also use it to serve up dynamic elements that are personalized for each user from servers within AWS's EC2 compute cloud, the company said Monday. Pricing is the same as for static data, starting at $0.12/GB (or $0.02/GB after the first 5PB) and $0.0075 per 10,000 HTTP requests. Read More
	Do You Tweet? Follow everything from InfoWorld.com on Twitter @infoworld. You are currently subscribed to infoworld_todays_headlines_first_look as marketing@newsnews.org. Unsubscribe from this newsletter | Manage your subscriptions | Subscribe | Privacy Policy If you are interested in advertising in this newsletter, please contact: sean_weglage@infoworld.com To contact InfoWorld, please send an e-mail to online@infoworld.com. Copyright (C) 2011 InfoWorld Media Group, 501 Second St., San Francisco, CA 94107 ** Please do not reply to this message. If you want to contact someone directly, send an e-mail to online@infoworld.com **