Microsoft resumes publishing Windows Phone apps

	Twitter clamps down on developers with restrictive API rules | Spamhaus declares Grum botnet dead, but Festi surges
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	Microsoft resumes publishing Windows Phone apps Microsoft has resumed publishing applications on Marketplace after sorting out a problem related to the certificates used to sign apps in the store, according to a post on Thursday on its Windows Phone developers' blog. Read More WHITE PAPER: VCE Converging the Datacenter Infrastructure: Why, How, So What? To reap the benefits of highly virtualized datacenters, companies should consider deploying converged infrastructure systems that are managed as unified IT assets. Organizations the have implemented Vblock Systems have dramatically reduced data center costs, deployment times, and downtime. Download this IDC white paper to find out more. Learn more. In this Issue Twitter clamps down on developers with restrictive API rules Spamhaus declares Grum botnet dead, but Festi surges WHITE PAPER: VCE Converging the Datacenter Infrastructure: Why, How, So What? To reap the benefits of highly virtualized datacenters, companies should consider deploying converged infrastructure systems that are managed as unified IT assets. Organizations the have implemented Vblock Systems have dramatically reduced data center costs, deployment times, and downtime. Download this IDC white paper to find out more. Learn more. Twitter clamps down on developers with restrictive API rules Changes to Twitter's upcoming API release are aimed at restricting consumer-focused client applications in favor of business-oriented ones, according to the company's blog on Thursday. Version 1.1 of Twitter's API is scheduled for release in "the coming weeks," wrote Michael Sippey, a Twitter group product manager. Developers will have six months to migrate their applications to the new API, he wrote. Read More Spamhaus declares Grum botnet dead, but Festi surges A relatively new botnet has taken up the slack left by the shutdown in July of another major spamming botnet called Grum, according to the junk mail fighting organization Spamhaus. The botnet, named Festi or Spamnost, has surged since the demise of Grum. Spamhaus counts at least 250,000 unique IP addresses showing signs of a Festi infection, up from around 20,000 unique IP addresses preceding Grum's takedown by security researchers. Read More
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