Microsoft pounds one more nail into Windows XP's coffin

	HP releases two beta versions of open source WebOS | Apple takes aim at Samsung's Galaxy S III in amended patent complaint
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	Microsoft pounds one more nail into Windows XP's coffin If you haven't gotten the message, Microsoft really, really wants the 11-year-old Windows XP dead and buried. The company previously said the forthcoming Office 2013 won't run on XP. Now it says buyers of Windows 8 Pro won't be able to legally apply that license to Windows XP, so they can't put Windows XP on a PC shipping with Windows 8 Pro. (You need to supply your own copy of the previous version of Windows, by the way.) Read More WHITE PAPER: Quantum Backup Basics - Choosing the Right Data Protection System Data Protection simplified - Find out about disk, tape, deduplication and virtualization. Are you responsible for making sure that the data on your company's network, servers or computers is safe and secure? Then this booklet is for you! View Now In this Issue HP releases two beta versions of open source WebOS Apple takes aim at Samsung's Galaxy S III in amended patent complaint Rogue Microsoft Services Agreement email notifications lead to latest Java exploit Amazon makes storage service more Web-friendly Browser plug-in, website warn Facebook users about data harvesting RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Drobo Drobo SAN for Business Live Demo Daily! We want you to learn from the very best–Drobo experts–available every day. Participate in live interactive sessions to see a live demo of Drobo products, ask questions, validate deployment ideas. Our experts cover configuration, sizing, network best practices, and infrastructure monitoring–and talk VMware, Hyper-V, iSCSI, Tiering, SSD acceleration. Join us for a live demo every business day, Monday to Friday HP releases two beta versions of open source WebOS Hewlett-Packard released two beta versions of its open source WebOS on Friday: one for developers that runs on the Ubuntu Linux desktop and one the OpenEmbedded development environment intended to help developers port WebOS to new devices. Read More Apple takes aim at Samsung's Galaxy S III in amended patent complaint Shortly after a major win against Samsung in a federal court in California, Apple added products including versions of the Samsung Galaxy S III in an amended patent infringement complaint before the court in a separate patent case against Samsung. In the amended complaint, Apple said Samsung's infringing products now include at least 21 new smartphones, media players, and tablets that Samsung has released beginning in August 2011 and continuing through August 2012. Read More Rogue Microsoft Services Agreement email notifications lead to latest Java exploit Hackers are distributing rogue email notifications about changes in Microsoft's Services Agreement to trick people into visiting malicious pages that use a recently circulated Java exploit to infect their computers with malware. Read More Amazon makes storage service more Web-friendly Amazon is adding a Cross-Origin Resource Sharing capability to its S3 Simple Storage Service, allowing developers to more easily build Web applications that access data stored in the company's cloud. Developers can now implement HTML5-based drag and drop uploads to Amazon S3, show upload progress, or update content, according to Amazon. Until now, developers needed to run a custom proxy server between their Web application and S3 to support these capabilities, which made it more complicated, it said. Read More Browser plug-in, website warn Facebook users about data harvesting Secure.me has developed a website and a browser plug-in designed to make Facebook users aware of the personal information that gets harvested by third-party applications. The App Advisor Security Network website has profiles on more than 500,000 third-party Facebook applications that describe the user data they collect, what actions they can take and whether they are considered unsafe. The application profiles also display user ratings. Read More
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