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	The new iPads: What you need to know Between Apple's presentation at its press event, the press releases and spec sheets that followed, and our all-too-brief hands-on session, we've been able to get a pretty good first impression of the new iPad Mini and, to a lesser extent, the fourth-generation iPad. So while we wait for our review units to arrive, here's what we know so far. Read More WEBCAST: Riverbed Best Practices for the Hyperconverged Enterprise Network Join Maryam Zand, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Riverbed Technology, as she discusses how you can: Achieve unified communications Realize business short-term ROI Optimize network performance, regardless of end-user location Increase user productivity Learn more. In this Issue Windows XP turns 11, still not dead yet What's needed to get a big data job? Facebook's price tag for Instagram drops to $715 million SAP aims to be the Apple of enterprise mobility Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo fix serious email weakness RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Google Google Apps for Business Do more for less with your team using Google Apps. Custom web-based email, calendars, and documents to easily share & work together in the cloud. Start with a free 30-day trial! Windows XP turns 11, still not dead yet On the same day Microsoft loudly proclaims Windows 8 in New York, the aging-but-still-going Windows XP today quietly celebrated its 11th birthday. On Oct. 25, 2001, Microsoft launched Windows XP, unknowingly unleashing its most successful operating system ever. If they only could do the same today, the company's executives must think as they assemble for a day-long Windows 8 launch party. Read More What's needed to get a big data job? The torrents of data produced by social networks, sensors, supply chains and every imaginable device are creating new jobs. Gartner estimated this week that big data will create 1.9 million new jobs in the U.S. through 2015. Michael Rappa, who created the first first academic program devoted to data analytics, explains what constitutes a big data job and the types of training people will need to get them. Read More Facebook's price tag for Instagram drops to $715 million Facebook has paid far lower than the announced $1 billion in cash and stock for photo-sharing app Instagram, following a drop in its share price. Read More SAP aims to be the Apple of enterprise mobility SAP has been largely identified with complex back-end business software for enterprise resource planning, business intelligence, customer relationship management, and its new in-memory database HANA. Its goal now in the mobile arena is to create a brand for itself in enterprise mobility like Apple did in consumer mobility. Read More Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo fix serious email weakness Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo have remedied a cryptographic weakness in their email systems that could allow an attacker to create a spoofed message that passes a mathematical security verification. The weakness affects DKIM, or DomainKeys Identified Mail, a security system used by major email senders. DKIM wraps a cryptographic signature around an email that verifies the domain name through which the message was sent, which helps more easily filter out spoofed messages from legitimate ones. Read More
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