The Perl programming language turns 25

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	The Perl programming language turns 25 Let me get this out of the way up front: Perl isn't a beautiful language. It's kind of a mongrel pup with pedigreed academic roots: C, AWK, Lisp, Pascal, sed, and a bit of Smalltalk and C++ tossed in to keep the more pedestrian programmers happy. It's a down and dirty, incredibly rich language with no fancy pretenses. Easy to dash out, challenging to debug and maintain. And I love it. Read More 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! In this Issue Android fragmentation: For developers, it's a bug and a feature Ray Ozzie seeks encore to Lotus Notes, Microsoft triumphs Java 7 Update 10 allows users to restrict the use of Java in browsers Judge denies retrial to Samsung in patent dispute with Apple Android botnet abuses people's phones for SMS spam WHITE PAPER: FalconStor Confronting the Data Backup Challenge IDG Research Services surveyed 215 IT managers at enterprise and SMB organizations for some answers to these questions and to find out their plans as they look to their future storage needs. Read this paper to learn more about the key findings. Learn More Android fragmentation: For developers, it's a bug and a feature Fragmentation in Google Android continues to dog the mobile platform. Carriers and manufacturers pitch in device-specific customizations, and multiple versions of the OS are in circulation, complicating life for software builders. Read More Ray Ozzie seeks encore to Lotus Notes, Microsoft triumphs Ray Ozzie -- the creator of Lotus Notes who had a successful five-year run at Microsoft -- stands ready to leave his next mark on the industry, this time with his nearly year-old startup Talko (formerly Cocomo), a venture funded by $4 million from investors and shrouded in secrecy. Read More Java 7 Update 10 allows users to restrict the use of Java in browsers A recent Java 7 update allows users to completely prevent Java applications from running inside browsers or to restrict how Web-based Java content is handled by the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) client. These features will benefit security-conscious users, but companies still have to find methods of isolating older Java versions, security experts say. Read More Judge denies retrial to Samsung in patent dispute with Apple A court in California has denied Samsung Electronics a retrial in a patent dispute with Apple, and also refused Apple a ban on the sale of some Samsung products. A jury decided in August that the South Korean company must pay Apple $1.05 billion for infringing several of its patents in Samsung smartphones and tablets. Read More Android botnet abuses people's phones for SMS spam In a new twist, spammers have built a botnet that sends SMS spam through infected Android phones, shifting the potentially pricey cost of sending spam to victims. The trend, spotted by security vendor Cloudmark, poses a new challenge for operators. Victims whose phones are sending the SMS spam often do not know their phone is infected, and they could have their account suddenly shut down by their operator if abuse is detected. Read More
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