13 IT security myths debunked

	Microsoft quietly raises prices of Mac Office by up to 17 percent | Microsoft's Outlook.com comes out of preview phase
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	13 IT security myths debunked They're security myths, oft-repeated and generally accepted notions about IT security that...simply aren't true. We've asked security professionals to share their favorite "security myths" with us. Here are 13 of them. Read More WEBCAST: LogMeIn Top Reasons to Innovate Customer Service It's all about the customer experience, right? Make that experience a peerless one and your company has a distinct competitive advantage. And the key to doing so lies in optimizing interactions with customers at various touch points and by various means. View Now In this Issue Microsoft quietly raises prices of Mac Office by up to 17 percent Microsoft's Outlook.com comes out of preview phase Wireless vendors gear up for small-cell boom Adobe to release emergency patches for Reader, Acrobat Cisco unveils software, hardware for hybrid wireless networks WEBCAST: Cloudera The Motivation for Hadoop This recorded webinar explores traditional large-scale computing systems, limitations and alternative approaches and how apache Hadoop addresses particular issues. View Now! Microsoft quietly raises prices of Mac Office by up to 17 percent Microsoft has quietly raised prices of Office for the Mac as much as 17 percent and stopped selling multi-license packages of the application suite. The move puts Office for Mac 2011 on the same pricing schedule as the new Office 2013 for Windows. The price increases and the disappearance of the multi-license bundles also makes Microsoft's Office 365, a software-by-subscription deal the company has aggressively pushed, more competitive with traditional "perpetual" licenses. Read More Microsoft's Outlook.com comes out of preview phase Microsoft has moved its email service Outlook.com out of the preview phase, and plans a marketing campaign to boost its adoption worldwide. The service, which claims 60 million active users since the preview was released last July, will soon start to upgrade Hotmail users to the new service, David Law, director of product management at Outlook.com, wrote in a blog post on Monday. Read More Wireless vendors gear up for small-cell boom Several vendors at Mobile World Congress later this month will unveil wireless gear that is designed to link small cells to wired networks to fuel more voice and data and ease mobile bottlenecks. Their product announcements may help to speed a small-cell boom that has been promoted as the next generation of mobile networks since before last year's show. Read More Adobe to release emergency patches for Reader, Acrobat Adobe Systems said it will release patches for two critical vulnerabilities disclosed last week that are actively being used by attackers. The company said on Saturday the patches will be released sometime this week. Both vulnerabilities can be exploited if a user can be tricked into opening a malicious PDF, which is usually sent to targeted victims by email. Read More Cisco unveils software, hardware for hybrid wireless networks Cisco Tuesday introduced small cell hardware and intelligent software designed to help carriers and enterprises improve wireless connections over hybrid networks made of 3G and 4G cellular and Wi-Fi technologies. The products, which Cisco plans to demonstrate at next week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, are intended to help networks grapple with a projected 13-fold increase in the size of the mobile Internet by 2017, Cisco officials said. Read More
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