BlackBerry rewards loyal developers with shiny, red limited-edition Z10s

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	BlackBerry rewards loyal developers with shiny, red limited-edition Z10s Application developers who boarded the BlackBerry 10 bandwagon early on will earn a snazzy reward for their devotion: a shiny, red limited-edition BlackBerry Z10 device. The company announced via its Developer Blog Tuesday that devs who have a BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha device and who submit a qualifying application by Feb. 28 can trade in their alpha unit for one of 12,000 cherry-red Z10s. Notably, the original submission deadline was Jan. 21, and the company didn't specify why the date had been extended. For BlackBerry's sake, one hopes it's not for a shortage of quality apps in the BlackBerry World store. Read More WHITE PAPER: Zerto What is Hypervisor-based Replication? This disaster recovery solution is the first to employ the hypervisor – the foundation of virtualized environments – for disaster recovery, enabling "virtual-aware" protection of mission-critical applications. You may also be interested in this security related whitepaper: http://bit.ly/10zSsWJ. Learn more. In this Issue Gartner: Apple's Macs will be as accepted as Windows PCs by 2015 Dell to continue drive to enterprise with buy-out Researchers devise new attack techniques against SSL 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 Gartner: Apple's Macs will be as accepted as Windows PCs by 2015 By the end of next year, Apple OS X-based Mac laptops will be as well accepted by IT pros as their Microsoft Windows-based counterparts, according to Gartner. Driven by Apple's efforts to make its OS X operating system more compatible with the iPhone's, iPad's and iPod Touch's iOS, more users will bring OS X devices to work where IT will have to deal with them, says David Mitchell Smith, a vice president and Gartner fellow. Smith cites the MacBook Air in particular as a device that will arrive in corporate settings more and more as it grows in popularity. Read More Dell to continue drive to enterprise with buy-out Free from the bright lights of Wall Street, Dell's decision to go private is likely to lead to the company downplaying if not entirely eliminating consumer products in favor of building out its enterprise product portfolio, analysts said. Dell on Tuesday announced a buy-out agreement in which Michael Dell and equity investor Silver Lake will acquire the PC maker for $24.4 billion. The transaction includes a $2 billion loan from Microsoft and debt financing commitments from Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Credit Suisse and RBC Capital Markets. Read More Researchers devise new attack techniques against SSL The developers of many SSL libraries are releasing patches for a vulnerability that could potentially be exploited to recover plaintext information, such as browser authentication cookies, from encrypted communications. The patching effort follows the discovery of new ways to attack SSL, TLS and DTLS implementations that use cipher-block-chaining (CBC) mode encryption. The new attack methods were developed by researchers at the University of London's Royal Holloway College. Read More
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