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	Cumulus Networks unveils 'Cisco killer' After three years under the radar, secretive Cumulus Networks has finally emerged from stealth mode. Founded by ex-Cisco and ex-EMC VMware engineers looking to shake up switched networking by leveraging Linux and commodity network hardware, the small Silicon Valley startup turns out to be a software company. Cumulus will sell only software -- namely, Cumulus Linux -- and support. The hardware can come from any vendor you like, and Cumulus has a list of compatible switches to choose from. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Software Migrating Your Applications to the Cloud Is your company considering a move to the Cloud? In this Quest white paper, see how automation greatly reduces both the complexity of the process and the time and cost required to complete this aspect of the migration. Learn More! In this Issue Microsoft upgrades TypeScript with generics and better tooling Making peril permanent: Google's Gmail app redesign Java 7 Update 25 fixes 40 security issues, enables certificate revocation checking The Microsoft break-up that never happened Steve Jobs' draft email plays pivotal role in antitrust case WHITE PAPER: Good Technology A Business Case for Secure Mobile Collaboration What would your world be like with extreme and extremely secure mobile productivity? Find out in this whitepaper. Written for IT leaders, this guide includes mobile use cases, sample business drivers, and a cost/benefit summary. Read Now! Microsoft upgrades TypeScript with generics and better tooling Microsoft is bulking up TypeScript, adding language features and tooling support to the open source language that compiles to JavaScript and tuning it for large applications. Version 0.9 improves tooling capabilities offered for TypeScript in the Visual Studio IDE, assisting developers in using the language for large, application-scale JavaScript development. It also features generics, which take advantage of strong type inference and allow developers have better static error reporting and improved tooling, Microsoft said. Read More Making peril permanent: Google's Gmail app redesign Google's recent update of its Gmail app made archive the default setting, encouraging its users to save their email, literally, forever. This may mean a doctor's message about a medical condition, a love note, a conversation about an employer, a neighbor, or with a therapist, may be preserved for decades and, consequently, is left forever at risk. Read More Java 7 Update 25 fixes 40 security issues, enables certificate revocation checking Oracle addressed 40 security issues in Java and enabled online certificate revocation checking by default in its scheduled critical patch update for Java on Tuesday. Thirty-four vulnerabilities patched in the newly released Java 7 Update 25 (Java 7u25) version affect only client deployments of Java. Another four affect both client and server deployments, one affects the Java installer and one the Javadoc tool that's used to create HTML documentation files. Read More The Microsoft break-up that never happened Thomas P. Jackson, the former federal judge who in 2000 ruled that Microsoft should be split into two companies as punishment for monopolistic business practices, died Saturday at his Maryland home. Jackson's demand that Microsoft divide was overturned by a federal appeals court in 2001, in part because the panel believed public comments Jackson made during and after the trial portion of the Department of Justice's antitrust case showed bias against Microsoft. But what if? What if Jackson's remedy had been put into place and a dozen years or so ago Microsoft splintered into parts? Read More Steve Jobs' draft email plays pivotal role in antitrust case An email composed, but never sent, by former Apple CEO Steve Jobs may prove instrumental in the Justice Department's case that Apple, along with the five largest book publishers, colluded to fix prices for electronic books. Read More
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