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TOP STORIES - June 13, 2011 • IBM's Top Acquisitions Target Analytics, Cloud Domination • Google Wallet Security Solid Until It's Hacked • Amazon Web Services Hosting Banking Malware: Kaspersky • Fake LinkedIn Messages Install Zeus Malware on Victims' Computers • $1 Trillion in Revenue for Mobile May Not Be Enough SPOTLIGHT 9 Summer Smartphones Worth the Wait Expect to see dual-core processors, near-field communications tech, 4G connectivity and HD video streaming. READ MORE >> BEST OF eWEEK • Galaxy Tab Poses Major Threat to iPad • Google Wallet: Easy Mobile Payments • Android, Chromebook Questions Linger • Michael Eisner-Style Smarter Management FEATURED VIDEO BI Goes to Head of the Class Colleges are now offering business intelligence and analytics courses, degrees. WATCH NOW >> MOST READ STORIES • IBM at 100: Biggest Hits and Misses • New Additions to Sprint's Android Arsenal • Intel Labs Offers a Glimpse at IT's Future • Mac OS X 'Lion,' iOS 5 Converge in iCloud IN THIS ISSUE IBM's Top Acquisitions Target Analytics, Cloud Domination IBM has had a history of making strategic acquisitions over the years, but big software buys did not start until former IBM CEO Lou Gerstner set out to get Lotus in 1995 and then Tivoli in 1996. And under the leadership of Samuel Palmisano since 2002, IBM launched a series of acquisitions, which the company says will remain a part of the company's growth strategy through 2015. READ MORE >> Google Wallet Security Solid Until It's Hacked Google has taken great pains to secure its Google Wallet mobile payment service, employing a secure NFC chip to store credit card information. Security experts discuss ways malicious apps might attack Wallet. READ MORE >> Sponsored by IBM If you love your HP Itanium system but want to get off Oracle DB, try IBM DB2 on HP instead. Click here to learn more ADVERTISEMENT Amazon Web Services Hosting Banking Malware: Kaspersky Security researchers have long warned that cloud services were providing cyber-criminals with extensive computing resources. And now a Kaspersky researcher uncovered an example of how Amazon's cloud services are being used to spread malware. READ MORE >> Fake LinkedIn Messages Install Zeus Malware on Victims' Computers Social networking site LinkedIn is being used to find victims and then to send maliciously crafted emails to compromise enterprise workstations. READ MORE >> $1 Trillion in Revenue for Mobile May Not Be Enough Mobile network operators are creating a huge market, the size of which is matched by only a few other mega-industries. With revenue on track for $1 trillion within the next five years, analysts nevertheless predict it will not be enough for these companies to make a profit. READ MORE >> How to Get Started with Cloud Computing View this panel discussion with IBM cloud computing leaders on how enterprises can get started with cloud computing -- reviewing which workloads make sense to move first and the right type of cloud for workloads. DOWNLOAD NOW >> Oracle Databases on VMware vSphere 4: A Guide This document will also show that the same best practices, tuning tips and tricks, and skill sets necessary to deploy Oracle databases in physical environments can be leveraged when deploying Oracle databases in virtual environments. DOWNLOAD NOW >> Best Practices for Virtual Machine Backups to the Cloud Jun 16, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern / 11:00 a.m. Pacific (60 minutes) To resolve this conflict some businesses have embraced legacy agent and tape-based approaches that over time become too costly to manage and can fail to meet service level requirements. For many organizations new approaches such as backup and archive to cloud storage solves the dilemma. REGISTER >> What Can Identity Management Do for You? Jun 15, 2011 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern / 10:00 a.m. Pacific (60 minutes) Register today for this online event to hear industry experts compare and contrast different architectures such as synchronization-based and event-based models. Executives will discuss the common problems most enterprises face when they address identity management, and give you valuable insight into how identity management can become the center of most, if not all, of your IT-management policies. REGISTER >>

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