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TOP STORIES - May 27, 2011 • Lenovo X1: MacBook Air Alternative That's All Business • Windows 'Mango' Aims to Challenge iPhone, Android • Apple Finally Acknowledges Scareware Infections, Promises Fix • Microsoft Encouraging Higher-Priced Windows Phone Apps • Damballa CSP Automates Botnet Identification, Removal SPOTLIGHT Teardown: Covert FBI GPS Auto-Tracker iFixit cracked open a GPS device capable of constantly tracking location that FBI agents have installed underneath some vehicles. READ MORE >> BEST OF eWEEK • Hands-On with Samsung's Chromebook • Windows' Unbreakable Market Dominance • Top 10 Features Microsoft Project 2010 • Smart Cable Adds On 3D-Like Depth FEATURED VIDEO From Virtualization to Cloud We bring you tips and strategies to smoothly evolve existing virtualization. WATCH NOW >> MOST READ STORIES • Droid X2: Best of the Old with the New • Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Impresses • Why Motorola Delayed the Droid Bionic • Why iPad 3 Should Be Released This Year IN THIS ISSUE Lenovo X1: MacBook Air Alternative That's All Business The Lenovo X1 13.3-inch laptop is in many ways Lenovo's response to the MacBook Air. The angular X1 ThinkPad is a good choice for business users who want a durable, sleek, portable system. The X1 isn't as svelte as a MacBook Air, but it has many more important characteristics for enterprise users. READ MORE >> Windows 'Mango' Aims to Challenge iPhone, Android Will Microsoft's upcoming "Mango" update for Windows Phone improve the company's smartphone prospects? Mango represents a substantial revamp of Microsoft's mobile platform, with some 500 new elements in the mix, and is expected to be released this fall. Microsoft officials hope it will be enough to solve their smartphone woes. READ MORE >> Sponsored by Symantec Examine the factors driving interest in desktop virtualization and the seven keys to selecting the right storage architecture for enterprise VDI deployments. See how Symantec VirtualStore satisfies these seven key requirements. Click here ADVERTISEMENT Apple Finally Acknowledges Scareware Infections, Promises Fix After days of silence in the face of persistent reports that Mac OS X users were getting infected by the MacDefender fake antivirus scareware, Apple posted instructions on removing the virus and promised a cleaning tool. READ MORE >> Microsoft Encouraging Higher-Priced Windows Phone Apps Microsoft is apparently encouraging developers to charge more for Windows Phone apps, a repeat of its strategy with Windows Mobile 6.5. READ MORE >> Damballa CSP Automates Botnet Identification, Removal Damballa updated its CSP appliances to help Internet service providers and telco carriers roll out systems that can monitor and identify infected subscriber devices on their networks. 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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