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ITworld.com Wrap-Up
March 13, 2008
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Top 10 Reasons Hackers use the Web for Attacks
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2924130/158421455/101225/0/
Blue Coat Systems outlines the top 10 reasons why hackers use the web to
attack including desktop and server vulnerabilities, the widespread
adoption of "always-on" broadband Internet access and more.

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In this issue:

Tip: Using bc for big calculations
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2924130/158421455/102819/0/

Google launches hosted ad management service
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2924130/158421455/102921/0/

Red Hat buys Amentra to bolster JBoss enterprise plan
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2924130/158421455/103040/0/

AOL to buy Bebo for $850 million
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2924130/158421455/102922/0/

Gates: Next decade will bring huge software advances
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2924130/158421455/103041/0/

Otellini defends Intel in EU's antitrust hearing
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2924130/158421455/103042/0/

Oracle lags on patch management
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2924130/158421455/103043/0/

Geek Comic of the Week: Kinkofry
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2924130/158421455/101020/0/


OTHER RESOURCES
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Open, Manage and Accelerate SSL Encrypted Applications
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2924130/158421455/101544/0/

2008 Internet Security Trends Report
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2924130/158421455/102329/0/

Multi-layer Spam Defense Architectural Overview
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2924130/158421455/101558/0/


TIP
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Using bc for big calculations
By Sandra Henry-Stocker, ITworld

For sysadmins who want to perform simple calculations on the command
line, there's a considerably more useful tool than expr. Try bc.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2924130/158421455/102819/0/


IN THE NEWS
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Google launches hosted ad management service
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2924130/158421455/102921/0/
Google launched a free hosted service on Thursday that helps Web site
publishers sell advertising faster and fill unsold slots on their sites.

Red Hat buys Amentra to bolster JBoss enterprise plan
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2924130/158421455/103040/0/
Red Hat has purchased Amentra, an IT consulting firm with open-source
expertise, to sell its JBoss Java infrastructure to enterprises as the
basis for SOAs (service-oriented architectures).

AOL to buy Bebo for $850 million
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2924130/158421455/102922/0/
AOL will buy Bebo, a social networking site popular in the U.K., for
$850 million in cash, the companies said Thursday.

Gates: Next decade will bring huge software advances
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2924130/158421455/103041/0/
The coming decade will bring even more advances in software and
computing than the last 10 years, bringing new ways to watch television,
to use telephones and to input information into computers, Microsoft
Chairman Bill Gates predicted Thursday.

Otellini defends Intel in EU's antitrust hearing
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2924130/158421455/103042/0/
Chip maker Intel fielded its chief executive Paul Otellini to defend the
company's business practices at an antitrust hearing in Brussels this
week. The two-day confidential meeting with Europe's top antitrust
authority, the European Commission, also involved competitors including
AMD and the European consumer group BEUC.

Oracle lags on patch management
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2924130/158421455/103043/0/
Oracle needs to improve patch management, an area where it's currently
lagging five years behind Microsoft, says database expert Karel Miko at
Czech consultancy DCIT.


TOP STORIES
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Windows XP: The operating system that refuses to die
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2924130/158421455/101543/0/

Microsoft debuts IE 8, aims for CSS interoperability
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2924130/158421455/102369/0/

Where Microsoft lost its way - Google obsession
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2924130/158421455/101536/0/

Tip: Burning bootable DVDs
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2924130/158421455/101684/0/

Casino insider tells (almost) all about security
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2924130/158421455/102326/0/


ITWHIRLED
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Geek Comic of the Week: Kinkofry
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2924130/158421455/101020/0/
Mushrooms are pretty amazing -- so says the tagline for this comic,
anyway. Looking vaguely like Super Mario's mushroom enemies, the
fungal heroes and villains in this comic navigate their way around its
strange world.

Subscribe to the ITwhirled alert - weird tech news direct to your inbox.
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Case Study: Simplified DR Planning and Implementation
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Osterman Report: The Advantages of a Hosted Messaging Security Solution
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Messaging management is becoming more difficult thanks to the growing
malware threat. At the same time, messaging system administrators are
under enormous pressure to push their messaging infrastructures to do
more than ever, including archiving messaging content for regulatory
compliance, archiving to support legal discovery and for overall
litigation support, providing services to a growing body of mobile
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reliable, and managing policies for message encryption. Hosted
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