The Glider

When the stock is issued at some point in the near future, Facebook with an expected post-IPO valuation about $100 billion would represent the largest stock market debut for a U.S. company in nearly four years. - Facebook, which is barely eight years old but will record its 1 billionth registered user sometime this spring, filed an application Feb. 1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of stock potentially worth $10 billion or more. When the stock is issued at some...

Attackers targeted executives in the defense industry and government officials with fake invitations to conferences to install the MSUpdater Trojan to steal sensitive data. - Researchers discovered malware that has been used in targeted attacks against defense contractors, government agencies and other organizations since early 2009, according to IT security companies Seculert and Zscaler. The email messages containing the malicious attachments masqueraded as fake c...

AccuRev announces Kando, a new platform that integrates the open source Git software configuration management (SCM) system with commercial SCM platforms. - AccuRev, a maker of tools for managing the software development process, has released a platform that integrates the open-source Git revision control system with commercial enterprise configuration management systems. AccuRevs new Kando, an enterprise security and compliance platform for Git, c...

ShoreTel's acquisition will enable the conpany to add hosted UC solutions to its on-premise offerings. - ShoreTel continues to grow its unified communications capabilities through acquisition, announcing Feb. 1 its intention to buy M5 Networks for $146 million, a move that will enable ShoreTel to offer both cloud-based and on-premise solutions. M5 Networks, a 12-year-old company headquartered in New Y...

Apple updates released today:

security update 2012-001 for Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) and Snow Leopard server
update for Lion and Lion server (Mac OS X 10.7.2 - 10.7.3)
remote desktop 3.5.2 client
server admin tools 10.7.3


http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222

10.7.3:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5048

server admin tools:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5050

Apache HTTP Server 2.2.22 Released

This version of Apache is principally a security and bug fix release, including significant security fixes:
http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_22.html
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Apple's iPad 3 will feature a quad-core A6 processor, according to a new posting from the Boy Genius Report blog. - Apples iPad 3 will feature a new A6 processor, according to a Feb. 1 posting on the Boy Genius Report blog. BGRs information came from an unnamed source, who in turn provided screenshots of “output from an iPad 3 using a development and debug tool called iBoot.” Based on those screens, the iPad...

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Amazon's Kindle Fire is an unabashed success, though how much of a success remains unknown thanks to the e-commerce company's refusal to disclose unit shipment sales for its Kindle line of e-readers and tablets. Amazon has only said it sold millions of Kindles and Kindle Fires during the holiday quarter. Furthermore the company's Q4 earnings were less than stellar, throwing more shadow than light on hardware sales. Still, most industry analysts have crunched their own numbers. But first, here's a level set: When word leaked that Amazon would launch an Android tablet, every high-tech pundit saw it as an affront to Apple and its world-dominating iPad. Speculation is about as iterative as software out of Google, so when further info leaked that the tablet would be priced between $200 and $300, people stopped calling it an iPad challenger and started predicting it would be the first hugely successful tablet to compete with existing offerings from Samsung, Motorola and HTC. Analysts now believe that's about right. Check out why in this eWEEK slide show. - ...

Faced with the prospect of having to do more with less, IT departments are eyeing the benefits of moving to a virtualization and private clouds. And while virtualization and cloud technology offer many similar benefits, the true differentiator with cloud is automation. Automation is so important, it should be the number one reason any company moves to a cloud infrastructure. The reason: A smart cloud infrastructure would automate many tasks that IT has needed to perform before new services could be available in the past. Such tasks would include building new virtual machine images and deploying these images.
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In March, IBM plans to reveal the names of the newest members of the Smarter Cities Challenge. The three-year initiative, under which IBM will award $50 million-worth of technology and services to 100 municipalities, is designed to help cities address some of the critical issues they face. Many of these projects focus on a common theme surrounding the collection, sharing, analysis, and acting upon data by urban interactions and transactions; IBM provides the technical and business skills to help cities create innovative and cost-effective strategies to address these challenges.
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