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Today is the second Tuesday of January—which makes it the first Patch Tuesday of 2013. Adobe is addressing a few critical vulnerabilities in its software as well this Patch Tuesday.
Adobe issued two Security Bulletins. The first, APSB13-01, is for Adobe Flash. The bulletin states that versions of Adobe Flash Player for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Android are all impacted by a vulnerability that could cause a system crash, or allow an attacker to execute malicious code remotely.
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This is it: 2013 is the year that tablets surpass notebooks in sales and assume their rightful place atop the mobile computing gadget throne. Don’t start playing “Taps” for the notebooks just yet, though—they’re not really going anywhere.
NPD DisplaySearch released new data this week projecting that more tablets will ship in 2013 than notebook PCs. “Tablet PC shipments are expected to reach more than 240 million units worldwide in 2013, easily exceeding the 207 million notebook PCs that are projected to ship,” said a DisplaySearch blog post.
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Tablets are just consumer toys, right? Well, that argument has been a tad dubious since it was first used against the original iPad, but the new breed of tablets running the full Windows 8 OS truly challenge the assertion. A new Windows 8 tablet offering from Dell promises to deliver a full PC experience in a tablet that starts at only $ 499.
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Do you use Ruby on Rails? If so, it’s time to update. Now.
Ruby on Rails is an open source Web application framework built to use with the Ruby programming language. Ruby on Rails—or just Rails—gives Web developers the ability to gather information from Web servers, or query a database. Rails is used across an estimated quarter of a million websites ranging from ecommerce to cloud storage.
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You’re probably familiar with Lenovo and EMC, both more or less household names in the tech industry. Well, now the two have joined forces to form a joint venture, LenovoEMC.
LenovoEMC was originally announced last August as a part of a larger strategic partnership between the two companies. It will make use of business-class products from EMC’s Iomega line to provide co-branded network storage products for small and medium businesses, remote branches, and distributed enterprise scenarios.
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Sure, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is a giant circus, but it always features something revolutionary, or at least oddly interesting. Maybe even useful. Here are eight compelling products that emerged from the show; judge for yourself how useful they might (eventually) be.
Network Computing
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Unified communications vendors typically target enterprise customers, but more than half of private-sector jobs are in small and medium-size businesses. Are UC vendors ignoring a potential customer pool?
Network Computing
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Today’s average business application typically runs in a virtual machine, with several branches that go off the application server and out to a completely different application for a particular function or piece of data.
In some cases, that branching operation may not even be on premises. As cloud computing takes hold, the scenario of going out of the network to obtain what your application needs will become more commonplace, leading to more headaches for the struggling art of application performance monitoring.
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Sorting through the alphabet soup language of IT Service Management (ITSM) can be tough, but it’s worthwhile. Here’s a handy guide to essential ITSM frameworks and standards.
Network Computing
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