Japan PM Hatoyama to step down

Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama is to resign amid plummeting poll ratings ahead of elections in July, reports say.

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Editor's Pick: Google Closes the Blinds on Windows

Google Closes the Blinds on Windows

Renay San Miguel 06/01/10 1:38 PM PT
	Google is reportedly putting the kibosh on in-house use of Microsoft's Windows operating system due to security fears. Google's saying very little publicly, but a recent report claims the search giant was spooked by last year's Chinese hack attacks. Meanwhile, the final release stage of Chrome, Google's own OS, is drawing closer. [See Full Story]

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'Likejacking' exploit fools Facebook users and friends

	IE6 in death throes, usage drops below 5% | 7 open source innovations on the cutting edge
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	'Likejacking' exploit fools Facebook users and friends Hundreds of thousands of Facebook users were hit over the holiday weekend by a trick that spreads a clickjacking worm once the victim has been fooled into "liking" a page. Once that is done the action installs a Trojan and recommends the page to the victim's friends. Read More WHITE PAPER: MessageLabs Ensure 360-Degree Border Security Managing the security and availability of Web, email, and IM is complex. This paper will discuss the modern threat of blended attacks from web, email and IM. and highlight how a comprehensive hosted solution by Symantec Hosted Services can secure your networks from these threat vectors. Read Now In this Issue IE6 in death throes, usage drops below 5% 7 open source innovations on the cutting edge Intel talks technology concepts, plans Atom update Cutting-edge Wi-Fi silicon will power high-def video distribution FTC shoves identity theft rule deadline to year-end Using SMP with Microsoft Hyper-V and Linux Free speech online requires anti-SLAPP legislation WHITE PAPER: HP Is your WAN designed with your applications in mind? WAN sourcing has been based on the cost of bandwith and availability. The focus is increasing on sourcing WAN solutions that can meet business needs for application performance. Read about Gartner's structured methodology to design a WAN that both performs well and is cost effective. Read Now IE6 in death throes, usage drops below 5% Usage of Internet Explorer 6 has finally fallen below 5% in the United States and Europe, perhaps signaling the end is near for Microsoft's nine-year-old IE6 browser. Read More 7 open source innovations on the cutting edge Think open source doesn't innovate? Think again. Here are seven projects that are exploring exciting new directions in computing -- for free. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Overcome Two Key Challenges with Virtualization How do you accelerate virtualization for your enterprise - and take IT flexibility and cost savings to the next level? Start by downloading this whitepaper from Riverbed. WAN optimization is a class of technology that has rapidly been adopted across enterprises in order to address the challenges of bandwidth limitations and latency over the WAN. Click here! Intel talks technology concepts, plans Atom update Intel plans to talk about its future technology and product plans at Computex, but doesn't have any big surprises lined up for the Taiwanese hardware show, which opened Tuesday. Read More Cutting-edge Wi-Fi silicon will power high-def video distribution Quantenna's newest 4x4 MIMO Wi-Fi chipset drops in size, power use and price. But it still has the throughput to spread multiple high-definition video streams through an entire house. Read More WEBCAST: Certeon Get Virtualized WAN Optimization Dramatically improve remote application performance and bandwidth utilization by attending this live Webcast on virtualized WAN optimization. You'll hear why deploying a software-based WAN optimization virtual appliance is an easy and cost effective way to speed response time while lowering network bandwidth requirements. View Now. FTC shoves identity theft rule deadline to year-end Pestered by lawsuits and requests from congress the Federal Trade Commission said it will further delay the enforcement of its Red Flags identity theft protection rule to December 31, 2010, while Congress considers changes to legislation that could alter the rule's coverage areas. Read More Using SMP with Microsoft Hyper-V and Linux A recent post on Microsoft's about Linux support under Hyper-V was interesting. The original poster asked about using Hyper-V's Linux Integration Service (LIS) with an SMP server. If you're using Hyper-V and Linux, you probably already know that Microsoft limits you to a single CPU. My first question is: Why? Read More Free speech online requires anti-SLAPP legislation Perhaps you've read of the Michigan college student who responded to his car being towed, despite his having a parking permit, by posting a Facebook page entitled "Kalamamazoo Residents against T&J Towing." It seems he wasn't the only one tired of getting an indiscriminate hook from T&J and his protest soon attracted hundreds of like-minded victims. It also attracted a lawsuit by T&J. Read More
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40 days of summer (gadgets)

	First-ever test of public cloud management wares | HP Mini 5102 review: Spending a month with HP's business netbook
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	40 days of summer (gadgets) If you're going outside to enjoy the sun, hitting the road for a long road trip to a vacation destination, or just staying at home for the perfect "staycation," here are 40 devices or apps we think you'll like. Read More WHITE PAPER: MessageLabs Ensure 360-Degree Border Security Managing the security and availability of Web, email, and IM is complex. This paper will discuss the modern threat of blended attacks from web, email and IM. and highlight how a comprehensive hosted solution by Symantec Hosted Services can secure your networks from these threat vectors. Read Now In this Issue First-ever test of public cloud management wares HP Mini 5102 review: Spending a month with HP's business netbook 10 things we love about SharePoint 2010 Review: Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 10 useful Firefox-based apps Essential iPad apps: Nine free favorites 5 things we love about SQL Server 2008 R2 5 things we love/hate about cloud management tools WHITE PAPER: Adobe Close the Web 2.0 Communications Gap Web 2.0 tools have yet to reach critical mass and broad user adoption. This Forrester report identifies the key Web 2.0 gaps and offers advice to: Build a framework that extends email, Upgrade document-based data collection, and Improve email and document exchange security. Read More First-ever test of public cloud management wares It's simple to rent raw compute power on the public cloud. The challenge is to deploy, manage, and take down jobs that are hosted in the cloud. In this groundbreaking test, we set up public cloud accounts at Amazon, Rackspace and GoGrid, and tested management services from RightScale, Tap In Systems and Cloudkick under real world conditions. Read More HP Mini 5102 review: Spending a month with HP's business netbook HP's recently announced Mini 5102 netbook is a solidly built device that travels well and comes with multiple features that will simplify the life of a mobile professional. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Overcome Two Key Challenges with Virtualization How do you accelerate virtualization for your enterprise - and take IT flexibility and cost savings to the next level? Start by downloading this whitepaper from Riverbed. WAN optimization is a class of technology that has rapidly been adopted across enterprises in order to address the challenges of bandwidth limitations and latency over the WAN. Click here! 10 things we love about SharePoint 2010 Integration with Office 2010 makes collaboration and social networking that much easier for the end user. Read More Review: Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 In November, we gave SharePoint 2010 beta a test drive. Now, we put the shipping product through its paces and find that Microsoft has delivered a multi-purpose tool that delivers a bigger bang because of its tight coupling with Office 2010. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP SMB: Strategy Guide to Risk Mitigation This strategy guide offers concrete risk mitigation techniques specifically designed for midsize organizations. Learn how to proactively manage physical and virtual systems and see the early signs of infrastructure trouble to avoid outages. Read Now! 10 useful Firefox-based apps Mozilla's underlying Web browser technology also runs non-browser applications. Read More Essential iPad apps: Nine free favorites These great iPad apps won't cost you a dime. Read More 5 things we love about SQL Server 2008 R2 New features bring business intelligence to the end user. Read More 5 things we love/hate about cloud management tools In this first-of-a-kind-test, we examined cloud management tools from RightScale, Cloudkick and Tap In Systems. Here are five things we love and hate about these management tools. Read More
	Join us on LinkedIn Discuss the networking issues of the day with your colleagues, via Network World's LinkedIn group. Join today! - Jeff Caruso, Executive Online Editor Today from the Subnet communities 15 copies of CCNP ROUTE study kits available and 15 copies of Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook up for grabs, too.Deadline May 31. SLIDESHOWS 40 days of summer (gadgets) Summer's here and the time is right for looking at gadgets to make the summer days and nights go by easier or more fun at least. If you're going outside to enjoy the sun, hitting the road for a long road trip to a vacation destination, or just staying at home for the perfect "staycation", here are 40 devices or apps we think you'll like. What if tech companies owned the Wonders of the World? In this slideshow, we'll take a look into a future where broke governments are forced to sell their most treasured landmarks to the world's richest nerds. MOST-READ STORIES Will an open-source alternative to Facebook actually work? What desktop virtualization really means How to foil Web browser 'tabnapping' 10 useful Firefox-based apps Verizon's tiered LTE plans fuel 'bill shock' debate IPv6 summit was a huge hit Google is no competitor for Skype - yet Woman sues Google because of bad directions BBC launches iPlayer for iPad beta 44 million stolen gaming credentials found in online warehouse
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Using SMP with Microsoft Hyper-V and Linux; Improving database availability

	Quorum: How a Witness Affects Database Availability | RDC RemoteApp: How do users change their passwords?
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	Using SMP with Microsoft Hyper-V and Linux Dustin Puryear: If you're using Hyper-V and Linux, you probably already know that Microsoft limits you to a single CPU. My first question is: Why? Read More WHITE PAPER: MessageLabs Ensure 360-Degree Border Security Managing the security and availability of Web, email, and IM is complex. This paper will discuss the modern threat of blended attacks from web, email and IM. and highlight how a comprehensive hosted solution by Symantec Hosted Services can secure your networks from these threat vectors. Read Now In this Issue Quorum: How a Witness Affects Database Availability RDC RemoteApp: How do users change their passwords? Twitter in the Enterprise Score one for the good guys TDE and Backup Compression…Can't have your cake and eat it too! Resolving Bluescreens in HyperV on Nehalem Processors Exchange 2010 the cure for CDC's e-mail bugs SQL Server 2011? How about SQL11… Google Apps gets serious about moving data from Microsoft Outlook Microsoft's cheaper virtualization licensing to take effect July 1 SQL Server 2010?...I don't think so... SharePoint 2010 Summer Reading List Xenophobes not the only ones wary of China Cloud Computing and.. mainframes! Visit the Microsoft Subnet home page for more Microsoft news WHITE PAPER: Adobe Close the Web 2.0 Communications Gap Web 2.0 tools have yet to reach critical mass and broad user adoption. This Forrester report identifies the key Web 2.0 gaps and offers advice to: Build a framework that extends email, Upgrade document-based data collection, and Improve email and document exchange security. Read More Quorum: How a Witness Affects Database Availability Brian Egler: The US Constitution says that a majority of the Senate constitutes a quorum to do business. That's 51 senators. In the UK, 40 members of parliament (out of 650) need to be present in the House of Commons to validate a vote. In SQL Server Database Mirroring, the quorum is 2 out of 3. Read More RDC RemoteApp: How do users change their passwords? Tyson Kopczynski: We had a client that was using RDC RemoteApp to deploy a medical related application. They wanted to create and distribute RDP files to remote users that were not on the organization's internal network. Read More Twitter in the Enterprise Alpa Agarwal: If I am working on a problem or a new product idea, there are probably hundreds of others at a company, with experience, expertise, and/or interest in the subject. This is a messy process currently. How does your company handle this? Read More Score one for the good guys Robert Mullins: Cyber crooks bounce around different servers around the world, surreptitiously hijack computers, steal money or identities and disappear without a trace. But every once in a while, the good guys catch a break. Read More TDE and Backup Compression…Can't have your cake and eat it too! Brian Egler: I was testing out some new SQL Server 2008 features recently: Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) and Backup Compression. Both are new features in SQL Server 2008. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Overcome Two Key Challenges with Virtualization How do you accelerate virtualization for your enterprise - and take IT flexibility and cost savings to the next level? Start by downloading this whitepaper from Riverbed. WAN optimization is a class of technology that has rapidly been adopted across enterprises in order to address the challenges of bandwidth limitations and latency over the WAN. Click here! Resolving Bluescreens in HyperV on Nehalem Processors Rand Morimoto: I was having nothing but problems with a new server, the system wouldn't last more than 2 minutes without bluescreening, a phenomenon I hadn't seen since the old Windows NT days. Read More Exchange 2010 the cure for CDC's e-mail bugs Robert Mullins: IT people at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention need to use their high tech skills to fight the H1N1 flu or stop the spread of tuberculosis -- not manage the e-mail system. So the federal agency turned to a company called Azaleos Corp. to manage its migration from the Microsoft Exchange 2003 e-mail server to Exchange 2010, a process they started this week. Read More SQL Server 2011? How about SQL11… Brian Egler: There has been no announcement from Microsoft on future releases of SQL Server beyond this year so we cannot predict accurately. We can speculate, however. Read More Google Apps gets serious about moving data from Microsoft Outlook Jon Brodkin: Google often touts its cloud-based email and collaboration service as a full replacement of Microsoft, while at other times telling customers that it can simply enhance current Microsoft deployments. Read More Microsoft's cheaper virtualization licensing to take effect July 1 Microsoft Subnet: On July 1, Microsoft' new-and-improved "cheaper" licensing for Windows on virtual desktops will take effect. It is a step to make Windows VDI more affordable, but it's only a step. A catch concerning Office applications remains. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP SMB: Strategy Guide to Risk Mitigation This strategy guide offers concrete risk mitigation techniques specifically designed for midsize organizations. Learn how to proactively manage physical and virtual systems and see the early signs of infrastructure trouble to avoid outages. Read Now! SQL Server 2010?...I don't think so... Brian Egler: SQL Server 2008 R2 is available and works with Office 2010 and Sharepoint 2010. So why didn't they just call it SQL Server 2010? Read More SharePoint 2010 Summer Reading List Susan Hanley: Joel Oleson just posted a great list of books about SharePoint 2010, organized by target audience. Read More Xenophobes not the only ones wary of China Robert Mullins: My earlier post about security experts warning that some hires at U.S. companies are recruited by China to work as intelligence agents prompted much discussion. Read More Cloud Computing and.. mainframes! Dustin Puryear: In "Cloud Computing Comes to a Desktop Near You", I thought aloud about the direction that Microsoft, Google, and others are trying to take us. Do we really want or need to cloud-itize (cloudify? to make clowdsy?) every software process? Well, probably, yes. Read More Visit the Microsoft Subnet home page for more Microsoft news Microsoft Subnet is your daily source for news, blogs, podcasts and giveaways. Visit the home page and join the discussion. Read More
	Join us on LinkedIn Discuss the networking issues of the day with your colleagues, via Network World's LinkedIn group. Join today! - Jeff Caruso, Executive Online Editor Today from the Subnet communities 15 copies of CCNP ROUTE study kits available and 15 copies of Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook up for grabs, too.Deadline May 31. SLIDESHOWS 40 days of summer (gadgets) Summer's here and the time is right for looking at gadgets to make the summer days and nights go by easier or more fun at least. If you're going outside to enjoy the sun, hitting the road for a long road trip to a vacation destination, or just staying at home for the perfect "staycation", here are 40 devices or apps we think you'll like. What if tech companies owned the Wonders of the World? In this slideshow, we'll take a look into a future where broke governments are forced to sell their most treasured landmarks to the world's richest nerds. MOST-READ STORIES Will an open-source alternative to Facebook actually work? What desktop virtualization really means How to foil Web browser 'tabnapping' 10 useful Firefox-based apps Verizon's tiered LTE plans fuel 'bill shock' debate IPv6 summit was a huge hit Google is no competitor for Skype - yet Woman sues Google because of bad directions BBC launches iPlayer for iPad beta 44 million stolen gaming credentials found in online warehouse
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