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	What is Microsoft thinking, paying $8.5B for Skype? It's hard to envision what Microsoft intends to do with Skype for corporate IT. So what can users expect to get out of Microsoft's $8.5 billion investment? Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel Why CIOs still embrace RISC/UNIX Forrester conducted in-depth interviews with senior IT operations executives to determine if UNIX delivers high value to current and future users who have requirements that place significant weight on the historical strengths of a RISC/UNIX environment, including reliability, scalability and security. Read now In this Issue Call for entries: The 2011 Enterprise Architecture Awards Everything is hackable -- and cyber criminals can't be tracked Google's Chrome OS is almost there Why Sony's PSN problem won't take down cloud computing WHITE PAPER: Polycom The State of Unified Communications Your company is most likely using many forms of communication to get business done. But, if yours is like most small businesses, you're using these services separately, and paying a high cost to do so. IDG Research Services surveyed the InfoWorld audience to uncover the state of unified communications (UC). Read now. Call for entries: The 2011 Enterprise Architecture Awards Nominations for the 2011 InfoWorld Enterprise Architecture Awards will be closing soon -- enter now and show how your enterprise architecture initiative made a difference. Read More Everything is hackable -- and cyber criminals can't be tracked As long as committing cyber crimes remains easy and lucrative, and there's no accountability, it's not going away. We can create workable solutions today -- but apparently, nobody wants to implement them. Read More Google's Chrome OS is almost there Chrome OS is showing more promise now than in its December 2010 beta debut, but still feels gawky compared to an iPad.Here's hoping Google has some truly amazing Web apps in development. Read More Why Sony's PSN problem won't take down cloud computing Just because Sony did not take the steps necessary to secure their data, how does that reflect on other public cloud computing providers? Sony's just a large company that failed at the basic tenets of computing security. It happens all the time. Read More
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