Apple will rule billion-dollar mobile app market for years

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	Apple will rule billion-dollar mobile app market for years Apple is poised to own three-quarters of the major $3.8 billion mobile application market this year, according to research company IHS Screen Digest, and will continue to own as much as 60 percent of that sumptuous pie through 2014. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sophos Sophos Security Threat Report 2011 Our threat experts see 30,000 new malicious URLs each day—70% of which are legitimate websites that were hacked. Let our new 2011 Security Threat Report be your weapon in the battle against malware. It describes the significant threats of 2010, what to watch for in 2011, and more importantly, what you need to do to get ahead of them. Read now. In this Issue Syncsort offers Hadoop data sort alternative Microsoft, Juniper urged to patch dangerous IPv6 DoS hole Rackspace to wind down Slicehost Red Hat to preview Java caching technology RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Microsoft Is Microsoft Desktop Virtualization for you? Desktop Virtualization provides a comprehensive suite of solutions that enables companies to give their employees flexibility to work everywhere; simplifying compliance and management through a centralized and unified infrastructure. Learn how IT is empowering users with Desktop Virtualization with this on-demand roundtable. Click to continue Syncsort offers Hadoop data sort alternative Data management vendor Syncsort will announce on Wednesday its entry into the Apache Hadoop community, with plans to enable high-performance data sorts to be used with the open source distributed computing platform. Instead of using Hadoop's default sort, users could swap in another sorting system via an external sort plug-in capability Syncsort is contributing to the Hadoop open source community. Syncsort also will offer a Hadoop edition of its DMExpress data acceleration software, providing an alternative to the default Hadoop sort. Read More Microsoft, Juniper urged to patch dangerous IPv6 DoS hole Security experts are urging Microsoft and Juniper to patch a year-old IPv6 vulnerability so dangerous it can freeze any Windows machine on a LAN in a matter of minutes. Microsoft has downplayed the risk because the hole requires a physical connection to the wired LAN. Juniper says it has delayed a patch because the hole only affects a small number of its products and it wants the IETF to fix the protocol instead. Read More Rackspace to wind down Slicehost Some Slicehost users were dismayed to hear that Rackspace, which acquired the company in 2008, plans to wind down the service. In an email to customers on Tuesday, Mark Interrante, a Rackspace vice president, said the company will phase out the Slicehost virtual private hosting service and encourage customers to migrate to Rackspace. Read More Red Hat to preview Java caching technology Red Hat will launch a preview of a new commercial enterprise Java data caching technology, based on its experimental Infinispan data grid software, the company announced Tuesday. JBoss Enterprise Data Grid 6 will compete with other enterprise Java data caches, such as Oracle's Coherence, VMware's GemStone, and Terracotta's Ehcache. Read More
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