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05/25/2013 06:29:07 Daily, December 13SAP Cuts Fees For Bankrupt Delta
In This Issue:
1. Editor's Note: Learn From Your Peers
2. Today's Top Story
- SAP Cuts Fees For Bankrupt Delta
3. Breaking News
- Ex-UBS Systems Admin Sentenced To 97 Months In Jail
- Image Gallery: Electronic Wonderland At Holiday HackShop 2006
- Demand For Elmo Doll Downs Wal-Mart Site
- Zero-Day Attacks Loom As Biggest Security Threats
- Mozilla Delivers Thunderbird 2.0 Beta, Preps Firefox Update
- Microsoft Posts, Then Pulls Mac Office Update
- Wii Beats PlayStation For Search Popularity Before Holidays
- MySpace Dethrones Yahoo As Page-View Leader
- Insurers Push Patients Toward E-Health Records
- Research Firm Clarifies: iTunes Sales Are Not Collapsing
- NYC Preps For Information Sharing
4. In Depth:
- Web Trends
5. Voice Of Authority
- The Role Of Analysts
6. White Papers
- Data Protection
7. Get More Out Of InformationWeek
8. Manage Your Newsletter Subscription
Quote Of The Day:
"If giving the maximum for this crime doesn't send a message to people with the ability to commit a crime and to the people who employ them, they're not paying attention. The potential for the impact of an insider is uncalculable." — Assistant U.S. Attorney V. Grady O'Malley, following the 97-month prison sentence given to a former UBS systems administrator
Last week, I asked for your input on events that you've found the most valuable in recent years — and are planning to attend in 2007. As expected, there were lots of conferences and trade shows I wasn't aware of, including one event that was recommended by many readers — the Colorado Software Summit.
Rather than try to explain the event's appeal, I'll let readers tell it in their own words:
1. Editor's Note: Learn From — And With — Your Peers
Several other readers made passionate arguments in favor of attending the Colorado Software Summit as well. Check out the agenda for the 2007 conference, scheduled for Oct. 21-26.
Other writers said they've gotten loads of value from events run by Microsoft, including its TechEd conference and its Mid-Size Enterprise CIO Summit.
Tom Smith
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SAP Agrees To A 27% Reduction In Software Fees Charged To Bankrupt Delta Air Lines
Ex-UBS Systems Admin Sentenced To 97 Months In Jail
Image Gallery: Electronic Wonderland At Holiday HackShop 2006
Demand For Elmo Doll Downs Wal-Mart Site
Zero-Day Attacks Loom As Biggest Security Threats
Mozilla Delivers Thunderbird 2.0 Beta, Preps Firefox Update
Microsoft Posts, Then Pulls Mac Office Update
Wii Beats PlayStation For Search Popularity Before Holidays
MySpace Dethrones Yahoo As Page-View Leader
Insurers Push Patients Toward E-Health Records
Research Firm Clarifies: iTunes Sales Are Not Collapsing
NYC Preps For Information Sharing
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SOA Conundrum
Managing Privacy Issues
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Gaming CEO: You Can't Stop Players From Trading Virtual Property
More Than Three-Fourths Of U.S. Home Web Users Have Broadband
Free Shipping, Exclusive Deals Spur Online Shoppers To Spend More
Ban The Analysts! Or Not?
Securing Data At The Endpoint: Four Steps To Protect Your Enterprise From Data Leakage
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2. Today's Top Story
Documents filed in bankruptcy court reveal that SAP has agreed to lower annual maintenance fees charged to Delta from $3,740,000 to $2,732,000 through the year 2009.
3.Breaking News
Roger Duronio was found guilty of computer sabotage and securities fraud for writing, planting, and disseminating malicious code that took down up to 2,000 servers.
A downtown New York twist on Santa's workshop took place at Holiday HackShop2006, where attendees built battery chargers in Altoid tins, snow globes out of recycled water bottles, and more.
Wal-Mart's online shopping site suffered an outage Wednesday when anxious Christmas shoppers flooded the site looking for the hard-to-find Elmo T.M.X. doll.
Two-thirds of CIOs surveyed said they expect even more zero-day threats in 2007.
Thunderbird 2.0 Beta 1 sports a revamped visual design, new message tags to organize mail, browser-like back and forward navigation, and improved support for extensions.
Microsoft quickly yanked a security and stability patch for Office 2004 for the Mac once it noticed it was accidentally made public.
The trick is finding it in stock.
Fox Interactive, MySpace's parent, had 39.53 billion page views last month, while Yahoo had 38.05 billion, comScore Networks says.
New insurance guidelines will promote portability, adoption of personal e-health records.
Reporters misunderstood data released in a recent market report, Forrester Research says.
Local leaders consider privacy protections.
The business advantages for SOA/Web services adoption are clear, but SOA/Web services deployment is challenging. Learn how more than 200 companies plan to overcome adoption challenges in this InformationWeek research brief.
Learn how your peers are protecting customer data and managing privacy issues in the InformationWeek/Accenture Global Information Security survey of more than 2,000 technology and security professionals.
4. In Depth: Web Trends
Mark Kern, former team lead for World of Warcraft and now CEO of the new Red 5 Studios, sits down to talk about the virtual property market, user-generated content, and more.
Broadband access is up from 65% last year; broadband users spend more time online than their narrowband counterparts, and view more than twice as many Web pages.
More than nine in 10 consumers listed free shipping as a motivator for opening their wallets wider, while more than 65% said exclusive offers would boost spending, according to a report from The Conference Board.
5. Voice Of Authority: The Role Of Analysts
It looks like the sometimes raging debate over whether journalists should quote industry analysts — be they technology or financial specialists — has flared up again, this time in an interesting story on a U.K.-based IT publication. Check it out — they're talking about whether to quote the same analysts that U.S. publications talk to. The article notes the New York Times has banned quoting analysts, and then violated its own ban.
6. White Papers: Data Protection
IT security has become one of the primary challenges facing organizations. Managers must increasingly consider data throughout its life cycle. Safeguarding an organization's most valuable assets - its data — starts at the endpoint. Enterprises must be sure to consider four steps when securing their data.
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