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!--paging_filter--pThe surge of iPhones and other smartphones in the enterprise is a major headache for IT departments. Now, there are three new medicines that may help to ease that pain./p pAll three are hosted solutions for managing and securing smartphones, essentially mobile computers accessing corporate networks and data./p

!--paging_filter--pThe a href=http://www.macworld.com/article/147040/2010/03/ipad_preorder.html target=_blankavailability of pre-orders/a isn’t the only new development in a href=http://www.infoworld.com/t/iPad target=_selfiPad-land/a. Apple also updated its site with a plethora of new details about its latest and greatest device, from information on the 3G networking capabilities to a more in-depth description of the iBooks application. Let’s take a look at what caught our attention./p

!--paging_filter--pa href=http://www.infoworld.com/t/cisco%20systems target=_selfCisco Systems/a plans to extend a href=http://www.infoworld.com/t/unified-communications target=_selfunified communications/a beyond individual enterprises, introducing a new appliance and a protocol that the company hopes will become an industry standard./p

!--paging_filter--pa href=http://www.infoworld.com/t/microsoft target=_selfMicrosoft/a this week made available a final release of ASP.Net MVC 2, which provides a Model View Controller pattern for building Web applications leveraging a href=http://www.infoworld.com/category/tags/aspnet-0 target=_selfASP.Net/a./p

!--paging_filter--pTwo weeks before a browser a href=http://www.infoworld.com/t/hacking target=_selfhacking/a contest is to kick off in Vancouver, British Columbia, a href=http://www.infoworld.com/t/apple target=_selfApple/a on Thursday patched 16 vulnerabilities in a href=http://www.infoworld.com/t/Safari target=_selfSafari/a, 12 of them critical bugs that could be used to hijack a machine./p

!--paging_filter--pIBM says it is the No. 1 technology employer in the U.S. and the world, but as time moves on it may be harder to tell just what is happening to its domestic workforce./p

!--paging_filter--pChip giant a href=http://www.infoworld.com/t/Intel target=_selfIntel/a won first place in a ranking of flash memory-based a href=http://www.infoworld.com/category/tags/solid-state-drives-ssds target=_selfsolid state drives (SSDs)/a, in which the researcher, DRAMeXchange Technology, pilloried the industry over the wide disparity of quality among the a href=http://www.infoworld.com/d/storage target=_selfstorage/a devices./p

!--paging_filter--pA Canadian interface design firm accused a href=http://www.infoworld.com/t/mozilla target=_selfMozilla/a of stealing user interface (UI) elements for a development tool in the a href=http://www.infoworld.com/t/browsers target=_selfbrowser/a maker's a href=http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/mozilla-jetpack-and-battle-web-022 target=_selfJetpack project/a, which aims to simplify add-on making./p

!--paging_filter--pa href=http://www.infoworld.com/t/google target=_selfGoogle/a will begin on Thursday a public test of a Blogger layout customization tool that the company says significantly broadens publishers' ability to modify the look of their a href=http://www.infoworld.com/t/blogs target=_selfblogs/a./p

!--paging_filter--pThe world is one step closer to holding a href=http://www.pcworld.com/article/187967/apple_ipad_a_handson_tour_in_pictures.html?tk=rel_news target=_blankthe Apple iPad/a in its shaking hands: consumers can pre-order iPads on the a href=http://store.apple.com/us target=_blankApple Website/a starting today, Friday, March 12, at 8:30 a.m. EST./p

!--paging_filter--pAt the RSA Conference in San Francisco last week, security vendors pitched their next-generation of security products, promising to protect customers from security threats in the cloud and on mobile devices. But what went largely unsaid was that the industry has failed to protect paying customers from some of today's most pernicious threats./p

!--paging_filter--pWhat happened this week? Online retailer Newegg leaped out of the frying pan and into the fire after it was found to be selling ersatz silicon. ATamp;T released its first Android handset to a less-than-rapturous reception. MySpace announced it's attempting yet another comeback, and it turns out that sex doesn't sell on the Internet -- at least, not for as much as it used to. Have you got the skinny on all things tech? Prove it by acing our quiz. Correct answers are worth 10 points, and no, you don't get extra credit for owning an iPhone -- sorry. Now begin./p

!--paging_filter--pIntel invested an undisclosed amount in social media incubator Betaworks to gain insight into real-time user behavior on social networks, the chip maker said on Thursday./p pThe investment could help Intel develop better hardware for mobile devices or servers that either access or provide real-time social media services, said Mike Buckley, managing director of Intel Capital. Buckley declined to comment on how much Intel invested in Betaworks./p

!--paging_filter--pMicrosoft is offering financial enticements to customers of on-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor NetSuite to switch over to Microsoft's Dynamics family of business applications./p pNetSuite customers will be credited up to $850 for each user who converts to Dynamics GP, NAV, or SL. The promotion is in effect until June 25 and available to customers in the U.S./p

!--paging_filter--p$200 a href=http://www.infoworld.com/t/tablets target=_selftablet PCs/a have been something of a pipe dream. There was the a href=http://www.pcworld.com/article/169395/alleged_crunchpad_specs_revealed_will_michael_arrington_beat_the_apple_tablet.html target=_blankCrunchpad/a, which was supposed to be $200, but that a href=http://www.pcworld.com/article/184437/techcrunch_sues_over_crunchpad.html target=_blankdidn't last very long/a, coming out as the $400 Joo Joo./p

!--paging_filter--pThe Public Interest Registry will add an extra layer of a href=http://www.infoworld.com/d/security-central target=_selfsecurity/a known as DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) to the .org domain in June -- a move that will protect millions of non-profit organizations and their donors from a href=http://www.infoworld.com/t/hacking target=_selfhacking/a attacks known as cache poisoning./p

!--paging_filter--pHyped as the a href=http://www.infoworld.com/t/routers-and-switches target=_selfrouter/a that would 'change forever the face of the Internet', a href=http://www.infoworld.com/t/cisco systems target=_selfCisco/a has launched its new CRS-3 system as the box it predicts will stream video into the Net's darkest recesses./p

!--paging_filter--pExploit code for the unpatched bug in a href=http://www.infoworld.com/t/Internet%20Explorer%20%28IE%29 target=_selfInternet Explorer/a was published on the Web yesterday, a step a href=http://www.infoworld.com/d/security-central target=_selfsecurity/a pros said earlier would be the precursor to widespread attacks./p

!--paging_filter--pa href=http://www.infoworld.com/t/opera target=_selfOpera/a has released a beta version of its Mini 5 Web browser for Android-based smartphones, the company said on Thursday./p pJust like the versions of the beta for other phones, Opera Mini 5 for Android beta compresses data by up to 90 percent before sending content to the phone to speed up browsing over low-bandwidth data connections, according to the Norwegian browser company./p

!--paging_filter--pThe U.S. Federal Court of Appeals has once again upheld a jury's verdict that a href=http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/microsoft-betrayed-i4i-say-court-documents-557 target=_selfMicrosoft willfully infringed on patents awarded to i4i/a./p