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This is quite scary.   Malware installed on your smartphone could record keystrokes on nearby keyboards:   Read the article here:  https://tiny.cc/6hpdu

Rumors were the Israeli’s created the first virus that sought out and decimated the Iranian nuclear plant.   Is this their second computer attack?   You can read about it here: https://tiny.cc/azpjk

VMware has released some exciting performance data showing the improvements of ESXi 5.0 over ESXi 4.1 on the same hardware.  You can read about their findings here: https://tiny.cc/599fx

The trade press is awash in negative Google articles.   Here is one of them.   I think the author’s comments about “jeopardizing Google itself” are a bit over the top, but Google has hit a very rough patch on many fronts.   I find Google + quite different and interesting than Facebook.

VMware Thin App Factory sounds like a major step forward for VMware in the area of application virtualization.  It is a new tool set that dramatically simplifies application virtualization.  Think of it as a P2V for applications.  Here is a nice summary article about this exciting new product:  https://tiny.

The commander of the U.S. Cyber Command said Thursday that he does not favor giving the United Nations the power to regulate the Internet.  You can read about it here.

A flaw was found in Adobe Flash that can allow a “clickjacking” exploit to turn on your webcam and microphone.  Adobe is working on a fix.  Networkworld has an article talking about this issue:  https://tinyurl.com/bwt7h7p

This could really mess things up in the coming months.   We are already seeing this hit the distributors and limit what options we can offer.  Read the entire article here.

https://tinyurl.com/5wgmn4p

I remember my first computer experience on a 300 baud modem connected to a DEC terminal printer talking to Erie 1 BOCES in High School in 1974.   This is a pretty dramatic jump from those days.  Read about it here:  https://tiny.cc/c1to5