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TOP STORIES - May 25, 2009 • Why Conficker Continues to Plague Windows Users • Yahoo Upgrades iPhone App for Voice Search • Sophos: Twitter Phishing Scam Lures Users with TinyURL • Researcher: Android Bug Not as Bad as Feared • Dell Looking for More PC Market Share SPOTLIGHT What You Need to Know About Windows 7 eWEEK Labs provides (almost) everything you need to know now about Windows 7, what some are seeing as the Vista do-over. READ MORE >> BEST OF eWEEK • Why Star Trek Needs Tech Support • OpenOffice.org 3.1 a Worthwhile Upgrade • 10 iPhone Apps for Budget Watchers • Dell's Adamo, Studio, Inspiron Displayed FEATURED VIDEO New IBM Offering Eases IT See the competitive advantages of IBM's new Lotus Foundations Start. WATCH NOW >> MOST READ STORIES • First Look: Dell Latitude 2100 Netbook • IBM: 50 Years of Big Iron Innovation • How Will Apple Respond to Windows 7? • $700 Touch-Screen Tablet from Apple? IN THIS ISSUE Why Conficker Continues to Plague Windows Users Conficker just won't go away. Despite the efforts of the security community and the presence of numerous tools for detection and removal, the worm is still trying to infect as many as 50,000 new Microsoft Windows PCs a day. The question is: why? READ MORE >> Yahoo Upgrades iPhone App for Voice Search Yahoo upgraded its Yahoo Mobile for iPhone App to include a voice search capability. Users can speak into their device in order to activate a oneSearch query, pulling in results for everything from restaurant addresses to movie times. READ MORE >> Brought to you by Ziff Davis Enterprise No time? No Worries! For the most up to date technology news from our knowledgeable and trusted editors, visit eWEEK mobile from your handheld device. Go to mobile.eweek.com. ADVERTISEMENT Sophos: Twitter Phishing Scam Lures Users with TinyURL Sophos has uncovered a phishing scam targeting users of Twitter. The attack tries to trick users into visiting a rogue site posing as the legitimate Twitter.com page and giving up their passwords and usernames. READ MORE >> Researcher: Android Bug Not as Bad as Feared Security researcher Charles Miller is backing away from a warning about the Google Android browser. If an exploit were successful, the actual code that would be executed would run in the media player, not the browser due to its application sandboxing. READ MORE >> Dell Looking for More PC Market Share While Dell is still trying to reinvent its own business, the PC maker is looking to expand its enterprise customers base in order to win back a bigger share of the world's IT hardware market. READ MORE >> Business Intelligence for Midsize Organizations: The Definitive Guide Business intelligence is not a new concept; it's been used for years by IT staffers in large enterprises with the budgets to support it. What's new is the fact that business intelligence tools are now affordable and accessible even for midsize companies -- and even for the non-technical business user. DOWNLOAD NOW >> Load Balancing & SANs: What You Need to Know Change and growth in workloads cause organizations to regularly re-spread workloads across hardware resources -- load balancing -- to avoid running out of space or performance. Unfortunately, this ongoing re-provisioning is a manual, iterative task that is often time-consuming and costly. DOWNLOAD NOW >>

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