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As Firefox was on the way to vanquishing Internet Explorer, its browser's success opened the door for other competitors.  Even as Internet Explorer's market share has slipped Firefox programmers, face a surprising question: should they be more worried about the programmers in Redmond, Wash., or about those working on Apple's Safari, Google's Chrome, and Opera?

Firefox has gained market share, according to Net Applications' statistics since July 2008, and Firefox backer Mozilla doubtless hopes for more gains with Tuesday's release of Firefox 3.5. But Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome each gained 2 percentage points, to 8.4 percent and 1.8 percent, respectively, indicating a growing appetite for alternatives to Internet Explorer that's not completely met by Firefox. Opera stayed flat at about 0.7 percent.

Firefox is not the only game in town, and Firefox fans' easy us-versus-them polarization is transforming into a more complicated situation.

Having other IE challengers helps legitimize Firefox, because the idea of straying from the IE fold appears more legitimate, but the alternatives also collect some of the new users venturing farther afield.

A Microsoft spokesperson said,"Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate customers will have the option to downgrade to Windows XP Professional from PCs that ship within 18 months following the general availability of Windows 7 or until the release of a Windows 7 service pack, whichever is sooner, and if a service pack is developed."

Janco provides and update service for all of its templates which guarantees its clients have the all of the information they need to meet mandated requirements.

With this new version a fully indexed PDF copy of the template is now provided in addition to the two versions of WORD (2003 and 2007). 

 The updates to the template included:

• Added Pandemic Coordinator job description
• Added Business Pandemic Planning Checklist
• Updated organization chart to include Pandemic Coordinator
• Updated backup and backup retention section
• Updated style sheet to be CSS Style sheet format
• Added Disaster Recovery Business Continuity General Distribution Information 
  • What to do after an explosion / terrorist attack
  • How to clean up after a disaster
• Defined generic metrics for DR/BC success
• Business & IT Impact Analysis Questionnaire Updated
• Updated references to DRP card
• Updated formatting to meet WORD 2007 requirements

The version history for updates to template can be seen at http://www.e-janco.com/drpversion.htm and the full Table of Contents with sample pages can be downloaded at http://www.e-janco.com/Register_drp.asp .

Hackers are obtaining FTP credentials for poorly designed wed sites, giving them access to the inner workings of the site. The hackers are using automated tools to seek out vulnerable Web sites.

As many as 40,000 Web sites have been hacked to redirect unwitting victims to another Web site that tries to infect PCs with malicious software. Th sites have been hacked with  JavaScript code that directs people to a fake Google Analytics Web site.

Those Web sites have likely been hacked via a SQL injection attack.

This underscores the success hackers have at hosting dangerous code on poorly secured Web sites.

Obama, speaking to a meeting of his 16-member Economic Recovery Advisory Board headed by former Federal Reserve chief Paul Volcker, said he was encouraged by "signs of normalcy" in the financial markets and hints the economy was steadying -- though he remained concerned in the long run.

"One of the things that we're wrestling is how do we deal with job creation and employment," Obama said.

"The concern that we have is that even in a stabilizing situation there is the prospect of higher unemployment for some time to come," Obama said, noting the decline of U.S. manufacturing and changes in the global economic picture.

The U.S. unemployment rate rose to 8.9 percent in April, the highest since 1983, following months of heavy job losses stemming from the global financial crisis.

There have been some signs the worst of the U.S. recession could be over, and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told a Senate panel on Wednesday the U.S. financial system was "starting to heal" after a period of severe trauma.

But continued high unemployment levels could be risky for Obama as he seeks to maintain political momentum to enact major initiatives on climate change and U.S. healthcare and carry into next year's mid-term congressional elections.

Based on initial testing Windows 7 beats Vista.  Janco executives stated, "One thing that will influence adoption of Windows 7 and cause customers to pause, it's that generally the ASPs (average selling price) of the operating systems is higher than for Vista and XP."

The Janco CEO added, "In tough economic times, we think it is naive to believe that you can increase your prices on average and then still see a stronger swell than if you held prices flat or even lowered them. I can tell you that the licensing tiers at retail are more expensive than they are for Vista."

The popularity of text messaging and mobile data applications, including those for social networking, have led customers in record numbers to upgrade to smartphones and other phones with full QWERTY keyboards, which AT&T calls "integrated devices. Today, nearly 32% of AT&T subscribers who purchase service on a monthly plan use an integrated device, the company said. Overall, AT&T serves 78 million wireless customers.

AT&T plans to use the findings to bolster an advertising campaign it is about to launch.

Local disk-based data protection strategies improve backup efficiency and reliability over tape-based ones. Consolidation of edge data to the core data center may introduce further efficiencies. Data de-duplication can drive both backup-to-disk and consolidation adoption.