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False teeth, bee swarm, tryptophan: The best-ever sick-day excuses Everything you always wanted to know about home computers - in 1983 ITworld Today October 31, 2013 Share this email 5 great replacements for iGoogle In two days Google is shutting down its excellent customizable home page. No need to worry, though. Preston Gralla has tracked down five great alternatives for you. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. False teeth, bee swarm, tryptophan: The best-ever sick-day excuses 2. Everything you always wanted to know about home computers - in 1983 3. Apple's $900 million moment 4. It's that time again! What to expect in Kit Kat, Google's imminent Android release 5. Fake social media ID duped security-aware IT guys 6. Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud hit by worldwide management interuption 7. Silent Circle, Lavabit unite for 'Dark Mail' encrypted email project 8. Google shuttles DNS queries from Brazil back to US 9. 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READ MORE It's that time again! What to expect in Kit Kat, Google's imminent Android release Rumors are swirling around Android 4.3, and these are the ones that have a fighting chance of proving true. READ MORE White Paper: VMware Forrester - Business Value of Virtualization Forrester interviewed individuals responsible for the IT infrastructure and architecture and asked executives to rate the benefits received from consolidating servers, performing business continuity/disaster recovery, reclaiming data center capacity, and executing similar initiatives. Read now! Fake social media ID duped security-aware IT guys Penetration testers used a faked woman's identity on social networks to break into a government agency with strong cybersecurity defenses. READ MORE Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud hit by worldwide management interuption Microsoft's Windows Azure suffered from an issue on Wednesday that affected a management feature in the compute section of the public cloud, and remained unsolved Thursday morning. READ MORE Silent Circle, Lavabit unite for 'Dark Mail' encrypted email project Two privacy-focused email providers have launched the Dark Mail Alliance, a project to engineer an email system with robust defenses against spying. READ MORE Google shuttles DNS queries from Brazil back to US Google is using U.S.-based servers to answer website address queries from Brazil after the country's president proposed stronger privacy laws, according to an Internet monitoring company. READ MORE Some Windows 8.1 updates tripping over driver problems Microsoft is investigating reports that some users are trying and failing to update their PCs and tablets to Windows 8.1, apparently due to outdated and incompatible drivers. 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