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	Five ways to beat the Great Firewall of China Despite China's best efforts, its citizens can access banned content over the Internet via Google and other means Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Inc. The Full Story on WAAS Cost Saving Benefits Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) can deliver a very favorable ROI within 11 months says Forrester Consulting in this informative report. WAAS lets you effectively choose how to deploy applications, store data and provision infrastructure services between branch and data center locations. Learn More In this Issue Can the iPhone save higher education? BitDefender users demand refunds after update cripples PCs Conficker may be quiet now but it's still a threat Mozilla abandons work on Firefox for Windows Mobile Force10 offers competing data center plan to Cisco's Providers question parts of FCC's broadband plan Law enforcement lobbies hard for ICANN changes Lessons learned from a long IT career DEMO start-ups challenge Oracle, SQL with cloud-based data management tools Video: Nyoombl's Greypfroot integrates TV and PC videoconferencing Video: MiniMash offers multimedia mashups through browser Video: Vivox adds VoIP to social applications Video: Gwabbit moves contacts to the cloud WHITE PAPER: HP Networking Redefined Consolidation, virtualization, green Initiatives, cloud computing, etc., the state of the data center has never been more in flux. Is it time for a network overhaul built on the concepts of open, virtual switching, unified fabrics and bandwiths of 10 Gigabit Ethernet and beyond? Read this Network World Executive Guide to learn more. . Read now. Can the iPhone save higher education? In the second year of its mobile learning project, Abilene Christian University is studying how the iPhone is changing the way teachers teach and students learn. Read More BitDefender users demand refunds after update cripples PCs Some customers stranded by a flawed BitDefender antivirus update that crippled their computers now want refunds and compensation for money spent fixing their PCs, according to messages on the company's support forum. Read More Conficker may be quiet now but it's still a threat My recent post on how botnets are operating like cloud providers provoked a lively discussion in the comments section about Conficker but mostly about world geography. Read More Mozilla abandons work on Firefox for Windows Mobile Mozilla announced on Monday that it is abandoning development of a Windows Mobile browser. Mozilla blames Microsoft, saying that because Redmond is closing off development of native Windows 7 applications, and clearly banking on Windows Mobile 7 over 6.5, there's no point in continuing its years-long development of a Firefox browser for 6.5. Read More WHITE PAPER: AccelOps IT Service Management: Beyond the Myths Discover best practices and supporting technologies that deliver the straightest path to service reliability, operational efficiency and effective ROI. Also, examine three case studies that show how IT service management works in the real world. Read More! Force10 offers competing data center plan to Cisco's Force10 is pitching an alternative to Cisco's data center automation approach that the company says builds on the principle's of Ockham's Razor -- that "entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity." Read More Providers question parts of FCC's broadband plan The U.S. Federal Communications Commission's national broadband plan released last week contains many good ideas, but it also leaves the door open to new regulations of broadband providers, representatives of providers said Tuesday. Read More Law enforcement lobbies hard for ICANN changes U.S. and U.K. law enforcement officials are trying to marshal support for changes that would make it more difficult for criminals to register domain names under false details. Read More Lessons learned from a long IT career In a career that has, so far, spanned about 30 years, I've watched IP and networking change significantly over the years. Read More DOWNLOAD: RIM Free Download from RIM BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express offers IT control and security features you can trust even for employees that choose to bring their own BlackBerry smartphones into your business. Download this free license to support up to 75 users on your existing Exchange Server. Download Now. Latest from Demo Read More DEMO start-ups challenge Oracle, SQL with cloud-based data management tools DEMO start-ups challenge Oracle, SQL with cloud-based data management tools. Read More Video: Nyoombl's Greypfroot integrates TV and PC videoconferencing The guys at Nyoombal had some glitches during their on-stage demo at DEMO 2010 today, but the technology is a very cool thing. Read More Video: MiniMash offers multimedia mashups through browser At DEMO 2010, MiniMash was showing its platform for taking photos, videos and music and turning them into quick and cool mashups for sharing. Read More Video: Vivox adds VoIP to social applications At DEMO 2010, Vivox had a very good demo of its Voice over IP software that it can add to social applications, including Facebook. The company has already worked with gaming applications, and is bringing that knowledge to social networks. For anyone who wants to have a voice chat via Facebook, this is pretty cool. Read More Video: Gwabbit moves contacts to the cloud Gwabbit was at DEMO last year, offering a great software app that takes contacts from e-mails and self-populates them into Outlook. The company is now heading to the cloud, taking the same technology and putting it in the "gwab-o-sphere", and synchronizing them with Facebook, Salesforce.com and other apps. Read More
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