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	Novell rejects "inadequate" $2B takeover bid Novell's CEO on Saturday notified customers that the open source software company has rejected hedge fund Elliott Associates' roughly $2 billion bid to take it private. Read More WHITE PAPER: Qwest Connecting to Better Customer Service Less than a third of surveyed IT executives believe their companies are "highly effective" at adapting to changing customer needs and priorities. Businesses that build a robust voice and data network infrastructure can achieve a high level of responsiveness, and transform customer information and feedback into actionable results. Click here. In this Issue Mozilla confirms critical Firefox bug Bad BitDefender update clobbers Windows PCs Ethernet switches, routers, Wi-Fi on the upswing 10 ways Microsoft tried and failed to rule mobile Qwest CEO's pay package rises 6% Latency in the Data Center Matters How Open Source Led the Blogging Revolution Cisco defending its turf on 3 fronts as markets rebound WHITE PAPER: PC Mall Improving Disaster Recovery Solutions Today, many companies have established a disaster recovery strategy but have not implemented a solution due to high cost estimations. This HP white paper examines how affordable data mirroring solutions can provide higher performance, high data integrity & faster and more cost-effective disaster recovery. Read More Mozilla confirms critical Firefox bug Mozilla confirmed a critical vulnerability in the newest version of Firefox, and said it would plug the hole by the end of the month. Read More Bad BitDefender update clobbers Windows PCs Users of the BitDefender antivirus software started flooding the company's support forums Saturday, apparently after a faulty antivirus update caused 64-bit Windows machines to stop working. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sophos Windows 7 security With the public release of Windows 7 debates and discussions have been raging on the security improvements in the new platform, and some potential problems have also emerged. In this white paper, we run through the most significant changes and additions, and look at what they might mean to users and administrators. Read now. Ethernet switches, routers, Wi-Fi on the upswing Sales of Ethernet switches, enterprise routers and wireless LAN equipment are expected to rise this year and beyond coming out of the recession, according to Infonetics Research. Read More 10 ways Microsoft tried and failed to rule mobile Take a tour through Microsoft's forgettable, regrettable mobile OS history. 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! Qwest CEO's pay package rises 6% Qwest CEO Edward Mueller's total compensation hit $12 million, compared to $11.3 million in 2008. Read More Latency in the Data Center Matters It's been an interesting week at work. Make that two weeks. Read More How Open Source Led the Blogging Revolution When I first started blogging about 5 years ago I asked my blogging mentor, Brad Feld what to use for blogging software. Brad told me there were only three real choices, Blogger, Moveable Type and Word Press. All these years later, Word Press, the open source blogging platform has clearly established itself as the leader of the blogging revolution. Read More Cisco defending its turf on 3 fronts as markets rebound Cisco is defending its turf on three fronts as spending picks up coming out of the recession. Read More
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