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	10 funny April Fools' pranks, Web style Our top 10 list of the Web-based April Fools pranks of 2009 should give you something to consider -- and look out for -- today. Read More ARTICLE: AirMagnet, now part of Fluke Networks Professional Spectrum Analysis in USB Form Factor AirMagnet Spectrum XT combines in-depth RF analysis w/ real-time WLAN information for quicker & more accurate troubleshooting of performance problems. The solution replaces legacy spectrum analyzer solutions that are expensive; can be used only on legacy PCs; & provide a myopic view on solving WLAN network performance problems due to interference. Click to continue In this Issue Silicon cockroaches, 'dirty' IPv4 addresses and other Internet oddities Hurdles multiply for H-1B seekers Feel like you're being watched at work? You may be right Microsoft runs fuzzing botnet, finds 1,800 Office bugs Q&A: Behind Qwest's big broadband stimulus bid FCC mobile network plan could revolutionize health care Millions in China have no antivirus software, survey shows Unscheduled patch release from Microsoft? Pay attention Nortel and Avaya Essentials Make any program open source Microsoft, Ford team on electric car software "For an industry concerned with communications, we sure do a lousy job of it" NASA Mars satellite snaps first public picked photos WHITE PAPER: HP SMB: Strategy Guide to Risk Mitigation This strategy guide offers concrete risk mitigation techniques specifically designed for midsize organizations. Learn how to proactively manage physical and virtual systems and see the early signs of infrastructure trouble to avoid outages. Read Now! Silicon cockroaches, 'dirty' IPv4 addresses and other Internet oddities The world's leading Internet engineers see many surprising trends occurring under the covers of this complex network environment. Among their findings are the evolution of silicon cockroaches — tiny, mobile, unattended wireless devices — and "dirty" Internet address space that can't be used by network operators. Here are a few eye-openers about what's really going on in the Internet infrastructure that were discussed at a meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) held in Anaheim last week. Read More Hurdles multiply for H-1B seekers The hotly contested H-1B visa program slowed during the economic downturn only to find new life in recent documents putting additional restrictions and applying enforcement to H-1B employers and employees. Read More Feel like you're being watched at work? You may be right Social network monitoring and IP cameras are two ways organizations are keeping a lid on sensitive data and property. Read More Microsoft runs fuzzing botnet, finds 1,800 Office bugs Microsoft uncovered more than 1,800 bugs in Office 2010 by tapping into the unused computing horsepower of idling PCs, a company security engineer said today. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks Network Rightsizing Best Practices Guide Network Rightsizing is an evolutionary approach to network design that significantly reduces costs while simultaneously increasing mobility for campus and enterprise users. This guide provides a methodology to enable IT to break away from the status quo of port-based network architectures, allowing an unprecedented reduction in cost and complexity. Read More! Q&A: Behind Qwest's big broadband stimulus bid As the application deadline for the final round of broadband stimulus grants passed this week, Qwest submitted a proposal that, if approved, would dwarf the size of the other broadband stimulus projects throughout the country. Read More FCC mobile network plan could revolutionize health care The FCC broadband plan includes a proposal to set aside a radio frequency band for body area networks that would be used by patents to wirelessly monitor health problems. Read More Millions in China have no antivirus software, survey shows The massive number of Chinese Internet users running no antivirus software increased last year, a survey showed, even though online security risks continued to multiply in the country. Read More Unscheduled patch release from Microsoft? Pay attention It's good and bad that Microsoft releases out-of-band patches. It's good the company is being proactive to help equip customers against threats, but it's bad the vulnerabilities pose such a potential risk that immediate action is a must.Microsoft out-of-band patch demands immediate attention. Read More WHITE PAPER: Splunk Make IT Data a Strategic Asset This paper outlines the struggles organizations face managing silos of IT data and how, using Splunk, users are changing the way they do their jobs and elevating the role of IT in their organizations. Learn More! Nortel and Avaya Essentials The full impact of Nortel's bankrupcy may not be measured just yet. Yet the insutry goes on. Avaya in particular is faced with the daunting task of keeping its own customers happy but also transitioning its newly acquired Nortel base. Here's a look at the stories around this major shift. Read More Make any program open source Imagine if all software were open source and you could, with a little tweaking, customize everything to your liking. I'm not even going to pretend I understand how this works, but a pair of computer science/engineering profs at the University of Washington have come up with a system that will allow you to do just that, called Prefab. Read More Microsoft, Ford team on electric car software Microsoft's Hohm software expanded for watching Ford electric car energy use. Read More "For an industry concerned with communications, we sure do a lousy job of it" I was reading around the site, and came across Mike Morris' latest post. For an industry concerned with communications, we sure do a lousy job of it. I've used that phrase at one job site or another a lot over the past couple of decades. Read More NASA Mars satellite snaps first public picked photos NASA today said it took eight high-resolution photos of Mars that were chosen through a public suggestion box the space agency put up in January. Read More
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