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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

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Phone manufacturers learn to cope with ash cloud | AT&T wireless growth still strong despite earnings drop

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Other top-secret Apple projects found at a bar
Surprise! This week's discovery in the wild of the next-generation iPhone by Gizmodo was not the only top-secret project that Apple was working on. The Network World Secret Investigation Squad has revealed a host of new products that Apple is developing, and in the spirit of new, new, new journalism, we proudly detail them here. Read More


E-GUIDE: BlackBerry

Expert Guide: Crafting a Secure Mobility Strategy
Securing mobile data in transit and at rest is a top IT concern. This eGuide offers expert advice on simplifying management and security of smartphones, improved fail-over for DR and control of enterprise application downloads and permissions. Read now and download a free license of BlackBerry Enterprise Express to manage up to 75 users. Read Now.

WHITE PAPER: Riverbed

Overcome Two Key Challenges with Virtualization
How do you accelerate virtualization for your enterprise - and take IT flexibility and cost savings to the next level? Start by downloading this whitepaper from Riverbed. WAN optimization is a class of technology that has rapidly been adopted across enterprises in order to address the challenges of bandwidth limitations and latency over the WAN. Click here!

Phone manufacturers learn to cope with ash cloud
Most mobile phones are shipped on airplanes, which has made deliveries vulnerable to the ash cloud that has spread from the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull. Read More

AT&T wireless growth still strong despite earnings drop
Complaints about 3G coverage aren't putting a dent in AT&T's wireless business, as the carrier added 1.86 million wireless customers in the first quarter of 2010. Read More

Alcatel-Lucent boosts broadband over copper to 300M bps
Alcatel-Lucent has found a way to move data at 300M bps (bits per second) over two copper lines, the company said on Wednesday. However, so far it is only in a lab environment -- real products and services won't show up until next year. Read More


WEBCAST: HyTrust

8 Tips for Virtualization Under Control
Examine 8 tips that will show you how to virtualize more critical workloads with confidence. From security planning and policy management to automation and access controls, get expert advice on how to build a more secure virtual infrastructure to accelerate the virtualization of business-critical applications. Learn More!

Red Hat drops Xen from from enterprise Linux software
Red Hat's beta release of RHEL 6.0 adds cloud features and removes Xen. Read More

Google buys Agnilux, and yes, there's an Apple angle
Google has bought a hardware company called Agnilux, which is notable for its formation by ex-Apple and PA Semi employees. Read More

News podcast: Network World 360
Adobe is halting development of a Flash-to-iPhone software tool introduced with its Creative Suite 5 last week, dashing the hopes of many that Flash will be supported in future iPhone updates. Also, Microsoft has released to manufacturing its SQL Server 2008 R2, the new version of its relational database management system software. (5:13) Read More


WHITE PAPER: NetApp

Top 5 Hyper-V Best Practices
Read this whitepaper to get advice on everything from making sure you configure enough network connections, especially in iSCSI, to specifying the specific initiator groups and the correct LUN type when provisioning the NetApp LUN for use with Hyper-V. Learn More!

Apple's Rivals Scramble to Match the iPad
Few people doubt that 2010 will go down as the year the tablet computer took off. On April 3, the first day of sales, Apple sold 300,000 iPad tablets to eager buyers. Weeks later, Apple announced that it would delay by one month the international launch of the iPad because it couldn't keep up with domestic de­­mand. Meanwhile, other tech companies are gearing up to ride the wave by prepping their own tablet PCs. Read More

Adobe Calling Quits on Flash for iPhone
Adobe is halting development of a Flash-to-iPhone software tool introduced with it's Creative Suite 5 last week, dashing the hopes of many that Flash will be supported in future iPhone updates. The move further escalates tensions between Apple and Adobe. Adobe now says it plans to concentrate on developing for Google's Android mobile operating system, according to a blog post by Mike Chambers, Flash platform product manager for Adobe. Read More

YouTube Removes Hitler Parodies. Death of a Web Meme?
YouTube has recently begun removing videos that feature content from Constantin Films' 2004 film, Der Untergang ("Downfall"), despite the fact that many of these videos are parodies and thus constitute fair use of the material. Read More

Cyber Stowaways
Here is another must read New York Times article providing more details about the cyber attack at Google. Read More



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