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10 essential BlackBerry apps for travel
Stay organized, productive and in the know with this road warrior's tool kit for your BlackBerry. Read More


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Ensure 360-Degree Border Security
Managing the security and availability of Web, email, and IM is complex. This paper will discuss the modern threat of blended attacks from web, email and IM. and highlight how a comprehensive hosted solution by Symantec Hosted Services can secure your networks from these threat vectors. Read Now

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Troubleshooting Application Problems
This comprehensive 94 page guide is a how-to resource handbook for network engineers. Learn the fundamentals of how applications work, how they flow, where applications fail and best practices and methodologies for troubleshooting network and application problems. Click here!

The hottest images of cool outer space
From solving black hole mysteries to watching a comet commit suicide and observing planets eating other stars, the news from the space world has been plain wild lately. Here we take a look at some the most important findings and images of the past couple weeks. Read More

Holiday Inn Tests Smartphones As Room Keys
The Holiday Inn is set to start trialing the use of smartphones as room keys.The chain will test the entry system at two hotels to begin with, and roll out the convenient tech on a wider basis if the trial proves successful. Read More

New undersea cable feeds African botnets
Spam coming from Africa could be about to boom thanks to new broadband infrastructure in the Eastern half of the continent, according to Symantec's MessageLabs division. Read More


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Virtual Branch Networking
VBN 2.0 from Aruba Networks® delivers the corporate network to small offices with up to 60% capital and 75% operational cost savings compared to traditional branch routers. Read More

Acer turns its attention to the living room with clear.fi
Acer introduced its clear.fi home networking system and showed off prototypes for its upcoming Revo consumer product series at a press conference in Beijing on Thursday. Read More

News podcast: Network World 360
Symantec says it has unearthed a server hosting the credentials of 44 million stolen gaming accounts -- and one of the most surprising aspects of it is that the accounts were being validated by a Trojan distributed to compromised computers. Also, the Holiday Inn is set to start trialing the use of smartphones as room keys. The chain will test the entry system at two hotels to begin with, and roll out the convenient tech on a wider basis if the trial proves successful. (4:59) Read More

Google rejects German request for Wi-Fi data
Google rebuffed a request from German data protection officials to hand over data it mistakenly collected as part of Street View imagery. Read More


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Get Virtualized WAN Optimization
Dramatically improve remote application performance and bandwidth utilization by attending this live Webcast on virtualized WAN optimization. You'll hear why deploying a software-based WAN optimization virtual appliance is an easy and cost effective way to speed response time while lowering network bandwidth requirements. View Now.

Get a Better View of Your Gmail Inbox
Everybody loves Gmail, right? Wrong. My friend Shelly is so fed up with its "threaded" conversation view, he's ready to jump ship for Hotmail, Yahoo, or another service. Read More

Mozilla preps Firefox Home app for the iPhone
Mozilla is working on an iPhone application called Home that will let users access their desktop Firefox browsing history, bookmarks and the tabs from their most recent browser session, the company said in a blog post on Wednesday. Read More

Apple's Steve Jobs to share WWDC stage with Microsoft CEO Ballmer?
Apple's sold-out Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco next month could turn out to be a real Steve-fest, with one financial industry analyst generating buzz today through speculation that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (check out his emoticons!) will share the stage with Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Read More



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