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	Microsoft aims to stop drive-by downloads on Patch Tuesday Microsoft and third-party security experts warned that users could be subjected to drive-by downloads because of flaws in Windows and Internet Explorer that received fixes on Patch Tuesday this week. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems How Does Your IT Organization Measure Up? IDG has made it easy for you to benchmark your IT efforts in key areas of performance. Just click below and take a 5-minute assessment using a global benchmark tool that will rank your organization against the best practices and high priorities of some 350 high-performing IT organizations surveyed by IDG Research. Learn More Now In this Issue How to ruin your life with social networking Tellabs shares sink on AT&T switch rumor How to manage Wi-Fi efficiently Microsoft forgets a patch on Patch Tuesday IBM's Lotus Notes brings secure e-mail to the Apple iPad The New Cisco Nexus 2232PP Is Nice! 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Read More Tellabs shares sink on AT&T switch rumor A research note penned by Morgan Stanley analysts sent shares of telecom equipment provider Tellabs downward today after the analysts wrote that AT&T is planning a shift toward buying cheaper routers from Cisco. Read More How to manage Wi-Fi efficiently Video shows how to manage Wi-Fi efficiently. Read More Microsoft forgets a patch on Patch Tuesday You know what I love the most about Patch Tuesday? The patches. Your Microsoft software has vulnerabilities you didn't even know about, and then – boom! – you download a patch and you're totally safe. As long as you haven't been hacked already. But that's assuming Microsoft, you know, actually releases all the patches you need. Unfortunately, that's not always the case. Read More IBM's Lotus Notes brings secure e-mail to the Apple iPad IBM is trying to ride Apple's iPad momentum with a free download that lets Lotus Notes customers receive secure access to e-mail, calendar and other collaboration tools on the touch-screen computer. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM IBM Analytics Solutions Business leaders today are making decisions with major blind spots. But with advanced analytics, you can become a smarter, more fact-based enterprise. Read this white paper to see how IBM Analytics Solutions can help you gain a competitive advantage by enabling real-time or near-real-time decisions. Read More The New Cisco Nexus 2232PP Is Nice! Remember the catch-phrase in Field of Dreams - "Build it, and they will come."? The pretty much sums up our experience with 10GbE host connectivity over the past year in our new cutting-edge, 10GbE data center. Read More The End of Flat-Rate Data Pricing - Customers Screwed Again AT&T is at least partially promoting its new wireless-data pricing plan as a price reduction for users, and that's undoubtedly true in at least some cases. The only problem, though, is the psychological effect of not knowing when one might actually be bumping up against the new synthetic, arbitrary limit (200 MB or 2 GB, depending upon option) and having to pay an overage fee. Read More Google Labs All-Stars: 8 Must-See Projects Have you checked out Google Labs lately? If not, it's worth a peek. The area, reserved for application and tool prototypes not yet ready for primetime, houses some cool (and crazy) ideas. Past alumni include Google Alerts, the Google Docs suite and Google Reader. Check out these eight Google Labs experiments that we'd like to see go mainstream. Which ones are already on your radar? Read More Virtela offers cloud-based WAN optimization Managed service provider Virtela has revamped its infrastructure with a virtualized platform off of which it will run a range of services, the first of which is flat-fee WAN optimization service with a money back guarantee if customers are unhappy with performance. Read More Cisco Nexus 1000V brought in for troubleshooting In the last edition, I wrote about virtualization's visibility challenge from a systems management perspective. Now I want to look at the issue from the network side. Read More WHITE PAPER: VMware Increasing Desktop Virtualization ROI Make your transition to desktop virtualization as successful as possible with a platform that supports the PCoIP display protocol. You can expect a superior end-user experience and an increased return on investment. PCoIP delivers a 50% reduction in display latency compared with legacy display protocols. Learn More! Google updates IE 'killer' plug-in Google today updated Chrome Frame, a plug-in that embeds the company's Chrome browser engine into rival Microsoft's Internet Explorer, to a beta version. Read More Amazon encrypts CloudFront, but security comes at a price Amazon Web Services' content delivery network service CloudFront can now transfer data over an encrypted HTTPS connection, but users will pay more than if they transfer it via HTTP, Amazon said on Monday. Read More WAN Optimization Jumps into the Cloud WAN optimization has finally made the leap into the cloud. Value added network services provider Virtela, which has long offered customer premises-based managed application acceleration services using dual-ended solutions from the likes of Riverbed and others, announced today a cloud-based version of its acceleration service. Read More TechEd New Orleans - Day 2 Today was the 2nd full day at TechEd here in New Orleans, with the conference only going from Monday thru Thursday this year, they're packing in a week of content in just 4 days, and with a "full house" for attendees at this year's conference, it's great to be a speaker who gets starting room only crowds to sessions (I'd like to think it's because of my session topics and the content I'm covering). Read More What kind of software costs $920 million? Some big defense contractors got even bigger this week as the Air Force awarded a $919,640,000 deal for the development of its critical mission planning software. Read More Has Facebook had its fill of faulty Twitter comparisons? Maybe there's no real connection here, but word out today that Twitter has reached a new activity milestone - two billion tweets per month - led me to notice that a somewhat similar (though misleading) measuring stick has apparently gone missing from Facebook's statistics page. 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