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The top 10 'most wanted' spam-spewing botnets
Spam continues to grow largely due to the growth in malicious botnets. Many botnets are command-and-control systems used by criminals and are still the main way that spam is spewed into your e-mail box. M86 Security says that the worldwide spam volume has now climbed to 230 billion messages per day, up from 200 billion at the start of 2010. Read More


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Address Real-Time Application Performance
IDC interviewed customers using Riverbed Cascade solution. Their analysis includes hard dollar ROI and benefits of the following features: • Application-level view of networks and servers • Visibility into end-to-end application delivery dependencies • Network behavioral analysis • Metrics to track performance SLAs Read now!

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Simplify System Management
Telephone system manageability depends to a great extent on the underlying architecture of the voice system. The architectural approach for integrating new systems has serious implications for management. In this paper you will learn more about how various architectural approaches impacts overall system manageability. Read now!

10 free Android apps for staying in the know
Owning an Android smartphone means never having to say 'I don't know.' Read More

Bumper solves iPhone 4 antennas woes, Consumer Reports confirms
Consumer Reports magazine said on Wednesday that Apple iPhone 4 owners can eliminate reception problems by enclosing their phones in the "Bumper" case Apple sells. Read More

Poll: What will Steve Jobs say about iPhone 4 antenna tomorrow?
The people, or at least bloggers and pundits, have spoken and Apple has listened. Kind of. Tomorrow, Apple will host a Media Event to talk about the iPhone 4. Everyone thinks that means the iPhone 4 antenna reception. Read More

Paper to readers: Comments now cost 99 cents and your name
Anxious to lift an outright ban on comments, The Attleboro (Mass.) Sun-Chronicle has begun requiring two things of online readers who want to leave their thoughts on stories: 99 cents and their real names. Read More


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How to Get Started with Unified Communications
Get past the hodgepodge of legacy phone systems or decentralized server-based architectures and eliminate telecommunications burdens. See why ShoreTel beats every other competitor for customer satisfaction six years in a row. Read now!

News podcast: Network World 360
In the latest act of the iPhone 4 tragicomedy, Apple is inviting some reporters to a press conference Friday morning at the company's Cuptertino, Calif., headquarters, presumably to address complaints about the newly-released phone's antenna. Also, communities in every U.S. state but three -- Delaware, Florida and South Dakota -- have applied to become test markets for Google's planned high-speed broadband network. (5:02) Read More

Curtains! 5 tech leaders who should stay off the stage
You can see why they're businessmen and not actors. But don't tell them that. Read More

Alcatel-Lucent gets social with company communication
Alcatel-Lucent was trying to improve communication among its employees. Starting slowly, the company now has more than 19,000 employees connected via enterprise social networking tools. Read More

NASA Hubble spots hot comet-like planet
Is it a planet or a comet? Astronomers are calling a newly explored scorched object a "cometary planet" because it has the components of a planet but with a tail like a comet. Read More

 
 
 

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Robocop ran DOS
Virtually no sci-fi or action flick these days is complete without a computer scene showing a few screens of mysterious scrolling text and a 3D wire-frame model. But where does this vaguely tech-looking stuff come from? Well, more often than not, it comes from a Website, app, or startup screen from the real world at the time the movie was made. Read on for some of the most unexpected tech cameos in movies.

Top Russian spy ring technology screw-ups
Alleged Russian spies arrested last month in cities around the United States seemed to be lacking in spycraft and in urgent need of some IT expertise, based on some of the gaffes they made. They also used some technologies effectively. Here is a summary of their efforts as revealed in court filings against them.

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