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	Google-Verizon net neutrality plan raises more questions than it answers Verizon and Google intended to clear up their positions on network neutrality, but their joint conference call ended up raising a host of questions. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sprint Integrated Wireline and Wireless Services Much debate has surrounded Unified Communications vs. Fixed-Mobile Convergence. IDC sees FMC as an enabler of UC by extending presence and collaboration tools to a mobile device. Read the high level FMC trends and the challenges and opportunities to reduce costs and improve productivity as wireline and wireless technologies converge. Learn More Now In this Issue Top 10 Ways CIOs Can Prepare for Recession No. 2 Is there a patch for stupid? FTC halts domain-name registration scam Verizon LTE plans leaked Tech's most notorious CEO scandals Five reasons HP's Mark Hurd resigned Skype files IPO registration with SEC Skype worries about iPhone, attracting business customers Report: Microsoft Cut Privacy Features to Sell Ads in IE8 Cisco execs in line for HP CEO slot? Women in IT: The long climb to the top WHITE PAPER: Riverbed The CIO's New Guide to Design of Global IT Infrastructure Is it possible to eliminate the impact of distance? This paper explores the 5 key principles successful CIOs are using to redesign IT infrastructure of any size. Learn how to be prepared to adapt your environment in a way that supports distributed employees, anytime anywhere collaboration and the need for business continuity during a disaster. Read now! Top 10 Ways CIOs Can Prepare for Recession No. 2 As Gartner warns IT leaders to be ready in case a second recession hits, CIO.com's Thomas Wailgum shares his thoughts on how CIOs can actually slash pesky budgets. Hint: Unpaid interns, meet Russian hackers! Read More Is there a patch for stupid? I was speaking with the security group of a customer the other day and they were complaining about how 80% of their security incident were because of users doing stupid things on the Internet. They kept pointing to reports highlighting how their users generated so much work for them through malware cleanup and downtime. This conversation got me thinking about what those reports were really showing. Read More FTC halts domain-name registration scam A U.S. judge has ordered a halt to a Canadian operation that allegedly posed as a domain-name registrar in an effort to collect fees from thousands of U.S. consumers, small businesses and nonprofits, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said. Read More WHITE PAPER: NeuStar, Inc. Holiday Readiness Guide for Ecommerce This white paper is all about Internet Gifting Essentials as it is critical that merchants ready their sites from both a performance and selling perspective. Based on the e-tailing group's Annual Mystery Shopping Survey, highlighted Internet gifting essentials were present in three-out-of-four of the 100 websites we surveyed last holiday season. Read More Verizon LTE plans leaked The Boy Genius Report has apparently obtained Verizon's roadmap for deployment of its 4G LTE services, which are slated to cover 75% of the United States by April 2012. Read More Tech's most notorious CEO scandals Mark Hurd's surprise resignation as HP's CEO Friday following disclosure of a sexual harassment charge against him makes Hurd just the latest in a long line of tech CEOs forced to resign due to scandal. Read More Five reasons HP's Mark Hurd resigned The official reason for Mark Hurd's resignation as chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard Co. over an allegation of sexual harassment left a lot of questions unanswered. Read More WHITE PAPER: Palo Alto Networks To Block or Not. Is that the Question? There is a serious problem with today's enterprise networks – the users are in control. This paper examines the difficult tradeoffs that IT departments face when determining the appropriate strategy and policies for Web 2.0/Enterprise 2.0 applications. Read now! Skype files IPO registration with SEC Skype SA seeks to raise US$100 million through an initial public offering (IPO) in the U.S., as the Luxembourg-based provider of Internet telephony, video calling and instant messaging communications seeks to diversify and boost its user base and revenue. Read More Skype worries about iPhone, attracting business customers Skype worries about whether the iPhone and other Apple products will undermine its VoIP services and is also insecure about whether it can achieve service levels good enough to lure business customers, according to a filing with the SEC. Read More Report: Microsoft Cut Privacy Features to Sell Ads in IE8 Privacy by default, wouldn't that be a nice change? Microsoft's IE development team had designed innovative privacy features that would have been turned on by default to effectively help users avoid being tracked online. Sadly, as reported by the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft cut the IE8 privacy features to sell ads. Read More Cisco execs in line for HP CEO slot? Are any Cisco executives in line to take over for disgraced HP CEO Mark Hurd? That's what the Wall Street Journal speculates in a blog posted over the weekend. Read More Women in IT: The long climb to the top Meg McCarthy remembers there being a quiet unease about women taking on high-level positions at the former Andersen Consulting when she began her IT career in 1980. "There was always a concern -- though it was never formally expressed -- could women balance work and home? But my view was always that I'm going to work harder than anybody else. I'm going to do more and get more out of every day than other people have the energy for," says McCarthy. Read More
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