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Pentagon official details U.S military net hack
Although U.S. military networks are attacked all the time, it took a successful thumb-drive assault on the Pentagon in 2008 to convince the U.S. military to do revise its cybersecurity strategy, according to a published report. Read More


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Social Security Administration to award massive network deal
The Social Security Administration says it will announce in September a new award for data networking services, jumpstarting a critical IT project that has been delayed for more than a year following a successful -- but secretive -- legal protest of the original awards. Read More

New Firefox 4 beta unveils tab manager, sync
Mozilla has launched the fourth Firefox 4 beta, just a few weeks before Microsoft is slated to unveil Internet Explorer 9. Read More


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Getting the Right Foundation: Unified Communications
Gartner has identified 16 features that comprise a complete UC system. Learn what they are and how you can build an infrastructure that integrates the best applications into a seamless UC environment and eliminates islands of communication. Read More!

RIP, Yahoo Search: Why I'm Not Shedding a Tear
It's official: Yahoo's search results in the U.S. and Canada are now fully powered by Microsoft's Bing. The announcement came on Tuesday, a little more than a year after the two tech powerhouses agreed to combine search forces in order to compete with Google. And while many are lamenting the passing of Yahoo Search, one of the Internet's true originals, I'm not among them. Here are three reasons why I think Yahoo Search had to go. Read More

Cisco Security Manager Gets a Major Update
Recently, Cisco introduced its 4.0 version of Cisco Security Manager (CSM). CSM is an enterprise class device management solution for managing Cisco security devices like ASA, IPS, IOS devices and VPN gateways. CSM is full of features designed to make life easier for administrators that work with lots of Cisco security devices and want a central management and troubleshooting solution. Read More


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Gizmodo editor Brian Lam loses his cell phone in restaurant. And it's returned. Free!
How exquisite. Gizmodo's Brian Lam tweeted last week that he left his unnamed cell phone behind in a restaurant. But another patron, a woman to whom he'd given up a seat, turned it in. Lam added the hashtag #karma, apparently indicating he thought that his good deed had been returned. Read More

Apple in talks to bring $0.99 Television rentals to iTunes in time for September 7th media event
With Antennagate now thankfully behind us, we can now turn our attention to some upcoming new products and rumored services Apple has in the pipeline. Apple has historically announced iPod upgrades during special media events held in September, and this year looks to be no different. Read More

The emergence of virtual appliances
When most people talk about the adoption of virtualization, they are really talking about the adoption of server virtualization. While there is no doubt that server virtualization is the most common form of virtualization, there is also no doubt that other forms of virtualization are also gaining in importance. This WAN newsletter will talk about how virtual appliances are gaining in importance. Read More



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