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Global 'IT debt' hits $500 billion, on the way to $1 trillion
Global "IT debt" will reach $500 billion this year and could rise to $1 trillion by 2015, Gartner analysts have estimated. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Shoretel

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!

WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems

Gartner: Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers
Citrix Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant for 2009 Application Delivery Controllers Magic Quadrant, Gartner Group Read now!

8 essential privacy extensions for Firefox
They say privacy doesn't exist on the Web -- but that doesn't mean you can't try to safeguard your personal information. Our computers are loaded with details about our personal and business lives, and it's definitely not acceptable to reveal them haphazardly. With hackers becoming ever more sophisticated, you have to take precautions. Read More

What's Hot in Fall's Coolest Games
From free-to-play fantasy epics to lightsaber-swinging action sequels, here are the most anticipated games of the new season. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Pareto Networks

The Cloud-based Telework Solution
By combining a cloud-based model with user-friendly devices, Pareto Networks has pioneered a new approach to remote access with the simplicity, centralized control, visibility, and economies of scale needed for broad deployment to permanent telewokers. Read now!

Hackers exploit latest Microsoft zero-day bug
Microsoft is warning users that hackers are exploiting the unpatched bug in ASP.Net to hijack encrypted Web sessions. Read More

'Preliminary' finding invalidates VoIP patent, says EFF
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is claiming an early knock-down in its ongoing fight to strip a small Florida company called C2 Communications of a VoIP patent EFF calls bogus and that C2 has invoked to pry payments out of major U.S. carriers such as AT&T, Verizon and Qwest. Read More


WHITE PAPER: ArcSight

Building a Successful Security Operations Center
This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center

Do you need a crossover cable?
If you want to connect two computers directly via their Ethernet ports, you could use something called a crossover cable – but you may not have to. Read More

FCC opens up 'white spaces' spectrum to mobile devices
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has voted to open up unused spectrum in the television band to unlicensed wireless broadband devices, a move that will give U.S. residents access to "super Wi-Fi," the agency's chairman said. Read More

Five federal agencies want big robot technology advances
Five federal agencies this week teamed to announce they are looking to fund innovative research and development of robotic technologies for everything from home healthcare and bomb detection to biological sensors and agriculture applications. Read More



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