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	Google boosts Chrome 6 speed into dead heat with leaders Google's Chrome 6 is 17% faster than the version it replaced, putting it in a virtual dead heat with the speed leaders, Opera and Safari, according to benchmark scores. 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! In this Issue Did HP overpay for 3Par? Have a ball with today's 'mysterious' Google doodle A closer look at Apple's new products Microsoft investigates two-year-old IE bug Ohio bans offshoring as it gives tax relief to outsourcing firm From Einstein to Xbox: The IFA consumer electronics exhibition turns 50 Measuring the Supply Side of the Networking Job Market What does 'Lawrence of Arabia' have to do with Phone 7? Behind the Groupon phenomenon WHITE PAPER: Xerox Cutting through complexity at Reuters Reuters, the world's largest news agency, implemented managed print services that reduced the total cost of their printer fleet by up to 19% per year while increasing user satisfaction and productivity. Read Now. Did HP overpay for 3Par? HP paid roughly 11 times what 3Par made in revenue in 2009, so perhaps Dell should be wiping sweat from its forehead after losing the bidding battle for the storage vendor. Still, HP could make hay with 3Par in a big way. Read More Have a ball with today's 'mysterious' Google doodle It's not often that Google's daily doodle makes me utter a "Yikes," but today is one of those days. Read More A closer look at Apple's new products A peek at the new iPod lineup, Apple TV, and upcoming iOS 4.1 and 4.2 features. 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 Microsoft investigates two-year-old IE bug Microsoft is looking into a long-known vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) that could be used to access users' data and Web-based accounts. Read More Ohio bans offshoring as it gives tax relief to outsourcing firm Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland is delivering one of the strongest attacks yet on offshore outsourcing, calling it not only a threat to jobs but an IT security risk. Read More From Einstein to Xbox: The IFA consumer electronics exhibition turns 50 From Sept. 3-8, the IFA , one of the oldest and largest consumer electronics exhibitions on the planet, will be in full swing. Read More WEBCAST: Certeon Going Virtual with WAN Optimization Software This Webcast will provide you with the necessary information required to deploy high performance virtualized infrastructures that support remote access to resources and applications. Learn More Measuring the Supply Side of the Networking Job Market I hear you loud and clear: the overwhelming reason to go for your next Cisco cert is to help you get the next job. Our survey from last week currently shows an overwhelming 75% claiming that they will choose their next Cisco cert for the purpose of helping them get their next job. It's not what's interesting, or what's best for the long term career, it's what gets you the job now. Read More What does 'Lawrence of Arabia' have to do with Phone 7? Microsoft ran its first ad for the coming Phone 7 mobile operating system this weekend and in the tradition of anticipation-building teaser ads, this one is atmospheric, artsy, overly dramatic and, for some, probably puzzling. Read More Behind the Groupon phenomenon While it's nice to know there's still plenty of "wish I'd thought of that" room on the Internet, there's something oddly unsettling about the truly astronomical success of Groupon, which is built on a not at all complicated idea. Read More
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