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	Free BlackBerry Apps for the Holidays CIO.com's mobile maestro Al Sacco handpicks ten BlackBerry applications -- six of which are completely free -- that can help with shopping, travel, personal entertainment and much more this upcoming holiday season. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AccelOps Virtualization & Cloud Blindspots? Having VM triage and optimization issues? Building private/hybrid clouds? Want service quality and application performance reliability? AccelOps integrated monitoring delivers end-to-end visibility, proactive control, reduced MTTR and service intelligence. Test the ultimate data center monitoring platform in-house with our 14-day trial download. In this Issue Travel Gear gift ideas Top 15 Essential iPad Apps for Work Top 15 Essential iPad Apps for Play Portable Entertainment Gift Ideas 7 crazy iPad accessories Top Holiday Gifts Under $100 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 Travel Gear gift ideas If you're into gadgets, chances are you carry around a lot of them when you travel. The road warrior uses gadgets as tools and weapons (the figurative kind, not literal), so when it comes time for coming up with gift ideas for them, chances are a new gadget beyond the phone or computer will hit the spot. Here's a bunch of our favorite weapons for the road warrior: Read More Top 15 Essential iPad Apps for Work From Awesome Currency Calculator to iTranslate, here are 15 iPad apps that will help you do the job and make the process a bit more fun. 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 Top 15 Essential iPad Apps for Play Whether you want to race, play with angry birds, or read, these iPad apps will keep you tapping for hours. Read More Portable Entertainment Gift Ideas The days of having multiple devices for listening to music or watching movies is basically over – Apple dominates the market so much so that it's hard to find interesting devices that don't immediately compare themselves to the iPod or the iPad. So a lot of the gear in the portable entertainment space this year focuses on the headphone space, where we are seeing lots of different choices, designs and styles. Here are our picks for favorites in the portable entertainment space:  Read More WEBCAST: Trend Micro All Clouds Aren't Equal Trend Micro CTO Raimund Genes discusses the advantages of cloud-based defenses and what you should know before choosing one. View now! 7 crazy iPad accessories How many of these add-ons do you have for Apple's tablet, and what does that say about you? Read More Top Holiday Gifts Under $100 Hunting for great holiday tech gifts that won't break the bank? Look no further: We have 10 geeky gift ideas that you can buy for less than the cost of a Kindle. Read More
	Fill out a survey, get rewarded Get a free Starbucks gift card for participating in a Network World survey about application performance management best practices. Research firm NetForecast is surveying enterprises about APM practices for an upcoming Network World article. The first 100 participants will receive a $5 Starbucks gift card. Click here. Goodies from the Subnets We've got SharePoint 2010 training for up to three people from Webucator up for grabs. There's an iPad available, too. Enter to win one! SLIDESHOWS Microsoft Windows after 25 years: A visual history More than nine out of 10 computers run some version of Windows. But no one could have predicted that would be the case when Windows 1.0 launched 25 years ago as a graphical front end for MS-DOS. Here's a look at Windows through the years and some thoughts on what the future might hold. Cool Yule favorites: 15 techie gifts we like Ho Ho Ho, it's time again to get our holiday wish lists together. Here are our 15 favorite products from the 140+ products submitted and tested in this year's Cool Yule Tools holiday gift guide. MOST-READ STORIES Airports can legally opt-out, kick TSA program to the curb Twitter generation failed The Science Guy? Nonsense. Is free DNS a good deal for business? Google Chrome tops 'Dirty Dozen' vulnerable apps list 10 free Microsoft products for IT and home users Report sounds alarm on China's rerouting of U.S. Internet traffic H-1B at 20: How the 'tech worker visa' is remaking IT 10 most exaggerated tech terms Microsoft launches Lync: 70 new devices now, Kinect integration Microsoft breaks petaflop barrier, loses Top 500 spot to Linux
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