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Verizon's LTE pricing: Good deal or gouge?

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Verizon's LTE pricing: Good deal or gouge?
Verizon Wireless' planned rates for LTE data usage are either too costly or a relative bargain, depending on who is offering an opinion. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Iron Mountain

Strategic Hotels implements Cloud Based Back Up
This IDC Buyer Case Study looks at the use of cloud-based backup solutions by Strategic Hotels & Resorts Inc., a real estate investment trust that owns and manages high-end hotels and resorts. The company's main goal in searching for an alternative to its existing cloud-based services solution. Read now

WHITE PAPER: Citrix Solution Center NWW PAN IDG

8 Criteria for Server Load Balancing
Server load balancers are a simple yet highly effective means to scale an application environment while ensuring its availability. Today's solutions should also address application performance and security. Read about the top eight criteria you should consider when choosing a server load balancer and how Citrix NetScaler meets those requirements. Read now!

The well-dressed iPad: Chic accessories for an elegant tablet
Apple's iPad is tough and good-looking enough to use on its own, but sometimes you want more. Maybe you want to class up your iPad for an important meeting or a night on the town. Maybe you just want to keep it safe and warm. We've assembled a set of accessories that'll hold an iPad at a comfortable angle, show it off, keep it clean and protect it during travel. Read More

Our vote on net neutrality
The net neutrality framework FCC chairman Julius Genachowski outlined in a speech last week and which will be voted on later this month sustains many of the original goals of neutrality while giving the telcos enough to give a tentative nod of approval, all of which adds up to a meaningful step forward. Read More

Microsoft's 'China problem' means IE6 lives on
A Microsoft executive's self-described job of driving Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) into extinction will be difficult unless he can move Chinese users off the aged browser. Read More


WEBCAST: Websense, Inc.

Web Security Gateway Solutions Demo
This demo provides a hands on view of Websense Web Security Gateway solutions and how they enable safe productive use of today's dynamic, interactive Web. Learn More Now!

Microsoft lowers Windows hosting prices - but will cloud customers benefit?
Microsoft is planning to lower Windows Server licensing prices for hosting providers starting Jan. 1. That's great for Microsoft's partners. But will IT shops see any change in their bills? Read More

The Galaxy Tab: Samsung has a hit on its hands
While Samsung's Galaxy Tab isn't as big a hit as Apple's iPad, it has sold briskly as it reached the 1 million mark today less than two months after its first release. Read More

Amazon denies being pressured to dump Wikileaks
Amazon.com is denying widespread reports suggesting that pressure from the office of Sen. Joseph Lieberman, chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, prompted it to boot Wikileaks from Amazon Web Services earlier this week. Wikileaks replies that Amazon's pants are on fire. Read More


WHITE PAPER: IBM

A Journey to Adaptive Master Data Management
This white paper describes the business drivers for MDM and value that can be derived through the master data management journey, illustrates the characteristics of an adaptive MDM solution, and provides an overview of the IBM MDM portfolio. Read Now!

Feds Tracking Americans' Credit Cards in Real Time Without a Warrant
It should surprise very few to learn that federal law enforcement agencies track Americans without getting court orders, but this time the feds have been tracking U.S. residents using real-time surveillance of credit card transactions and travel reservations. Read More

Andy Kessler's Modest Proposal: "Time to shut down the FCC"
It's long past time to scrap the Federal Communications Commission, an agency committed to restraint of trade, oligopolistic business practices, and the dogmatic, self-justifying, and utterly wrong insistence that bandwidth is a scarce commodity. Read More

Bruce Schneier: 'Cyberwar hotlines' needed
Security expert Bruce Schneier has called for governments to establish 'hotlines' between their cyber commands, much like the those between nuclear commands, to help them battle against cyber attacks. Read More

Most popular stories this week: Dec. 3
The most-viewed stories at Network World for the week ending Dec. 3. Check out the full list. Read More

AT&T, BT offer Inter-Provider Cisco TelePresence
AT&T and BT have announced an agreement to offer Inter-Provider Cisco TelePresence, providing exchange-to-exchange telepresence meeting capability. Read More



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December goodies from the Subnets
SharePoint 2010 power user training for three people from Webucator, plus a brand new iPad available from Microsoft Subnet. Five massive libraries on CCNP, security, NX-OS up for grabs on Cisco Subnet. Enter to win!

SLIDESHOWS

Top IT Turkeys of 2010
Thanksgiving is a time for giving thanks for all of the people and things we love, to cherish what's most important to us. But that's for another slideshow. This one's all about taunting the companies, products and people who most resembled a turkey over the last year. So cut me a hockey-puck-shaped slice of jellied cranberry sauce and read on.

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.

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