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	Microsoft fights Apple trademark on 'App Store' Microsoft is asking the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to deny Apple a trademark on the name "App Store," saying the term is generic and competitors should be able to use it. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco 802.11n Network Design Training Series Learn about RF interference and how a proactive RF management system can simplify your daily operations. Find out deployment strategies for implementing Cisco CleanAir technology into your existing 802.11n network. Register Now In this Issue Rep. Giffords made tech her top issue From the abacus to the iPod: Computer museum opens $19M exhibition 15 Sizzling Smartphones of CES 2011 Psst, Want To Buy Some Patents? Just $450m Cisco attorney's perceived anti-semitism sends company back to court Verizon iPhone impact on Android may be a wash Apple redesigns antenna in Verizon iPhone AT&T and Verizon iPhone plans compared Can Google and Mozilla dethrone H.264 on the Web? IBM doubles down on business analytics Alacritech re-emerges with NAS acceleration appliance DOWNLOAD: LogMeIn Take Control of your IT Universe LogMeIn Central lets you access, monitor and automate tasks on all the computers in your system from a single web-based console. Keep your servers up and running. And your productivity level too. Get your free LogMeIn Central trial. Rep. Giffords made tech her top issue Since her election to Congress in 2007, U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has quickly established herself as an emerging leader on tech issues, and she led by example. Read More From the abacus to the iPod: Computer museum opens $19M exhibition The Computer History Museum this week opens a $19 million, 25,000-square-foot building expansion and exhibition titled: "Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing." Read More 15 Sizzling Smartphones of CES 2011 Kiss your current smartphone goodbye. There are a multitude of contenders rushing to take its place from HTC, LG, Motorola, Samsung, and even Dell and Vizio. Read More WEBCAST: Cisco Mobile Powerplay: Secure, High Performance, Unified The mobile revolution is here—and here to stay. iPhone, iPad, Droid--employees bring their mobile devices into the workplace, and they want access to personal and professional information. This brings a new set of concerns for IT and the business: IT needs to ensure that the corporate network and the access remains secure. Register Now Psst, Want To Buy Some Patents? Just $450m Oh what a tangled web we weave when we seek to deceive. Well now it appears that that the axis of evil who was seeking to buy the Novell patent portfolio for a cool $450m has imploded and will not be buying them after all. Why? Beats me. The best guess I can make is that the outcry that was starting to be heard around this deal might have scared them off. Read More Cisco attorney's perceived anti-semitism sends company back to court A Cisco attorney's remarks apparently referring to a plaintiff's Jewish religion has won the plaintiff a new trial in the patent infringement case between his company and Cisco. Read More Verizon iPhone impact on Android may be a wash Some analysts say the iPhone 4G on Verizon Wireless will cannibalize Google Android smartphone sales across various carriers including AT&T early on, while others disagree. Read More WHITE PAPER: ParAccel Halt Fraud in Minutes Outdated legacy analytic solutions do not deliver responses within the accelerated timelines demanded by fraud detection today. Learn how high-performance analytics is architected to run complex computations on massive amounts of data without time-wasting or static workarounds - no pre-defined indexes, summarize data or materialized views required. Read now! Apple redesigns antenna in Verizon iPhone Apple's new iPhone 4 has been redesigned for Verizon Wireless, with the smartphone sporting a new antenna optimized for CDMA networks. Read More AT&T and Verizon iPhone plans compared Many of you probably consider an Apple-Verizon deal the second coming of the iPhone. Perhaps you've suffered on AT&T since June 29, 2007, or maybe you've been biding your time with that dilapidated Motorola RAZR, waiting for the day the iPhone was to be liberated. Well, that day has come, so we did your Verizon iPhone homework for you to see how the carrier compares against AT&T, besides offering a potentially more reliable network. Read More Can Google and Mozilla dethrone H.264 on the Web? Good news today for open Web proponents: Google has announced it be pushing WebM and Theora for the HTML5 video element in Chrome as well as the open source Chromium project. Potentially bad news for the majority of the Web, which is going to have to ride out a years-long standards format war. Again. Read More IBM doubles down on business analytics Billions of dollars, millions of man-hours, and thousands of projects at IBM are all focused on the same thing: turning scads of enterprise data into useful information. Read More Alacritech re-emerges with NAS acceleration appliance After years of quietly milking its TCP/IP offload technology for revenue through licensing agreements, Alacritech has re-emerged to introduce its first file server acceleration appliance, which boasts the ability to improve performance by three or more times. Read More
	BECOME AN INSIDER Get premium content, in-depth reviews, practical tips and exclusive research. All for just signing up. Sign up for free today. SLIDESHOWS The weirdest, wackiest and stupidest sci/tech stories of 2010 It's hard to pick the weirdest and wackiest tech stories of 2010 considering there is so much nuttiness to choose from. But we'll give it a shot. Here we take a look at a number of stories that gave us pause in 2010. 2010's most popular iPad apps As the iPad celebrates its first birthday, it should raise a glass to Apple's App Store, which has provided users with an array of innovative applications. Late last week, Apple released a list of the 10 most popular iPad applications, with productivity apps making up the bulk. MOST-READ STORIES What Verizon's network can -- and can't -- give iPhone users Apple and Verizon: The bumpy road to love Apple iPhoneys: the iPhone 5 edition Verizon to make iPhone announcement tomorrow Gov't allegedly forced TruTV to yank FEMA camps episode Cisco compacts Catalyst switches Steve Ballmer ousts Bob Muglia from Microsoft Digg founder: Don't buy an iPad now AT&T exec says CDMA iPhone users won't like 'life in the slow lane' NSA breaks ground on Utah 'spy center' data center
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