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Wednesday, February 02, 2011

Egypt lifts blockade on Internet service

Windows Azure turns 1 in 'anemic' market | Juniper changes course, delivers IPv6 content

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Egypt lifts blockade on Internet service
Egyptians have their Internet back, as the country's embattled government leaders have apparently realized that the communications blockade was largely ineffective if not counterproductive. Read More


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Windows Azure turns 1 in 'anemic' market
On the anniversary of Windows Azure's introduction, the cloud platform market targeted by Microsoft is dwarfed by infrastructure and software clouds. Read More

Juniper changes course, delivers IPv6 content
Juniper Networks is accelerating its plan to support IPv6 on its public-facing Web site and Web services, following criticism that the router maker was lagging rivals including Cisco Systems and Brocade Networks in this critical area. Read More

10 Things You Can Track in Real Time With Google Maps
These Google Maps mashups present interesting information in (almost) real-time. Read More

Top 10 free open source tools for network admins
From troubleshooting DNS queries and misbehaving network applications to keeping your configurations and passwords organized, these free open source tools have you covered. Read More


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Google Chrome surpasses 10% market share for first time; IE8 gains accelerate
Google's Chrome browser reached a milestone in January, surpassing 10% market share for the first time. Microsoft's Internet Explorer held onto 56% of global browser usage. Read More

Protecting your Cisco routers (all your co-workers don't really need access to the Command-Line Interface)
One of the most common requests regarding TACACS+, that I get, relates to restricting CLI access using command authorization on IOS. Usually my customers want to ensure that a group of users can only execute some show commands for monitoring purpose. Read More

Microsoft delivers powerful enterprise backup tool
Microsoft's flagship backup and archiving software, Data Protection Manager, has come a long way since we first tested it in 2005. Read More

Was Egypt oversold as top offshoring spot?
Before Egypt turned off the Internet, the country had received increasingly high marks from leading analysis firms as a promising offshore outsourcing destination, despite the nation's political risk. Read More


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Security appliance, cloud service secures e-mail, Web access and offers data-loss prevention
Websense today unveiled three new gateway security products for e-mail, Web and data-loss prevention that combines an on-premises appliance with secure content filtering in the cloud. Read More

US peer-to-peer traffic lower than world average
The U.S. has one of the lowest relative rates of use of P-to-P (peer-to-peer) networks compared to the rest of the world, according to a new study. Read More

Cisco's data center competition about to be unveiled
Juniper has a major data center announcement slated for Feb. 23 in San Francisco. We believe it's the long awaited product roll out from the two-year-old Stratus Project. Read More

Is spying on teenage drivers an invasion of privacy or a parent's right?
Teenage drivers crash nine times more often than adults. Teens drive more safely when parents are riding in the car with them, but parents can't always ride with them. So some turn to technology to capture audio and video of teenage drivers in an effort to make them feel watched, as if their parents were there. Read More



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