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Progress of Microsoft's proposed W3C standard greatly exaggerated
There are lot of stories floating around the Internet today about the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) granting approval to a Web privacy standard proposed by Microsoft. It sounds great for Microsoft, but there's one problem. It's not true. Well, not exactly. Read More


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Introducing Brocade Virtual Cluster Switching
Brocade Virtual Cluster Switching (VCS) is an emerging technology that will revolutionize the way data center networks are architected and how they function. Read Now.

12 Must-Have Android Apps for Road Warriors
These dozen slick apps will keep you moving, grooving, and taking care of business. Read More

IT graduates not 'well-trained, ready-to-go'
There is a disconnect between students getting high tech degrees and what employers are looking for in those graduates. Read More

Five Things You Need to Know About LTE
LTE, or long-term evolution service, is poised to be the new world standard for mobile data. Here are five things that set it apart from its predecessors. Read More


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Riverbed® Cascade© stacks up extremely well against the competition. How well? In particular, Cascade outperforms other application-aware network performance management solutions in such important areas as product strength and cost efficiency. Read Now.

McNealy: Sun could have won out over Linux
Former CEO says 'Google today would be running on Solaris' if Sun had not mishandled its OS. Read More

Crime stats show 'Net users may be getting wiser
It's only one data point from one year, but if this metric reported by a federal crime-fighting agency portends a trend, we may be seeing the stereotypically gullible Internet user growing wiser before our eyes. Read More

Virtualization on Mobile Devices: What's Taking So Long?
Despite years of marketing pressure and products that are simpler to use and more widely available, desktop virtualization hasn't taken off to the extent that vendors and analysts expected even a few years ago. Read More


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The State of Internet Vulnerability
What's being done to alleviate Internet vulnerabilities? Are you, or your company, susceptible to threats such as man-in-the-middle attacks and cache poisoning? This white paper reports the results of recent research and examines who is affected by Domain Name System insecurities. Read Now

HIPAA privacy actions seen as warning
Two separate enforcement actions taken this week by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for HIPAA privacy violations should serve as a warning to all health care entities, say privacy analysts. Read More

Former Avaya chief D'Ambrosio takes reigns at Sears
Longtime tech executive Lou D'Ambrosio has taken the helm at Sears Holdings Corp. with the goal of reversing the department store's downward financial trend and possibly boosting its online business. Read More

Four Kinds of IT Professionals CIOs Need to Hire Now
Developers of mobile, social media and collaboration apps. Business experts. Cloud-vendor managers. Masters of unstructured data. Why these IT professionals are essential to maintaining your company's competitive edge. Read More

Proposed cloud-log standard sparks controversy
Cloud computing pushes current log management capabilities to their limit. Experts say it's time for a new standard to simplify the problem. Read More



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