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Cisco sets the bar for mobile security

'Rogue' game server admins defend hosting on company gear | Cisco unveils secure teleworker products

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Cisco sets the bar for mobile security
Cisco has been a leader in remote access VPNs since 1999, and its latest release, the AnyConnect Secure Mobility Solution, will make both end users and network managers very happy, despite a few rough parts. Read More


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'Rogue' game server admins defend hosting on company gear
They say it's a perk and harmless ... as long as they're carefulBack in January, I wrote about a group of Scandinavian gamers who hijacked a New Hampshire medical center's server and bandwidth to host their "Call of Duty: Black Ops" sessions, which resulted in some 230,000 patients having their personal information put at risk. Read More

Cisco unveils secure teleworker products
Cisco introduced four devices aimed at improving the performance and security of home offices used by corporate workers. Read More


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Schools Graduate to Enterprise Class Wi-Fi
Online multimedia and interactive educational applications are invading the classroom and prompting schools to take a fresh look at what's possible with the latest in wireless LAN technology. Read now!

Cisco pays its first dividend
Company holds to September 2010 pledge to dole out some of its $40 billion in cashAs promised, Cisco this week said it will pay a dividend to shareholders from that $40 billion cash reserve it has piled up, most of which is overseas. It's the first time in company history that Cisco's paid a dividend. Read More

US slowly, very slowly oozes rare earth assault
Japan earthquake, rare earth mining increase could change landscape for USSometimes when you are so far behind in a particular game of strategy, it's ok to fallback, regroup and slowly reevaluate your plan of attack . Read More


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Application-Aware Network Performance Management
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.

Brocade unites IPv4 and IPv6
Brocade this week unveiled software for its application acceleration switches that enables them to function as gateways between existing IPv4 networks and new ones built on IPv6. Read More

Force10 data center switch delivers impressive performance
High port density, high throughput, and very low latency are bedrock requirements in the data center, and Force10's new S4810 top-of-rack switch delivers on all counts. Read More

On the company dime: Rogue game server admins tell all
Back in January, Scandinavian gamers hijacked a New Hampshire medical center's server to host "Call of Duty: Black Ops" sessions. When asked about that incident, Stephen Heaslip of the gamer site Blues News told Network World that hackers are not the most likely individuals to commandeer corporate servers for illicit gaming: Such appropriations are more often the work of IT administrators, he said. Read More



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Perks drive up pay for tech CEOs
Many tech vendors have shied away from extravagant perks, but there are still plenty worth highlighting. Like a $1.5 million tab for home security. Or how about the $36,619 one company paid to reimburse its CEO for the taxes he had to pay on the $106,589 he gained by using company aircraft for personal flights? Read on to find out which tech CEOs enjoyed the priciest perks in 2010 and which ones went to work perk-free.

First look at Microsoft Internet Explorer 9
Microsoft has a real competitor once again with IE9, released at midnight Monday night on Windows 7 and Vista after several months of beta testing. The focus is on speed, privacy and simplicity, with a stripped-down interface, tracking protection, pinned sites, jump lists and enhanced support for HTML5.

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