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	Cisco WAAS shows pizzazz The latest release of Cisco's WAN optimization product line -- Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) 4.4 -- proves that the company famous for routing packets can also shape, optimize and accelerate them. Read More WEBCAST: Oracle High Availability for SMBs Just Got Easy Tuesday, December 13, 9am PT / 12 noon ET Join this live Webcast to hear how Oracle has removed all the barriers to high availability with an appliance that provides a fully-configured, fully-patched system that can have you up and running in less than 2 hours. Learn More In this Issue Holiday gift guide 2011 [2011 Cool Yule Tools] Cool Yule Favorites: 20 techie gifts we like Tablet Accessories Tech Treasures [2011 Cool Yule Tools] Linksys prevails in dual-band duel iPad 2 vs. business class tablets 4 valuable additions to your cloud security toolkit After Hours (video games) Tech Treasures [2011 Cool Yule Tools] Home and Office Gear Tech Treasures [2011 Cool Yule Tools] Computer, Notebook and Tablet Tech Treasures [2011 Cool Yule Tools] WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc. Understanding Web Application Security This paper examines current trends in Web application security, assessing the present threat environment as well as limitations in existing approaches to protection. Learn more Holiday gift guide 2011 [2011 Cool Yule Tools] The holidays are here, and it's time to rock! With more than 140 products to choose from, let us take you on a journey through our favorite personal technology products and gift ideas for the techie on your list. From phones to computers to the hottest video games, we've got a bunch of great gift ideas. Please peruse and share with friends and family! Read More Cool Yule Favorites: 20 techie gifts we like Hard to believe, but once again it's time to put together our holiday wish lists. Here are 20 of our favorite products submitted and tested and "Cool Yule Elf" approved. Read More Tablet Accessories Tech Treasures [2011 Cool Yule Tools] While last year may have been the year of the tablet (with the introduction/invasion of the iPad), this year certainly qualifies as the year of the tablet accessory. Whether it's a case, a pillow, stand or speaker system, we've compiled a list of our favorite devices to go along with our favorite tablets. Read More WEBCAST: Nimsoft Enabling your service desk to be the front face to IT It's time to rethink old paradigms and implement agile, easy to use and on demand solutions. It's time to provide your service delivery team with knowledge enabling them to anticipate customer needs and requests and proactively solve them. Attend the interactive webcast and find out how. Learn more! Linksys prevails in dual-band duel Wireless routers are always something of a mystery. They combine a number of features into a single box and are usually complex to set up, but require little attention after that. Read More iPad 2 vs. business class tablets Tech lovers have been flocking to the iPad 2 and other tablets in order to watch movies, read books, surf the Web and make video calls on the latest, greatest, thinnest, lightest, coolest devices. But where do tablets fit within the enterprise? We tested 10 tablets to see which had the strongest set of business-related features. Read More 4 valuable additions to your cloud security toolkit DigitalPersona, CloudPassage, NetIQ and GlobalScape deliver unique ways of protecting cloud data. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Deliver Workload Automation Services to Business Users Workload automation touches every aspect of the business. It is made up of all scheduled and ad hoc processes that support critical business functions. Read More! After Hours (video games) Tech Treasures [2011 Cool Yule Tools] When we first started doing the Cool Yule Tools holiday gift guides, our "After Hours" section used to cover all of the "entertainment" devices, toys, gadgets and video games. With the explosion of home entertainment, personal entertainment and other consumer electronics, the entire guide is practically an "After Hours" section. Still, here are some of our picks of favorite video games and other "after work" distractions for you or your family. Read More Home and Office Gear Tech Treasures [2011 Cool Yule Tools] They say that a man's home is his castle – we figure that if you're going to have a castle, it needs to be filled up with some really cool, high-tech stuff. If you're working at a home office or just want to boost that home network in order to get a better connected home entertainment system up and running, the following products are great gift ideas. Read More Computer, Notebook and Tablet Tech Treasures [2011 Cool Yule Tools] With the arrival and success of the iPad and other tablets, many have said that "the PC is dead", and we'll admit, our choices of cool computers are fewer than in years past. But there are still some nice systems out there, here are a bunch of desktops, notebooks, and yes, tablets, that we think would make for some good gifts. Read More
	SLIDESHOWS 25 free open source projects IT pros will love We asked SourceForge's new community manager and longtime open source coder, Rich Bowen, to sniff out a few of the cool, lesser-known projects he thinks IT folks will love. What follows are his picks, along with a few of our own. GOODIES FROM MICROSOFT SUBNET Everyone who enters will win free training from Webucator. Grand prize: a SharePoint training class worth $2,375. All who enter will be awarded a self-paced class of their choosing. Enter here: http://www.networkworld.com/community/contests. Enter here. MOST-READ STORIES Cornell professor: Carrier IQ affair 'my worst nightmare' Gartner predictions for 2012 10 most powerful cloud companies Cracking ND5 ... with Google?! Skeptics find flaws in Carrier IQ application analysis iPhone 5 rumor roll-up for the week ending Dec. 2 2011's biggest security snafus Cisco to introduce larger Cius tablet next year How stupid can cell carriers be? Really stupid Cloud computing disrupts the vendor landscape
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