Editor's note: We will be changing how we send out Network World newsletters over the next few weeks. To ensure future delivery of your newsletters, please add nww_newsletters@newsletters.networkworld.com to your e-mail address book or 66.186.127.216 to your white-list file. Thank you. Use the Cisco restroom at your own risk Things may look a little grubbier around Cisco's San Jose headquarters. That's because 100 janitors and supporters were camped out in front of the Tasman Drive complex this week to protest the firing of 75 of their comrades. Gmail Labs' 5 Best and 5 Worst Features The built-in Google Search is just the latest in a growing menu of experimental Gmail Labs features. As is often the case with Google's array of services, some are killer additions worthy of the word "awesome," while others are ill-fated flops that seem to have death sentences from day one. With today's strong addition, we thought we'd take a look back at five of the best and five of the worst other Gmail Labs options introduced over the past months. Open source cloud platform is commercialized by its creators Creators of the open source Eucalyptus cloud platform launch private company, get funding. Netbook shipments rise sevenfold during Q1 An Apple official may have trashed netbooks for cramped keyboards and "junky" hardware, but shipments for the inexpensive laptops are showing no signs of slowing down. Expert: Cybersecurity incentives, not mandates, needed The U.S. Congress should look to provide incentives for private businesses to adopt stronger cybersecurity practices instead of creating new mandates, one information security expert told a congressional subcommittee Friday. The 'Converged' CIO Nickasch: From an IT executive's standpoint, it is important to ask whether convergence has served its purpose. The supporting ideas and technologies that make up a conglomerate theme such as unified communications are independently important, but do they fit together, and in an appropriate manner? Does this strategy make it simpler, or more complicated? Expand A Small Network With an Ethernet Switch Most home-office networks start with a PC, a router, and a modem. But when a small single-user network grows into a larger multiuser network, your original Wi-Fi router can run out of free ethernet ports to connect various PCs, networkable printers, small-business servers, and other essential hardware. That's when a switch comes in handy. Get Communicator Mobile Now! Microsoft Subnet blogger Alex Lewis uses CoMo, communicator mobile, almost everyday. Whether it's to make a call from my mobile "from the office" or just IM with colleagues, a mobile strategy is key for any UC solution. |
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