Cisco computer game lets you play CEO

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Spotlight Story Cisco computer game lets you play CEO If you want to be a CEO but not have any of the real responsibilities of one, you could try to play a new online game being offered by Cisco.  The company this week posted myPlanNet, a computer game that lets anyone be a broadband executive making network deployment decisions.  Read full story Related News: InfoWorld review: Whitelisting security comes of age Remarkably good solutions from Bit9, CoreTrace, Lumension, McAfee, and SignaCert show that whitelisting may be the new best defense against modern malware FCC and DOT team-up, want high-tech cure for distracted driving The Federal Communications Commission and the US Department of Transportation are teaming up to develop what they called high-tech solutions to the growing problem of distracted or inattentive drivers.  Counterfeit Money: Still Going Strong In the month of October, U.S. law enforcement officials arrested people in North Carolina, Virginia and Kentucky for trying to use counterfeit money. 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