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Data centers drive Ethernet switch market in 2010; Happy 25th, Cisco; 8 PowerPoint train wrecks

Happy 25th Anniversary, Cisco; 8 More PowerPoint Train Wrecks
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Data centers drive Ethernet switch market in 2010

2010 promises to be an interesting year in the enterprise LAN switching market. Read full story

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Happy 25th Anniversary, Cisco
Today is Cisco's 25th birthday. The company was founded December 10, 1984, by husband and wife Len Bosack and Sandy Lerner, two former Stanford University computer scientists whose efforts to enable email between computers on different networks led to the invention of the first multiprotocol router.

8 More PowerPoint Train Wrecks
We thought we had seen presentation disaster at its worst with the last set of PowerPoint slides. We were wrong. These train wrecks, captured in all their not-so-fiery infamy, show what truly terrible PPT slides can do to burn innocent audiences everywhere.

Microsoft knew of just-patched IE zero-day for months
Microsoft may not have hustled as fast as researchers thought when the company patched a zero-day bug in Internet Explorer (IE) just 18 days after exploit code went public.

Nortel purchase to test Avaya big time
2010 should be a watershed year for Avaya, which has been reinventing itself for the past three years and is just about to take on the challenge of acquiring and integrating the enterprise assets of Nortel.

HP patches OpenView vulnerabilities
Hewlett-Packard has issued a number of patches for a component in its OpenView software package. The company advises administrators to apply the patches immediately, given the severity of the vulnerabilities.

Dell embeds Fibre Channel over Ethernet in server line
Dell on Thursday announced it is shipping single-chip Fibre Channel over Ethernet network interface cards in a large range of PowerEdge servers. The move could bolster adoption of the nascent networking protocol.

Mozilla exec suggests Firefox users move to Bing, cites Google privacy stance
A Mozilla official today pointed Firefox users to the extension that adds Microsoft's Bing to the list of the browser's search engines after Google's CEO downplayed consumers' privacy concerns.

Analysts scoff at rumor of Intel-Nvidia deal
While rumors are swirling around the Internet that Intel is looking to buy rival chips maker Nvidia, analysts say it's nothing but talk and bluster.

EA CEO wants to sell DLC to console game pirates
Kotaku's Stephen Totilo recently spoke with EA's CEO, John Riccitiello, who had a rather refreshing view of the rampant problem of video game piracy.

Facebook's New Privacy Settings: 5 Things You Should Know
Facebook has begun rolling out its new privacy settings to all of its 350 million users. If you haven't seen it already, you will soon have to go through a wizard that will guide you through the process of confirming your privacy settings.

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