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10 must-have Olympic iPhone apps; Test your knowledge of tech CEOs

Celebrating President's Day: Test your knowledge of 10 tech CEOs | Credit card data security: Who's responsible?

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10 Must-Have Olympic iPhone Apps
Technology at this year's Vancouver Winter Games is not just limited to the scoring, the TV coverage or the athletes. People who own an iPhone can use their device to play winter games, check TV schedules and follow the medal counts. Here's a list of 10 iPhone apps you should get before the games begin. Read More


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Top Three Reasons to Deploy a Virtual Directory
A virtual directory presents a single, consolidated view of disparate identity data to organizations dealing with diverse legacy resources as a result of ongoing growth, mergers and acquisitions, or collaboration with other organizations. Read Now

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Drive SharePoint Adoption in Lotus Notes Shops
This whitepaper explores the opportunity to promote SharePoint adoption, without demanding a wholesale change in users' behavior, by integrating SharePoint with your email client. Read More

Celebrating President's Day: Test your knowledge of 10 tech CEOs
Everybody knows Abe Lincoln was the tallest president, but not everybody knows he traced his feet to have his shoes custom made by mail order. In the spirit of President's Day this month, test your knowledge of lesser known facts about the premiere CEOs in high technology, such as those from Cisco, Google and Microsoft. What little-known facts do you know about the CEOs of today's most powerful technology companies? Read More

Credit card data security: Who's responsible?
About a year ago security at Heartland Payment Systems Inc. was breached and information affecting over 100 million credit cards stolen. Was it Heartland's fault, or should the credit card companies shoulder more of the responsibility? Read More

Einstein 2: U.S. government's 'enlightening' new cybersecurity weapon
The Department of Homeland Security is detecting new patterns of cyberattacks from foreign adversaries -- some targeted at particular agencies and others aimed at the entire U.S. government -- due to to special-purpose intrusion-detection systems that will be widely deployed in federal networks during 2010. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Oracle

Optimizing and Protecting Storage
This document focuses on key Oracle Database 11g capabilities that help IT departments better optimize their storage infrastructure, enabling administrators to deliver a cost effective, scalable information management platform. Read Now

Note to Cisco: Pick Your Security Battle
The pushback I tend to get is that Cisco builds security into all of its products so individual security products aren't the right thing to focus on. Hmm, this may be so but in my humble opinion Cisco is fighting on two fronts and right now it can't win on either one. Allow me to elaborate. Read More

Her Majesty's Government demands protection against cell phone theft.
The British government is demanding that the cell phone industry do more to protect subscribers from phone theft. Read More

Google Snowmobile brings Olympic ski slopes to Street View
Google's Snowmobile bring the ski slopes for the 2012 Winter Olympics to Google Street View. Read More


WEBCAST: HP

Metzler: Virtualization and the Network Manager
The networks manager's role has changed significantly over the years. This Webcast highlights survey results of 460 IT pros and their experiences with network management. Learn how network automation is helping to address the unique challenges of both physical and virtual environments. Learn more

Stream the 2010 Vancouver Olympics From Anywhere
True fans of the Winter Olympics will need more than a television broadcast schedule to stay current, especially if NBC's Olympics coverage (across local and cable channels) doesn't show your favorite sports or shows them on a tape-delayed broadcast that leaves you 3 hours behind your Twitter feed. Fortunately, we have some tips to help you use your PC and smartphone to get the coverage you need. Read More

Juniper hit with $169M backdating settlement
Juniper Networks has reportedly agreed to pay $169 million to settle a 4-year-old lawsuit over backdating stock options, a practice that entrapped and embarrassed many high-tech firms over the past decade. Read More

Google Gigabit Broadband: Progress vs. Profits
Google announced plans yesterday to test out ultrafast gigabit broadband in limited markets. However, that doesn't mean Google is entering yet another highly competitive industry (at least not yet). The intended audiences for the tests are the broadband providers and their subscribers. Read More

IBM announces massive NAS array for the cloud
IBM announced a clustered NAS file system today that is aimed at cloud-computing environments that can scale in size to 14 petabytes of capacity under a single global name space. Read More

Google buys social search company Aardvark
Google is buying Aardvark, a company that fields questions and routes them for answers to the most qualified respondents within the user's social-networking circle. Read More



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