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	Browser Fingerprints: A Big Privacy Threat Forget cookies -- even the ultrasneaky, Flash-based "super cookies." A new type of tracking may identify you far more accurately than any cookie -- and you may never know it was there. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP ProCurve Break Free from Proprietary Networking See why Gartner and the network industry have positioned HP as a leader and the fastest-growing enterprise Ethernet LAN networking vendor. HP's commitment to industry-standards can help organizations optimize their network. Read now. In this Issue iPad Apps: A Sneak Peek After DNS problem, Chinese root server is shut down Is your mobile phone giving up your phone number? FCC Relying on Faulty ISP Performance Data from comScore Military warns of increasingly active cyberthreat from China Google to Pick Fiber Network Cities By Year-end Google offers experimental features to bolster Google Data Protocol Does the iPad need Microsoft Office to succeed? Brocade aims for more balance with Foundry Twitter spam shows large fall ARTICLE: Ciena Ciena + Nortel Metro Ethernet Networks: See whats next. When will high-bandwidth applications perform better because of your network? Now. Watch a short video to learn how Ciena's acquisition of Nortel Metro Ethernet Networks enables you to deliver what's next. Click to continue iPad Apps: A Sneak Peek Here's a quick look at what to expect in the coming weeks once iPad-specific apps begin rolling into the iTunes App Store. Read More After DNS problem, Chinese root server is shut down A China-based root DNS server associated with networking problems in Chile and the U.S. has been disconnected from the Internet. Read More Is your mobile phone giving up your phone number? When mobile users surf the Web they also may be inadvertently disclosing their phone numbers, a security researcher said Thursday. Read More WHITE PAPER: Ipanema How WAN Governance Improves Business Performance WAN Governance is an innovative concept that allows organizations to combine traditional WAN optimization techniques and performance management capabilities to ensure optimal speed and availability of business-critical applications. Read More FCC Relying on Faulty ISP Performance Data from comScore The FCC recently used speed test results from comScore as an absolute indicator of specific ISPs' performance. NetForecast analyzed comScore's testing methodology and data to assess whether it accurately reflects broadband ISP performance, and to assess the appropriateness of using the data to reach general conclusions about the actual performance ISPs deliver to their subscribers. Read More Military warns of increasingly active cyberthreat from China On the same day that Google Inc. and the GoDaddy Group Inc. complained about China to a congressional committee, U.S. Navy Admiral Robert Willard appeared before the U.S. House Armed Services Committee with an even stronger warning about cyber-threats posed by China. Read More Google to Pick Fiber Network Cities By Year-end Cities and towns that want a piece of Google's high-speed fiber optics network will have to hang on for a little longer, as Google won't be announcing its target communities until the end of 2010. Read More WHITE PAPER: PC Mall Improving Disaster Recovery Solutions Today, many companies have established a disaster recovery strategy but have not implemented a solution due to high cost estimations. This HP white paper examines how affordable data mirroring solutions can provide higher performance, high data integrity & faster and more cost-effective disaster recovery. Read More Google offers experimental features to bolster Google Data Protocol Partial response and partial update are offered to reduce network and CPU resource consumption. Read More Does the iPad need Microsoft Office to succeed? In producing a version of its iWork suite of apps for the iPad, Apple is sending a signal: The device won't just be for watching video, playing games and reading books -- although those are sure big reasons why many people will buy one next weekend. By announcing iWork for the iPad during the tablet's unveiling in January, Apple clearly wanted to plant the idea of the iPad as a business and productivity device squarely in the minds of would-be buyers. Read More Brocade aims for more balance with Foundry Brocade plans to lean more on the reseller channel to boost its sagging fortunes in Ethernet and IP, according to the company's new marketing chief, John McHugh. Read More Twitter spam shows large fall Twitter has published figures that appear to show a dramatic fall in spam on the service. Read More
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