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	Who else wants national broadband? Let's say that the Federal Communications Commission's $15.5 billion broadband deployment plan helps produce the fastest nationwide broadband network in the modern world -- is there any guarantee that more people will use it? Read More WHITE PAPER: Arcsight Building a Successful Security Operations Center For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Learn More In this Issue IE9 proves Microsoft is back in the browser battle, says analyst Microsoft Releases IE 9 'Platform Preview' Slainte! Five St. Patricks Day apps for your iPhone Will $500 11n APs kick start deployments? Happy 25th Birthday 'Dot Com': A Look Back The Trouble With Twitter's @anywhere Service BlackBerry Users Willing to Swap for an iPhone Will Google Tip the Scale Toward OpenID? NSW gets world's largest Wi-Fi network Penetration Test: Cisco's driving new markets and we all go along for the ride. WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks Liberty University: Campus-wide IPTV over wireless In this webinar, experts from Aruba Networks and Liberty University will discuss the overwhelming business case for transitioning video to wireless, best practices for design and deployment, and initial results from the new service at Liberty. Click to continue IE9 proves Microsoft is back in the browser battle, says analyst Microsoft is back in the browser race, Forrester analyst Sheri McLeish said today after the company unveiled a rough developer's preview of its next browser, IE9. Read More Microsoft Releases IE 9 'Platform Preview' Microsoft today released a "platform preview" of Internet Explorer 9. This isn't an IE9 beta, mind you; it doesn't have the features you'd expect in a browser. It doesn't even have an address bar for that matter. Instead, the IE9 Platform Preview serves as a sneak peek at some of the new Web technologies and standards that Microsoft is working on building into its flagship browser. Read More Slainte! Five St. Patricks Day apps for your iPhone March 17 is St. Patrick's Day, and it's time to festoon your iPhone with apps that remind you of the Emerald Isle on this greenest of days! Read More WHITE PAPER: Polycom The Art of Teleworking Does teleworking really work? How can a teleworker be as productive as an employee in the office? This white paper covers the advances in technology that make teleworking successful— and provides solutions for challenges teleworkers may face. Learn More Will $500 11n APs kick start deployments? You can now get an 802.11n enterprise-class access point for less than $500 MSRP. How likely is that new price point to drive businesses off of 802.11g and onto the next generation of Wi-Fi for good? The answer might depend on your size and budget. Read More Happy 25th Birthday 'Dot Com': A Look Back The Internet is filled with nostalgia on Monday as geeks all over the world celebrate the 25th anniversary of the registration of the first dot-com domain. On March 15, 1985, a small Massachusetts-based computer manufacturer Symbolics, Inc. registered Symbolics.com. It would be more than a month before the second dot-com was registered, and there wouldn't be 100 registered dot-coms until November 30, 1987. Read More The Trouble With Twitter's @anywhere Service Twitter CEO Evan Williams announced Monday that the company plans to introduce a new platform called "@anywhere." The new service will allow Twitter users to connect to their Twitter accounts through third-party Websites such as The New York Times and eBay -- similar to the way Facebook Connect allows Facebook users to sign into other Websites using their Facebook accounts. Read More WHITE PAPER: Avocent Four tools for successful power reduction. Discover how you can reduce energy consumption in the data center and on the desktop for significant cost savings. This independent report outlines the best approaches to developing, deploying and managing an effective power management solution, as well as tools for successful power reduction. Read now! BlackBerry Users Willing to Swap for an iPhone Almost 40 percent of BlackBerry users would switch camp to an Apple iPhone, a recent study into smartphone brand loyalty shows. Google's Nexus One is almost as desirable, according to the study by Crowd Science (PDF link), which shows that a third of the BlackBerry users polled were willing to switch their device for the Android-based phone. Read More Will Google Tip the Scale Toward OpenID? Last week, Google announced that it will support OpenID as a Single Sign-On (SSO) and identity standard in its Apps Marketplace. For the most part, this announcement flew under the radar of most people but it may be far more significant than a simple technology integration play for several reasons. Read More NSW gets world's largest Wi-Fi network NSW will soon have the largest centrally-controlled wireless network in the world with Wi-Fi covering every school in the state, according to the NSW Department of Education and Training (DET). Read More Penetration Test: Cisco's driving new markets and we all go along for the ride. It's no secret that the center of Cisco's business development strategy is M&A (mergers & acquisitions). Over the past decade, 2000-2009, they acquired 89 firms, (two of which they already had majority control over) across both the enterprise and consumer markets. Read More
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