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	Google Docs update puts more pressure on Microsoft Office Google's enterprise division is hosting several hundred CIOs on Monday at its headquarters, where it will unveil enhancements to its Docs office suite, including a revamped code base. Read More WHITE PAPER: 3Com Building Mission-Critical Data Centers The traditional three-tier model of access, aggregation and core switching has turned into an operational nightmare. However, an IRF (Intelligent Resilient Framework) based network can extend the control plane across multiple active switches, increasing resiliency and reducing complexity. Learn More. In this Issue Why would anyone want to buy Palm? Control Computers with Your Feet Malicious Facebook ad redirects to fake antivirus software Very cool: Riverbed and Vyatta partner for all-in-one router, WAN appliance  Is Oracle Sailing the $7B Sun Ship Onto the Rocks? News podcast: Network World 360 Twitter Gets Official iPhone, Blackberry Apps Want a movie? Buy a hard drive! Apple removes "Google" branding on Mobile Safari in iPhone OS 4 WAN Carriers Need Better Bandwidth Pricing Models for Enterprises WHITE PAPER: HP SMB: Strategy Guide to Risk Mitigation This strategy guide offers concrete risk mitigation techniques specifically designed for midsize organizations. Learn how to proactively manage physical and virtual systems and see the early signs of infrastructure trouble to avoid outages. Read Now! Why would anyone want to buy Palm? As sales of its webOS phones continue to falter, Palm is reportedly seeking a buyer. But what does the company's failing product line, in hardware and software, really offer? Read More Control Computers with Your Feet Using your fingers and hands to control your devices or computers is so last year. Someday, we might all be talking about multi-toe touch interfaces. Read More Malicious Facebook ad redirects to fake antivirus software A malicious advertisement has been found within an application for Facebook that redirects users to fake antivirus software, according to a security researcher. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Understand the Network Impact of 802.11n As performance and reliability increase with 802.11n, the WLAN becomes a viable alternative to the wired network for mission- critical applications. This paper outlines the drawbacks of centralized controller-based approaches and how they will provide unavoidable roadblocks when faced with the increases in bandwidth provided by 802.11n. Read More! Very cool: Riverbed and Vyatta partner for all-in-one router, WAN appliance  Since last summer, we have been combining Vyatta router software and Riverbed WAN acceleration for some of our customers, but as of today the two vendors announced a deal run Vyatta on the Riverbed Steelhead. (Disclosure: I am a Riverbed reseller, but not a Vyatta reseller). Specifically Vyatta announced a deal with Riverbed to add the Vyatta Subscription Edition to the RSP Platform. Read More Is Oracle Sailing the $7B Sun Ship Onto the Rocks? Larry Ellison is world renowned as a master Yachtsman. In fact he now has an Americas Cup trophy to prove it. So could it be that he is driving the good ship Sun onto the rocks? From the steady exodus  of former Sun senior executives and open source advocates, one has to wonder where is the 7 billion dollars worth of value going to come from. Read More News podcast: Network World 360 There's a potential new form of steganography that could lead to corporate data loss via CDs. The realistic audio-visual atmosphere of telepresence combined with off-channel instant messaging is giving rise to a new social phenomenon dubbed teleflirtation. (5:45) Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Overcome Two Key Challenges with Virtualization How do you accelerate virtualization for your enterprise - and take IT flexibility and cost savings to the next level? Start by downloading this whitepaper from Riverbed. WAN optimization is a class of technology that has rapidly been adopted across enterprises in order to address the challenges of bandwidth limitations and latency over the WAN. Click here! Twitter Gets Official iPhone, Blackberry Apps Twitter introduced on Friday its first official applications for smartphones, on the iPhone and BlackBerry devices. The apps are part of Twitter's bid to extend the Twitter experience on all major mobile platforms the company says. No word on official Android or Palm WebOS apps yet. Read More Want a movie? Buy a hard drive! Seagate, makers of the FreeAgent Go portable hard drive, and Paramount (makers of movies) today announced a new offering that will let users unlock (and buy) select Paramount movies from pre-loaded FreeAgent Go 500GB hard drives. Read More Apple removes "Google" branding on Mobile Safari in iPhone OS 4 The word "Google" is so ingrained as part of our everyday lexicon that it's now referenced as a verb more so than anything else - "Did you Google it?" Apple, though, is seemingly unwilling hop on board that bandwagon. In the current version of mobile Safari, Google is the default web browser. When you want to search for something, you type in your query and hit the "Google" button. But not anymore.... Read More WAN Carriers Need Better Bandwidth Pricing Models for Enterprises Two weeks ago I wrote a blog asking "should enterprise IT provide great Internet access?". Essentially, enterprise WANs usually give 3-10 Mbps to a field site and 100-200 users need to fit inside that bandwidth. 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