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	Palm purchase a risky move for HP, analysts say Analysts say an HP acquisition of Palm would face significant hurdles in competing with more established products for business, developers. Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Deployment Strategies for 802.11n Many organizations are looking to reap the benefits of the new 802.11n standard, but what is the best way to deploy wireless technology while minimizing costs? Learn why understanding the "Three Cs"-context, coverage, and capacity-is critical for choosing an optimal network implementation strategy. Read More! In this Issue 2010 'Geek and Tech' Summer Movie Preview Surprise: Apple shows no love for Flash What's wrong with the PCI security standard HP-Palm Deal: 5 Things I Hope It Brings A brief history of Palm Apple comes down hard on iPhone leakers News podcast: Network World 360 Terry Childs juror explains why he voted to convict HP signs up FedEx, Hilton for public cloud printing service New Yorkers to get timely help traversing crosswalks alive Jon Stewart assails Apple for becoming "big brother" Give principal an F for urging parents to ban social networks 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! 2010 'Geek and Tech' Summer Movie Preview It's summer movie time again, time for the movie studios to trot out its blockbusters with explosions and all sorts of fun. Read More Surprise: Apple shows no love for Flash In a "Hot News" column published earlier this morning on the official Apple website, mock-turtleneck sporting iGuru Steve Jobs shared his distaste for Adobe's long-running Flash platform, and why Apple products don't support Flash-based games. Read More What's wrong with the PCI security standard The security standard used to protect credit cards isn't up to the task and upgrades that are planned for this fall do virtually nothing to improve it, a security expert told Interop attendees this week. Read More HP-Palm Deal: 5 Things I Hope It Brings Hewlett-Packard just raised the ante in the smartphone wars by purchasing Palm, bringing to the table its standing as the world's largest PC maker and potentially bringing on a new era of WebOS devices. The future is still cloudy for the union of the ailing Palm and the mighty HP, but here are five ways HP can make the best of its $1.2 billion buy. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks Network Rightsizing Best Practices Guide Network Rightsizing is an evolutionary approach to network design that significantly reduces costs while simultaneously increasing mobility for campus and enterprise users. This guide provides a methodology to enable IT to break away from the status quo of port-based network architectures, allowing an unprecedented reduction in cost and complexity. Read More! A brief history of Palm With iPhones and BlackBerrys everywhere, and Google Android devices on the rise, it's easy to forget that Palm was the company that made it all happen. Read More Apple comes down hard on iPhone leakers What do you do when one of your employees takes your company's top-secret prototype and leaves it behind in a beer garden, only to have it end up in the hands of a gadget blog? Call in the authorities and let them play the heavy. Read More News podcast: Network World 360 Symantec today announced plans to acquire PGP Corp. and GuardianEdge Technologies for approximately $370 million, a move that will give Symantec a firm foothold in the encryption technology market. Also, China has dropped out of one security vendor's 'dirty dozen' of the top spam-sending nations for the first time. (4:58) Read More Terry Childs juror explains why he voted to convict Terry Childs' guilty conviction struck a nerve with IT staffers this week. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Software SMART Steps Toward Consolidated Workload Automation Consolidating job scheduling into a single, comprehensive workload automation solution is a critical first step to effective workload automation (WLA). Enterprise Management Associates share 5 critical steps to smarter WLA in this valuable white paper. Read More HP signs up FedEx, Hilton for public cloud printing service FedEx, Hilton and AirCanada have joined HP's PrinterOn network partnership, and will implement the company's ePrint technology in public locations from June 2010. Read More New Yorkers to get timely help traversing crosswalks alive Maybe it's because I don't get out much, but I have never seen one of these of the digital countdown clocks that New York City has decided will help pedestrians get across certain crosswalks without risking life and limb - or at least with minimized risk to life and limb. Read More Jon Stewart assails Apple for becoming "big brother" On the most recent episode of The Daily Show, funnyman Jon Stewart took a comical look at the entire leaked iPhone/Gizmodo fiasco where he criticized California authorities for using a warrant to break into Gizmodo editor Jason Chen's home."The cops had to bash in the guys door? Don't they know there's an app for that?" Read More Give principal an F for urging parents to ban social networks Reasonable people may disagree as to whether it's appropriate for middle-school-age children to have a Facebook page or belong to any other online social network. Read More
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