40 days of summer (gadgets)

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	40 days of summer (gadgets) Summer's here and the time is right for looking at gadgets to make the summer days and nights go by easier or more fun at least. If you're going outside to enjoy the sun, hitting the road for a long road trip to a vacation destination, or just staying at home for the perfect "staycation", here are 40 devices or apps we think you'll like. Read More E-GUIDE: Compuware 5 Tips for Getting the Best Web App Performance This eBook, compiled by Network World, explores the pressing issues, from dealing with outages and evaluating performance monitoring services, to the impact of virtualization. Get expert tips to optimize your Web apps. Learn More Now In this Issue Democrats to launch effort to rewrite Telecom Act The iPad strikes out at Yankee Stadium Cisco, Avaya abstain from UC interoperability forum -- for now The Empire Strikes Back Turns 30 Microsoft uses open source to make Outlook data portable NAC standards wars end in truce Google saves, secures Wi-Fi snooping data Seagate invents new type of laptop hard drive Google's Pac-Man freaks out Firefox users NASA Mars Lander Phoenix killed by ice WEBCAST: Certeon Get Virtualized WAN Optimization Dramatically improve remote application performance and bandwidth utilization by attending this live Webcast on virtualized WAN optimization. You'll hear why deploying a software-based WAN optimization virtual appliance is an easy and cost effective way to speed response time while lowering network bandwidth requirements. View Now. Democrats to launch effort to rewrite Telecom Act Four leading Democrats in the Congress will begin a process of rewriting the 14-year-old law that is the regulatory framework for the U.S. telecommunications and broadband industries, with the group of lawmakers ready to hear proposals starting in June, they said Monday. Read More The iPad strikes out at Yankee Stadium Like Jorge Posada blocking runners from getting to home plate, the Yankee Stadium is stymieing fans trying to carry Apple iPad tablet computers into games. Read More Cisco, Avaya abstain from UC interoperability forum -- for now Two vendors were noticeably absent from a unified communication interoperability group announced last week. Indeed, the two of the leading vendors of unified communications: Cisco and Avaya. It might be because the Unified Communications Interoperability Forum was founded by a handful of their competitors. Read More WHITE PAPER: Fluke Networks Troubleshooting Application Problems This comprehensive 94 page guide is a how-to resource handbook for network engineers. Learn the fundamentals of how applications work, how they flow, where applications fail and best practices and methodologies for troubleshooting network and application problems. Click here! The Empire Strikes Back Turns 30 Wondering how to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back? Check out how fans all over the Web have shown their devotion to this classic science fiction series. Read More Microsoft uses open source to make Outlook data portable Microsoft announced two more open-source projects today, which will give developers the ability to access data from the widely used (and hacked) Outlook program - even if it's to develop competing projects. The projects are a .pst Data Structure View Tool and a .pst File Format Software Development Kit (SDK) - the former to read and the latter to extract the .pst file data. Read More NAC standards wars end in truce The Trusted Computing Group's Trusted Network Connect (TNC) is an industry-supported working group developing NAC architecture documents and standards. The first public documents came out of TCG's TNC in 2005 after a year of work, and the group has continued to publish NAC standards and fill out their NAC architecture every year. Read More WEBCAST: Meraki Cloud-Managed WiFi Learn how cloud-managed wireless access points can be self-configured and centrally managed over the web, provide secured access for employees and guests, be scalable for networks of all sizes, and provide a cost savings of up to 50% over traditional solutions. Click here. Google saves, secures Wi-Fi snooping data Google said that it has secured the data it obtained through its Street View Wi-Fi snooping, but will fight a class-action lawsuit's demand that it turn over more information, court documents showed today. Read More Seagate invents new type of laptop hard drive Seagate is having a second crack at SSD hybrid hard drives, a technology for boosting drive performance by adding flash memory to a conventional hard drive. Read More Google's Pac-Man freaks out Firefox users Google's celebration of the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man last week flooded Mozilla's Firefox support forum with complaints about siren sounds and offbeat music. Read More NASA Mars Lander Phoenix killed by ice NASA officially ended its Phoenix Mars Lander operation today after a new image of the machine showed severe ice damage to its solar panels and repeated attempts to contact the spacecraft had failed. Read More
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