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	Adobe: 'Not you, too, Microsoft!' In the military, they call it a pincer movement. Adobe has been attacked on one of its flanks by Apple, which has been dissing its Flash technology for rich Internet applications such as Web video and games. Now, Microsoft is attacking on Adobe's opposite flank, telling the public "the future of the Web is HTML5." Read More WHITE PAPER: Fluke Networks Ethernet Performance Metrics Ethernet performance measurement can help. Various metrics can quantify and characterize performance. Test plans can be written to satisfy varying organizational objectives. This white paper will describe advancements in field measurement of end-to-end Ethernet performance. Read More! In this Issue I Have Been Disillusioned by WAN Acceleration Just because it's free doesn't make it open source ACTA: No longer secret but still plenty to worry about Hello new iPhone, goodbye ethics Jon Stewart assails Apple for becoming "big brother" The driver of video calling will be social, not technological Final thoughts on Interop -- and Las Vegas Did You Hear The One About Two Short People Arguing Over Who Is Taller? HP Buys Palm - Smart Move at a Good Price WHITE PAPER: Ipanema Take Control of Your Global Network While deploying redundant networks has become widespread, being able to manage multiple infrastructures efficiently remains challenging. This paper examines the benefits of a hybrid network unification strategy and how to eliminate the trade-offs between MPLS and Internet VPN. Read More I Have Been Disillusioned by WAN Acceleration If you work for a WAN Acceleration vendor, please do not e-mail saying "our technology is different" or "we can make it work for you". Except for some different tweaks, in general, it's the same. Please don't bother. Read More Just because it's free doesn't make it open source The burgeoning love affair the world has with "open-source" [fill in the blank] seems to be confusing some. Free does not equal open source. And open source does not equal free. There. I said it. Read More ACTA: No longer secret but still plenty to worry about The current version of the newly unveiled Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) isn't as bad as some feared, but it still is a cause for concern, according to columnist Scott Bradner. 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. Hello new iPhone, goodbye ethics Apple's loss of the next-gen iPhone has shown a number of people and companies to be less than ethical. 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 The driver of video calling will be social, not technological Here at the Cool Tools labs we've been playing around with a pair of high-definition Webcams from Tandberg, and some others are on the way as well. We started to utilize software from Applian Technologies that can record Skype video calls, in order for our editors to conduct one-on-one video interviews with industry experts and vendors who can't make it to our offices. Read More WHITE PAPER: MegaPath Top Considerations in Choosing a VoIP Provider When SMBs are looking for new ways to reduce telecom costs, why are more of them turning to voice over IP? Get best practices advice for transitioning first to VoIP, and then fully converged services. Read More Final thoughts on Interop -- and Las Vegas Okay, I'm back in sunny Boston after four days at Interop. I'm now convinced that no normal person should be subject to Las Vegas for more than this amount of time. Everyone I ran into yesterday was looking forward to leaving. I flew out at 2:15 and found that people with later flights were jealous. This says it all. Read More Did You Hear The One About Two Short People Arguing Over Who Is Taller? That is exactly what I thought of when I read Steve Jobs open letter to Adobe today. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! One of the main reasons that Jobs says Apple won't use Flash is its lack of openness. Where I come from they call that real chutzpah! Can you imagine? Apple slamming someone else for not being open. Read More HP Buys Palm - Smart Move at a Good Price As I noted in my recent Information Week column, Palm was in fact acquired, and did not turn into a crash-and-burn. But whereas I expected the acquirer to be an Asian firm, perhaps HTC, the winner instead turned out to be HP. HP has been on an acquisition tear lately, mostly notably getting 3Com and thus fleshing out both their wired and wireless networking lines. Read More
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