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Car hackers can kill brakes, engine, and more
Researchers have taken a look at the onboard systems of today's cars and found serious security problems. Read More


WHITE PAPER: IBM

Magic Quadrant for E-Commerce
Today's buyers desire Web sites to speed up the process of finding a product, enable comparisons of products, provide tools to help buyers understand the product, and have community-based information to help them to make the final buying decisions. Read More

WHITE PAPER: APC by Schneider Electric

Top 10 Server Cooling Approaches
High-density servers can present a significant cooling challenge demanding over 40kW of cooling per rack. With most data centers designed to cool an average of no more than 2kW per rack, innovative strategies must be deployed. This paper provides 10 approaches to increase cooling efficiency, cooling capacity and power density. Read Now.

Dell: Smartphones will never kill the PC
Dell CEO Michael Dell contends that mobile devices will never kill the PC. Instead, he envisions a future where users own an increasing number and variety of devices, each capable of looking like the other via desktop virtualization, served by virtual networks and the cloud. Read More

Cisco can't buy a break
Cisco's solid third quarter of fiscal 2010 was tempered somewhat by the company's outlook for the fourth quarter. Investors were a bit disappointed that Cisco did not forecast a July quarter that, in their eyes, would show a significant uptick in sequential sales.  Read More

IE6 past its expiration date, says Microsoft
Microsoft is urging users to dump the aged Internet Explorer 6 with a campaign that claims the browser is past its expiration date. Read More


WHITE PAPER: IBM

5 Tips for Getting BI Right
Due to improvements in Business Intelligence technology and the way CIOs are implementing it, BI has the potential to transform organizations by delivering the information executives need in order to facilitate accurate decisions and provide relevant performance metrics. Read More

News podcast: Network World 360
In a speech on Thursday, Dell CEO Michael Dell said mobile devices will never kill the PC. Instead, he sees a future where users own an increasing number and variety of devices, each capable of looking like the other via desktop virtualization, served by virtual networks and the cloud. Also, a Ukrainian national has been arrested in India in connection with the most notorious hacking incident in U.S. history. (5:28) Read More

Twisted Pair Podcast: So long, and thanks for the Fishville
Keith Shaw, Denise Dubie and Neal Weinberg discuss the SAP/Sybase purchase, whether Facebook privacy is a big deal or not, and offer up more good news for IT workers and budgets. Plus, a big announcement at the end! (38:29) Read More

Sprint announces first 4G phone, looks toward other devices
Sprint announced its first 4G phone, HTC's Evo 4G, on Wednesday in New York, and plans to extend that mobile technology into devices with larger screens such as tablet computers. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Splunk

Make IT Data a Strategic Asset
This paper outlines the struggles organizations face managing silos of IT data and how, using Splunk, users are changing the way they do their jobs and elevating the role of IT in their organizations. Learn More!

When they try it, businesses like telepresence: survey
Telepresence -- the high-def videoconferencing that creates the illusion participants are sitting in the same room -- is still in the early stages of adoption, but businesses that try it, like it and want more, a new study says. Read More

Android 2.2: What We Know So Far
Details of the next version of the Android mobile operating system (2.2) are surfacing in advance of the official launch later this month, despite Google's efforts to keep things under wraps. Read More

Facebook Was Never About Privacy
Facebook has been in the news an awful lot lately--what with its new privacy controls (or, um, lack thereof), its early controversies, and its recent "privacy summit." Read More



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