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	Cisco powers up router, switches for smart grids Cisco this week is unveiling a switch and a router designed to help utilities construct IP-based infrastructures for power delivery, monitoring and control. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Aruba Networks Reduce Ethernet Switch Migration Costs by Half Discover how rightsizing your network with 802.11n wireless can help you deliver increased mobility while significantly lowering IT maintenance costs and energy usage. Learn more by downloading our Network Rightsizing Best Practices Guide. In this Issue Microsoft's mobile shakeup: Will it unleash Windows Phone? AT&T adds Wi-Fi hot zone to relieve Times Square congestion Google sued over Wi-Fi sniffing 10 Must-Have Android Apps for Business Businesses lag in moving away from IE6 and its vulnerabilities, study says McAfee to acquire Trust Digital to further mobile security Network management vendor tracks infrastructure performance The 10 Best Hacks of 2010 (So Far) Researchers warn of "Typhoid Adware" at Internet cafes Google: $54 billion impact of search and search ads in US Microsoft uses Apache License for open source Outlook tools World's fastest muni net wins award Wolfram|Alpha revisited and no longer boring 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! Microsoft's mobile shakeup: Will it unleash Windows Phone? Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Tuesday announced some major changes in the company's entertainment and mobile device businesses. Veteran Robbie Balch, who oversaw a combined group, is retiring and won't be replaced. Read More AT&T adds Wi-Fi hot zone to relieve Times Square congestion Months after admitting to excessive wireless congestion in Manhattan for its iPhone and other wireless customers, AT&T announced the launch of a pilot Wi-Fi hot zone in Times Square. Read More Google sued over Wi-Fi sniffing Galaxy Internet Services, an ISP for homes and businesses in Massachusetts, has filed a class-action lawsuit against Google over the search company's admitted blunder that it sniffed and stored data from Wi-Fi networks. Read More 10 Must-Have Android Apps for Business Whether you're running the next great business pitch from your phone or you just need to jot down ideas and edit documents on the go, we have you covered. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Inc. Addressing Interference on Wireless Networks Learn about the challenge of interference in a shared spectrum, the limitations of standard Wi-Fi chip design, and about Cisco® CleanAir technology. This ASIC-based solution empowers users to proactively managing Wi-Fi networks to support mission-critical and latency-sensitive applications . Read More Businesses lag in moving away from IE6 and its vulnerabilities, study says Microsoft's Internet Explorer continues to dominate corporate browser use more so than it does private use, with its nearest rival, Mozilla's Firefox, lagging far behind with one in seven businesses opting for it, according to data collected by Internet-based security service Zscaler. Read More McAfee to acquire Trust Digital to further mobile security McAfee Tuesday said it's signed an agreement to acquire privately held Trust Digital as part of its strategy to expand into the mobile security arena, the enterprise sector in particular. The acquisition price for Trust Digital was not disclosed. Read More Network management vendor tracks infrastructure performance Network Instruments works to provide customers with the much-sought-after 'single pane of glass' by combining network performance data with infrastructure health and availability metrics. Read More The 10 Best Hacks of 2010 (So Far) In honor of Geek Pride Day, Towel Day, and the Glorious 25th of May, here are ten of our most favorite hacks featured in Geek Tech in the last five months, running the gambit from phone, car, and CPU mods. Read on for some great moments in geek! Read More WEBCAST: 3Com Close the Network Architecture Gap Join Robert Whiteley, V.P. and Research Director at Forrester Research, for this Webcast on transforming your data center. Robert will discuss the critical networking trends that will affect the way you build your data center and provide a 3 step transformation formula. View Now Researchers warn of "Typhoid Adware" at Internet cafes It's no secret that you take some security chances when surfacing the Web at WiFi hotspots at Internet cafes, but University of Calgary researchers have shed light on a new potential threat you might not have considered: Adware that shows up on your computer even though it is actually running on the computer of someone sharing the unencrypted network. Read More Google: $54 billion impact of search and search ads in US Google's search service and search advertising products generated an estimated US$54 billion for U.S. businesses, Web site publishers and nonprofit groups in 2009, according to a study the company has released. Read More Microsoft uses Apache License for open source Outlook tools Microsoft has released two open source tools on CodePlex that let developers more easily create apps for Outlook PST files. Those tools are not only open source, they've been released under the Apache License (instead of one of Microsoft's own two open source licenses). The tools follow Microsoft's February release of full documentation for its Outlook 2010 .PST files. Read More World's fastest muni net wins award NEW YORK -- The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) has named Suwon, South Korea, as the 2010 Intelligent Community of the Year. Suwon has built the world's fastest, large municipal network, improving connection speeds from an already impressive 32M to 1Gbps. Read More Wolfram|Alpha revisited and no longer boring Almost one year ago I wrote about Wolfram|Alpha, a Web service offered by Wolfram Research, which the company describes as a "computational knowledge engine". Read More
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