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FCC to claim some broadband regulatory power
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will move to partially reclassify broadband as a common-carrier service in an attempt to move forward with net neutrality rules and its national broadband plan, an official there said Wednesday. Read More


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Supercharge Your End Users with Desktop Virtualization
The Univ. of Texas Medical Branch unearthed a hidden benefit of desktop virtualization, namely a speedy recovery after a calamitous hurricane strike. This IDG eZine explores this and many other user benefits of desktop virtualization. Click To Continue.

WHITE PAPER: Oracle

Oracle Accelerate - Not Just Smart But Timely
This video highlights the Oracle Accelerate program - a group of pre-configured, tested solutions that combine Oracle enterprise applications and rapid implementation tools with industry-specific bundles. The program reduces the time, complexity and cost of deploying Oracle and is implemented by highly trained partners. Learn More.

Clearwire, partners name 20 upcoming WiMax cities
Clearwire's WiMax mobile broadband will come to 20 more markets across the U.S. this summer, with partner Sprint Nextel reselling the service in all those areas and partners Comcast and Time Warner Cable coming on board in some of them. Read More

IE9 sure is faster, but users have mixed reactions
What more could be said about the new preview of IE9 released today? Apparently a lot. Read More

Gear You Can't Get Here: 10 Great Digital Cameras, Smartphones, and Tablets
Some cool and crazy gadgets never make it to our shores. Here are a few sexy smartphones, tablets, cameras, and watches that you can't buy in the United States--so far. Read More


WHITE PAPER: ManageEngine

Free Access to More Than 20 Net Management Tools
ManageEngine understands that small businesses need efficient tools to manage IT, that's why all ManageEngine products have free editions. IT administrators have free access to the same tools used by large companies out there. Read More

New Chrome browser fastest Google beta yet
The new beta of Chrome for Windows is nearly a fifth faster than its more stable sibling, but still lags behind speed leader Opera, benchmark tests show. Read More

Oral Roberts banishes Cisco
Oral Roberts University has excommunicated Cisco from its network in favor of Enterasys, the Siemens Enterprise division announced this week. The school named for the evangelical minister selected Enterasys during a competitive bidding process that included HP and Brocade. Read More

Microsoft launches Spindex for social search and dubs it "impossible"
Microsoft's Fuse Labs launched a pilot project that aggregates social media sites like Facebook and Twitter with Bing and gives the user a single interface with which to use them all. The company announced the initiative yesterday at the at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco and has been receiving lots of attention for it. 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 Android to surpass Apple iPhone in August 2011...maybe
While the Android hype machine has been cranking on all cylinders, one market watcher says the iPhone isn't exactly wilting in the face of competition. Read More

Hybrid networking: Hedging your bets intelligently
In a couple of recent newsletters focusing on net neutrality, we focused some attention on the fact that using an Internet-based VPN may not be the "safe" bet that it has in the past. Read More

Pentagon bringing advanced math concepts to battlefield tactics
Military scientists at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency over a year ago put out a call to get answers to what it called the world's 23 toughest math questions with the idea that major math breakthroughs could greatly enhance the country's security. Read More



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