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	What if tech companies owned the Wonders of the World? What the Acropolis, Mount Rushmore and others might look like if bought out by tech companies. Read More WHITE PAPER: Xerox Vendor Analysis of Managed Print Services This IDC study identifies the key capabilities a MSP should offer, analyzes the vendors who are leading the way and highlights the benefits organizations can realize by adopting this model. Read More In this Issue Windows Phone 7 details continue to surface IBM buys AT&T's Sterling Commerce for $1.4 billion Wireless Causes Big Rise in IT Anxiety News podcast: Network World 360 IT gives Windows 7 the green light Microsoft edging Google out of iPad-like devices As smartcards loom, magnetic cards made safer Does the iPhone Look Dated? Google Gives the Gift of Pac-Man Forever WEBCAST: Actuate Solve Data Needs: BIRT Defined This webcast will give you a primer on BIRT including the technology and the community. BIRT can help you overcome the challenge of delivering accurate and meaningful data to users while minimizing IT development efforts. Learn more today! Windows Phone 7 details continue to surface More details emerge about Microsoft's revamped Windows Phone 7 OS, as hackers and programmers dig deeper, and demonstrations show increasing smoothness, integration and power. Read More IBM buys AT&T's Sterling Commerce for $1.4 billion IBM is paying $1.4 billion in cash to acquire Sterling Commerce, an AT&T company that makes business-to-business e-commerce software designed to help companies connect with the systems of their customers, partners and suppliers. Read More Wireless Causes Big Rise in IT Anxiety As wireless technology gains a permanent foothold in the corporate world, it's creating high anxiety in corporate IT shops that have to deal with constantly evolving technologies and increasingly demanding users. 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! News podcast: Network World 360 Information continues to emerge about Microsoft's Windows Phone 7, as well as two smartphones using it. Some of this information has been gleaned from hacking, demonstrations and from the growing experience of developers exploring the radically revamped mobile operating system. (6:18) Read More IT gives Windows 7 the green light Jim Thomas said no to Windows Vista -- but Windows 7 is an entirely different matter. Read More Microsoft edging Google out of iPad-like devices Taiwanese laptop-maker Micro-Star International (MSI) plans to launch a Windows 7 tablet PC next week at the Computex Taipei electronics show, after showing off a prototype tablet running Google's Android mobile software early this year. Read More 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. As smartcards loom, magnetic cards made safer As news of Wal-Marts plans to convert all of its U.S. payment terminals to smartcard-compatible credit card technology surfaces, so does news of efforts in the payment industry to make existing magnetic stripe cards more secure. Read More Does the iPhone Look Dated? Just a quick question today - does the iPhone look, um, "dated" to you? A couple of people have recently remarked to me that the iPhone looks a bit old now, and I'm inclined to agree. Its simple elegance has become perhaps too common, and just doesn't have the flash it once did (no pun intended). Read More Google Gives the Gift of Pac-Man Forever Due to overwhelming popularity, Google has announced that its interactive 30th anniversary Pac-Man doodle has earned a permanent spot on Google.com. From now on, whenever you need a Pac-Man fix just point your browser to Google.com/pacman and you can enjoy the search giant's version of this iconic video game any time you like. Read More
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