40 days of summer (gadgets)

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	40 days of summer (gadgets) If you're going outside to enjoy the sun, hitting the road for a long road trip to a vacation destination, or just staying at home for the perfect "staycation," here are 40 devices or apps we think you'll like. Read More WHITE PAPER: MessageLabs Ensure 360-Degree Border Security Managing the security and availability of Web, email, and IM is complex. This paper will discuss the modern threat of blended attacks from web, email and IM. and highlight how a comprehensive hosted solution by Symantec Hosted Services can secure your networks from these threat vectors. Read Now In this Issue First-ever test of public cloud management wares HP Mini 5102 review: Spending a month with HP's business netbook 10 things we love about SharePoint 2010 Review: Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 10 useful Firefox-based apps Essential iPad apps: Nine free favorites 5 things we love about SQL Server 2008 R2 5 things we love/hate about cloud management tools WHITE PAPER: Adobe Close the Web 2.0 Communications Gap Web 2.0 tools have yet to reach critical mass and broad user adoption. This Forrester report identifies the key Web 2.0 gaps and offers advice to: Build a framework that extends email, Upgrade document-based data collection, and Improve email and document exchange security. Read More First-ever test of public cloud management wares It's simple to rent raw compute power on the public cloud. The challenge is to deploy, manage, and take down jobs that are hosted in the cloud. In this groundbreaking test, we set up public cloud accounts at Amazon, Rackspace and GoGrid, and tested management services from RightScale, Tap In Systems and Cloudkick under real world conditions. Read More HP Mini 5102 review: Spending a month with HP's business netbook HP's recently announced Mini 5102 netbook is a solidly built device that travels well and comes with multiple features that will simplify the life of a mobile professional. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Overcome Two Key Challenges with Virtualization How do you accelerate virtualization for your enterprise - and take IT flexibility and cost savings to the next level? Start by downloading this whitepaper from Riverbed. WAN optimization is a class of technology that has rapidly been adopted across enterprises in order to address the challenges of bandwidth limitations and latency over the WAN. Click here! 10 things we love about SharePoint 2010 Integration with Office 2010 makes collaboration and social networking that much easier for the end user. Read More Review: Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 In November, we gave SharePoint 2010 beta a test drive. Now, we put the shipping product through its paces and find that Microsoft has delivered a multi-purpose tool that delivers a bigger bang because of its tight coupling with Office 2010. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP SMB: Strategy Guide to Risk Mitigation This strategy guide offers concrete risk mitigation techniques specifically designed for midsize organizations. Learn how to proactively manage physical and virtual systems and see the early signs of infrastructure trouble to avoid outages. Read Now! 10 useful Firefox-based apps Mozilla's underlying Web browser technology also runs non-browser applications. Read More Essential iPad apps: Nine free favorites These great iPad apps won't cost you a dime. Read More 5 things we love about SQL Server 2008 R2 New features bring business intelligence to the end user. Read More 5 things we love/hate about cloud management tools In this first-of-a-kind-test, we examined cloud management tools from RightScale, Cloudkick and Tap In Systems. Here are five things we love and hate about these management tools. Read More
	Join us on LinkedIn Discuss the networking issues of the day with your colleagues, via Network World's LinkedIn group. Join today! - Jeff Caruso, Executive Online Editor Today from the Subnet communities 15 copies of CCNP ROUTE study kits available and 15 copies of Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook up for grabs, too.Deadline May 31. SLIDESHOWS 40 days of summer (gadgets) Summer's here and the time is right for looking at gadgets to make the summer days and nights go by easier or more fun at least. If you're going outside to enjoy the sun, hitting the road for a long road trip to a vacation destination, or just staying at home for the perfect "staycation", here are 40 devices or apps we think you'll like. What if tech companies owned the Wonders of the World? In this slideshow, we'll take a look into a future where broke governments are forced to sell their most treasured landmarks to the world's richest nerds. MOST-READ STORIES Will an open-source alternative to Facebook actually work? What desktop virtualization really means How to foil Web browser 'tabnapping' 10 useful Firefox-based apps Verizon's tiered LTE plans fuel 'bill shock' debate IPv6 summit was a huge hit Google is no competitor for Skype - yet Woman sues Google because of bad directions BBC launches iPlayer for iPad beta 44 million stolen gaming credentials found in online warehouse
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