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BP, in crisis mode, misses social networking target
While oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico and BP faces a PR nightmare, the last thing the company needed to do was make matters worse. Read More


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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.

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7 Key Challenges of Virtualization
While virtualization infrastructure platforms provide considerable advantages, VMs also add complexity. By planning for your migration, and recognizing the challenges, you can seamlessly optimize your virtual network and storage environment. Read Now.

Safari 5 in depth: Has it sped past Chrome?
The just-released Safari 5 ups the ante in the browser wars, with two major improvements: a performance boost to rival speed king Chrome, and the highly useful Safari Reader, which makes it much easier to read multi-page Web articles. Read More

Google vs Bing vs Yahoo
While it appears that the Internet search argument was won decisively by Google, rivals Yahoo and Microsoft haven't given up yet. The two companies formed an alliance in 2009 that will result in Microsoft's Bing search engine powering Yahoo's portal by the end of 2010. Read More

Amazon, others discount Office 2010 day before launch
A day before Microsoft's Office 2010 goes on sale, some online retailers have discounted the new suite by as much as $40. Read More


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Building a Successful Security Operations Center
This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center

Rogue Facebook app touts 'Teacher nearly killing a 13-year-old boy'
Hundreds of thousands of Facebook users are falling victim to yet another rogue application, this one identified as a video claiming to show a teacher nearly killing a boy. Read More

IPv6 vs Carrier-grade NAT
The Internet is running out of IPv4 addresses; there's no argument about that. But what is up for debate is whether ISPs will migrate directly to IPv6 to solve this problem, or whether they will embrace alternatives such as carrier-grade network address translation to share the few remaining IPv4 addresses among their new users. Read More

CIOs Should Think Horizontal for Stack Architecture
CIO magazine publisher emeritus Gary Beach thinks changing governance rules to make horizontal silos makes better business sense. Read More


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Google's problems with Android Market continue
After applications recently started disappearing from the Android Market, Google continued to have reliability issues with the online store as developers over the weekend experienced issues with erroneous download counts. Read More

Podcast: Generation Standby: The New Employee Reality
A recent Clearswift survey showed that one-fifth of respondents would turn down a job that did not allow them to access social networking sites or personal d-mail during work time. Hilary Backwell from Clearswift discusses the growing trend of "Generation Standby", a group of employees who are always connected, blending work life with personal time. What are the implications for enterprise and IT with these workers? (12:31) Read More

Apple and AdMob spar over new terms in iOS developer agreement as US Regulators take notice
Forget Android, Apple and Google are now bringing their ongoing rivalry to an entirely new medium - advertising. Though Apple is new to the ad game, it plans on making a strong play with its upcoming iAds platform. In the process, Google may be left on the sidelines when it comes to mobile advertising on the iPhone. Read More

15 reasons why Mars is one hot, hot, hot planet
From Obama's talk of sending NASA rockets to Mars to a virtual red planet trip, Mars is getting tons of attention. Read More

Turn Your iPhone into a Vuvuzela
After watching the World Cup games over the weekend, the buzzing sound from the Vuvuzela (you know, those horns that sound like there's a giant bee attack) was still in my ears. My wife jokingly commented that we should buy one and play the horn at our daughter's town soccer games. It turns out I can do this for free by just booting up my iPhone. There are currently at least 15 different apps. Read More



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