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	Google wants to patent technology used to 'snoop' Wi-Fi networks Google's secret Wi-Fi snooping was powered by new sniffing technology that the company wants to patent, court documents filed Wednesday alleged. 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! In this Issue 20 Sizzling Summer Video Games HP unveils network, storage gear to feed SMB demand News podcast: Network World 360 Being acquired is the best thing for a FOSS project Driving a Stake In A Blood Sucking Software Patent Panda's free antivirus adds new malware blocking Do games affect juror attitudes? Bike powers Nokia phone charger How baseball can make the best of botched perfect game WHITE PAPER: IBM Top 10 Software Delivery Secrets Every organization today is looking for ways to do more with less, and only the companies that implement the most effective methods will survive. In this white paper we'll discuss specific secrets of delivering more valuable software to customers despite having fewer resources. Read More 20 Sizzling Summer Video Games From "LEGO Harry Potter" to "Madden NFL 11" to "Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest" to "Halo: Reach," here's a sneak peek at great PC and video games you won't want to miss this summer. Read More HP unveils network, storage gear to feed SMB demand Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday introduced a variety of products for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), a segment that worldwide spends an estimated US$234 billion per year on IT products, the company said. Read More News podcast: Network World 360 Gartner analysts are advising most companies to start drawing up plans to eliminate Windows XP and shift workers over to Windows 7. About 80% of Gartner clients skipped Windows Vista, and are relying mainly on the aging Windows XP, the research firm says. Also, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie was happy to talk about the history of computing Wednesday at a Silicon Valley event but did not want to talk about its future, as least as far as what Microsoft's plans might be pertaining to tablet computing. (4:17) 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 Being acquired is the best thing for a FOSS project Being bought by a commercial competitor is about the best possible thing that could eventually happen to a popular, pure FOSS project. It seems contrary to the vision of free software, and yet it's true if people like Daniel Cid, founder of Open Source Security, Host-Based Intrusion Detection System (OSSEC) and HD Moore, founder of Metasploit, are to be believed. (And they would know.) Read More Driving a Stake In A Blood Sucking Software Patent Few topics can illicit a more guttural response from an open source advocate as the topic of software patents. In many respects they are the very anti-thesis of open source. In security there has been one particularly irksome patent that has bedeviled the industry for years and probably held back innovation and progress in gateway anti-virus technology. Read More Panda's free antivirus adds new malware blocking Panda Security has bolstered the features available in its free antivirus product, Cloud Antivirus, adding a new behavioural engine and Windows autorun control. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Prepare for Windows 7 in Three Phases Many organizations are skipping Vista and looking forward to Windows 7. This research provides necessary steps to prepare for Windows 7 and ensure a successful migration with adequate operating system (OS) support. Learn More Do games affect juror attitudes? A recent study performed at the University of Southern California indicated that potential jurors that had played a game starring a violent cop were more likely to sympathize with an officer put on trial for violent crimes. Read on for more details of the study. Read More Bike powers Nokia phone charger Nokia has upped the "how green can you get" stakes with a kit that allows users to charge their phones when cycling, the phone manufacturer said on Thursday. Read More How baseball can make the best of botched perfect game By now you have almost certainly seen the botched call at first base on what would have and should have been a perfect game by Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga. Some are pleading today that Major League Baseball should step in and right this obvious wrong. They should not hold their breath. Read More
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