Most exciting iPhone 4 features will be marred by poor networks

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	Most exciting iPhone 4 features will be marred by poor networks Normally, I'd probably be excited about today's iPhone 4 announcements, and its new features – especially the 720p video recording, the video chat (Apple calls it FaceTime) and even the availability of watching Netflix on the iPhone. What bugs me is that hardware innovations introduced by Apple have surpassed the mobile network's ability to support these features. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Diskeeper Corporation FREE! Disk Performance Analyzer for Networks What's slowing your network down? Find out fast with powerful, free software that gives you a network-wide at-a-glance view of fragmentation accumulation. Discover bottlenecks before they cost you time and effort tracking them down by other means. Download now. In this Issue 5 things we love/hate about cloud automation tools An open letter to Dan Hesse, Sprint CEO Cisco goes social with Quad How vulnerable is Cisco? AT&T's account site crumbles under iPhone owner load With iOS, Apple gets the OK to borrow a Cisco name Apple iPad targeted by Avaya device The iPhone 4 is here, but is Apple running out of ideas? Skype vs Google Talk Ubuntu Linux wins over Windows power user What is the average cost of a data breach? One third of search engine results are poisoned Aruba chops price of fast WiFi access points WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Strategies for Unleashing Cloud Performance Whether a business builds out its own cloud or buys cloud services from someone else, they need to be sure the end results are optimized for the speed users require. This paper identifies where the limitations of cloud computing exist and provides actionable strategies to unleash cloud performance. Click here! 5 things we love/hate about cloud automation tools Here are 10 things we love/hate about cloud automation tools. Read More An open letter to Dan Hesse, Sprint CEO Mark Gibbs says goodbye to Mr. Hesse and his company. 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You'll gain valuable information on how Citrix NetScaler helps reduce datacetner costs with server and infrastructure offload. Read More! AT&T's account site crumbles under iPhone owner load AT&T's account management site went dark Monday after Apple announced that its U.S. partner would waive contract requirements to allow more customers to upgrade to the new iPhone 4 this month. Read More With iOS, Apple gets the OK to borrow a Cisco name Three years after being sued by Cisco Systems for giving its iPhone the same name as a Cisco product, Apple has taken another page from the Cisco playbook, renaming its iPhone operating system, iOS. Read More Apple iPad targeted by Avaya device Avaya is prepping a device like an iPad for business, and will enlist help from Skype, Yahoo and Google to support business versions of their communications software. Read More The iPhone 4 is here, but is Apple running out of ideas? As a non-iPhone user, the first things that oddly caught my attention when reading through the Apple press release on its new iPhone 4 were that the product features FaceTime and IOS technology. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Doesn't Cisco own the name IOS, which describes the software at the heart of its routers? 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. Skype vs Google Talk Skype and Google Talk overlap in offering VoIP, video and instant messaging over the Internet, but the wild card that will determine whether one rival triumphs over the other is what Google might do. 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