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Cisco intern's rap videos are making Cisco seem hip again
Rhyming YouTube videos have become the not-so-secret secret pastime for young Cisco employees. Read More


WHITE PAPER: ArcSight

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

WHITE PAPER: Riverbed

Address Real-Time Application Performance
IDC interviewed customers using Riverbed Cascade solution. Their analysis includes hard dollar ROI and benefits of the following features: • Application-level view of networks and servers • Visibility into end-to-end application delivery dependencies • Network behavioral analysis • Metrics to track performance SLAs Read now!

Stars of SkyMall
We take some of the most bewildering gadgets from the popular airline catalog and put them to the test Read More

Skype on iPhone: Does it Save Money?
Sticking it to The Man just got a little easier with Skype for iPhone's addition of multitasking support and elimination of plans to charge for calls over 3G. But can the ability to receive Skype calls any time really save you money? Let's look at the numbers and find out. Read More

IBM's new mainframe, the zEnterprise 196, is a leviathan
Every new IBM mainframe says something about the times we live in, and today's latest mainframe release is no different. Thus, the zEnterprise system has become a cross-platform management system, a sovereign of other systems. Read More

Inside IBM's game changing mainframe moments
With the announcement of a new generation of IBM mainframes today, the zEnterprise, Big Blue has continued to change, improve and evolve one of the most enduring hunks of metal and electronics in the history of computing.  There have been many key points in the evolution of the mainframe, here we take a look at a few of the bigger changes. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Riverbed

Achieve Best-in-Class App Delivery over your WAN
Supporting best-in-class application performance over the WAN is possible when you follow the recommendations in this whitepaper. Success is dependant on: *Conducting cost-benefit analysis for bandwidth upgrades *Analyzing application performance for each transaction *Evaluating test results prior to the final optimization purchasing decision Read now!

Town official doubly insulted by spyware allegation
How dare you accuse me of being a stumblebum of a spy? That's essentially the indignant reaction of Sturbridge, Mass. selectmen Tom Creamer to fellow board member Scott Garieri's allegation that Creamer intentionally sent him a spyware-laden e-mail. Read More

Let's Not Forget Fixed Wireless
The killer app for wireless is, of course, in mobility; wire just can't compete here. But there are many, many applications of wireless in fixed apps (i.e., where both ends of a given connection are stationary) where wireless is also king, the advantage usually resulting from a huge reduction in the expense otherwise required in installing wire. Read More

San Francisco's Handset Radiation Ordinance: The Fallout Begins
San Francisco recently became the first city, that I know of, anyway, to require that cellular handset retailers post the Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) value for handsets sold within the City. SAR is a highly-technical and (IMHO) likely inaccurate method of indicating just how much energy a handset is putting out, and is measured in Watts/Kilogram averaged over one gram of tissue. Read More

Does the Reputation of CCIE Drive the Popularity of All Cisco Certs?
Does the good reputation of CCIE have an impact on people's choice to pursue their first Cisco cert? And if so, did the published CCIE stats have any impact on your perception of CCIE? Today I'll explore this one topic, and also wrap up the answers I gathered at Networkers this year to a variety of Cisco certification questions. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Riverbed

345 IT Executives Interviewed
This white paper details extensive research on the challenges associated with application delivery and managing application performance. Analyst and consulting firm, Kubernan, interviewed 345 IT pros. Their responses and Kubernan's analysis will help you to proactively resolve application delivery and performance issues. Read now!

Any iPhone 4 color you want as long as its black. Okay, white!
You think people realy want copy-paste on the iPhone 4? Or multi-tasking? Or even that creepily-named FaceTime video chat? No. What they really want is white. A white iPhone. Read More

Build archiving systems to meet compliance demands
For a viable archiving strategy, you need to know the regulation landscape -- and the key technologies that will help you comply. Read More

Bank Lost Your Account Data? Here's What to Do
Until early June, AT&T had an online tool that helped iPad 3G owners sign up for its mobile Wi-Fi service: Users typed in the 19-digit serial number for their iPad's micro-SIM card, also known as the ICC-ID (integrated circuit card identifier), and the site returned the e-mail address that the owner had used to verify registration. AT&T used that e-mail address to populate a log-in field on the Web registration form. Read More

iPhone factory to raise prices to cover wage increase
In order to increase salaries the company says it will have to raise prices for its clients, which include Apple, HP and Dell. Read More



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Say what?
Earlier this month, Microsoft's chief operating officer made a statement that sent everyone's jaws a-dropping. "It looks like the iPhone 4 might be their Vista, and I'm OK with that," he said during a keynote speech at the company's annual partner conference. It got me thinking about quotes that have and will go down in history from the industry's most famous executives. Can you guess who made the following statements?

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