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	Cisco owes PoE patent holder $112 million Cisco may have to pay up to $112 million to a patent acquirer as settlement for a two-year-old infringement case. Read More WEBCAST: Oracle Getting Started with Identity Compliance The Burton Group's, Kevin Kampman, provides an overview of the latest technology for identity management. He'll help you sift through key, mandatory requirements and features and functionality that can wait. Kevin offers guidance on how you can get a 360-degree view of users' access and behavior, best practices and a real-world implementation. View Now. In this Issue Network stress test tools: Dos and don'ts Operation Death Match reaps another identity thief After worm, Siemens says don't change passwords United Nations Making Slow Progress on Cybersecurity 54% of travellers take corporate data on holiday The underappreciated antenna 10 hot energy projects that could electrify the world WHITE PAPER: Riverbed IT Platform to Optimize and Consolidate In this report, Forrester investigates the reasons why you should consider WAN optimization solutions as the best way to gain better IT performance, cost savings, and greater flexibility for your business. And it's also a smart network improvement investment over the long-term. Get the facts about WAN optimization in this study. Read now! Network stress test tools: Dos and don'ts Network stress testing tools are not for the underfunded, the underskilled or the faint of heart. Consider them carefully before deciding whether to purchase them or how to use them. Read More Operation Death Match reaps another identity thief Federal authorities don't take kindly to people stealing the identities of dead folks. A British citizen whose real name is John Skelton this week became one of the 150 people that have been arrested and charged with federal passport fraud and related offenses under a program known as Operation Death Match. Read More WHITE PAPER: Qwest Infrastructures for Innovation Nearly nine out of ten senior IT and business executives say that data, voice and network services can be leveraged to drive innovation, facilitating remote access to critical applications and speeding up customer service. They can generate immediate cost savings by eliminating the cost of maintaining separate voice lines. Read more! After worm, Siemens says don't change passwords Although a newly discovered worm could allow criminals to break into Siemens' industrial automation systems using a default password, Siemens is telling customers to leave their passwords alone. Read More United Nations Making Slow Progress on Cybersecurity Good news: Lsst Friday, 15 countries including the United States, Russia, and China agreed upon a set of recommendations to the United Nations secretary general that will serve as the basis for negotiating an International computer security treaty. Bad news: Getting this far took far too long. While diplomats wraggled over wording and process, the state of cybersecurity severely degraded. ... Read More WHITE PAPER: Novell Efficiently Delivering Enterprise-Class File-Based Storage IDC: Read about the exponential growth in file-based storage. Learn how having intelligence on data stored can help storage managers make smarter decisions about data storage, protection, archiving, retention, and disposition. Read Now. 54% of travellers take corporate data on holiday More than half (54 percent) of travellers have work documents and sensitive data stored on a laptop they take on holiday with them, says Generator Hostels. Read More The underappreciated antenna Most important part of wireless tends to get least visibility Read More 10 hot energy projects that could electrify the world There are thousands of projects underway to change the way the U.S. and the world produces and uses energy. Start-ups are looking to harness the world's ocean waves and build advanced fuel cell that produce data center-class electricity. Vice President Joe Biden and the U.S. Department of Energy recently awarded $106 million for 37 ambitious research projects that run the gamut from building more powerful batteries to making fuels from the E-Coli bacteria. Here we take a look at just a few of the cool energy projects and companies trying to change the world. Read More
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