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	Is Sprint losing its WiMAX/4G gamble? Sprint faces serious challenges in offering its mobile data services over the WiMAX infrastructure being rolled out by its wholesale network partner Clearwire. Read More REPORT: Riverbed Gartner: Magic Quadrant Report Riverbed positioned in Leaders quadrant of 2009 Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers. In this report, Gartner helps organizations interested in WAN Optimization Controller capabilities truly understand their options. Read now! In this Issue Avaya stares down Microsoft, Cisco Desperately seeking desktop data Apple grants ABC unprecedented access to its secretive "black labs" Career Watch: Creative excuses for tardiness IT innovation: How to avoid being a one-hit wonder Gartner: CIOs Should Plan for Recession No. 2 Yahoo will invest in hackers with good ideas Cybercrime costs a business $3.8 million/year, study finds Government says DMCA can't stop jailbreaking, unlocking WEBCAST: Accelops Why Private Clouds May Prevail Cloud computing's perceived challenges of security, visibility and management may give the upper hand to private clouds. Join Yankee Group for this Webcast that discusses how to ensure you deploy a cloud that meets your organization's security and compliance needs. View Now Avaya stares down Microsoft, Cisco After years of hanging around the top of the IP telephony market, the company is poised to take over unified communications, but Cisco and Microsoft stand in the way. Read More Desperately seeking desktop data We review six products that can help you quickly dig up that key nugget of information. Read More Apple grants ABC unprecedented access to its secretive "black labs" Looking to stem the ever increasing wave of iPhone 4 criticism, Apple put together a press conference on July 16 where Steve Jobs announced that Apple would be giving away free cases to all iPhone owners. Moreover, Apple, in an attempt to dispel theories that the iPhone 4 wasn't thoroughly tested, put up a new section on its website which explains the rigorous testing Apple puts the iPhone through before it hits the market. More recently, ABC Nightline correspondent Bill Weir was offered unprecedented access to Apple's secret wireless testing labs, an area reportedly referred to as the "black labs" by Apple employees. Read More WEBCAST: Riverbed Successful IT Consolidation Consolidating branch offices can be an efficient strategy, but you must know when it makes sense to consolidate all or part of the branch office. This podcast covers the rules of thumb for successful IT consolidation and explains the top 3 challenges for IT. Learn more! Career Watch: Creative excuses for tardiness CareerBuilder asked hiring managers and human resources professionals to give examples of outrageous excuses for being late. Among the more unusual ones were these. Read More IT innovation: How to avoid being a one-hit wonder The keys to making innovation a sustainable process include understanding the business inside and out, setting up a team dedicated to trying new ideas, and not being afraid to fail. Read More Gartner: CIOs Should Plan for Recession No. 2 Gartner says CIOs should develop a list of IT projects that could be postponed or canceled -- if there's a second recession in the next 12 to 18 months. Read More 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! Yahoo will invest in hackers with good ideas Yahoo is considering investing in hackers with good ideas and technologies, a company executive said on Saturday. Read More Cybercrime costs a business $3.8 million/year, study finds A new study of 45 U.S. organizations found that cybercrime -- including Web attacks, malicious code and rogue insiders -- costs each one of them $3.8 million per year, on average, and results in about one successful attack each week. Read More Government says DMCA can't stop jailbreaking, unlocking Score this one 3-0 in favor of the Electronic Frontier Foundation over the corporate interests that have used the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to shackle and intimidate smartphone users and Internet video artists.   Read More
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