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	Hacker snoops on cell phones in demo Despite concerns that federal authorities might fine or arrest him, hacker Chris Paget went ahead with a live demonstration of mobile phone interception at the Defcon hacking conference Saturday. Read More REPORT: Citrix Gartner Research Note: Load Balancers are Dead Gartner Research Note "Load Balancers are Dead: Time to Focus on Application Delivery" helps you understand how to replace your basic load balancing technology and focus on getting the highest availability, performance and security for your web apps. Includes key recommendations you can use. Read now! In this Issue 12 Top Spy Gadgets How to steal corporate secrets in 20 minutes: Ask Speed Test - iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, and the iPhone 4 FCC concerned over DefCon mobile hacking talk Anatomy of a Cisco data center convert Windows 7 Tablets: Just Say No, Microsoft VA set to spend billions on IT Dragon Naturally Speaking Goes to 11 [video] Open Source IDS Wars: You Were There It's time to virtualize Microsoft Exchange (but not with Hyper-V) 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! 12 Top Spy Gadgets Spy gear for your inner secret agent. These cool (and possibly useful) gadgets would dazzle James Bond! Read More How to steal corporate secrets in 20 minutes: Ask A few companies in the Fortune 500 need to upgrade their Web browsers. And while they're at it, a little in-house training on social engineering wouldn't be a bad idea, either. Read More Speed Test - iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, and the iPhone 4 As this video shows, the difference in speed between devices is remarkable from one generation to the next. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Forrester: 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! FCC concerned over DefCon mobile hacking talk Chris Paget wants to demonstrate how easy it is to snoop in on mobile-phone conversations. The question is: Will the federal authorities allow it? Read More Anatomy of a Cisco data center convert Cisco almost didn't make the cut. NightHawk Radiology Services was ready to hand its data center consolidation project to another vendor until a facility leasing issue delayed its decision. Read More Windows 7 Tablets: Just Say No, Microsoft Microsoft is busy at work on a new tablet computer design, a product that may arrive from one or more of its hardware partners in "not a heck of a long time," CEO Steve Ballmer told analysts on Thursday. Read More REPORT: Radiant Logic, Inc Download Latest Gartner Report on IdM Today's centralized identity infrastructure can't keep up with tomorrow's increasingly federated demands, from user-centric identity, to Identity-as-a-Service, and the cloud. In "The Emerging Architecture of Identity Management," Gartner outlines a vision for tomorrow's identity landscape--one with virtualization at its core. Download the report--free! VA set to spend billions on IT The U.S. Veterans Administration is making upward of $12 billion in IT contracts available to businesses over the next five years, as part of an effort to modernize its operations. Read More Dragon Naturally Speaking Goes to 11 [video] I had the chance earlier in the week to visit the Burlington, Mass., headquarters of Nuance Communications, which makes the Dragon Naturally Speaking software. The company this week announced version 11 of its software ($100, available very soon), with performance boosts, accuracy improvements and some user interface changes, among other new features. Read More Open Source IDS Wars: You Were There Over the last couple of weeks I have been following all of the Snort-Suricata, Roesch-Jonkmann back and forth. If you are not familiar with the particulars of this latest incident you can read about them in Ellen Messmer's article and my fellow open source subnet blogger, Ben Whaley's column. Read More It's time to virtualize Microsoft Exchange (but not with Hyper-V) Microsoft isn't accustomed to being in second place in any market, but that's the situation it has had to accept as it challenges VMware for supremacy in the x86 virtualization world. Microsoft has undoubtedly made significant progress in the last couple of years, bolstering its virtualization and management capabilities with Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager. Read More
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