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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

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Motorola sees opportunity in iPhone coming to Verizon
The head of Motorola's mobile-phone business said he sees opportunity for his company when the iPhone comes to additional carriers in the U.S. Read More


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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

WHITE PAPER: NeuStar, Inc.

Holiday Readiness Guide for Ecommerce
This white paper is all about Internet Gifting Essentials as it is critical that merchants ready their sites from both a performance and selling perspective. Based on the e-tailing group's Annual Mystery Shopping Survey, highlighted Internet gifting essentials were present in three-out-of-four of the 100 websites we surveyed last holiday season. Read More

Cisco IOS In A VM? It Will Be A Cold Day According To Vyatta CEO
Virtualization has changed the game in many layers of the data center. One important piece of the data center stack that has not been available is Cisco's IOS. According to Vyatta CEO Kelly Herrell it won't be available anytime soon either. Read More

Geeky Eats, Nerdy Treats
Some iPad Thai, an 8-bit wine, and a gingerbread TIE Fighter for dessert--check out how culinary-minded geeks express their tech enthusiasm. Read More

Today Linux Foundation steps up to enable industry open source adoption
Today the Linux Foundation launched its Open Compliance Program. This bold new initiative promises to increase adoption of open source and help companies comply with open source licenses. It combines some efforts already in place with several exciting, newly unveiled elements-more about those below. Read More

BBC creates malicious smartphone app
The BBC has created a malicious app for smartphones in a bid to prove just how easy it is for cybercriminals to build software to steal data from handsets. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Red Hat

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Your Solaris Alternative
With the improved price, performance, and reliability of industry standard x86_64 servers, buying SPARC hardware has become less compelling. Red Hat® Enterprise Linux has emerged as the OS of choice with its open, industry-standard architecture. Read More Now

Products of the Week slideshow
Our round-up of intriguing new products from Cloudmark, Proofpoint, Research in Motion, among others. Read More

Who has the better virtualization platform - VMware or Microsoft?
VMware is the kingpin of virtualization, but the game is changing fast and Microsoft is baking the technology into the very core of many products. Which company has the best approach? VMware's Bogomil Balkansky goes head to head against Microsoft's David Greschler in this debate. Read More

Are Cisco-led routing, switching specs necessary?
Two specifications in the IETF - one authored by Cisco, the other in a working group led by a Cisco engineer - are facing some resistance due to redundancy with capabilities already or soon to be on the market. Read More

Ted Stevens, Father of "Intertubes", said to die in plane crash
Former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, best known in technology circles for once referring to the Internet as a series of tubes, has reportedly died in a plane crash in Alaska at the age of 86. He was among five people killed in the crash, but at least three people have survived. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Cisco

Learn the 3 Best Practices for Securing E-mail
Any IT manager will tell you it's critical to protect data. With information flowing freely today via mobile devices, collaboration technologies and unified communications, it isn't easy. Learn data leak prevention (DLP) triage and the steps to protect proprietary data in e-mail, while also complying with government and industry regulations. Read now!

BlackBerry Torch 9800: 10 Things You Didn't Know About It
The first BlackBerry smartphone with both a traditional, full-QWERTY BlackBerry keyboard and a touch-screen for navigation, the Torch 9800, is expected to be released in the United States by wireless carrier AT&T on Thursday, August 12 for $199.99 along with a new, two-year service agreement. Read More

Security metric techniques: How to answer the 'so what?'
You need to be ready when the boss responds to your presentation with a "so what?" At Metricon 5, the focus is on several security metric techniques to pull it off. Read More

U.K. bank hit by massive fraud from ZeuS-based botnet
Security vendor M86 Security says it's discovered that a U.K.-based bank has suffered almost $900,000 (675,000 Euros) in fraudulent bank-funds transfers due to the ZeuS Trojan malware that has been targeting the institution. Read More

Google to use drones to capture Street View images?
Google is thought to be considering using a fleet of drones to capture images for its Street View service. Read More

 
 
 

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SLIDESHOWS

Supersize your WAN
Dual-WAN routers have come a long way. WAN connections are easier to establish, and all units we tested have configurable load balancing. The performance increase, not to mention the redundant Internet connections that all but guarantee uptime, should put these dual-WAN routers at the top of the shopping list for every small business that needs a router.

The recent history of governments vs. the Internet
Since the Web makes it far easier to access information than ever before, governments have had a harder time keeping the lid on information they don't want the public to consume and have often found themselves butting heads with tech companies who deliver Internet services or content. Here are some doozies.

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