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	iPhone vs. Original Mac: A teardown showdown Frustrated with your smartphone's limitations? Oh, how far we've come. Here's how the iPhone 4 stacks up against the original desktop Mac. 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 In this Issue Finding lost IT with RFID Motorola shifts Wi-Fi smarts to access points What? Padmasree Warrior is now CTO, SVP and GM at Cisco? 'Political' cyberattacks hit half of large companies Microsoft IE browser share dips below 50%; Google Chrome rises Cursebird undergoes #&^@*^! makeover Gold in white space Yahoo's data center chief draws lessons from century-old tech The mobile hotspot goes global WHITE PAPER: PC Mall A Powerful Platform for Virtualization Download this HP white paper to learn how the next-generation ProLiant servers can help companies achieve rapid ROI and dramatically lower their operational expenses. Read More Finding lost IT with RFID Vendors are trying to sell users on the idea that they need to stick RFID tags on IT equipment to keep track of it. Users are interested in this technology because they would much rather automate inventory tracking then go server-to-server with a bar code scanner and clipboard. Read More Motorola shifts Wi-Fi smarts to access points Motorola's new wireless LAN software offloads control tasks and traffic from the Wi-Fi controller to the access points. It's not the only vendor touting the benefits of such a change: more efficient networks, better performance and reliability. Read More What? Padmasree Warrior is now CTO, SVP and GM at Cisco? When Padmasree Warrior left Motorola back in 2007 to take the job of Chief Technology Officer at Cisco Systems, I had to laugh at blogger Brad Reese's characterization of her. He wrote, "Why on earth would John Chambers hire as Cisco CTO an individual who has been so badly beaten by Apple and Steve Jobs?" Now she is adding another title of Senior Vice President and General Manager. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Cloud Security on IT's Terms Outsourcing security has been controversial. There's simply too much at stake, some say, but new IDG research reveals the 51% of companies are either using or considering cloud-based security. This paper examines the top 3 myths of cloud security, email security in the cloud, as well as the importance of Data Loss Prevention. Read now! 'Political' cyberattacks hit half of large companies When asked if their enterprises had been hit by "politically minded attacks" that could include terrorist or state-sponsored cyberattacks aimed at stealing sensitive inform or bringing down the network, half of the IT managers at 1,580 enterprises worldwide answered they thought that had happened to them. Read More Microsoft IE browser share dips below 50%; Google Chrome rises Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which has dominated the Web browser market since blowing by Netscape in the late 1990s, last month fell below the 50% market share level for the first time in years. Read More Cursebird undergoes #&^@*^! makeover Cursebird has provided a never-ending scroll of tweets that share nothing in common except for the fact that they include one or more - some a lot more -- of the words you can't say on TV. Charts aggregate how often the words are used by the Twitter crowd and track trends. Now, thanks to site upgrades unveiled last week, Cursebird has begun awarding points for bad behavior and featuring a leader board for those select few who see swearing as a competitive sport of sorts. Read More WEBCAST: Cisco Ironport Systems Is Cloud Email Security Right for You? Many companies are shifting email applications and data into the cloud model—and yet not without concerns about security. To be sure, business-critical data must be protected. In this webcast, Cisco's senior manager for cloud security, Joel McFarland, addresses the concerns and offers strategies to take control of email security. Learn More Gold in white space The FCC's white space decision significantly increases the radio spectrum available for unlicensed computer communications. It could generate billions of dollars of business. Read More Yahoo's data center chief draws lessons from century-old tech Yahoo applied lessons learned a hundred years ago to its recently completed Lockport data center in New York, a decision that is saving it money and opening the door to future data center innovations. Read More The mobile hotspot goes global Verizon Wireless today launched its Fivespot mobile hotspot, which lets users connect to different types of 3G wireless networks and also provide Wi-Fi connections with up to five local devices. Read More
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