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	Ozzie's 'doomsday' memo warns Microsoft of post-PC days Departing Microsoft exec Ray Ozzie has issued a communique expanding on his 2005 call for Microsoft to jump on the cloud or perish. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Xerox Trade in your old printer and save! Think you're saving money by not investing in new technology? Your old printer is actually costing you more in loss of productivity and growing service costs. It's time to take action. With prices as low as $349 after trade-in rebate, a new ColorQube® solid ink printer can help you increase printing quality and efficiency, while saving costs. Start saving today> In this Issue 25 hottest products from young IT companies Congress mulls multiple bills to reform H-1B visa program Broadband stimulus brings WiMAX to rural U.S. Extreme's latest Gigabit Ethernet switch ups ante with Cisco, Juniper Report: Microsoft targeting Acer, Asustek over Android Enterprises still wary of Office 2010 Powerline Networking Standard Ratified Security company strengthens CAPTCHAs with video Is there anything the coffee- and balloon-powered robotic Universal Gripper can't handle? Steve Jobs' Business Card from 1979 WHITE PAPER: NetApp Consolidate and Virtualize Your Windows Environment Joint NetApp-VMware whitepaper on Windows consolidation. This whitepaper explores the reasons for consolidating Windows environments and the benefits of doing so with a joint NetApp-VMware solution. Read More! 25 hottest products from young IT companies Network World's 25 New IT Companies to Watch are building a broad array of new IT products for the cloud computing and virtualization age. Here's a look at the 25 new IT companies and the technologies they're offering. Read More Congress mulls multiple bills to reform H-1B visa program Members of the 111th session of Congress (2009-2010) have made multiple attempts to modify rules that bring foreign workers into U.S. IT jobs. Some bills seek to restrict a company's ability to import workers, others try to make it easier to get visas or keep foreign workers once they are here. Read More Broadband stimulus brings WiMAX to rural U.S. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded broadband stimulus grants of more than $500 million to 40 companies to deploy WiMAX services in 22 states. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetApp Storage for Windows Environments This paper discusses how consolidating your Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange, and SharePoint Server data along with your Windows files using NetApp storage for Windows environments reduces the cost of physical storage as well as ongoing management costs in Windows environments. Read More! Extreme's latest Gigabit Ethernet switch ups ante with Cisco, Juniper Extreme Networks Tuesday rolled out an Ethernet switch line designed to play a series of roles, including edge aggregation in the campus and top-of-rack server access in the data center. Read More Report: Microsoft targeting Acer, Asustek over Android Microsoft may be looking to add to its existing patent infringement case related to the use of Google's Android mobile phone software by targeting phone makers in Taiwan, according to a Chinese-language news report. Read More Enterprises still wary of Office 2010 Microsoft was happy to point out the other day that it sells 30 copies of new Office 2010 software suite every minute and we've reported that it is well-reviewed and generally well received in the market. But it's one thing for a consumer to download Office 2010 onto their PC and another for an enterprise with 10,000 employees to upgrade to it. Read More WEBCAST: Meraki Why Enterprise WiFi Belongs in the Cloud Effective management is key to wireless success. Join this live Webcast to hear how cloud-controlled wireless management provides the security, remote administration and reliability resource-constrained IT departments require. See real-world examples of organizations that have successfully deployed enterprise WiFi in the cloud. Learn more now! Powerline Networking Standard Ratified Ethernet? In my wall outlet? It's more likely than you think, with companies like Atheros working with the recent IEEE standard for their Powerline technology. Read More Security company strengthens CAPTCHAs with video A security company called NuCaptcha is incorporating advertising into a video CAPTCHA system that is much harder for computers to break. Read More Is there anything the coffee- and balloon-powered robotic Universal Gripper can't handle? Researchers at Cornell University, the University of Chicago and iRobot have teamed to design a Universal Gripper designed to give robots a real hand. Read More Steve Jobs' Business Card from 1979 There are a few things to note here. First, though Jobs helped co-found Apple, he never served as the company's CEO until he returned to Apple in 1997. Previously, Jobs served as Apple's VP of New Product Development (as shown below), and later on as the VP and General Manger of the Mac department. Read More
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