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	U.S. broadband plan author talks about his regrets Blair Levin is a fellow at the Aspen Institute and was the lead author of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) controversial National Broadband Plan. He spoke with David Ramli in a telephone interview about his regrets and the rising importance of wireless over wired connections. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CDW Optimize with virtualization solutions from CDW. Find out how CDW's experts can help you inrease efficiency. Click to continue In this Issue 7 spooktechular haunted house ideas Verizon to pay $25 million in mystery fees case Should teachers 'friend' students on Facebook? 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Read More Verizon to pay $25 million in mystery fees case Verizon Wireless will pay US$25 million to the U.S. government and will offer its mobile customers a tool to block their phones from Web access in a settlement with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission over unexpected fees on customers' bills. Read More Should teachers 'friend' students on Facebook? Can school teachers "friend" their students on Facebook or other social-networking sites? And can they talk critically or at all about their schools and students in public forums? Read More IE6 addiction throws monkey wrench into Windows 7 migration The use of key, custom-built IE6 applications is likely to slow some the migration to Windows 7 at some enterprises due to the time and money needed to upgrade the apps. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA The Most Important Metric for your VMs The management tools selected to support virtualization is essential to the ability of IT to grow the virtual environment without proportionately increasing the staff to manage all of the new physical host servers and their guest VMs. Learn More Broadband stimulus creates computer training centers The broadband stimulus program wasn't created just to deploy broadband in underserved rural areas – it was also designed to create education centers to help train more people in how to use the Web. Read More Asterisk preps assault on unified communications Having taken on the IP PBX vendors with its free Asterisk software, Digium is now setting its sights on providers of business-grade unified communications platforms like Avaya, Cisco, Microsoft and Siemens. Read More Cisco management software vulnerable CiscoWorks Common Services for Solaris and Windows could allow unauthenticated admin accessCisco this week issued a security advisory for its CiscoWorks management software. Read More Microsoft posts a record $16 billion first-quarter Microsoft reports big sales on Windows 7, Xbox 360, Office 2010Microsoft posted a record in terms of first-quarter revenue, reeling in $16.2 billion. It also reported a 51% increase in profit which beat analysts' predictions. On the other hand, one can't but notice that it's lack of a smartphone means that Apple's $20 billion quarter bested Microsoft, record and all. Read More WHITE PAPER: Blue Coat Systems 2010 Application Delivery Handbook Learn how IT organizations can develop a solid approach to applications delivery and how next generation acceleration technologies can help reclaim bandwidth from non-essential traffic and optimize critical applications. Free the WAN with Blue Coat. Read now! iMoby: the hunt for the great white iPhone Apple this week announced that the fabled white iPhone 4 has been delayed yet again, now until spring 2011. The news brought to mind how a classic American novel might be updated for the 21st century…. Read More Carly Fiorina features Cisco in political attack ad Democrat Barbara Boxer visited Cisco on Tuesday and this has inspired a political attack ad from the Carly Fiorina camp about Cisco. Take the ad for what it's worth, please. I'm also posting the video of Boxer's visit to Cisco, as captured by SFGate. Read More Mystery open source switching company claims top-of-rack price edge Another top-of-rack switch, based on open source code, is being offered for data center and cloud computing environments. Read More Sprint to offer mobile wallet system for cell phones Sprint Nextel subscribers will be able to link their credit cards and other traditional payment methods to a mobile purchasing system coming next month. Read More
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