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	Attack Ads--Not Just for Politicians High-tech companies have shown that they're not above slinging a mud pie or two at their competitors. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Making the Promise of Cloud a Reality Whether a business builds out its own cloud or buys cloud services from someone else, they need to be sure the end results are optimized for the speed users require. This paper identifies where the limitations of cloud computing exist and provides actionable strategies to unleash cloud performance. Read now! In this Issue IE9 tops Chrome, Firefox in HTML5 compatibility Force10 throws hat into 40G Ethernet ring Another Cisco cheater nabbed Android users split between Froyo, Éclair SAP willing to pay Oracle $120M for attorney's fees Sony's 10 greatest tech flops Twitter's Promoted Tweets to Poison User Timelines Stormy Peters leaves GNOME: Joins Mozilla NASA wants more hypersonic spaceship research WHITE PAPER: Citrix Solution Center NWW PAN IDG Load Balancers are Dead When looking at feature requirements in front of and between server tiers, too many organizations think only about load balancing. However, the era of load balancing is long past, and organizations will be better served to focus their attention on improving the delivery of applications. Read now! IE9 tops Chrome, Firefox in HTML5 compatibility World Wide Web Consortium tests give Internet Explorer 9 the lead over Google Chrome and Firefox in HTML5 compatibility. Read More Force10 throws hat into 40G Ethernet ring Force10 Tuesday will make good on its earlier promise to provide "end-to-end" 40Gbps Ethernet capabilities by unveiling a data center switch and switch module that support the new high-speed standard. Read More Another Cisco cheater nabbed Another Cisco cheater has been nabbed. Bloomberg Businessweek reports that a Minnesota man has pled guilty to defrauding Cisco out of $388,000 in a spare parts scam. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP How Device Reputation Works From botnet CnC servers to malware depots and phishing sites, cyber threats are growing by the day and with little risk of being caught or prosecuted, they will likely continue to rise. This paper explains how device reputation works and demonstrates the powerful role it can play in preventing attacks. Read now. Android users split between Froyo, Éclair According to data released by Google Tuesday, 36% of Android users are running the 2.2 (Froyo) version of the mobile operating system while 41% are running the 2.1 (Éclair) version of the software. Read More SAP willing to pay Oracle $120M for attorney's fees SAP would pay Oracle US$120 million for "past and future reasonable attorneys fees and costs" under the terms of a joint stipulation filed Monday in connection with the companies' ongoing intellectual-property lawsuit. Read More Sony's 10 greatest tech flops Since its founding in 1946, Sony has produced some of the biggest hits in consumer electronics. Brand names like Walkman, Handycam and Trinitron helped define the company as a giant in the industry and more recent hits like Cybershot, Vaio, Bravia and PlayStation have helped keep it there. But no success story is failure-free. Let's take a look back at some Sony products that didn't win consumers' hearts and minds. 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 Twitter's Promoted Tweets to Poison User Timelines If you're hungry for more advertisements, Twitter is the place to go. Not content with just displaying Promoted Tweets in its search function, Twitter is rolling out an initiative to deluge your timeline with them as well. This campaign will annoy users, choke already-spam-muddled user timelines -- and make Twitter a lot of money. But at what cost? Your enjoyment, that's what. Read More Stormy Peters leaves GNOME: Joins Mozilla Stormy Peters is stepping down as GNOME's executive director and heading to Mozilla to work on developer engagement. Read More NASA wants more hypersonic spaceship research NASA today said it was looking for more research and development of hypersonic spacecraft that could travel at incredible speeds - in the neighborhood of Mach 20 -- in space and land on other planets. Read More
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