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Cisco co-founder now talks, lives, breathes turkey
No one would ever accuse Sandy Lerner of standing still too long and not trying new things. The co-founder of Cisco and founder of a major cosmetics company is now running a large organic turkey farm from her 3,000-acre spread in Virginia. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Riverbed

Accelerating the Cloud
To stay competitive and keep costs down, today's enterprises need to consolidate resources, quickly provision services, and more effectively rationalize costs with new business models. If done correctly, cloud computing can help solve these problems, and further help IT managers maintain business-critical applications and data. Learn More Now.

WHITE PAPER: Oracle

Best Practices for a Data Warehouse on Oracle Database 11g
Increasingly companies are recognizing the value of an enterprise data warehouse (EDW). A true EDW provides a single 360-degree view of the business and a powerful platform for a wide spectrum of business intelligence tasks ranging from predictive analysis to near real-time strategic and tactical decision support throughout the organization. Learn more

Why U.S. IT jobs aren't coming back
As the economy recovers, the jobs are going to India and other cheap-labor nations. Read More

Report: Pentagon officials want review of Huawei deal
Chinese network supplier Huawei, whose business deals in the U.S. have faced security concerns, is once again drawing scrutiny from the U.S government, this time over the past acquisition of a California-based technology firm, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. Read More

Microsoft Lync: The Pros and Cons for Enterprises
Lync, the next generation of Microsoft's Office Communications Server software, was unveiled yesterday in New York City, complete with a surprise appearance from Bill Gates via Lync's video conference tool. Read More


WEBCAST: IBM

Cloud as the Next Generation of Service Delivery
Exceptional growth in data is driving a need to transform the delivery of services. Understand the "road map" to transform and learn how IBM adds value at every step from virtualization, consolidation, automation, and ultimately cloud computing. Learn More

Most popular stories this week: Nov. 19
The most-viewed stories at Network World for the week ending Nov. 19. Check out the full list. Read More

Manufacturing problems hit Nokia N8 smartphone
Some Nokia N8 smartphones are turning themselves off or refusing to turn on after charging. Nokia has identified a manufacturing problem and has promised to replace the small number of affected phones it said in a blog post on Thursday. Read More

Google and Apple looking to introduce NFC capable smartphones
Don't blink, because Near Field Communications (NFC) might soon become a household term before you know it. NFC is a wireless communication technology that when integrated with a smartphone enables users to pay for goods simply by waving their device over a payment pad - and it appears that Google and Apple are both looking to include it in future smartphones. 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

iPhone still leads in customer smartphone satisfaction, but Motorola Android phones are no slouches
Apple's iPhone continues to be the top-scorer in customer satisfaction, but the big surprise is that Motorola Android phones have climbed into second place, based on the latest survey of new smartphone users by ChangeWave Research. Read More

McAfee CEO: Intel acquisition not about silicon
In town for an executive summit event at the Steam Whistle Brewery, McAfee Corp. (NYSE: MFE ) CEO Dave DeWalt told customers and partners he believes Intel Corp. 's (NASDAQ: INTC ) blockbuster acquisition of the security vendor will create exciting possibilities. Read More

Both sides claim victory in ruling over music distribution patent
It was almost two years ago now that we wrote about the Electronic Frontier Foundation's attempt to bust a patent covering the distribution of music files over the Internet that is held by Seer Systems, a one-man band that vigorously disputes the EFF's description of its patent as bogus. Read More

World Toilet Day spotlights the throne
Today is World Toilet Day and with it comes the requisite humor.  But the underlying purpose of the day is to have people in all countries to take action, increase awareness of toilet user's right to a better toilet environment, and to demand for it from toilet owners. Read More



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Microsoft Windows after 25 years: A visual history
More than nine out of 10 computers run some version of Windows. But no one could have predicted that would be the case when Windows 1.0 launched 25 years ago as a graphical front end for MS-DOS. Here's a look at Windows through the years and some thoughts on what the future might hold.

Cool Yule favorites: 15 techie gifts we like
Ho Ho Ho, it's time again to get our holiday wish lists together. Here are our 15 favorite products from the 140+ products submitted and tested in this year's Cool Yule Tools holiday gift guide.

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