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	Free BlackBerry Apps for the Holidays CIO.com's mobile maestro Al Sacco handpicks ten BlackBerry applications -- six of which are completely free -- that can help with shopping, travel, personal entertainment and much more this upcoming holiday season. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CDW Need to optimize network performance? CDW has the experts and solutions that can help. Click to continue In this Issue Multiple vulnerabilities in Cisco videoconferencing gear Expert rebuts Bit9's "Dirty Dozen" shot at Chrome 6 sets of useful Apple iPad resources Insider: Smartphone and iPad-crazy enterprises playing right into Aruba Networks' hands Google Apps Suite Gets 10 Times Bigger Wiseguy scalpers bought tickets with CAPTCHA-busting botnet Does Microsoft's Lync hype match customer desires? Juniper Buys Trapeze: Unified Networking's Increasing Importance Some tech issues may move forward in split Congress NetworkWorld.com and this blog win industry awards WHITE PAPER: Oracle Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition This paper offers in-depth insights into Oracle business intelligence systems, including 11g design, BI server, analysis and reporting, BI interactive dashboard, scorecard and strategy management, and much more. Learn more Multiple vulnerabilities in Cisco videoconferencing gear Advisory notes holes in Linux- and VxWorks-based products Cisco issued a security advisory this week warning of multiple vulnerabilities in its videocoferencing products. Read More Expert rebuts Bit9's "Dirty Dozen" shot at Chrome The "Dirty Dozen" list of most-vulnerable applications for 2010 from security vendor Bit9 this week puts the Google Chrome browser at the top. Now into the resultant debate steps Marc Maiffret, security expert at eEye Digital Security, with a love song for Google Chrome. Read More 6 sets of useful Apple iPad resources You may or may not be among the growing legion of iPad owners, but here's a collection of resources from Network World and its sister publications from the past few months that should be of use whether you own an iPad or have buying one in mind. Read More WHITE PAPER: NeuStar, Inc. Holiday Readiness Guide for Ecommerce This white paper is all about Internet Gifting Essentials as it is critical that merchants ready their sites from both a performance and selling perspective. Based on the e-tailing group's Annual Mystery Shopping Survey, highlighted Internet gifting essentials were present in three-out-of-four of the 100 websites we surveyed last holiday season. Read More Insider: Smartphone and iPad-crazy enterprises playing right into Aruba Networks' hands The influx of smartphones, tablets and other wireless devices into businesses is making many employees more productive, but Aruba Networks is seeing firsthand how much strain all of this newfound mobility is putting on the enterprise IT and security staffs that are its customers. Read More Google Apps Suite Gets 10 Times Bigger If you've been using Google Apps for work and other Google services for play, then you know the annoyance of juggling two accounts within one browser. That hassle ended Thursday as Mountain View brought more than 60 services into the Google Apps fold. Read More Wiseguy scalpers bought tickets with CAPTCHA-busting botnet Three California men have pleaded guilty charges they built a network of CAPTCHA-solving computers that flooded online ticket vendors and snatched up the very best seats for Bruce Springsteen concerts, Broadway productions and even TV tapings of Dancing with the Stars. 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 Does Microsoft's Lync hype match customer desires? Customers eying Microsoft's Lync 2010 unified communications server need to take a step back and evaluate what's really new and whether they need it right now, down the road or not at all, experts say. Read More Juniper Buys Trapeze: Unified Networking's Increasing Importance The rumors are true – and unified networking continues to increase in importance. Don't count the WLAN guys not selling switches and routers out yet, though.I must say that I found the news that Juniper is buying Trapeze to be surprising, despite the fact that rumors had been flying quite literary for months. I usually don't comment on rumors, and didn't in this case. But in retrospect, this deal does make sense. Read More Some tech issues may move forward in split Congress Technology issues focused on growing the U.S. economy and creating jobs can move through a divided Congress next year, if lawmakers can set aside controversial issues such as network neutrality, some congressional observers said Thursday. Read More NetworkWorld.com and this blog win industry awards The American Society of Business Publication Editors has announced the winners of its second annual Digital Azbee Awards and they include a number of folks who bring you this Web site. Read More
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