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	Google Chrome tops 'Dirty Dozen' vulnerable apps list The Google Chrome browser has earned the dubious distinction of being named the most vulnerable application on the "Dirty Dozen" list of 12 applications with the most discovered software flaws requiring security updates and notifications from January through mid-October. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed An In-Depth Look at ROI In this whitepaper, Riverbed discusses its compelling and powerful return on investment in hard dollars, and a way to leap past the obstacles preventing you from reaching your IT objectives. Read now! In this Issue Top 15 Essential iPad Apps for Work Microsoft Lync: What you need to know Facebook messaging throws a blow at Google Voltaire ups ante in InfiniBand/Ethernet duel Video shows lack of overheating protection in Windows Phone 7 HTC Surround Cisco pops packetized optical system Why concurrent logins to a Windows network are a (very) bad idea Penetration tests: 10 tips for a successful program NTIA identifies federal spectrum for commercial broadband Windows Phone 7 Riddled with Rookie Mistakes 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! Top 15 Essential iPad Apps for Work From Awesome Currency Calculator to iTranslate, here are 15 iPad apps that will help you do the job and make the process a bit more fun. Read More Microsoft Lync: What you need to know Microsoft this week will launch Lync, the latest version of its unified communications and collaboration platform that, like competitive products, promises to change the way businesses do business by integrating a range of existing communications and collaboration technologies. Read More Facebook messaging throws a blow at Google Facebook's new messaging system may not be a Gmail killer, but it's definitely another blow in the growing battle between two Internet bigwigs. 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. Voltaire ups ante in InfiniBand/Ethernet duel The next-generation InfiniBand FDR standard competes with Ethernet for conveying high-throughput, low-latency traffic. Read More Video shows lack of overheating protection in Windows Phone 7 HTC Surround If you get a Windows Mobile Phone 7 hot enough, will it explode in your pocket? Concerns over a lack of a thermal protection shutdown in WP7 have surfaced thanks to a stunt video posted on YouTube. Read More Cisco pops packetized optical system Cisco this week unveiled a transport system for service provider networks that is designed to help them better support packet and IP-based services, like video, mobility and cloud computing. Read More REPORT: APC by Schneider Electric Inside the Energy-Efficient Data Center The enterprise data centers long been an energy hog, But the situation is improving within many enterprise data centers as data center managers and the industry as a whole come to terms with how to boost IT efficiencies while improving power and cooling methodologies — all while keeping costs in check. Read Now. Why concurrent logins to a Windows network are a (very) bad idea A vast number of Microsoft's security holes are dependent on the credentials of the user logged in when a Windows machine is hacked. But one of Windows' weakest areas of baked-in security is login controls. Third-party software, such as IS Decisions' UserLock takes on the task of filling in the gaps. Read More Penetration tests: 10 tips for a successful program Why are you performing penetration tests? Whether you're using an internal team, outside experts or a combination of the two, are you simply satisfying regulatory or audit requirements, or do you actually expect to improve enterprise security? Read More NTIA identifies federal spectrum for commercial broadband The U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has identified 115 MHz of wireless spectrum now controlled by the federal government that can be turned over or shared with commercial users for wireless broadband service, the agency said Monday. Read More Windows Phone 7 Riddled with Rookie Mistakes Borrowing the classic Marlon Brando line from the movie On the Waterfront, Microsoft "coulda been a contender." The problem is that Microsoft has made a number of mistakes and omissions with the highly-anticipated Windows Phone 7 platform that greatly handicap its potential success against rival platforms like iPhone and Android. Read More
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