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	WikiLeaks: China was behind Google hack The much publicized attack on Google's computer systems in China earlier this year was directed by China's Politburo, according to classified U.S. government documents released by the Web site WikiLeaks.org and reported by several news organizations. Read More WEBCAST: Riverbed Faster Recovery for Windows Applications and Data Are your backup & recovery plans up to snuff? Will you be able to restore critical systems & data quickly in the event of an outage? Learn valuable information on how to protect Windows applications & data in a distributed environment. Learn about challenges in protecting & restoring Exchange, SQL, & Windows file server, & more. Learn more! In this Issue Insider Review: Microsoft Lync 2010 puts the "U" in UC Amazon leads Black Friday online spending increase How secure is Windows Phone 7 app code? A week with Windows Phone 7 BP ignored safety software advice, investigators find Comcast outage hits Boston, east-coast cities Cisco losing more steam in Layer 4-7 Video: Sharp sets launch of Galapagos e-book tablet Could Disposable E-Readers be in the Near Future? Report says Apple iPad 2 to have 2 cameras, USB port Gomez Launches "User Experience Index" in Time for the Holidays WHITE PAPER: Citrix Solution Center NWW PAN IDG 8 Criteria for Server Load Balancing Server load balancers are a simple yet highly effective means to scale an application environment while ensuring its availability. Today's solutions should also address application performance and security. Read about the top eight criteria you should consider when choosing a server load balancer and how Citrix NetScaler meets those requirements. Read now! Insider Review: Microsoft Lync 2010 puts the "U" in UC Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 R2, which was released in early 2009, does a credible job of providing presence awareness, instant messaging, conferencing and voice capabilities. Still, these services aren't always integrated, and thus aren't easily managed by IT staff. For end users, the lack of integration means maintaining various sets of contacts and working differently depending on the application. Read More Amazon leads Black Friday online spending increase U.S. online shoppers spent $648 million, 9% more than last year, on Black Friday, the official kickoff to the lucrative holiday shopping season, online researcher comScore reports. Read More How secure is Windows Phone 7 app code? A recent Microsoft glitch made it possible for developers to bypass the Zune marketplace and download their Windows Phone 7 app of choice. Though Microsoft closed that loopohole, the incident sparked debate over how to secure application code, a problem that affects more than WP7 developers. Read More WEBCAST: Netop Best Practices for Remote Support Join this live Webcast December 7th at 1 PM ET to hear practical advice on deploying remote support without putting your organization at risk. You'll learn how companies from regulated industries are implementing remote support and since this event is live, you'll have a chance to ask the experts your specific questions. Join us for this Live Event A week with Windows Phone 7 For reasons I cannot understand, I found myself at Union Square in San Francisco on Black Friday. This is unlike me, being one who prefers Christmas shopping at 11 a.m. on a Tuesday when crowds are lightest. But I went to Union Square -- one of the busiest retail centers in the country -- anyway to snap some holiday photos on a Windows Phone 7 smartphone. Read More BP ignored safety software advice, investigators find BP ignored the advice of safety critical software in an attempt to save time before the disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill, according to a presentation slide prepared by US investigators. Read More Comcast outage hits Boston, east-coast cities Comcast's cable Internet service on the U.S. east coast was hit with problems late Sunday that left many users unable to access the Internet. Read More WHITE PAPER: ParAccel Stop Fraudulent Transactions Outdated legacy analytic solutions do not deliver responses within the accelerated timelines demanded by fraud detection today. Learn how high-performance analytics is architected to run complex computations on massive amounts of data without time-wasting or static workarounds - no pre-defined indexes, summarize data or materialized views required. Read now! Cisco losing more steam in Layer 4-7 Third quarter Ethernet switching numbers are starting to trickle out and the only surprise might be how fast Cisco is fading in Layer 4-7. Cisco maintained its 72% share of the overall Ethernet switch market and even upped that by 2% from last year. But it's sliding in Layer 4-7. Read More Video: Sharp sets launch of Galapagos e-book tablet Sharp will launch its Galapagos e-book tablets in Japan on Dec. 10, it said Monday. The tablets will go on sale nationwide in two versions: one has a 5.5-inch screen and the other has a 10.8-inch screen. Read More Could Disposable E-Readers be in the Near Future? Disposable Nooks and Kindles may one day become as commonplace as throwaway cameras, thanks to a discovery by an engineering professor at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio. Read More Report says Apple iPad 2 to have 2 cameras, USB port Rumors continue to swirl over Apple's next generation iPad, and one reliable Taiwanese newspaper says the new device will be out in the first quarter of 2011, complete with video calling, two cameras, new display and touch technology, and a USB port to connect easily to other devices. Read More Gomez Launches "User Experience Index" in Time for the Holidays It's the busiest online shopping week of the year, and to mark it Gomez has launched a novel way to show how well retail websites are performing from a user's viewpoint. This is a noteworthy first. Read More
	Fill out a survey, get rewarded Get a free Starbucks gift card for participating in a Network World survey about application performance management best practices. Research firm NetForecast is surveying enterprises about APM practices for an upcoming Network World article. The first 100 participants will receive a $5 Starbucks gift card. Click here. Goodies from the Subnets We've got SharePoint 2010 training for up to three people from Webucator up for grabs. There's an iPad available, too. Enter to win one! SLIDESHOWS Top IT Turkeys of 2010 Thanksgiving is a time for giving thanks for all of the people and things we love, to cherish what's most important to us. But that's for another slideshow. This one's all about taunting the companies, products and people who most resembled a turkey over the last year. So cut me a hockey-puck-shaped slice of jellied cranberry sauce and read on. 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. MOST-READ STORIES HTTPS everywhere gets Firefox "Firesheep" protection Create the ultimate car PC China Internet 'hijack' hugely exaggerated, says researcher Why any great career move should be known as 'a Schmidt' One less thing: Apple bans Steve Jobs doll Oracle awarded $1.3 billion in SAP lawsuit IT user supergroup forces vendors to take notice Analyst calls unified communications "greatest scam since Ponzi" Microsoft spying on users for free What to expect from next month's Verizon LTE launch
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