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	Best NAS boxes for less than $1,000 Buffalo Technology shattered the $1,000 barrier for a terabyte of shared storage back in 2005. With storage prices continuing to drop, that same $1,000 today can buy a 4T or even 5TB network-attached storage (NAS) device with RAID 5 disk redundancy, plus additional features, like backup storage licenses and indexing capabilities. We tested eight units, each suitable for workgroups in large enterprises or as an entry-level server for small businesses. Get the full report after free registration. Read More WHITE PAPER: NeuStar, Inc. Holiday Readiness Guide for Ecommerce Get your ecommerce site ready for the holidays. This guide offers advice on testing your site to ensure it can handle peak demand, tips to leverage gift cards and wish lists, and last minute strategies to drive revenues. Plus you'll be able to see examples of best practices from online innovators. Read More In this Issue Top 15 free tools for every Windows desktop Smartphones or laptops for mobile workers? Best tips for improving wireless networks IE9 to let users block tracking Google sets sights on tablet-centric Android Fix to Chinese Internet traffic hijack due in January Four technologies for faster broadband in 2011 Feds pinch guy who bragged about gaming Google On eve of Chrome store launch, Mozilla touts own Web app plans Rural outsourcing on the rise in the U.S. Cell-booster backers launch advocacy site WEBCAST: MegaPath Hosted VoIP: What about Service Quality? Learn the basics on how hosted voice services work. Join Joel Thomas and get insight into small business advantages for adopting hosted voice, types of businesses that benefit most from hosted VoIP, and quality indicators for evaluating service providers. Learn More Now. Top 15 free tools for every Windows desktop 15 free (or nearly free) Windows utilities for a fast, productive desktop environment. Read More Smartphones or laptops for mobile workers? Smartphones are essentially computers, capable of accessing the core corporate resources mobile workers need on the go, but laptops are still best for heavy lifting. So which platform is best for mobile workers? Tom Henderson says the limitations of smartphones are too great, while Pejman Roshan says you don't need anything more. Read what they have to say and join the debate. Read More Best tips for improving wireless networks How to secure Wi-Fi, tune an AP for best performance, and why wireless networking won't give you cancer. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sybase Mobility is in your workplace. Are you paying attention? When devising a mobility strategy, one of the key decisions to make is whether to invest in point solutions or to move toward a MEAP solution. This affects your ability to manage applications, devices, and security as mobility becomes more prevalent in your organization. Learn more with this complimentary whitepaper! Read More IE9 to let users block tracking The next version of Internet Explorer will let users turn on "tracking protection," a new mechanism that will block specified third-party sites from tracking users, Microsoft said. Read More Google sets sights on tablet-centric Android On the same day that Google released its 'Gingerbread' platform, it also debuted its soon-to-be-released version tailored specifically for tablets. Read More Fix to Chinese Internet traffic hijack due in January Policymakers disagree about whether the recent Chinese hijacking of Internet traffic was malicious or accidental, but there's no question about the underlying cause of this incident: the lack of built-in security in the Internet's main routing protocol. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Achieving True Collaboration in Global Development Globalization has given organizations around the world unprecedented access to personnel and to marketplaces. For some, this has meant the growth of the distributed organization. For others, globalization has meant the routine outsourcing of functions that only a few years ago were considered core capabilities. Still others combine the practices. Click to Continue Four technologies for faster broadband in 2011 A number of different technologies are being developed or improved to offer higher speeds for fixed and mobile broadband networks, as operators are preparing to compete with each other and carry video traffic in 3D and at higher resolutions, which is expected to happen in the coming year. Read More Feds pinch guy who bragged about gaming Google In the final analysis, online eyewear salesman Vitaly Borker seems to have taken that old saying about any publicity being good publicity way too far ... at least twice. Read More On eve of Chrome store launch, Mozilla touts own Web app plans Hoping to steal a little thunder from rival browser maker Google, Mozilla late Monday said its cross-browser Web app store would launch early next year. Read More Rural outsourcing on the rise in the U.S. For years, U.S. companies have been shipping development work and other IT tasks offshore in pursuit of low labor costs. Now a growing number of organizations are taking advantage of lower costs closer to home, by hiring outsourcing providers with operations in rural areas of the U.S. Read More Cell-booster backers launch advocacy site Wilson Electronics, a maker of cellular signal boosters, has launched a website to share customer testimonials and give consumers a way to fight to keep the devices legal. 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. December goodies from the Subnets SharePoint 2010 power user training for three people from Webucator, plus a brand new iPad available from Microsoft Subnet. Five massive libraries on CCNP, security, NX-OS up for grabs on Cisco Subnet. Enter to win! 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 VMware to virtualize Android smartphones for business users Retailer accused of inflating Google ranking is arrested WikiLeaks' Assange arrested in London Stop freaking out about terrorism. Did TSA miss that memo? Best and worst celebrity technology moments of 2010 Unwrapping Google's Android "Gingerbread" gift iPhone customers dump on AT&T in Consumer Reports survey Feds tracking Americans' credit cards in real-time without a warrant Juniper acquires virtualization security firm New Facebook changes not a huge blow to privacy, say experts
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