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	Is a next-generation firewall in your future? The traditional port-based enterprise firewall, now looking less like a guard and more like a pit stop for Internet applications racing in through the often open ports 80 and 443, is slowly losing out to a new generation of brawny, fast, intelligent firewalls. Read More WHITE PAPER: Websense, Inc. Buyers Guide to Data Loss Prevention Solutions This guide provides a list of recommended features and capabilities for buyers to consider when purchasing a DLP solution. Buyers can also use this guide to develop requests for proposals, as well as to help differentiate one vendor's products from another during demonstrations and proof-of-concepts. Read More In this Issue 15 Hot Cyber Week Deals Amazon reportedly shows Wikileaks the door FTC calls for online do-not-track list to protect privacy Microsoft's dropped feature is Linux's gain Verizon LTE to focus first on business users Verizon Wireless 4G LTE is 'wicked fast' in Boston [video] Verizon: You Can Thank Us for Android's Success Every Talk I Have About Buying a Laptop Goes Like This… Open source IP PBX saves serious cash for Michigan CAT Battery power, wireless spectrum hold back mobile computing The first rule of Windows Phone 7 sales is you do not talk about Windows Phone 7 sales Cure real-life diseases by playing Phylo game online WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies Electronic Software Delivery IDC : Those that are focused on providing an exceptional software acquisition are increasingly utilizing technology that helps create and measure a positive user experience. In this IDC whitepaper, review the benefits and processes of electronic software delivery. Learn the components of a successful solution that is optimal to the end user. Learn more 15 Hot Cyber Week Deals Check out this collection of 15 Cyber Week deals: including a $300 laptop, a 4-in-one printer for just $100, and the secret to getting a free HTC Droid Incredible from Verizon. Read More Amazon reportedly shows Wikileaks the door You'll have to take my word on this: What I meant to write this morning but didn't was that Wikileaks would be a former Amazon Web hosting customer by day's end. Here's Wikileaks confirming that guess on Twitter about an hour ago. Read More FTC calls for online do-not-track list to protect privacy The FTC endorses a national do-not-track list to protect consumers online. Read More Microsoft's dropped feature is Linux's gain Companies usually spend time and money developing new and interesting features to drive upgrades, but Microsoft is taking a different approach with the "Vail" release of Windows Home Server (WHS): It's dropping the popular Drive Extender feature that lets users "pool" hard drives to increase storage. 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. Verizon LTE to focus first on business users Verizon Wireless will launch its faster Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless network in 38 cities on Sunday, with an initial focus on business users who deploy LTE over new $100 USB modems connected to laptops. Read More Verizon Wireless 4G LTE is 'wicked fast' in Boston [video] The days when mobile travelers moaned about their super-slow Internet connection speeds will soon be an ancient memory. With today's announcement by Verizon Wireless on its Dec. 5 launch of its LTE (Long-Term Evolution) wireless 4G network in 38 metropolitan areas, we will soon forget about how happy we were to see 3G come along. Read More Verizon: You Can Thank Us for Android's Success Everybody knows that Al Gore gave us the Internet, but did you know that Verizon Wireless is the reason for the success of Google's Android mobile OS? Read More Every Talk I Have About Buying a Laptop Goes Like This… Because I'm the editor in charge of laptop coverage for PCWorld, I'm frequently asked for advice by friends, family, and coworkers looking to get a new laptop. That's not really surprising, and it's not even unwelcome. What surprises me is just how similar the conversations are to one another. Read More WEBCAST: Red Hat 5-Step RISC Migration Planning Process In this session, HP and Red Hat speakers will explain how to prepare for and execute an effective migration from SPARC/Solaris OS-based systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on HP ProLiant and BladeSystem servers. View Now! Open source IP PBX saves serious cash for Michigan CAT In a move that might send shivers down the spines of mainstream IP PBX vendors like Avaya, Cisco and ShoreTel, Michigan CAT has deployed an open source Asterisk IP PBX to handle its phone calls and contact center at half the cost of what commercial vendors would have charged. Read More Battery power, wireless spectrum hold back mobile computing Mobile executives anticipate major advancements and innovation in wireless technology, but caution the outlook for mobile computing is not entirely rosy. Read More The first rule of Windows Phone 7 sales is you do not talk about Windows Phone 7 sales Microsoft loves numbers, especially the big ones. 240 million Windows 7 licenses sold in one year, seven copies per second. 15 million IE9 downloads. 2,000 new Office 365 beta customers per day, and 750 million worldwide users of Microsoft Office. These are numbers Microsoft officials love to talk about, whether they're asked to or not. So, exactly how many Windows Phone 7 devices has Microsoft sold? Don't ask. Read More Cure real-life diseases by playing Phylo game online Bioinformaticians at McGill University in Canada have developed an online game called Phylo that they say can boost research into the cause of diseases resulting from defects in DNA code. 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 EFF backs red-faced porn watchers vs. copyright trolls Inside the labs at Microsoft, HP and IBM Five reasons to be grumpy about 2010 AT&T goes after copper wire thieves Cisco is expected to lose switching share in 2011 P2P-based alternative to DNS hopes to challenge ICANN 10 weirdest celebrity tech ads Welcome to Browser War III, brought to you by open source Best networking tweaks for Linux Analyst finds flaws in Canon image verification system
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