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Monday, December 06, 2010

Offshoring blamed in part for IT's jobless recovery

Web sites are stealing browser histories | WikiLeaks vows to never say die with 355 new websites

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Offshoring blamed in part for IT's jobless recovery
Data center workers were a big part of the unexpectedly weak U.S. labor report released Friday as TechServe Alliance said only 600 new IT jobs were created in November. 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

WHITE PAPER: Google Postini

Eliminate Email Disk Space Concerns
Google Message Discovery is a complete email security and archiving solution that creates a centralized and searchable email repository, secures emails from threats and helps you manage compliance requirements more effectively. Read now!

Web sites are stealing browser histories
Certain Web sites probe visiting browsers for data that can be used to help criminals craft phishing attacks that compromise the accounts of online banking customers, researchers have found. Read More

WikiLeaks vows to never say die with 355 new websites
WikiLeaks has asked the Web community to open mirror sites so it cannot be downed or censored and said Monday that 355 new sites are already up. Read More

Google Chromebook: Coming Dec. 7?
By now you've probably heard that Google is hosting a Chrome event on Dec. 7 in San Francisco. The press invite promised "exciting news about Chrome." Does that mean the Chromebook is finally upon us? Read More


WHITE PAPER: Sprint

"Business-class" Service for the Global Customer
Can global customers that are not part of the world's largest global companies get the "business-class" service they deserve? Do these smaller globals have to lower their service expectations? Are there tactics to adopt that ensure you will get business-class service regardless of your size? Read More

Stocking Stuffers: Cool Tech Gifts Under $50
Don't break the bank -- these well-priced gifts range from desk pets to tool belts to iPad skins to Star Trek gizmos. Read More

12 programming mistakes to avoid
The dirty dozen of application development pitfalls -- and how to avoid these all-too-common programming blunders. Read More

10G drives Q3 sales for Ethernet switches, and for Cisco
Perhaps to no one's surprise, 10G Ethernet and data center switching led growth of the overall Ethernet switching market in Q3. Dell'Oro Group released some numbers this week that show demand for 10G Ethernet is strongest in the overall market. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Array Networks

Get Control of Your Datacenter
Application Delivery Controller helps IT leverage data center technologies to quickly adapt to changing business demands. Read now!

Google struggles to fix calendar problem as users bemoan missed appointments
Google has been struggling to fix a calendar problem that is causing appointments to show up on the wrong day, and has told users the glitch will not be eliminated until Monday, Dec. 6. Read More

Wikileaks' only 'friend' on Twitter could become target, too
Under normal circumstances, the fact that your Twitter account is the only one being followed by one of the world's most recently famous organizations (run by one of the world's most infamous individuals) might seem the kind of publicity money cannot buy a startup. In the case of TweetBackup, however, being so uniquely recognized by Wikileaks and its controversial founder Julian Assange, is nothing less than a ticking package of potential trouble, one the company tells me it learned of only days ago. Read More

Facebook rolls out redesigned profile pages
Facebook on Sunday introduced a redesign of its user profile pages in advance of an interview on the "60 Minutes" news show where CEO Mark Zuckerberg explained the redesign. Read More

Droid 2 phone explodes, bloodies Texas man
A north Texas man reported Thursday that his Motorola Droid 2 smartphone exploded next to his ear as he was ending a call, resulting in a bloodied face and a trip to the hospital. Read More

Microsoft routes around its own COICA damage
Well, who would have guessed? A big "thank you" to Microsoft is in order. Just one week after I chose Microsoft as the recipient of this year's Gibbs Golden Turkey Award for being all heavy-handed and &^%$ish about hackers creating open source drivers for Microsoft's Kinect controller, the company goes and reverses its position. Read More



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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.

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