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Thursday, December 23, 2010

Skype service disruptions continue; Mattel disavows Barbie Video Girl porn link

Mattel disavows Barbie Video Girl porn link | Microsoft confirms critical IE bug, works on fix

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TOP STORY: Skype service disruptions continue into second day
When last we last we checked in on Skype's struggles to keep its VoIP service up and running, the company had assured the public via its Twitter account, "Skype now returning to normal." That was about 4 p.m. Eastern yesterday and it has proven to be an optimistic assessment, unless they meant by "returning" that sooner or later things are bound to get better. Because this morning, problems continue to be reported across the globe. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Load Balancers Are Dead! (F5 Networks)
Get Gartner's take on: * Which vendors are leading the ADC market * Key recommendations on what you should do today * How to find a feature-rich ADC View the Gartner report, compliments of F5 Networks! Read now!

Mattel disavows Barbie Video Girl porn link
Somehow somebody put a link to a pornographic chat site on a Barbie.com page used to promote Barbie Video Girl, a version of the iconic doll that comes with an embedded video camera. Read More

Microsoft confirms critical IE bug, works on fix
Microsoft late Wednesday confirmed that all versions of Internet Explorer (IE) contain a critical vulnerability that attackers can exploit by persuading users to visit a rigged Web site. Read More

DOWNLOAD: Take Control of your IT Universe (LogMeIn)
LogMeIn Central lets you access, monitor and automate tasks on all the computers in your system from a single web-based console. Keep your servers up and running. And your productivity level too. Get your free LogMeIn Central trial.

Juniper targets cloud, mobile Internet in 2011
Juniper's strategic initiatives in 2011 and beyond are cloud computing and the mobile Internet. Read More

Avatar tops most pirated list for 2010
Now here's a dubious achievement award: Avatar, James Cameron's sci-fi blockbuster, was the most pirated movie of 2010 with 16,580,000 illegal downloads from BitTorrent alone. Read More

WHITE PAPER: The Three Ps of Evaluating Managed Network Services (Qwest)
To reduce costs and keep IT resources focused on the core business, more organizations are choosing to outsource network management. To deliver on this promise, it's essential to choose the right service provider. This in-depth report explores the key considerations, including solution portfolio, partnerships and processes. Read now!

US to offer plethora of prize competitions to solve tough problems
Got a complicated problem? Hold a prize competition to solve it. That's the basic idea behind the America Competes Act renewed by Congress this week. Read More

Brocade balances SAN base with new data center reality
Brocade's installed base of Fibre Channel SANs is both an asset and an albatross. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Building a Successful Security Operations Center (ArcSight)
This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center

Energy research projects were on fire in 2010
Millions of dollars were laid out this year for all manner of energy research -- from new biofuels and wind projects to better batteries and smartgrid cybersecurity programs. Read More

FCC's net neutrality order: The basics
A look at the FCC's net neutrality outline. Read More

Emerging tech: Business intelligence apps go mobile
CIO Joe Beery of Life Technologies has found an answer to the age-old question, "What has IT done for me lately?" Earlier this year, he gave top executives and a pilot group of sales folks and finance staff one of the hottest emerging technologies to arrive on the enterprise scene: mobile business intelligence. Read More


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DECEMBER GOODIES FROM THE SUBNETS
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SLIDESHOWS

Best and worst celebrity technology moments of 2010
Here's a look back at the year's most memorable – for better or worse – celebrity moments in technology.

Top 15 Holiday Deals on Notebooks, Netbooks, and Desktops
Black Friday is gone, Cyber Monday is history, and Cyber Week is over, but the deals are still around--if you know where to look. The holiday shopping season is in full swing, and retailers are offering great computer discounts to fit everyone's budget. Take a look inside to find netbooks for $300, desktops with widescreen monitors for under $600, and 15-inch laptops starting at $400. Check it out.

MOST-READ STORIES

  1. U.S. military strong-arming IT industry on IPv6
  2. The weirdest, wackiest and stupidest sci/tech stories of 2010
  3. Researchers reveal attack code for new IE zero-day
  4. Santa Claus placed on watchlist as possible terrorist
  5. Will 2011 be the year of mobile malware?
  6. Have yourself a very Linux Christmas
  7. FCC approves compromise net neutrality rules
  8. U.S. sets out to build photon-based optical networks
  9. HP targets Cisco Catalyst base
  10. 5 reasons to move to Windows 7, plus XP advice

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