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	U.S. tech lead at risk, says Obama's top scientist Nobel Prize winner and U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu Tuesday bluntly warned that the U.S. is in danger of losing its leadership in the development and export of high technology products. Read More WHITE PAPER: ArcSight Building a Successful Security Operations Center 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 In this Issue Great Green Tech Gifts for Everyone How Microsoft May Help Open Source in Court WikiLeaks is not the actual problem Verizon 2010 Data Breach Report Is Eye Opening IE's share slides again as IE6 starts to fades away FCC takes first step toward reallocating TV spectrum The end of a design era Win a five-book library from Cisco Press Linux kernel shows growing mobile influence Analysts: $6B for Groupon a bad deal for Google FCC looks into Level 3, Comcast content dispute Kinect Sex: Coming Soon to a Console Near You? WEBCAST: Websense, Inc. Web Security Gateway Solutions Demo This demo provides a hands on view of Websense Web Security Gateway solutions and how they enable safe productive use of today's dynamic, interactive Web. Learn More Now! Great Green Tech Gifts for Everyone These gifts for a range of budgets and tastes target electronics lovers who want to leave small eco-footprint. Read More How Microsoft May Help Open Source in Court It's a rare day when proponents of free and open source software are rooting for Microsoft in court, yet that's exactly what's going on with regard to the software giant's battle against Canadian i4i, which specializes in collaborative content technologies. Read More WikiLeaks is not the actual problem Another day, another quarter of a million confidential government documents released via WikiLeaks. Read More Verizon 2010 Data Breach Report Is Eye Opening The 2010 Verizon and U.S. Secret Service breach report is chock full of enlightening facts, figures and statistics. I highly recommend you read it cover to cover. 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 IE's share slides again as IE6 starts to fades away Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser again lost usage share last month to rivals Google and Apple, posting its largest decline since March, a Web analytics firm said. Read More FCC takes first step toward reallocating TV spectrum The FCC releases proposed rules to allow TV stations to give up unused spectrum in favor of mobile broadband services. Read More The end of a design era As mentioned in the last newsletter, we use the phrase cloud networking to refer to the functionality that has to be in the network and in the management of the network in order to support cloud computing. We are going to use this newsletter to discuss some of the changes that have to occur in the data center LAN in order to support cloud computing. Read More Win a five-book library from Cisco Press Five lucky readers will win a choice of three Cisco Press titles apiece in this huge, holiday giveaway. Happy Holidays! Cisco Press is once again offering Cisco Subnet readers a generous end-of-year gift. Five lucky winners will win their choice of three books each. Read More WHITE PAPER: Symantec Windows Done Right: From Migration to Implementation The recent IDC executive brief, "Doing Windows 7 Right: Efficiency from Migration to Implementation" offers a better understanding on how the migration to Windows 7 provides the opportunity to improve core elements of your IT infrastructure. Learn more. Linux kernel shows growing mobile influence The Linux Foundation's annual report on who writes the Linux kernel shows growing interest from the mobile handset industry. Read More Analysts: $6B for Groupon a bad deal for Google Analysts are skeptical about the $5 billion to $6 billion that Google is reportedly considering paying for Groupon. Read More FCC looks into Level 3, Comcast content dispute Comcast and Level 3 on Tuesday stepped up their war of words over a content delivery dispute as the U.S. Federal Communications Commission also entered the fray. Read More Kinect Sex: Coming Soon to a Console Near You? It's practically the universal rule of electronics: Where there's technology, there's sex. Embrace it or shun it, but it's the way of the world. Read More
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