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	Egypt cuts links to Internet As protesters continue to clash with police in anti-government demonstrations, Egypt has pulled the plug on the Internet. Read More WHITE PAPER: Alcatel-Lucent Business Benefits of Collaborative Communications Discover how to increase employee engagement and productivity across your enterprise, even in a tough economy. This Alcatel-Lucent paper, featuring research from Gartner, shows how implementation of context-aware technology can ensure collaborative communications and build competitive advantage. Read now! In this Issue Google's Top Easter Eggs, Gags, and Hoaxes: 2011 Edition Verizon buying big into cloud with $1.4B Terremark bid FBI goes after Wikileaks cyber attackers iPhone-as-wallet: What you should know before taking the plunge Microsoft shipped 2 million copies of Windows Phone 7 Stuxnet could have caused "new Chernobyl," Russian ambassador says Most workers don't have desktop video and don't want it, report says Research network engineers to unite at Clemson AT&T revenue up, driven by smartphone growth IPv6 Address Design ZORKing Identity RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Netezza Get Proof. Not Promises. Take the TwinFin Test Drive. Your site. Your data. Our technology. Experience the high-performance and operational simplicity of the IBM Netezza TwinFin data warehouse appliance first-hand. Our open Proof of Concept allows you to test the TwinFin with your most demanding, real-world analytics challenges. Learn More. Google's Top Easter Eggs, Gags, and Hoaxes: 2011 Edition We've compiled more goofy pranks and stunts from tech's biggest practical joker. Read More Verizon buying big into cloud with $1.4B Terremark bid Verizon Communications plans to buy cloud service provider Terremark Worldwide for about $1.4 billion in a deal that could significantly expand its cloud offerings for enterprises. Read More FBI goes after Wikileaks cyber attackers The FBI today said it executed more than 40 search warrants throughout the United States as part of an ongoing investigation into the recent retaliation cyber attacks against companies that cut off services to Wikileaks against major companies and organizations. Read More WHITE PAPER: Diskeeper Defragmentation in Virtualized Environments Performance corrupting file fragmentation is severely compounded on virtual platforms and threatens to undo most of its efficiency benefits. Coordinating defrag resources between VMs was an insurmountable barrier until recent innovations eliminated conflicts. Learn More iPhone-as-wallet: What you should know before taking the plunge A lot of people are skeptical about using their iPhone as a wallet, but let's say you're game for it. What should you do to prepare? Read More Microsoft shipped 2 million copies of Windows Phone 7 A Microsoft executive said this week the company shipped more than 2 million copies of its revamped operating system, Windows Phone 7, in the most recent quarter. The careful admission at once triggered another spasm of misconstrued, misinterpreted, mistaken, and misanthropic speculation on the success or failure of Microsoft's smartphone platform. Read More Stuxnet could have caused "new Chernobyl," Russian ambassador says The Stuxnet worm attack known to have struck computers at the Russian-built Iranian Bushehr nuclear plant in Iran has serious implications and could have caused "another Chernobyl," a Russian ambassador is said to have advised NATO yesterday, according to a Reuters report. Read More WHITE PAPER: ParAccel The Problem with Data Warehousing Tackle the most complex analytic challenges and glean insight from vast amounts of data. Learn how a columnar-based, massively parallel processing analytic database can provide high performance analytics against complex SQL workloads the most challenging analytic queries. Read now! Most workers don't have desktop video and don't want it, report says Despite the popularity of consumer desktop video like Skype and FaceTime, information workers in North America and Europe have little interest in using the technology on the job, according to Forrester Research. Read More Research network engineers to unite at Clemson Clemson University in South Carolina next week is hosting network engineers from research institutions around the world at the Winter 2011 ESCC/Joint Techs meeting co-sponsored by the Department of Energy's ESnet Site Coordinating Committee (ESCC) and Internet2. Read More AT&T revenue up, driven by smartphone growth AT&T reports a revenue increase of 2.1 percent for the fourth quarter of 2010. Read More IPv6 Address Design There are a few culprits that regularly contribute to delayed or failed IPv6 deployment projects, such as poor DNS planning, insufficient testing, unanticipated application behavior, and poor IPv6 support in peripheral support, management, or security systems. Read More ZORKing Identity When I look back to what was in the newsletter 10 years ago, as I do once a month, I frequently feel that I've been dropped into an adventure game featuring "...a maze of twisty little passages, all alike" because we never seem to be making much progress. Read More
	BECOME AN INSIDER Get premium content, in-depth reviews, practical tips and exclusive research. All for just signing up. Sign up for free today. SLIDESHOWS Panic time quiz: How prepared are you for IPv6? With IPv4 addresses projected to dry up this year, it's inevitable that IPv6 adoption will accelerate. Here are a few questions that can help determine how much or how little you know about IPv6 and whether you ought to spend more time studying it. The Mac App Store's hottest productivity apps The Mac App Store debuted this month and hit 1 million downloads in the first 24 hours. The App Store launched with 1,000 or so apps, many of which were already available on the pre-existing Mac downloads Web site. The store is filled with stuff that's fun but also has plenty of apps that make you more productive. Let's take a look at the 10 most downloaded free productivity apps on the Mac App Store, and then we'll look at the 10 most popular paid productivity apps. MOST-READ STORIES Hackers turn back the clock with Telnet attacks Woman caught smuggling 44 iPhones into Israel Puppy cams threaten Internet Facebook unveils security tools after Zuckerberg's page hacked Inventors of Unix win prestigious Japan Prize Cisco acquires Pari: What goes around, comes around Facebook blames Zuckerberg embarrassment on API 'bug' Intel developing security 'game-changer' Gartner slams Cisco's single-vendor network vision Google previews tablet-optimized Android 3.0
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