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	TOP STORY: How to take your enterprise Wi-Fi network to the next level With 802.11n, enterprise Wi-Fi networks are shifting from convenient to critical. They're becoming the preferred and primary network access for users – which means IT groups have to rethink how they deploy, secure, manage and run the wireless LAN. 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. Chinese hackers dig into new IE bug, says Google researcher An accidental leak may have confirmed Chinese hackers' suspicions that Internet Explorer has a critical unpatched vulnerability, a security researcher said. Read More 10 Most Influential Android Devices of 2010 A look back at the phones and tablets that had the greatest impact on Android users in the past year. Read More WHITE PAPER: Collecting Compliance Evidence: The Role of Event Logs (Quest Software) This Quest Software white paper discusses how to maximize the power of event logs. You'll learn about recent regulation changes, how your company can best prepare for an audit and the solution you need to address these issues. Read More Virtual, mobile, social endeavors drive IT in 2011 Caution still pervades the economic forecasts, but it's not deterring IT executives from aggressively expanding their virtualization efforts, extending mobility initiatives, and tackling newer priorities such as cloud computing and enterprise social media adoption. Read More Facebook passes Google as most visited site of 2010 For the first time ever, U.S. Web surfers visited the social networking site more than any other site in 2010, beating out Google, according to Internet analytics firm Hitwise. Read More WHITE PAPER: Yankee Group: Accelerate UC Deployments (Level 3) Unified Communications holds tremendous promise, but deployments have fallen short of the hype. This Yankee Group report analyzes the reasons behind the gap between the UC vision and deployment such as sticking with a TDM network architecture instead of IP. Yankee discusses the value of SIP trunking and offers a SIP trunking vendor checklist. Read More The straight talk on IT's new directions New expectations and a new economic landscape point to a new role for IT in 2011. Here's how to avoid getting left behind Read More Clearwire Chairman Craig McCaw to resign Clearwire Chairman Craig McCaw, who founded Clearwire's predecessor company in 2003, is set to resign on Friday. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cloud –Inspired Data Center Transformation (Brocade Communications Inc.) In these articles, Network World and its sister publications CIO and Computerworld present the latest thinking and explore the latest trends on how data centers are evolving toward the cloud ideal. Read now! Five 2010 stories that nobody predicted Welcome to 2011. Usually around this time of year, pundits guess what we'll be seeing in the year ahead. On the computer security front, we're hearing that 2011 will be the year of mobile malware, that criminals will take to the cloud, and that social network security is destined to become a bigger and bigger problem. Read More 2011 Outlook: Better than 2010 and really wild With more optimism combined with scary security %^$#, 2011 could be a wild ride. Read More IPv6 New Year Predictions Last year I made some predictions for 2010. I commented that there were many "Easy Predictions" and those, for the most part, came true. Let's see how I did on my predictions for 2010 and try to predict what will happen in 2011. Read More Wikipedia meets $16M fundraising goal ... the hard way Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced over the weekend that his organization has reached its $16 million annual fundraising goal. Read More
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