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	What a girl wants: 25 techie gifts for your Valentine There's still plenty of time to shop for your Valentine, and you don't even have to leave your desk to buy one of these 25 tech-inspired gifts. 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 Sue over shoddy software? Experts say not so fast Leaving a job with your personal tech intact Microsoft fixes cookie security bug in Windows Azure Cisco bolsters video, buys digital media company Inlet GreenPois0n jailbreak tool now frees iPhones from App Store iPhone fanatics willing to brave snow and cold to stand in Verizon lines Feb. 10 Verizon Guy: "Yes, I can hear you now" on my iPhone Modems: 60 Years of Hooking Up NIST formalizes cloud computing definition Red Hat, Verizon, HP side with Microsoft on i4i patent dispute WHITE PAPER: LogMeIn Install Software on 50 Computers in 5 Minutes Routine maintenance can be anything but routine when the time it consumes for IT support is considered. Learn how to easily take care of software updates all at once, automate the installation of thousands of computers without going on site, and set up standard maintenance scripts into one, secure tool. Read now. Sue over shoddy software? Experts say not so fast With reports swirling that Apple has hired security author David Rice as director of global security, the ideas Rice has put forth in the past to help improve software quality have moved back into public debate. Read More Leaving a job with your personal tech intact The ability to transition ethically and legally from one job to another has always been something of an art. Read More Microsoft fixes cookie security bug in Windows Azure Microsoft fixes a security bug in Windows Azure, and offers a new "extra small" cloud computing instance. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: St. Bernard, now doing business as EdgeWave Spend Less on Web Security, Earn $15 GC Get Email and Web security solutions with robust features and the lowest TCO on the market. Delivery options include hosted, on-prem appliances and hybrid. For a limited time, we'll try to match the cost of your current solution, or any competitive offer you have. And you'll earn cash just for checking us out. Click here for the EdgeWave Bid Desk. Cisco bolsters video, buys digital media company Inlet Cisco this week announced its intent to acquire privately held Inlet Technologies, a provider of adaptive bit rate (ABR) digital media processing platforms, for $95 million in cash and retention-based incentives. Read More GreenPois0n jailbreak tool now frees iPhones from App Store The hacker group known as Chronic Dev Team has released code that lets any Apple device running the latest iOS firmware to load apps without having to go through the iTunes App Store. Read More iPhone fanatics willing to brave snow and cold to stand in Verizon lines Feb. 10 More than a quarter of AT&T customers and about a quarter of Verizon customers say they are willing to wait in line on Feb. 10 to switch over to Apple iPhones that will run on Verizon's 3G wireless network. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Eliminate the Impact of Distance Is it possible to eliminate the impact of distance? This paper explores the 5 key principles successful CIOs are using to redesign IT infrastructure of any size. Learn how to be prepared to adapt your environment in a way that supports distributed employees, anytime anywhere collaboration and the need for business continuity during a disaster. Read now! Verizon Guy: "Yes, I can hear you now" on my iPhone Verizon, on the same day it began and then halted pre-orders for the iPhone 4, started airing an ad in which the Verizon Guy holds up an Apple smartphone and says "Yes, I can hear you now." Read More Modems: 60 Years of Hooking Up A visual guide to the history of the modem, from the 1950s to today. Read More NIST formalizes cloud computing definition The Guidelines on Security and Privacy in Public Cloud Computing provides a detailed overview of the associated challenges in public cloud, and provides a number of recommendations organizations should consider before leaping in. Read More Red Hat, Verizon, HP side with Microsoft on i4i patent dispute Microsoft's Supreme Court fight against i4i has ironically become a new rallying point for the tech industry to fight software patents.Red Hat, Verizon, and Hewlett-Packard have jumped in to provide support to Microsoft in its patent dispute with i4i. The group combined forces to file an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday that challenges poor quality software patents. [PDF] Read More
	GOODIES FROM THE SUBNETS Up for grabs from Microsoft Subnet: a Windows 7 Enterprise Technician class for three people. From Cisco Subnet: 15 copies of AAA Identity Management Security. Enter here. SLIDESHOWS 15 more useful Cisco sites Three years ago, we compiled our initial list of 20 useful sites for Cisco practitioners, partisans and pundits. Now we're adding to that list with 15 more sites we found useful for the Cisco masses. A sneak-peek preview of Android 3.0 Expect a new holographic look, customizable home screens, a Windows-style taskbar, and tabbed browsing in Google's upcoming version of the Android OS, code-named Honeycomb. MOST-READ STORIES Want a new IT job? Now's your chance Watchdog group questions Google's relationship with NSA Cisco announces three new security certifications GoDaddy isn't as pretty as you thought Microsoft bolts HTML5 video onto Chrome for Windows 7 users Red Hat defends Microsoft in i4i patent dispute Android: We're number one! No more IPv4 addresses Super technologies that will change the face of football 15 more useful Cisco sites
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