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Friday, February 04, 2011

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Want a new IT job? Now's your chance
It's time for a change. Across the board, the IT job market is showing promising signs of life, and IT pros who stayed in less-than-ideal jobs during the recession are jumping at a chance to move their careers forward. Read More


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Super technologies that will change the face of football
As Super Bowl Sunday approaches, we take a look at science and technology that could redefine football as we know it. Read More

Yikes, Microsoft to patch 22 bugs next week
Three zero-days will be fixed, and security experts warn that the massive reboot could cause some services to freak out. Read More

Red Hat defends Microsoft in i4i patent dispute
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. Read More

Verizon asks iPhone crowd: 'Can you hear me NOW?'
While Google and Microsoft in recent days have been exchanging untold thousands of nasty words over who's the bigger liar, liar, pants on fire, Verizon has chosen to use only one - spoken snidely - to poke a stick in the eye of AT&T. Read More


WEBCAST: Adobe

Streamline Ent Business Processes with Acrobat X Series
Join Adobe experts to learn how to enable your PDF documents so that multiple people, in real time, can add notes and comments, promoting a true "conversation" about your critical documents. See how to use familiar commenting tools and even enable users of the free Adobe Reader to take part in your review. Learn More

Verizon 'data hog' throttling move irks users
Customers reacted with outrage at a Verizon Wireless warning that it will throttle back network speeds for the top 5% of customers consuming mobile network data data. Read More

Cisco announces three new security certifications
It's Cisco Live this week - in London, at least. As usual, Cisco announced new certifications, this time all of them in security. Read More

Pwn2Own organizer predicts Chrome will survive first day
Google's Chrome will likely survive the first day at next month's Pwn2Own hacking challenge, but may fall the next when the rules change, the contest organizer predicted. Read More

Amid protests, Egypt's tech chief goes to work
As protests in Egypt continue, the head of the government agency charged with developing the nation's tech sector, Yasser El-Kady, has been going to work, doing conference calls with tech firms -- and planning for the future. 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!

Sacramento County elects to use Wi-Fi cloud service
California's Sacramento County has moved much of its Wi-Fi networking onto a cloud management services platform and is considering adding a similar routing component to the environment. Read More

Asustek chairman vows 'secret weapon' for iPad 2
The chairman of Asustek Computer, Jonney Shih, noticed the growing thirst for mobile computing early on. When he challenged his engineering teams to design a new, more mobile computer, they came up with the netbook, a mini-laptop with extended battery life designed to keep people connected to the Internet while on the go. Netbooks became a global phenomenon. Read More

Report: Insider attacks costly, but there's a silver lining
The 2011 CyberSecurity Watch Survey, conducted by CSO and sponsored by Deloitte, revealed that more attacks come from outside entities. But it's the insider attacks that seem to cause the most grief. Read More

4G shootout: Verizon LTE vs. Sprint WiMax
Last month, I pitted Sprint's WiMax-based fourth-generation (4G) network against its third-generation (3G) network in a series of real-world tests around the New York metropolitan area. My goal was to find out whether the speed boost you'll get is worth the hassle and expense of upgrading from 3G to 4G. Read More

Cisco's Q2 might not be so bad after all...
Cisco's second quarter, which the company warned would be very disappointing, looks to be tracking better than expected. Read More



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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.

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