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Is your IT support making you vulnerable to hackers?

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Is your IT support making you vulnerable to hackers?
Data breaches are more prevalent and more costly than ever. Smarter technologies seem to breed smarter hackers, making it difficult for IT to keep up. But sometimes IT unwittingly helps the bad guys by improperly using core tools, such as remote support mechanisms. Read More


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Cisco sought to paint whistleblower as 'sinister'
The storm surrounding Cisco and the 2010 arrest of a company whistleblower is darkening. New reports describing and showing the circumstances of the whistleblower's arrest and extradition proceedings have surfaced and it paints an unflattering portrait of Cisco's prosecutorial team. Read More

Best of Google Labs: A Retrospective
As Google shuts down Google Labs, we look back at the many innovations the effort brought us, including Gmail, Google Goggles, Google Earth and Google Maps, among others. Read More

iPhone 5 rumor roll-up for the week ending July 22
Perhaps it's the heat, but this week's crop of iOSsphere rumors is pretty lackluster. Read More


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Unified Communications: Getting the Green Light
In these articles, Network World and its sister IDG Enterprise publications explore the rising importance of UC within the enterprise and provide advice on how to create a working strategy. Learn more

AT&T still besting Verizon in iPhone activations
If Verizon thought it could swoop in and take AT&T's iPhone market share overnight, it thought wrong. Read More

Swartz, guilty as charged?
Aaron Swartz, founder of progressive action group Demand Progress, has been a bad boy, but how bad? Read More

Linux 3.0 a steady step forward
Bucking standard conventions in software versioning, Linux Torvalds has designated the new release of the Linux operating system kernel, posted Friday, as version 3.0, even while maintaining that the release is only a routine update. Read More


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Data Center Transformations
Build outs, consolidations and acquisitions are large-scale projects that can be very disruptive and require careful planning and implementation to maintain operations. This white paper examines the process and what's required to meet IT goals and objectives and maintain business continuity. Read now!

Toyota system automatically stops car before it hits a pedestrian
With collision-avoidance systems becoming more advanced and widely used, Toyota has taken the technology up another level by fashioning a system that can detect not only other vehicles but human beings in the roadway. And it will stop the car if the driver doesn't. Read More

Google scrambles to accelerate Google+ business profiles
Demand for Google+ business profiles has reached white-hot intensity, prompting Google+ leader Vic Gundotra to acknowledge the company has been caught off guard, but pledging a fix is being fast-tracked. Read More

Microsoft boasts record revenue but falls further behind Apple
On the strength of Microsoft Office and Windows Server sales, Microsoft today reported "record [quarterly] revenue of $17.37 billion" and profits of about $6 billion, but the gap between Microsoft and Apple continued to grow in Apple's favor. Read More

7 Solid Reasons to Keep the Faith in RIM, BlackBerry
It seems like nobody has anything good to say about BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) these days. Read More

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