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Cisco layoffs this week part of 'Transformation Project'
Cisco's layoffs this week could be the first in a series of cutbacks hitting product lines and business units that have underperformed. Read More


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Cisco layoffs this week part of 'Transformation Project'
Cisco's layoffs this week could be the first in a series of cutbacks hitting product lines and business units that have underperformed. Read More

OS X Mountain Lion arrives: The top 25 features
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Tatu Ylonen, father of SSH, says security is 'getting worse'
Tatu Ylonen has garnered fame in technology circles as the inventor of Secure Shell (SSH), the widely used protocol to protect data communications. The CEO of SSH Communications Security -- whose crypto-based technology invented in 1995 continues to be used in hundreds of millions of computers, routers and servers -- recently spoke with Network World on a variety of security topics. (At the Black Hat Conference this week, his company is also announcing CryptoAuditor.) Read More

Black Hat: RSA service to zap apps pretending to be from your company
RSA Wednesday introduced a service at the Black Hat Conference to monitor far and wide for signs of phony corporate mobile apps, and to work with Google Play, Apple iTunes and other major app stores to remove them quickly. Read More

VMware snubs partner Cisco for network virtualization
VMware's $1.26 billion purchase of network virtualization startup Nicira this week is expected to increase competition and strain between VMware and longtime partner Cisco. VMware, the leader in server virtualization, is broadening its reach into network virtualization with the Nicira acquisition. Read More


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Symantec president and CEO replaced by company's chairman
Security software vendor Symantec said Wednesday that Enrique Salem, its president and chief executive officer, had stepped down with immediate affect, after the company reported that its revenue for the quarter ended June 29 grew 1 percent year-over-year to US$1.7 billion. Read More

Wi-Fi and 3G hubs banned from Olympics
Personal or private wireless access points and 3G hubs are not allowed at London Olympics events and venues, but iPhones, iPads and Android smartphones and tablets are OK. Read More

Dell to introduce new Wyse thin clients for Windows 8 OS
It's been just 60 days since Dell completed the acquisition of thin-client company Wyse, but the business unit is moving forward with plans to release new thin clients designed to work with Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 OS. Read More

Email in security hot seat with rise of cloud, BYOD
For most enterprises it is not enough to make sure their own email platform is secure. If their suppliers are not equally secure, they can be as vulnerable to criminal hackers and data leaks from human error as the weakest link in their supply chain. Read More


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IPv6: NTT Communications Leads the Way
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See real-time subtitles through Google Glass-like apparatus
For most of us, subtitles are what we use to understand what's going on in Kung Fu movies and Aaron Sorkin shows -- but a new invention from developer Will Powell is bringing them to new venues. Read More

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Deep dive into Office 2013
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made an off-handed remark in calling Office 2013 "magical," a comment often cited of Apple products. But this time around it seems Microsoft got some stuff right, according to testers. Read More

Vizio Co-Star: Is Google TV finally going Prime-Time?
I wanted to like Google TV. Who wouldn't want to be able to watch Internet video, normal television, and use their HDTV as the world's biggest Web browser. There was just one problem. The various Google TV implementations, such as the Logitech Revue, never worked well. Read More

VMware's Nicira acquisition represents new threats and new opportunities for network managers
Perhaps you're like a lot of us in IT. You've come up through the ranks, mastered subnetting and routing, understood the interaction between loss, latency and bandwidth, and learned the intricacies of Spanning Tree. And perhaps you've also avoided all that virtualization stuff, leaving it to the server team to worry about virtual machines and virtual processors. Well, I have news for you. If... Read More



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