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	Caveats for VPN users in public Wi-Fi hotspot networks Using non-secured public Wi-Fi hotspots can leave you vulnerable to identity theft, data theft, snooping, impersonation and malware infection. That's why so many people rely on public virtual private network services, but VPNs are no panacea. Here are five potential gotchas. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: APC by Schneider Electric Deploy your IT space with speed, not complexity Protect your IT system uptime easily your IT deployed with APC by Schneider Electric InfraStruxure™ solutions. Our simple, adaptable, and manageable all-in-one physical infrastructure is designed as an easy-to-deploy system to allow for flexible management and physical IT deployment and, by extension, system uptime. Make the most of your IT space! Download our top three solution guides today and enter to win an iPad® 2! 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This paper helps organizations confronting these growth and security challenges understand how a new, full-proxy architecture for DNS provides a complete solution for global, local, and cloud load balancing. Learn More. The tech world's 'all Halloween' team In honor of today being Halloween I thought I would write a blog dedicated to the horror and grim nature that the day brings. Here are a few people and companies -past and present - that make the "all Halloween" list of technology names. Monster.com Read More Live Blog: How Enterprise IT is coping with Hurricane Sandy [View the story "Live Blog: Enterprise IT copes with Hurricane Sandy" on Storify] Read More Top Linux-o-lanterns from around the Web Tux the Penguin and friends geek up Halloween pumpkins Read More Stolen cellphone databases switched on in US U.S. cellphone carriers took a major step on Wednesday toward curbing the rising number of smartphone thefts with the introduction of databases that will block stolen phones from being used on domestic networks. Read More WHITE PAPER: Symantec Taking the Leap to Virtualization Read this whitepaper to learn how virtualization offers dramatic benefits for midsize companies, including efficiency, cost savings, and increased reliability and performance. Read Now! Researcher warns "zombie browsers" are skyrocketing Some Web browsers can be tricked into using so-called "malicious extensions" that can give hackers the ability to hijack the user's session, spy on webcams, upload and download files, and in the newer mobile-device area, hack into Google Android phones. Read More Microsoft sued over use of live tiles in Windows Microsoft has been slapped with a patent infringement lawsuit over its use of dynamic "live" tile icons in Windows, including in the newly launched Windows 8 OS for PCs and tablets and in the Windows Phone 8 OS for smartphones. Read More Halloween for gamers: Tetris+Pumpkin=Pumpktris Just when you thought Halloween couldn't get any geekier, we bring you Pumpktris, a combination of a jack-lantern and the classic game of Tetris. Read More OpenFlow start-up Big Switch lands another big funding round OpenFlow controller start-up Big Switch Networks this week said it closed a $25 million Series B funding round to continue the expansion of the engineering, sales and marketing operations. Read More WEBCAST: Teradata Big Data Done Right View this on-demand webcast to learn how to reap the benefits of big data through a practical unified architecture; how to improve performance with in-memory technology; and how to lower costs and increase scalability through cloud computing. Register now. Microsoft sponsors a hacking contest - the coding kind In a dimly lit function room on the Microsoft campus 40 teams of coders are spending the week writing modern applications that run on Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 devices, all of them assured of winning a prize. Read More Sandy slams mobile, wired and cable networks as far west as Michigan Post-Tropical Cyclone Sandy knocked out mobile, phone and cable service in many parts of the eastern U.S. on Monday, with about one in four cell sites affected in the hardest-hit band of the country between Virginia and Massachusetts, according to an FCC estimate. Read More RSA Buys SilverTail Systems: Great fit, tremendous upside I recently scheduled a breakfast meeting in November with an industry buddy who is an executive at RSA. When I first reached out to him late this past summer, I really wanted to arrange this meeting to suggest that RSA take a look at SilverTail Systems, a web fraud detection and security software provider I know quite well. Looks like I'll have to find some other topics for conversation because... Read More Can Citrix Make Any Windows App or Desktop a Cloud Service? Citrix is focused on helping enterprises deal with the challenge of running desktops and applications in a new mobile-centric world where tablets and smartphones proliferate. Read More First Look: Google's Nexus 10 tablet The Samsung-designed device is the first in the Nexus line to directly challenge the iPad. Read More
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