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Tuesday, December 15, 2009

How much do banks know about you, and how? Ethernet switch cheat sheet; Review: Adobe LiveCycle

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Bank's antifraud tactics stun security expert: How much do they know?

Checking out of a Hilton hotel in London, security expert Roger Thompson was told his Visa card had been declined due to suspicions it was stolen, a situation that only got more disconcerting when he learned the bank that issued the card had more personal information on him and his family members than he ever imagined. Read full story

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Adobe LiveCycle gives business apps a shot in the arm
Adobe doesn't make enterprise business applications; but it does make those mission critical apps easier to use, accessible from mobile devices and quicker to build through its LiveCycle Enterprise Suite.

Ethernet switch cheat sheet
Network technologies have come and gone, but the Ethernet switch has survived and continues to evolve, currently making its move to 40G and 100G. Here's a roundup of our latest and most evergreen coverage.

What Google phone does and doesn't mean for wireless industry
When Google released its own Nexus One phone to its employees to play with this weekend, it served notice that it plans to push the Android brand aggressively throughout the winter.

8 PowerPoint Train Wrecks
In the "so bad it's good" category, we honor eight PowerPoint slides that will make you say, "Holy $#@%, What were they thinking?"

Widespread component supply shortages may be severe enough to limit Cisco's revenue upside
In his research note today, Matthew Robison - Wedbush Securities' Senior Vice President of Communications Technology Equity Research, remarked: "Manufacturing and sourcing was not a topic of discussion during last week's analyst meeting and staff associated with this aspect of the company did not seem to be available at the event. Supply constraints were downplayed when we inquired." That's interesting.

'Lost' Bush e-mail settlement requires White House reveal IT practices
The White House has settled lawsuits from advocacy groups over millions of missing e-mails, the legacy of what may have been one of messiest e-mail platform migrations ever.

The 12 Cons of Christmas
While the risk of being hacked, conned or having sensitive information stolen is possible all through the year, most security experts agree that the holiday season brings a spike in fraudulent activity, both online and off.

gogoNET by gogo6: New Social Networking Site for IPv6
The IPv6 community has always been a pretty tight-knit community. IPv6 has taken a while to become mainstream and those who are focused on the protocol have had plenty of years to get to know each other. Now is your chance to join the IPv6 community if you haven't already.

WLAN market on the rebound, Dell'Oro says
The wireless LAN industry nearly returned to its pre-recession health in the third quarter and is likely to achieve record revenue when the current quarter has been tallied, according research company Dell'Oro Group.

Verizon Business lights up 100G backbone in Europe
Verizon Business has deployed 100Gb-per-second equipment on a fiber link between Paris and Frankfurt, activating the next generation of optical networking for commercial services to enterprises.

Akamai service to stop data center attacks
Akamai Technologies is introducing a cloud-based managed service called Web Application Firewall it claims will head off the bulk of Web applications attacks before they get inside corporate data centers.

Oracle's pledges on MySQL are 'purely cosmetic', say critics
Oracle's latest commitments designed to address the European Commission's concerns regarding its acquisition of Sun Microsystems and the MySQL database are paper thin, and even if they were confirmed they wouldn't safeguard MySQL's future, said Florian Mueller, an outspoken critic of the deal, on Monday.

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On Cisco Subnet: Annual revenue for Cisco TelePresence and Cisco's EMC/VMware collaboration viewed favorably; On Microsoft Subnet: Power outages cause Windows Server 2008 problems; On Google Subnet: Google claims its new URL shortening service is more secure

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December 15, 2009

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  1. Google releases experimental phone to employees
  2. 10 top iPhone apps for IT pros
  3. Watch out Microsoft: GNOME is poised to have a killer 2010
  4. After criticism, Facebook tweaks friends list options
  5. Microsoft buys Opalis to strengthen cloud management
  6. 8 more PowerPoint train wrecks
  7. Eric Schmidt's privacy policy is one scary philosophy
  8. Tech mergers and acquisitions to grow in 2010
  9. Amazon's data center outage reads like a thriller
  10. Nortel purchase to test Avaya big time

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