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AT&T's new spring smartphones
Looking to boost its device portfolio, AT&T has added several high-profile smartphones. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Polycom

Top Five Benefits of Video Conferencing
From obvious benefits, like reduced travel costs, to a few less apparent advantages, see what Polycom customers, resellers and industry analysts are saying about the power of video conferencing. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Adobe

Collaboration Study: user Trends, IT Opportunities
A recent survey of knowledge workers shows they still rely on familiar collaboration tools such as email and telephone calls, but desire new ways to be more productive. See all the results and find out how IT can embrace current work habits and easily adapt as new technologies emerge. Read More

Video: Boost Your Cell Phone Signal
There's a bunch of new cell phones and smart phones at CTIA Wireless 2010 in Las Vegas this week, but they all don't mean diddly if the carrier network has a weak signal or if they drop calls. So it's cool to see gadgets like the Sleek from Wilson Electronics, which offers an easy way to boost your signal strength and potentially not have dropped calls in dead zones. Read More

Go Daddy to stop registering .cn domain names
GoDaddy.com, the world's largest domain name registrar, will stop registering .cn domains in China after the government there has demanded personal information about people who have purchased domain names from GoDaddy in the past, the company said Wednesday during a hearing in the U.S. Congress. Read More

Video: Sprint 4G EVO phone up close
Sprint and HTC launched the 4G EVO phone yesterday at CTIA Wireless in Las Vegas. The Android 2.1 OS phone includes a 4.3-inch touchscreen, 8 megapixel digital camera and can access data on Sprint's 4G WiMAX network. Read More

CTIA: SanDisk launches 32GB microSD card
At CTIA, SanDisk showed off the new tiny 32DG microSD card, with the ability to store all of the Academy Award-nominated movies over the last 10 years on one card. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks

Network Rightsizing Best Practices Guide
Network Rightsizing is an evolutionary approach to network design that significantly reduces costs while simultaneously increasing mobility for campus and enterprise users. This guide provides a methodology to enable IT to break away from the status quo of port-based network architectures, allowing an unprecedented reduction in cost and complexity. Read More!

Symantec offering Web Monitoring service to detect botnet activity
Symantec Tuesday announced a Web monitoring service intended to unearth evidence of botnet-related malware activity within an organization by continuously looking at outbound HTTP traffic for suspicious signs of Trojans on compromised computers trying to "call home" to their criminal controllers. Read More

AT&T will go national with its femtocell
As expected, AT&T announced on Wednesday that it will offer its femtocell product, called MicroCell, across the continental U.S. beginning in mid-April. Read More

Cyberattacks are 'existential threat' to U.S., FBI says
Cyberattacks are a threat to the 'very existence' of the U.S., an FBI officials told an audience at an IT trade show on Tuesday. Read More

OpenDNS reaches milestone in DNS services
It doesn't sound like a lot but OpenDNS's one percent of the world's market is a significant figure. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Inc.

Peace Corp: Creating a worldwide unified network
Learn how the Peace Corp made its unified network a reality after selecting and deploying cost-effective WAN optimization gear. One of the key factors was selecting a platform that integrated with its existing network spanning 70 countries. The result is dramatically improved performance and significant cost savings. Learn More

Debate Rages on for FCC National Broadband Plan
After months of anticipation, the FCC finally presented Connecting America: The National Broadband Plan to Congress and the general public a few weeks ago. As I stated at the time, the intense debate leading up to the official unveiling of the plan gave the perception of an end-result, but the FCC's plan is merely a set of proposals and guidelines that basically frame the real debate--which is just beginning. Read More

Finding God Through Open Source
So a few things I usually try not to blog about are politics and religion. With everyone talking about healthcare and politics, I figure what the heck, lets talk religion. Easter and Passover will be here soon, why not. Being as this is an open source blog, I wanted to talk to you today (there you go, it's a sermon) about open source religion. Read More

NASA's Mars rover starts to think for itself
NASA has uploaded artificial intelligence software to the Mars rover Opportunity in an effort to speed analysis of the surface of the planet. Read More

Video proves there are two sides to every story
Even though this is a topic - "The Future of Publishing" -- about which I care deeply, I'm recommending that you watch this video more for the method of its production than the message it contains. It's only 2 minutes and 26 seconds but you have to get beyond the halfway point to appreciate what's going on. Read More

Ferocious hot chili pepper to make nasty weapons
The military in India is looking to weaponize the world's hottest chili, the bhut jolokia or "ghost pepper." Read More



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