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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

P2P-based alternative to DNS hopes to challenge ICANN

Is Apple really targeting enterprise mobility? | AT&T goes after copper wire thieves

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P2P-based alternative to DNS hopes to challenge ICANN
A group led by former Pirate Bay spokesman Peter Sunde is forming to develop a peer-to-peer-based alternative to today's ICANN-controlled DNS system, according to a blog posted on Tuesday. Read More


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WHITE PAPER: Sprint

Next Wave of Growth for Unified Communications
Today's enterprise is undergoing a significant transformation, moving toward becoming a true Anywhere Enterprise®—a company where the workers can access any information from any device over any network. Enterprise mobility has been a crucial component in kicking off the evolutionary process. Learn More

Is Apple really targeting enterprise mobility?
Gartner mobile analyst Nick Jones says Apple plans to give new attention to the enterprise market in 2011. The analyst group, and enterprise users have complained for years that Apple hasn't been "enterprise friendly." Read More

AT&T goes after copper wire thieves
Copper thieves targeting Atlanta are now being targeted themselves by AT&T which is now offering $3,000 for information leading to their arrest. Read More

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WHITE PAPER: Websense, Inc.

Buyers Guide to Data Loss Prevention Solutions
This guide provides a list of recommended features and capabilities for buyers to consider when purchasing a DLP solution. Buyers can also use this guide to develop requests for proposals, as well as to help differentiate one vendor's products from another during demonstrations and proof-of-concepts. Read More

Massive Windows Phone 7 Update Rumored for January
Windows Phone 7 early adopters won't have to wait long to get some major missing features, according to the latest murmurs. Read More

Verizon set to disclose LTE details Wednesday
Verizon Wireless is scheduled to disclose details tomorrow of its plan to launch a LTE 4G wireless network in 38 U.S. cities. Read More

Welcome to Browser War III, Brought To You By Open Source
The shots are really flying in Browser War III, the mother of all browser wars. In this version of the browser war, open source is playing the part of the arms dealer, giving all of the combatants the ammunition to fight. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Emerson Network Power

A Framework to Visualize the Data Center
Increasing rack density makes it critical to understand environmental characteristics around weight, heating, cooling and power. Flat-file data center planning and management tools can't Read Now

Fortinet unveils high-speed security blade for Fortigate-5000 chassis
Fortinet today introduced a high-speed security blade that combines a slew of capabilities -- including firewall, VPN, intrusion prevention, identity-based application controls, anti-virus, anti-spam and Web filtering -- and delivers up to 40G bit/sec throughput. Read More

Wireless bundle to bring contactless payments to mobile devices
Inside Contactless has announced a new packaging of its NFC silicon and firmware with a third-party security controller. The combination promises a complete system for secure mobile payments that can be easily integrated into a smartphone or tablet. Read More

iPad, WikiLeaks, Chatroulette among top AOL search terms for 2010
Apple's iPad and iPhone dominated AOL's list of year-end hot shopping search terms, though technology terms had a fairly weak showing on AOL's overall hot searches list, which beats the rush of year-end trend reports by coming out at the end of November. Read More

The EU's Google Investigation: A Breakdown
The European Union has begun its investigation into Google's supposed antitrust violations. The inquiry -- being conducted by the European Commission, the regulatory arm of the EU, and based on complaints by competitive search-related companies -- accuses Google of "unfavorable treatment of their services in Google's unpaid and sponsored search results," the European Commission said in a statement. Here's a breakdown. Read More

Groups vow to fight gov't takedowns of websites
The EFF and a website owner vow to fight domain name seizures by two U.S. government agencies trying to fight copyright infringement. Read More



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December goodies from the Subnets
SharePoint 2010 power user training for three people from Webucator, plus a brand new iPad available from Microsoft Subnet. Five massive libraries on CCNP, security, NX-OS up for grabs on Cisco Subnet. Enter to win!

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Top IT Turkeys of 2010
Thanksgiving is a time for giving thanks for all of the people and things we love, to cherish what's most important to us. But that's for another slideshow. This one's all about taunting the companies, products and people who most resembled a turkey over the last year. So cut me a hockey-puck-shaped slice of jellied cranberry sauce and read on.

Cool Yule favorites: 15 techie gifts we like
Ho Ho Ho, it's time again to get our holiday wish lists together. Here are our 15 favorite products from the 140+ products submitted and tested in this year's Cool Yule Tools holiday gift guide.

MOST-READ STORIES

  1. Five reasons to be grumpy about 2010
  2. EFF backs red-faced porn watchers vs. copyright trolls
  3. Best networking tweaks for Linux
  4. 10 weirdest celebrity tech ads
  5. Help those with personal cyberstalking terrorists
  6. Inside the labs at Microsoft, HP and IBM
  7. WikiLeaks: China was behind Google hack
  8. Comcast outage encourages DIY DNS fix for some
  9. 10 things we love about Lync 2010
  10. Report says Apple iPad 2 to have two cameras, USB port

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Protecting data on mobile devices creates a whole new batch of security headaches. Join experts in this Videocast lead by John Girard, VP and Distinguished Analyst at Gartner, to hear how you can deploy a comprehensive enterprise encryption strategy: You'll hear:
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The Forrester Framework to Evaluate the ROI of Exchange 2010
This Forrester paper highlights information collected in interviews with current Microsoft Exchange 2010 customers. Forrester findings include benefits in the form of cost avoidance of storage, reduced cost of high availability, cost avoidance of voicemail, savings in backup systems, enhanced communications security and simplified compliance and legal discovery.
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Gomez launches “User Experience Index” in time for the holidays

Time for your company to consider cable? | No single-vendor networks for you

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Gomez launches "User Experience Index" in time for the holidays
It's the busiest online shopping week of the year, and to mark it Gomez has launched a novel way to show how well retail websites are performing from a user's viewpoint. This is a noteworthy first. Called the Compuware Gomez Retail User Experience Index (UX Index for short), this new report is much easier to interpret than traditional reports that simply rank websites by response time or other raw metrics. Read More


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From Physical to Virtual to the Cloud
The migration from a dedicated infrastructure to a shared and outsourced cloud infrastructure is not a one-size-fits-all proposition. With Extreme Networks "Four Pillars" strategy, Enterprises and Hosting Centers of any scale can approach change in a logical and affordable, stepwise fashion. Read More

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Online Server Backup Checklist
Small businesses are quickly adopting the cloud as an alternative way to back up their critical data. If you haven't yet made the move to the cloud, attend this webcast to explore what to look for in an online backup solution to save you time, money and free up your precious IT resources. Learn more!

Time for your company to consider cable?
A few years back, I predicted that a cable company would supply the lion's share of WAN services to a Fortune 100 company within the year. Still hasn't happened, but there are increasing signs that 2011 could be the start of cable as a serious contender in the enterprise arena.   Read More

No single-vendor networks for you
According to a new report from Gartner, enterprises should be prepared to manage multivendor network infrastructure. The popular perception has been that simplicity in managing a single-vendor network naturally delivers cost efficiencies down. Gartner's study of nine enterprises running dual-vendor or multivendor network environments yielded results indicating something completely different, however. Read More

Who wants to be a cyber-security warrior?
The National Science Foundation is again trying to increase the amount of well-educated people willing to work for the government to secure online resources. Read More


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How Desktop Virtualization Changes the Game for IT
Virtualization has busted out of the data center and overspread the desktop and application worlds. Citrix has emerged as a major innovator in virtualization solutions. Click here to read an Executive Viewpoint featuring Citrix CEO Mark Templeton. Click to continue

Verizon 150Mbps FiOS sets bar for business broadband
Verizon is tripling the top speed of its FiOS broadband to 150Mbps. The move makes Verizon FiOS the fastest broadband service available, and opens up new possibilities for small and medium businesses that rely on consumer-grade broadband connections. Read More

Session border controllers evolving to support video conferencing
We're on the cusp of a leap forward in the ability of session border controllers (SBC) to support real-time, business-to-business (B2B) video conferencing and telepresence in addition to VoIP. Read More

Study: Oracle users have big private cloud plans
Oracle users want private clouds but most are still in early development, a user group study has found. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies

Electronic Software Delivery
IDC : Those that are focused on providing an exceptional software acquisition are increasingly utilizing technology that helps create and measure a positive user experience. In this IDC whitepaper, review the benefits and processes of electronic software delivery. Learn the components of a successful solution that is optimal to the end user. Learn more

Hong Kong and fiber give most bang for broadband buck
People living in Hong Kong pay as little as US$0.028 per megabit for fixed broadband, the lowest price in the world during the third quarter, market research company Point Topic says. Read More

Contrasting the LAN and WAN
As recently as a year and a half ago we both regarded cloud computing as more of a media event than anything that was real and that would impact mainstream IT organizations. That is no longer the case. As we head into 2011 we see the majority of IT organizations adopting one or more forms of cloud computing. Read More

Carriers unite over mobile payments, NFC
In an unusual show of solidarity, wireless operators AT&T, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile have created a joint venture focused on mobile commerce. Read More

Huawei names ex-Nortel CTO to North America R&D post
Huawei Technologies has named former Nortel Networks CTO John Roese to lead its North American research and development efforts. Read More



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Goodies from the Subnets
We've got SharePoint 2010 training for up to three people from Webucator up for grabs. There's an iPad available, too. Enter to win one!

SLIDESHOWS

Top IT Turkeys of 2010
Thanksgiving is a time for giving thanks for all of the people and things we love, to cherish what's most important to us. But that's for another slideshow. This one's all about taunting the companies, products and people who most resembled a turkey over the last year. So cut me a hockey-puck-shaped slice of jellied cranberry sauce and read on.

Cool Yule favorites: 15 techie gifts we like
Ho Ho Ho, it's time again to get our holiday wish lists together. Here are our 15 favorite products from the 140+ products submitted and tested in this year's Cool Yule Tools holiday gift guide.

MOST-READ STORIES

  1. WikiLeaks: China was behind Google hack
  2. 5 Cyber Monday Web sites for finding great deals
  3. Report says Apple iPad 2 to have two cameras, USB port
  4. Cisco losing more steam in Layer 4-7
  5. A week with Windows Phone 7
  6. One less thing: Apple bans Steve Jobs doll
  7. Comcast outage encourages DIY DNS fix for some
  8. Comcast outage hits Boston, East Coast cities
  9. 10 amazing Black Friday laptop deals
  10. Microsoft Lync 2010 puts the "U" in UC

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Five reasons to be grumpy about 2010

Google targeted by EU antitrust probe | WikiLeaks moves to Amazon servers after DOS attacks

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Five reasons to be grumpy about 2010
Maybe it's the post-holiday letdown, but looking back on 2010 I'm not sure the open source community has that much to be grateful for this year. Not only have we missed another year for the Linux desktop, but there's been plenty to gripe about in 2010. Read More


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Built-in defragmenters are not designed for the corporate environment, cannot keep systems defragged and cost time and money to manage. Diskeeper 2010 prevents fragmentation before it can happen and runs invisibly in real time. It is proven to costs less than running without it. Used by 90% of Fortune 500. Try it free.

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Web-Oriented Architecture is Changing Enterprise IT
Companies want to surface key events from traditional systems of record inside social applications where employees can collaborate and take action to improve core business processes. This paper discusses the trend and requirements necessary to build an enterprise architecture to perform the integration. Read now!

Google targeted by EU antitrust probe
The European Commission is investigating allegations that Google has abused its dominant position in online search to promote its other services, such as price comparators, the Commission announced Tuesday. Read More

WikiLeaks moves to Amazon servers after DOS attacks
After several denial of service (DOS) attacks hit it over the weekend, WikiLeaks is now being hosted by Amazon servers in the U.S. and Ireland, IP traces conducted today show. Read More

Inside Cisco's newest data center, built from the ground up to be driven by UCS
There are innovations in every corner of this 10 megawatt, 27,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art data center. Read More

Stuxnet researchers cautious about Iran's admission of centrifuge issues
Iran on Monday apparently confirmed that the Stuxnet worm disrupted the country's uranium enrichment efforts, but one of the researchers who has dug deepest into the malware wasn't ready to call it a done deal. Read More


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BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express offers IT control and security features you can trust even for employees that choose to bring their own BlackBerry smartphones into your business. Download this free license to support up to 75 users on your existing Exchange Server. Learn More

Cisco expected to lose switching share in 2011
Oppenheimer & Co. still thinks Cisco's going to lose revenue share in Ethernet switching even though the company's share improved in Q3. Read More

China breaks ground on futuristic supercomputer complex
China has unveiled a sleek, ultra modern-appearing design for its new supercomputing center that may be seen as reflecting the country's broader supercomputing ambitions. Read More

Microsoft urges Windows Phone 7 developers to "obfuscate" app code
Microsoft is promoting the idea of code "obfuscation" as a way to make Windows Phone 7 apps more secure, and it's doing so via a partnership with PreEmptive Solutions. Read More

Why Android Outsells Windows Phone 7
We all knew Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 would have a hard time catching up with the leading contenders in the smartphone arena, and now there's yet another fresh batch of evidence suggesting that it can't. Read More


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8 Criteria for Server Load Balancing
Server load balancers are a simple yet highly effective means to scale an application environment while ensuring its availability. Today's solutions should also address application performance and security. Read about the top eight criteria you should consider when choosing a server load balancer and how Citrix NetScaler meets those requirements. Read now!

Start-up transforms unused desktop cycles into fast server clusters
When you consider technologies that make corporate IT more efficient by improving utilization of computing resources, VMware and its x86 virtualization software may be what that comes to mind. Read More

Dell laptop uses new Intel cooling technology
Dell has announced an ultraportable laptop with a new technology from Intel that sucks in outside air to keep the system quieter and cooler. Read More

Time for your company to consider cable?
A few years back, I predicted that a cable company would supply the lion's share of WAN services to a Fortune 100 company within the year. Still hasn't happened, but there are increasing signs that 2011 could be the start of cable as a serious contender in the enterprise arena. Read More

Google's Groupon grab still unconfirmed, but reportedly pricier
We still don't know for certain whether Google has bought or is about to buy the Internet's daily-deals darling, Groupon, but there are reports that the purported price is actually more than double the $2.5 billion that the rumor mill had offered yesterday. Read More

EFF backs red-faced adult video watchers vs. copyright trolls
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is leaping to the defense of adult video aficionados who have found themselves targeted by what group says is a concerted effort by copyright trolls to cash in on the natural reluctance of porn watchers to be publicly identified. Read More



Fill out a survey, get rewarded

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Goodies from the Subnets
We've got SharePoint 2010 training for up to three people from Webucator up for grabs. There's an iPad available, too. Enter to win one!

SLIDESHOWS

Top IT Turkeys of 2010
Thanksgiving is a time for giving thanks for all of the people and things we love, to cherish what's most important to us. But that's for another slideshow. This one's all about taunting the companies, products and people who most resembled a turkey over the last year. So cut me a hockey-puck-shaped slice of jellied cranberry sauce and read on.

Cool Yule favorites: 15 techie gifts we like
Ho Ho Ho, it's time again to get our holiday wish lists together. Here are our 15 favorite products from the 140+ products submitted and tested in this year's Cool Yule Tools holiday gift guide.

MOST-READ STORIES

  1. WikiLeaks: China was behind Google hack
  2. 5 Cyber Monday Web sites for finding great deals
  3. Report says Apple iPad 2 to have two cameras, USB port
  4. Cisco losing more steam in Layer 4-7
  5. A week with Windows Phone 7
  6. One less thing: Apple bans Steve Jobs doll
  7. Comcast outage encourages DIY DNS fix for some
  8. Comcast outage hits Boston, East Coast cities
  9. 10 amazing Black Friday laptop deals
  10. Microsoft Lync 2010 puts the "U" in UC

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