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5 best router and switch features you never use; Is the Internet doomed to fail?

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5 best router and switch features you never use

Jim Duffy By Jim Duffy
It's been said that Microsoft Word users only exploit 10% of the software's capabilities. The same might be true of those managing enterprise LAN switches and routers, a habit that might be costing organizations in unnecessary purchases and manpower at a time when every penny counts. Read full story

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Is the Internet doomed to fail?
Has the Internet passed its "use-by" date? There are worrying signs that the Internet's architecture may not be able to scale effectively much longer.

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Every year, the first of April is a time for an incredibly amount of creativity online. And today, April Fool's Day, will not disappoint. Plus:
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Windows server targets branch, small office users
Microsoft Wednesday rounded out its server lineup for small and midsized businesses by releasing Windows Foundations.

Does the iPhone belong in corporate networks?
The right mobile handset for business use depends greatly on the organization that’s deploying them, according to participants in a peer-group session at VoiceCon Orlando.

Report: HP may build Android netbooks
Hewlett-Packard Co. may build netbook PCs running Google Inc.'s Linux-based Android operating system, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.

Microsoft says phones are bad
Microsoft used its VoiceCon Orlando keynote today to attack the desk phone and traditional telephony vendors in general as a hindrance to cost savings that businesses need to realize in order to deal effectively with the bad economy.

25 Computer Products That Refuse to Die
Old computer products, like old soldiers, never die. They stay on the market--even though they haven't been updated in eons. Or their names get slapped on new products that are available only outside the U.S. Or obsessive fans refuse to accept that they're obsolete--long after the rest of the world has moved on.

Alcatel shows off IP core for LTE networks
Alcatel-Lucent on Wednesday was set to introduce its Evolved Packet Core (EPC), a set of network components that will help to power the LTE network of Verizon Wireless and other mobile operators.

Rackable buying SGI for $25 million
Rackable Systems said Wednesday it plans to buy the assets of bankrupt Silicon Graphics (SGI) for roughly US$25 million in cash and will also assume certain liabilities.

3 Free, Easy Ways To Protect Your Network
Whether the Conficker worm booms or fizzles, take it as a reminder to keep your networks safe. You could spend money on a security consultant--which isn't such a bad investment if helpful--but here are three free tricks to increase your network's security.


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04/01/09

Today's most-read stories:

  1. Conficker activation passes quietly, but threat isn't over
  2. Some UltraDNS customers knocked offline by attack
  3. 15 foolish high-tech stories
  4. Five best router and switch features you never use
  5. Mobile Skype: The end of cellular as we know it
  6. Top 10 technology skills
  7. Fools and jokers coming to a network near you
  8. How do you manage IP addresses?
  9. CEO payday: How much tech chiefs made in '08
  10. Telstra will split for NBN
  11. Students learn through robot battles


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