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Why mix Bluetooth with Wi-Fi?

Joanie Wexler By Joanie Wexler
When the latest version of Bluetooth was announced last week, two questions popped to mind. First, what does Bluetooth 3.0 - which combines the Bluetooth wireless communications protocol with 802.11g Wi-Fi transport capabilities - offer that plain old Wi-Fi doesn't? Second, how are 3.0 connections secured, given that Wi-Fi running in ad hoc (peer-to-peer) mode hasn't historically received many kudos for privacy? It turns out that the two questions and their answers are somewhat related. Read full story

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Use the Cisco restroom at your own risk
Things may look a little grubbier around Cisco's San Jose headquarters. That's because 100 janitors and supporters were camped out in front of the Tasman Drive complex this week to protest the firing of 75 of their comrades.

Gmail Labs' 5 Best and 5 Worst Features
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Open source cloud platform is commercialized by its creators
Creators of the open source Eucalyptus cloud platform launch private company, get funding.

Netbook shipments rise sevenfold during Q1
An Apple official may have trashed netbooks for cramped keyboards and "junky" hardware, but shipments for the inexpensive laptops are showing no signs of slowing down.

Expert: Cybersecurity incentives, not mandates, needed
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The 'Converged' CIO
Nickasch: From an IT executive's standpoint, it is important to ask whether convergence has served its purpose. The supporting ideas and technologies that make up a conglomerate theme such as unified communications are independently important, but do they fit together, and in an appropriate manner? Does this strategy make it simpler, or more complicated?

Expand A Small Network With an Ethernet Switch
Most home-office networks start with a PC, a router, and a modem. But when a small single-user network grows into a larger multiuser network, your original Wi-Fi router can run out of free ethernet ports to connect various PCs, networkable printers, small-business servers, and other essential hardware. That's when a switch comes in handy.

Get Communicator Mobile Now!
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