Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Jazz up your home office; Cisco unveils new generation of branch routers; IBM adds 10G Ethernet switch

Cisco unveils new generation of branch routers; IBM adding 10G Ethernet switch to data center product line
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Deck out your home office

Haven't we heard enough about un-showered teleworkers who work in their pajamas? Plenty of home-based workers care a lot about aesthetics -- personal and spatial. Here's a look at cool office furniture and IT gear, including new releases and celebrated classics that I'm saving space for in my dream home office. Read full story

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AT&T packages enterprise mobile apps
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US high-tech trade deficit improves, still long way to go
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SMBs lagging in data-leak prevention
One-third of organizations are currently using some form of data-leak prevention. Technology adoption varies widely from simple e-mail scanning to full-blown network and endpoint DLP implementations. Also, adoption varies by size of organization: No small businesses participating in Nemertes Spring 2009 benchmark are doing any form of DLP.

Richard Stallman joins call for Oracle to divest MySQL
Oracle must be stopped from taking over MySQL, according to Richard Stallman, a developer and prominent activist for free software.

AT&T throws support behind FCC chairman
Last month, FCC Chairman Genachowski gave a speech at the Brookings Institute that reopened debate on how to manage net neutrality -- especially on mobile networks. In our last newsletter, we presented some reader reactions to the issues so today we'll hear from AT&T in response to Genachowski's remarks.

Survey: Americans don't trust the cloud to store confidential data
Americans don't trust cloud storage for their confidential data, with identity theft ranking as their top security concern.

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