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Cisco ups offer for Tandberg; Our 25 favorite tech gift ideas; HP/3Com deal faces lawsuit

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Cisco ups offer for videoconferencing firm Tandberg to $3.4B

Cisco has raised its bid for Norwegian video conferencing vendor Tandberg to $3.4 billion, up from $3.0 billion, but says it will raise its price no further. Read full story

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25 Tech Gift Ideas: Cool Yule Favorites
Before you hit the pavement or head online to go shopping for the holidays, check out our favorite 25 products from this year's Cool Yule Tools holiday gift ideas.

HP/3Com deal faces shareholder lawsuit
A shareholder lawsuit seeks to block HP's $2.7 billion bid for 3Com, claiming the deal undervalues 3Com.

Cray blows by IBM to regain supercomputing crown
A Cray supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has regained the title of the world's most powerful supercomputer, overtaking the installation that was ranked at the top in June, while China entered the Top 10 with a hybrid Intel-AMD system.

Skype for Business sounds the all-clear on legal pitfalls
Businesses that were scared of saving money by using Skype because lawsuits might take away its essential VoIP technology may not have to worry anymore.

Cisco shareholders insist on having a say on executive compensation
According to a Christian Brothers Investment Services notice, John Chambers has had some good paydays as the CEO of Cisco, averaging $38.78 million per year in pay during the most recent 6 years.

VeriSign bolsters security for .com, .net sites
VeriSign says it will support DNS Security Extensions, dubbed DNSSEC, in the .net and .com top-level domains by March 2011.

AT&T offers cloud-based computing capacity
AT&T upped its cloud portfolio Monday when announced it was working with VMware and Sun Microsystems to develop its own cloud computing service.

Berners-Lee's foundation wants the Web to improve life
The World Wide Web Foundation, Tim Berners-Lee's latest brainchild, is now officially open for business and involved with two initial projects, as it embarks on using the Web to empower people worldwide and bring about positive socio-economic change.

London Olympic project could redefine cloud computing
Cloud computing is one of those phrases with a fuzzy definition – but there's a new cloud potentially being built in London that makes all previous ones seem staid and boring.

We might have an explanation for 'The Great Twitter Spike'
Last week, just for kicks, we explored this question posed by the Web site performance monitoring company Pingdom: What caused a significant traffic spike on Twitter the evening of Tuesday, Oct. 27?

November giveaways
Cisco Subnet is giving away free books on VMware vSphere security. Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons and free books on Exchange Server 2010. Google Subnet is giving away free books on Android app development. Entry forms can be found on the main contest page. Trivia answers are revealed on each main Subnet page.

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November 16, 2009

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  1. Cray blows by IBM to regain supercomputing crown
  2. HP's 3Com acquisition: An inside look
  3. Microsoft confirms first Windows 7 zero-day bug
  4. Cisco MARS timeline
  5. What's next for Wi-Fi?
  6. Mobile deathmatch: Motorola Droid vs. iPhone
  7. Cool Yule Tools
  8. How to DDoS a federal wiretap
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  10. Shifting mobile cost to employees? Think twice

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