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	Motorola asks ITC to ban BlackBerry imports Patent litigation between Motorola and Research In Motion is heating up, with Motorola filing a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission. Read More WEBCAST: HP Shifting Role of Network Managers Webcast - More and more network managers are tasked with ensuring optimal application performance 24/7. No one wants to be in a position where end users are the first to notice application degradation. This webcast addresses the shifting role of network managers and provides best practices on fault and performance management. View today! In this Issue Apple tablet carrier smackdown: Verizon vs. AT&T Lotus bets the house on open collaboration plan IT hiring in India outpaces U.S. Project Uses Light to Transmit Data, Crushes WiFi Speeds Botnets: 'The Democratization of Espionage' SSD could ultimately replace hard disk drives, Hitachi CTO says IPv4 Space is Getting Low - Really Low Domain-Name Jail is Not Fun Is net neutrality good for gaming? WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Inc. Lowering Wireless Data Costs with WAN Optimization Dramatically lower your wireless data costs while significantly speeding applications with mobile WAN optimization tools. Fuji Xerox Australia describes the benefits it has seen since its deployment in this whitepaper. Learn how you can save 30% on 3G data costs while improving application throughput by 20 times. Learn More Apple tablet carrier smackdown: Verizon vs. AT&T A look at how the two big carriers stack up for wireless coverage. Read More Lotus bets the house on open collaboration plan IBM/Lotus has introduced Project Vulcan, no less than an outline for the future of its collaboration business. Can it become a hit and circle the bases at the expense of competitors such as Microsoft, Google and Cisco? Read More IT hiring in India outpaces U.S. Indian IT companies have started adding thousands of employees after a year of relatively flat growth. But the same cant be said for U.S. companies. Read More Project Uses Light to Transmit Data, Crushes WiFi Speeds A Siemens research project has recently broken the record for wirelessly transmitting data, by making use of white LEDs (light-emitting diodes) instead of radio waves. Siemens researchers here able to transmit data at 500Mbps, beating the previous record of 200Mbps, and completely obliterating current WiFi standards (though upcoming WiFi standards could push it into Gigabit territory). Read More WHITE PAPER: Zscaler How Hackers are Targeting Enterprise Users via Web 2.0 Browser Exploits Securing enterprise servers with firewalls and intrusion detection is critical, but the most common threats are executed on thousands of mobile end users through the Web. Lean how to protect your clients with more than desktop anti-virus/anti-spyware and HIPS. Learn more! Botnets: 'The Democratization of Espionage' The cyber attacks against Google, Adobe and a raft of other top U.S. corporations late last year were by most accounts sophisticated and targeted attempts to steal proprietary data. But lost in all of the resulting media hoopla over who the remaining victims were and whether Chinese hackers or indeed the Chinese government itself were responsible is the simple, terrifying truth that individual hackers now have access to the same arsenal of cyber weapons once reserved only for nation states. Read More SSD could ultimately replace hard disk drives, Hitachi CTO says With server speeds increasing faster than storage performance, Hitachi says hard drives may someday be replaced by solid-state disks. Read More IPv4 Space is Getting Low - Really Low Something happened this month that probably didn't get much attention, but I always felt would be an unofficial sign that IPv4 space was getting terribly low. IANA, the organization that coordinates global IP addressing, allocated the previously unallocated, and distinctive, 1.0.0.0/8 block to APNIC. Read More Domain-Name Jail is Not Fun I was minding my own business rounding the monopoly board. I rounded "Go" but this time I didn't receive $200. I had to pay $200 and I went directly to Jail. Take it from me that being in Internet domain-name jail is not enjoyable and should be avoided. I sure wished I had a "get out of jail free" card right about now. I thought I would share my tale with you so that you can avoid the pitfall... Read More Is net neutrality good for gaming? The FCC has been working since October of 2009 to establish "net neutrality" guidelines. In a nutshell, net neutrality means that all service providers must allow nondiscriminatory access to all lawful content and must consent to all reasonable requests regarding the disclosure of service management information to ensure that all customers receive equal broadband access. Read More
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