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	Scientist 'infected by computer virus' catches publicity fever You'll be seeing variations of this headline all day today and I'll bet good money they spread to TV news faster than flu through a kindergarten: "Scientist 'infected with computer virus.' " Feel free to call BS any time you please. The source of this contagion is a remarkably credulous BBC report about a British researcher who claims to be the first person "infected with a computer virus." Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Overcome Two Key Challenges with Virtualization How do you accelerate virtualization for your enterprise - and take IT flexibility and cost savings to the next level? Start by downloading this whitepaper from Riverbed. WAN optimization is a class of technology that has rapidly been adopted across enterprises in order to address the challenges of bandwidth limitations and latency over the WAN. Click here! In this Issue Does the iPhone Look Dated? Free Beer! Is Microsoft an open source company? IPV4 to IPV6 Migration, the 'Real' Y2K Problem SQL Server 2011? How about SQL11… A Focus on the Human Side of Business Analytics If you have multithreading in Windows Phone 7 do you need multitasking? When In Doubt, Capture Packets 10 most controversial technology stories of 2010 – so far Video Game Friday: Final Fantasy on iPhone, iPod Touch WHITE PAPER: Adobe Close the Web 2.0 Communications Gap Web 2.0 tools have yet to reach critical mass and broad user adoption. This Forrester report identifies the key Web 2.0 gaps and offers advice to: Build a framework that extends email, Upgrade document-based data collection, and Improve email and document exchange security. Read More Does the iPhone Look Dated? Just a quick question today - does the iPhone look, um, "dated" to you? A couple of people have recently remarked to me that the iPhone looks a bit old now, and I'm inclined to agree. Its simple elegance has become perhaps too common, and just doesn't have the flash it once did (no pun intended). Read More Free Beer! I heard a rumor about an open source beer and it's true! Read More Is Microsoft an open source company? When thinking about open source, most people immediately think Linux, Apache, Mozilla to name a few of the many projects currently being developed. Of course, there are thousands of open source projects and I wanted to see what platform these projects were running on. To my surprise, I found a great deal of Windows open source projects. Read More WEBCAST: Actuate Solve Data Needs: BIRT Defined This webcast will give you a primer on BIRT including the technology and the community. BIRT can help you overcome the challenge of delivering accurate and meaningful data to users while minimizing IT development efforts. Learn more today! IPV4 to IPV6 Migration, the 'Real' Y2K Problem Many believe that warnings about the perils of running out of IPV4 addresses can safely be ignored--that like the Y2K machinations of the last century, they are much ado about nothing. After all, you already have your IPV4 address, so why should you care? Performance, that's why. Read More SQL Server 2011? How about SQL11… There has been no announcement from Microsoft on future releases of SQL Server beyond this year so we cannot predict accurately. We can speculate, however. The stated 3 year policy points to SQL Server 2011 but my sense is that would be too early after the newly release SQL Server 2008 R2. Read More A Focus on the Human Side of Business Analytics More than a decade ago, I began to notice discussions about data mining in the press. The inference was that humans were no longer necessary — computers and software would digest data for us and identify patterns and trends. As a sociologist — and a human — this bugged me. Read More WHITE PAPER: Fluke Networks Ethernet Performance Metrics Ethernet performance measurement can help. Various metrics can quantify and characterize performance. Test plans can be written to satisfy varying organizational objectives. This white paper will describe advancements in field measurement of end-to-end Ethernet performance. Read More! If you have multithreading in Windows Phone 7 do you need multitasking? Microsoft's decision to block multitasking for Windows Phone 7, at least in the initial release, unleashed complaints from some developers and pundits. It was a step backward! The Apple-fication of Windows Mobile and so on. Read More When In Doubt, Capture Packets While NetFlow--the subject of my last three posts--is a tool that I use constantly for getting visibility into network traffic, sometimes you need to look at complete packet contents. I have a saying at work: "When in doubt, capture packets." The first few times (or maybe few dozen times) you troubleshoot a problem by using raw packet captures, it'll be confusing and time consuming. Read More 10 most controversial technology stories of 2010 – so far Everyone loves a controversial story and the technology industry has been serving them up left and right in 2010, typically featuring big names like Apple, Google and Comcast. Here's a look back at the biggest such headlines so far this year. Read More Video Game Friday: Final Fantasy on iPhone, iPod Touch Every Friday we hope to publish some video game reviews to bring you through the weekend. Reviews (hopefully) will cover the world of video gaming from the PC to the Xbox, Wii and PS3, as well as iPad, iPhone and other mobile game platforms. Enjoy this first entry, from Senior Editor Jon Brodkin. Read More
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