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Friday, September 3, 2010

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

LATEST NETWORKING NEWS
- Fastest Chip Powers New IBM Mainframe
- Metal Manufacture Breakthrough Promises Transformer Objects
- Global CIO: IBM-Google Security Snafu Shows #1 Vulnerability Is Ignorance
- Inventors Demo Ubiquitous, Hands Free Interfaces
- Qi Intros Wireless Charging Station Standard
- Global CIO: IBM's Blazing New Mainframe Wins Raves From Citigroup
- Google Releases SketchUp 8
- Google Sued Over Nexus One Troubles
- Security Questions To Ask Your Cloud Provider

ANALYTIC REPORTS
- Cloud Implementer's Checklist
- Oracle On The March

WHITEPAPERS
- Intro: Cloud Computing 101
- IT Manager's Guide to iPhone and Blackberry

TODAY'S MOST POPULAR STORIES @ TECHWEB.COM
- Product Watch: Verizon, VMware Team Up With Hybrid Cloud Service
- Firewalls Top Purchase Priority In 2010, Survey Says
- Building Botnets For Fun And Profit
- The 6 Worst Cloud Security Mistakes
- Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security Virtual Appliance VMware Ready for Mail Security

WEBCASTS
- Content Assessment: Critical First Steps to Gaining Control

RESOURCES AND EVENTS
- Take Our Survey On Data Center Convergence: You Could Win An iPod Touch!

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LATEST NETWORKING NEWS
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TODAY'S TOP STORY

- Fastest Chip Powers New IBM Mainframe
z196 processor is the product of a global design effort spanning IBM facilities in the U.S and abroad.
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- Metal Manufacture Breakthrough Promises Transformer Objects
A novel manufacturing process for shape-memory alloys could bring shape-shifting jewelery and transforming stents.
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- Global CIO: IBM's Blazing New Mainframe Wins Raves From Citigroup
Citigroup says the z196's record-setting chips help deliver massive performance increase and flexibility that will result in greater innovation and value for customers.
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- Inventors Demo Ubiquitous, Hands Free Interfaces
The VMworld closing general session in San Francisco showcased potential advances in the user interface that may allow more direct interaction with computer systems.
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- Global CIO: IBM-Google Security Snafu Shows #1 Vulnerability Is Ignorance
IBM's ranking of software vendors by vulnerabilities is riddled with errors, so Google intervenes and goes from worst to first.
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- Qi Intros Wireless Charging Station Standard
Wireless Power Consortium has also certified the first products compatible with the interoperability standard.
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- Google Releases SketchUp 8
The latest version of Google's modeling software offers improved tools to amateur and professional 3D artists alike.
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- Google Sued Over Nexus One Troubles
A Nexus One owner claims Google made misleading claims about the phone's 3G capabilities and failed to provide adequate support.
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- Security Questions To Ask Your Cloud Provider
NeoSpire's director of security, Sean Bruton, discusses the realities of cloud security and the key questions to ask when assessing a hosted or cloud service provider's claims.
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ANALYTIC REPORTS
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- Cloud Implementer's Checklist
As federal agencies move forward with their cloud computing strategies, there are many steps to manage. This report, the last in a four-part series on government clouds, guides government IT pros through the early stages of implementation.
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- Oracle On The March
Acquiring Sun wasn't enough for Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, who's now driving the company to overtake SAP and IBM and pushing the virtues of a complete Oracle IT stack. Are Ellison's tactics brave or bravado? Who's really leading the Big Data era? We investigate Oracle's next giant steps.
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TODAY'S MOST POPULAR STORIES @ TECHWEB.COM
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- Product Watch: Verizon, VMware Team Up With Hybrid Cloud Service
New Verizon service offers private public-cloud option
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- Firewalls Top Purchase Priority In 2010, Survey Says
Mobile computing, social networks, cloud computing named as the top three threats
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- Building Botnets For Fun And Profit
Creating a botnet business can be lucrative -- and isn't as hard as you might think, Black Hat speaker says
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- The 6 Worst Cloud Security Mistakes
A look at the most common missteps when choosing a cloud-based service -- and how to avoid them
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- Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security Virtual Appliance VMware Ready for Mail Security
InterScan Messaging Security Virtual Appliance v8 (IMSVA) achieves new VMware Ready(TM) status for email security virtual appliances
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WEBCASTS
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- Content Assessment: Critical First Steps to Gaining Control
This webcast will provide attendees with an overview of new dynamic analysis technologies that aggregate, correlate visualize and explore unstructured content and records. Content Assessment is the first critical step to alleviate the pain of the information explosion by evaluating whether it's necessary or unnecessary to the business and enable informed decisions about business value, relevance, and disposition.

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