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	Cisco bilkers get lengthy prison terms The couple who defrauded Cisco out of $20 million are getting lengthy prison terms. Mario Easevoli, 33, and his wife Jennifer, 29, were sentence to 12 and 9 years, respectively, for duping Cisco into sending replacement parts for routers and switches, which they then sold. Read More E-GUIDE: IBM 5 Tips for Getting BI Right Due to improvements in Business Intelligence (BI) technology and the way CIOs are implementing it, BI has the potential to transform organizations by delivering the information executives need in order to facilitate accurate decisions and provide relevant performance metrics. Learn more. In this Issue 10 reasons to fear Google's self-driving car The compute stars align 1 in 4 babies on Internet before they're born Death, taxes and bandwidth growth Windows 7 migration for the little guy The US offshore wind energy technology conundrum Microsoft buys dozens of smartphone patents, many by Palm Opera to Microsoft's IE: 'We're still here.' Will I lose customers if I enable IPv6 on my web site? Microsoft refuses to reveal cloud e-mail customer numbers Virtualizing the wireless LAN controller: The start of a trend WHITE PAPER: Oracle Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence This paper is an overview of Oracle's capabilities for data warehousing, including the Oracle Exadata Database Machine, and discusses the key features and technologies by which Oracle-based business intelligence and data warehouse systems easily integrate information, perform fast queries, scale to very large data volumes and analyze any data. Read Now 10 reasons to fear Google's self-driving car Not to slow the wheels of progress or anything but …Google's research into self-driving cars received a world of attention over the weekend because, well, because it's Google. And while the concept of autonomous vehicles is not new, allow me this opportunity to ask if we have thought enough about: self-driving 18-wheelers. And what happens when one self-driving car can't resist texting the other wicked cute self-driving car? Read More The compute stars align IBM's recent acquisition of Blade Networks is an endorsement of what Cisco has been claiming as it pushes its Unified Computing System: that integrating switching changes the blade server/cloud game. Read More 1 in 4 babies on Internet before they're born The average child has an online presence by the age of 6 months, thanks to their parents' Facebooking and other online activities, and nearly a quarter of kids make their Internet debut before they're even born. Read More WHITE PAPER: Fluke Networks Field Testing Installed Optical Fiber Cabling As traffic over networks expands and expectations of reliability increase, testing optical fiber cabling after installation is more important than ever before to assure the end-user that the installation was done properly and that the cabling will support Local Area Networks (LAN) into the future. Read now! Death, taxes and bandwidth growth Despite modest economic growth, 2010 marks a year of pent-up demand for WAN bandwidth, although IT professionals seem leery of predicting wholesale increases. Read More Windows 7 migration for the little guy The market has been filling up with migration tools to help IT managers upgrade to Windows 7 from XP and many of our pages have been devoted to helping smooth the migration process. A Seattle company called Prowess offers one advantage over those of other comers because its solution is free. Read More The US offshore wind energy technology conundrum If wind is ever to be a significant part of the energy equation in this country we'll need to take it offshore -- into the deep oceans. Large offshore wind objects could harness about more than 4,000 GW of electricity, according to a massive report on wind energy out this week. Read More WHITE PAPER: Iron Mountain Top 10 Reasons for Using Server Online Backup and Recovery Data protection solutions that combine the latest advancements in disk-based backup with secure, integrated online technologies offer the fast, assured data recovery. Read now Microsoft buys dozens of smartphone patents, many by Palm Microsoft has licensed 74 "foundational" smartphone patents, including many originated by Palm, now part of HP, accord to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The goal seems to be to avoid the patent battles embroiling smartphone vendors, including makers of Android handsets. Read More Opera to Microsoft's IE: 'We're still here.' Each month when the media report on browser market share numbers from Net Applications, Opera Software doesn't make the cut. We usually focus on Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome. But you don't have to slide your finger too much further down the list before you find Opera (for desktops) and Opera Mini (for mobile). For September, they held places five and six right after Apple's Safari. Read More Will I lose customers if I enable IPv6 on my web site? A common question for webmaster about going dual-stack: Will I lose users? I have heard rumors about bad quality of IPv6. Here's the status of the problem and some well-known proposals. Read More Microsoft refuses to reveal cloud e-mail customer numbers Tech companies love to play games with numbers -- especially when they don't want to admit that a product isn't being adopted by as many customers as they'd like. That's an essential truth to keep in mind when trying to figure out how many people actually use the cloud e-mail services offered by Microsoft and Google. Read More Virtualizing the wireless LAN controller: The start of a trend Bluesocket's vWLAN architecture continues the evolution of (and debate surrounding) the architecture of enterprise-class wireless LANs. Virtualizing the controller has some real benefits in distributed-data implementations. Read More
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