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	Twitter generation failed The Science Guy? Nonsense. The gist of the story on the front page of Yahoo News was that Bill "Science Guy" Nye passed out while approaching a lectern at which he was about to speak to several hundred USC students... and those students callously ignored the stricken man's plight in favor of yammering about it on Twitter. Read More WEBCAST: Dell Webcast: Is Virtualization Right for SMBs? You've heard that large companies embrace virtualization to consolidate their data centers, reduce costs, and improve operating efficiency and IT service levels. However, your data center only has tens of servers, not hundreds or thousands. Should you consider virtualization as well? View this webcast to learn more. Register now! In this Issue Fedora Board likely to reconsider SQLNinja, but should they? Open Source Apps: A Danger To Medical SMBs? The Multimedia Wireless LAN Juniper Buys Trapeze: Unified Networking's Increasing Importance Both sides claim victory in ruling over music distribution patent Why bother with change control? WHITE PAPER: Sprint "Business-class" Service for the Global Customer Can global customers that are not part of the world's largest global companies get the "business-class" service they deserve? Do these smaller globals have to lower their service expectations? Are there tactics to adopt that ensure you will get business-class service regardless of your size? Read More Fedora Board likely to reconsider SQLNinja, but should they? According to a comment today from Tom "spot" Callaway on the SQL Ninja request, it looks like the Fedora Board will reconsider allowing the takeover tool into Fedora. The initial decision drew quite a lot of criticism, but that doesn't mean the board was wrong. Read More Open Source Apps: A Danger To Medical SMBs? Most SMB medical practices cannot afford the hefty price tag that larger commercial software development firms charge for their Emed software. As a result a thriving open source niche has sprung up to fill that vacuum. Read More WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies Electronic Software Delivery IDC : Those that are focused on providing an exceptional software acquisition are increasingly utilizing technology that helps create and measure a positive user experience. In this IDC whitepaper, review the benefits and processes of electronic software delivery. Learn the components of a successful solution that is optimal to the end user. Learn more The Multimedia Wireless LAN Aruba Networks is making a big marketing push stressing the value of multimedia capabilities on enterprise WLANs. But this isn't just marketing - supporting large volumes of time-bounded traffic is about to become a key requirement in many venues. Read More Juniper Buys Trapeze: Unified Networking's Increasing Importance I must say that I found the news that Juniper is buying Trapeze to be surprising, despite the fact that rumors had been flying quite literary for months. I usually don't comment on rumors, and didn't in this case. But in retrospect, this deal does make sense. Read More WEBCAST: Iron Mountain Online Server Backup Checklist Small businesses are quickly adopting the cloud as an alternative way to back up their critical data. If you haven't yet made the move to the cloud, attend this webcast to explore what to look for in an online backup solution to save you time, money and free up your precious IT resources. Learn more! Both sides claim victory in ruling over music distribution patent It was almost two years ago now that we wrote about the Electronic Frontier Foundation's attempt to bust a patent covering the distribution of music files over the Internet that is held by Seer Systems, a one-man band that vigorously disputes the EFF's description of its patent as bogus. Read More Why bother with change control? Change controls are a pain and everybody knows it. And it's not really the process that bothers me so much as the uselessness of it all. Read More
	Fill out a survey, get rewarded Get a free Starbucks gift card for participating in a Network World survey about application performance management best practices. Research firm NetForecast is surveying enterprises about APM practices for an upcoming Network World article. The first 100 participants will receive a $5 Starbucks gift card. Click here. Goodies from the Subnets We've got SharePoint 2010 training for up to three people from Webucator up for grabs. There's an iPad available, too. Enter to win one! SLIDESHOWS Microsoft Windows after 25 years: A visual history More than nine out of 10 computers run some version of Windows. But no one could have predicted that would be the case when Windows 1.0 launched 25 years ago as a graphical front end for MS-DOS. Here's a look at Windows through the years and some thoughts on what the future might hold. Cool Yule favorites: 15 techie gifts we like Ho Ho Ho, it's time again to get our holiday wish lists together. Here are our 15 favorite products from the 140+ products submitted and tested in this year's Cool Yule Tools holiday gift guide. MOST-READ STORIES Bug derailed Windows bid to top Linux in supercomputing speed Airports can legally opt-out, kick TSA program to the curb Google, Apple looking to introduce NFC capable smartphones Industrial Ethernet helped rescue Chilean miners Twitter generation failed The Science Guy? Nonsense. Free BlackBerry apps for the holidays Installing and using Ubuntu Netbook Edition Why U.S. IT jobs aren't coming back Report sounds alarm on China's rerouting of U.S. Internet traffic Google Chrome tops 'Dirty Dozen' vulnerable apps list
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