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	Memes and manipulation A few days ago one of my friends on Facebook posted to her wall a list of books supposedly from a BBC article and noted that "The BBC believes most people will have read only six of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?"" Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IBM National Geographic traces human history To better understand the connections and differences that make up the human species, NGS and IBM collected and analyzed one of the largest collections of human genetic data ever assembled—providing an unprecedented resource and window into our shared history. Click to continue In this Issue 5 best browser innovations of 2010 The right office apps for the iPad at work Top 15 free tools for every Windows desktop G20 country's infrastructure to be sabotaged by 2015 HTTPS everywhere: Fend off Firesheep Startup offers 'virtual private SaaS' for Salesforce.com Salesforce.com gets Amazon cloud replication tool Red Hat acquires Makara Propellerhead releases ReBirth for Apple's iPad SAP launches HANA for in-memory analytics WHITE PAPER: VMware EMC Runs Its Business-Critical Oracle E-Business Suite Learn how EMC built their infrastructure using VMware software running on Intel-powered hardware and how they plan to move towards 100 percent virtualization within the organization. Read Now. 5 best browser innovations of 2010 The browser wars have changed. During the last couple of years, the four or five leading browsers have all greatly improved - -to the point that the choice often comes down to taste or political conviction, as in "I hate Microsoft and I'll never use IE." Read More The right office apps for the iPad at work If you provide or allow employees an iPad, here are the productivity apps that you should install on them. Read More Top 15 free tools for every Windows desktop If you haven't looked at the Windows utilities landscape lately, you're in for a big surprise. Many of the old favorites have changed, bringing new features to Windows 7, as well as XP. Others have fallen by the wayside, replaced by upstarts that deliver meaningful functionality that once cost big bucks. Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Communications Inc. Simplifying the Virtual Data center Virtualization technology brings numerous benefits to enterprise IT organizations. Learn how in this free white paper. Read now! G20 country's infrastructure to be sabotaged by 2015 Attack on critical infrastructure expected in five years, says Gartner. Read More HTTPS everywhere: Fend off Firesheep The Web is an insecure place and getting more insecure all the time. The latest threat, the Firesheep add-in for Firefox, is particularly dangerous because it is exceedingly simple to use. Someone with absolutely no hacking experience can grab your private login information to sites such as Facebook and Amazon, and then log in as you and do anything they want, as if they were you. The free Firefox add-in HTTPS Everywhere helps protect against that threat and other privacy invaders by effectively encrypting information when you visit certain Web sites. Read More Startup offers 'virtual private SaaS' for Salesforce.com Startup Navajo Systems is targeting Salesforce.com customers who face regulatory hurdles involving data privacy and cloud computing with a new service it calls Virtual Private SaaS (software as a service). Read More WHITE PAPER: Logitech The Business Benefits of Desktop Video Collaboration At your desktop: Advances in the quality and simplicity of affordable desktop video equipment allow organizations to tap the power of unified communications, which can significantly cut costs, increase efficiency, improve business performance and foster more collaboration, regardless of location. Read More Salesforce.com gets Amazon cloud replication tool Salesforce.com customers will be able to more easily mirror their data in real time to Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud with a new service announced by data-integration vendor Jitterbit. Read More Red Hat acquires Makara Red Hat continues its battle with Oracle, VMware. Read More Propellerhead releases ReBirth for Apple's iPad Propellerhead has announced ReBirth is now available for Apple's iPad featuring the classic Roland TB-303 Bassline Synth, and the TR-808 and TR-909 Rhythm composers. Read More SAP launches HANA for in-memory analytics SAP is launching its HANA in-memory computing appliance. 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. December goodies from the Subnets SharePoint 2010 power user training for three people from Webucator, plus a brand new iPad available from Microsoft Subnet. Five massive libraries on CCNP, security, NX-OS up for grabs on Cisco Subnet. Enter to win! SLIDESHOWS Top IT Turkeys of 2010 Thanksgiving is a time for giving thanks for all of the people and things we love, to cherish what's most important to us. But that's for another slideshow. This one's all about taunting the companies, products and people who most resembled a turkey over the last year. So cut me a hockey-puck-shaped slice of jellied cranberry sauce and read on. 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 Five reasons to be grumpy about 2010 EFF backs red-faced porn watchers vs. copyright trolls Best networking tweaks for Linux 10 weirdest celebrity tech ads Help those with personal cyberstalking terrorists Inside the labs at Microsoft, HP and IBM WikiLeaks: China was behind Google hack Comcast outage encourages DIY DNS fix for some 10 things we love about Lync 2010 Report says Apple iPad 2 to have two cameras, USB port
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