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	AT&T-T-Mobile merger widely panned The proposed AT&T-T-Mobile merger has many different groups standing athwart recent telecom history and yelling, "Stop!" Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks Load Balancers Are Dead! Get Gartner's take on: * Which vendors are leading the ADC market * Key recommendations on what you should do today * How to find a feature-rich ADC View the Gartner report, compliments of F5 Networks! Read now! In this Issue 10 iPhone and iPad Apps to Download, Then Delete Microsoft scheme sniffs out unused wireless spectrum Is Skype a security risk that endangers your privacy? Is EMC/RSA poised to buy NetWitness? First look at Firefox 4 ID thief sentenced to more than 16 years in prison CTIA 2011: Up close with Sprint EVO 3D smartphone Open Source Foundations vs. Corporate-Run Projects NASA's "images" of life on Mars circa 1975 WEBCAST: IBM Take Control of Your Network Once and for All Join this IBM broadcast to learn how to manage and improve network configuration activity to keep your networks running, in compliance and generating revenue. View Now 10 iPhone and iPad Apps to Download, Then Delete Some of the best iPhone and iPad apps are seasonal or have a short shelf life -- that is, they fill a fleeting need. So go ahead and download these apps, then delete them when you're finished. It's okay, really Read More Microsoft scheme sniffs out unused wireless spectrum Microsoft researchers have designed a scheme for measuring whether licensed radio frequencies are actually being used so unlicensed devices can use it, something that may become necessary as demand for wireless applications grows. Read More Is Skype a security risk that endangers your privacy? According to the NYTimes and Slashdot, there are reports of China stepping up electronic communications censorship beyond e-mail and the Internet in the form of "policing cellphone calls" such as if "antigovernment sentiment" words are spoken. Two callers, one speaking English and the other Chinese, have reported being cut off mid-sentence after saying "protest." Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Five Steps to Improving Business Performance Read this white paper to learn five practical steps your company can take to achieve customer intimacy. Read Now Is EMC/RSA poised to buy NetWitness? Industry rumor is building this week that RSA, the security division of EMC, is poised to acquire NetWitness, a privately-held company whose flagship product is used by U.S. government agencies and in the enterprise to detect and analyze security threats. Read More First look at Firefox 4 Firefox 4 offers features like tab management, remote device sync, and speed improvements. Read More ID thief sentenced to more than 16 years in prison A Delaware man is sentenced to more than 16 years in prison on ID theft-related charges. Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC IDC: New Strategies Driving Disk-Based Solutions In this brief, IDC discusses the challenges of using tape and the benefits of disk-based data protection solutions with data deduplication, especially if a business is experiencing unabated data growth, a lack of recovery performance, and increased costs associated with physical tape. Read the brief. Read now CTIA 2011: Up close with Sprint EVO 3D smartphone At CTIA 2011, Matt Hamblen talks with Sprint about its new HTC EVO 3D smartphone, which includes a non-glasses 3D display (not seen on video), and two camera lenses for taking 3D photos and videos. Read More Open Source Foundations vs. Corporate-Run Projects I came across an interesting paper, "The Economic Case for Open Source Foundations" by Dirk Riehle, a professor at Freidrich-Alexander-University of Erlandgen-Nurnberg at http://dirkriehle.com/publications/2010/the-economic-case-for-open-source-foundations/ and thought others may be interested in this as well. The main thesis of this paper revolves around these points: Read More NASA's "images" of life on Mars circa 1975 NASA has posted an interesting group of images its says were rendered by an unnamed artist from its Jet Propulsion Lab that show what the space agency, or at least the artist, though Mars might look like up close. Read More
	GOODIES FROM THE SUBNETS Up for grabs from Microsoft Subnet: a Windows 7 Enterprise Technician class for three people. From Cisco Subnet: 15 copies of VMware ESXi books. Enter here. SLIDESHOWS Hot technology at the annual CTIA wireless show CTIA Wireless offers a look at the evolving mobile landscape, from handsets and apps to core network systems. Here's a few of the things that are hot at the show in Orlando. First look at Firefox 4 Firefox 4 has finally arrived, after months of delays and after rival Web browsers Internet Explorer 9 and Chrome 10 already shipped. The browser gets a speed boost and several feature enhancements that are so significant that they all have their own proper names, like Panorama, JaegerMonkey and Firefox Sync. Were they worth the wait? Let's take a look. MOST-READ STORIES Microsoft pays Nortel $7.5 million for IPv4 addresses Wireless carriers delay Japan's text-to-give donations Microsoft now manages iPhone, Android, Windows, Linux Update Java and you may get annoying McAfee scanner too Nokia looks to make Windows Phone 7 hottest mobile OS Programmer fired for eating pizza Microsoft warns of hack attempt on Windows Live, Google Lots of "people" you interact with online are sockpuppets Is EMC/RSA poised to buy NetWitness? Can LTE really do it all?
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