Rapportive and Noteleaf: The future of the Web

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	Rapportive and Noteleaf: The future of the Web One of the things that have annoyed me over the years has been applications that have no real customizability. Sure, in many of these you can switch features on and off but for many apps, adding a feature that would make the app easier or more effective to use was either not possible or required laborious macros using language subsystems that were overkill for the task at hand. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sprint Gearing Up for IPv6 Do you have your checklist to get ready for IPv6? Iyad Tarazi, Vice President of Network Development & Engineering for Sprint, discusses what it's going to take for you to make the transition. Read Now In this Issue First look at Firefox 4 Mozilla's Firefox 4 bags 1M downloads in 3 hours Study: IT shops running way too many applications HTML5 in the Web browser: Geolocation, JavaScript, and HTML5 extras Facebook to acquire mobile application developer Snaptu 7 hard-to-find IE9 add-ons Good-bye Google Gears, hello HTML5 Yahoo's offers cookie opt-out button ahead of new EU law Android apps: 9 best, free social networking choices 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 First look at Firefox 4 Firefox 4 offers features like tab management, remote device sync, and speed improvements. Read More Mozilla's Firefox 4 bags 1M downloads in 3 hours More than one million Firefox 4 browser were downloaded during the first three hours of availability, a pace that would beat Microsoft's claim that 2.4 million copies of IE9 were downloaded the first day it was available last week. Read More Study: IT shops running way too many applications Nearly two-thirds of enterprises are supporting more or "far more" applications than they actually need to run their operations, according to a survey released Monday by HP and Capgemini. Read More WHITE PAPER: Diskeeper Maximize SAN Infrastructure Performance Although SAN has advantages in performance, reliability, availability and provisioning, it is affected by fragmentation and performance will decline unless it is addressed. Find out why this is true and how to best avoid SAN slowdowns. Read more HTML5 in the Web browser: Geolocation, JavaScript, and HTML5 extras Geolocation, Web Workers, History manipulation, iFrame sandboxes, and other HTML5 specs laying the groundwork for a safer and smarter Web Read More Facebook to acquire mobile application developer Snaptu Facebook plans to buy Snaptu, a four-year-old startup that develops versions of Web-based applications for cheaper mobile phones. Read More 7 hard-to-find IE9 add-ons Microsoft's just released IE9 offers many improvements, particularly in the area of security. On the other hand, none of the new features blew us away. One unfortunate thing about Internet Explorer is that it has never had the robust community of developers that you find with Firefox or Chrome. Nevertheless, we searched far and wide and did find seven useful add-ons for IE9. Read More WHITE PAPER: Coyote Point Advanced ADCs Take Over Where Load Balancers Leave Off Server load balancers offer fairly basic capabilities. This white paper details the advanced content switching, application acceleration and VMware integration capabilities that have data centers using Equalizer Application Delivery Controllers to take over where server load balancers left off. Read More Good-bye Google Gears, hello HTML5 Google's decision to transition its applications to Web standards offers insight into the HTML5 standardization process. Read More Yahoo's offers cookie opt-out button ahead of new EU law Yahoo has taken the lead in ensuring web users' privacy by introducing an opt-out button for cookies. Read More Android apps: 9 best, free social networking choices Share, save and savor all things social with these nine free Google Android apps, hand-picked by CIO.com's mobile maestro, Al Sacco. Read More
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