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	Sprint to fight AT&T's buyout of T-Mobile Sprint Nextel has vowed to fight AT&T's proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA, calling the deal a bid to create a new telecommunications duopoly. Read More ARTICLE: Research In Motion Register for BlackBerry World™ Wireless experts, training and networking. Get a 360-degree view at BlackBerry World, the conference for everything BlackBerry®. May 3-5 in Orlando, FL. Register now and save! www.blackberryworld.com In this Issue Android Apps: 9 Best, Free Social Networking Choices Ensuring mistrust -- companies not coming clean on problems UPDATE: EBay to buy GSI Commerce for $2.4B No Conspiracy Theory Needed: Tor Created for U.S. Gov't Spying Firefox 4 races out the gate, doubles share in 6 days New service puts Amex card on your iPhone or Android device Android is a cool example of benefits and challenges of developing with open source Cisco among most acquisitive in 2010 Video: Nintendo 3DS offers 3D gameplay without glasses RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Netezza Get Proof. Not Promises. Take the Netezza TestDrive. Your site. Your data. Our technology. Experience the high-performance and operational simplicity of the IBM Netezza data warehouse appliance firsthand. Our open Proof of Concept allows you to test a Netezza appliance with your most demanding, real-world analytics challenges. Learn 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 Ensuring mistrust -- companies not coming clean on problems It has been quite a month for organizations mishandling bad situations. In all of these cases, delays in reporting the problem made it worse, and in one case the decision to not be forthcoming about the actual risk may cost a company most of its customers. Read More UPDATE: EBay to buy GSI Commerce for $2.4B EBay has agreed to acquire for about US$2.4 billion GSI Commerce, whose suite of e-commerce and digital marketing tools and services are expected to boost eBay's online marketplace and PayPal e-payment businesses. Read More WHITE PAPER: PC Mall Server Virtualization: Branching Out of the Data Center A typical lean branch office has a significantly different server infrastructure than a data center, but despite the differences, multisite organizations have much to gain by deploying server virtualization in their branch offices. Read More No Conspiracy Theory Needed: Tor Created for U.S. Gov't Spying An interesting discussion started on tor-talk about Iran cracking down on "web dissident technology" before Cryptome posted, "TOR Made for USG Open Source Spying Says Maker." Read More Firefox 4 races out the gate, doubles share in 6 days Mozilla's Firefox 4's browser usage share grew over two-and-a-half times in the six days since its March 22 launch, a Web analytics company said today. Read More New service puts Amex card on your iPhone or Android device American Express now allows users to make online payments on iOS- and Android-based devices. 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 Android is a cool example of benefits and challenges of developing with open source As discussed in my last posting, Android is a particularly visible and broadly used project, and for that reason is drawing a fair amount of legal attention. There are aspects of the project that demonstrate the two-edged sword nature of open source: Developing with open source components provides a huge productivity gain, but companies need to be smart about it. Read More Cisco among most acquisitive in 2010 M&A activity in IT made a strong recovery in 2010, with more 1,900 deals totaling over $200 billion, according to market research firm IDC. Read More Video: Nintendo 3DS offers 3D gameplay without glasses Nintendo's portable glasses free 3D game console, the Nintendo 3DS went on sale in the US this weekend and droves of gamers braved the midnight cold for a launch event in New York City. 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 Paul Baran, Internet and packet switching pioneer, is mourned Microsoft scheme sniffs out unused wireless spectrum How Apple played hard to get and seduced the enterprise Apple holding out on iOS 5 until fall? Microsoft pays Nortel $7.5 million for IPv4 addresses AT&T-T-Mobile merger widely panned Nokia looks to make Windows Phone 7 hottest mobile OS Update Java and you may get annoying McAfee scanner too Is Skype a security risk that endangers your privacy? The RSA Hack FAQ
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