Unified communications and cloud-based services

	AT&T's $39B T-Mobile buyout raises regulatory, competitive and customer service questions | 'Rogue' game server admins defend hosting on company gear
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	Unified communications and cloud-based services We've been discussing a pair of our State-of-the-Market Reports, and today we're moving from the more general communications trends - unified communications and cloud-based services. In particular, we'll be examining and excerpting how these two complementary trends can be of significant advantage when considered together. Read More WHITE PAPER: Coyote Point Equalizer approved for Load Balancing Coyote Point is one of the select manufacturers on Microsoft's approved vendor listing for load balancing MS Exchange Server 2010. See this and other deployment guides that show how easy it is to add performance and availability to the Microsoft applications you rely on every day. Read More In this Issue AT&T's $39B T-Mobile buyout raises regulatory, competitive and customer service questions 'Rogue' game server admins defend hosting on company gear Study: Virtual medicine as effective as physical doc visits Trade group sets off debate over spectrum 'hoarding' Verisign signs on for upcoming 24-hour IPv6 trial 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 AT&T's $39B T-Mobile buyout raises regulatory, competitive and customer service questions AT&T's surprise buyout of T-Mobile USA for $39 billion has industry watchers scrambling to figure out what the deal means for subscribers, the U.S. cellular industry and investors. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive SLA Compliance: Wireless Fidelity Achieved Aerohive delivers the next level in network visibility and reactive response with a new infrastructure-side performance monitoring and response system: SLA Compliance. Read now! 'Rogue' game server admins defend hosting on company gear They say it's a perk and harmless ... as long as they're carefulBack in January, I wrote about a group of Scandinavian gamers who hijacked a New Hampshire medical center's server and bandwidth to host their "Call of Duty: Black Ops" sessions, which resulted in some 230,000 patients having their personal information put at risk. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks Magic Quadrant for Wireless LAN Infrastructure Gartner positions Aruba Networks as a Leader in the new 2011 Magic Quadrant for Wireless LAN Infrastructure. The Magic Quadrant evaluates vendors based on the completeness of their vision and ability to execute. Read now! Study: Virtual medicine as effective as physical doc visits A study involving the treatment of 200 HIV patients via remote control systems over the Internet has showed that over a five-year period the medical results were as satisfactory as those obtained in a visit to the hospital. Read More Trade group sets off debate over spectrum 'hoarding' A TV trade group questions why its members should give up additional spectrum for mobile broadband. Read More Verisign signs on for upcoming 24-hour IPv6 trial Verisign is the latest major Internet player to sign up for World IPv6 Day, a 24-hour trial of the next-generation Internet Protocol that is scheduled for June 8. 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 Perks drive up pay for tech CEOs Many tech vendors have shied away from extravagant perks, but there are still plenty worth highlighting. Like a $1.5 million tab for home security. Or how about the $36,619 one company paid to reimburse its CEO for the taxes he had to pay on the $106,589 he gained by using company aircraft for personal flights? Read on to find out which tech CEOs enjoyed the priciest perks in 2010 and which ones went to work perk-free. First look at Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 Microsoft has a real competitor once again with IE9, released at midnight Monday night on Windows 7 and Vista after several months of beta testing. The focus is on speed, privacy and simplicity, with a stripped-down interface, tracking protection, pinned sites, jump lists and enhanced support for HTML5. MOST-READ STORIES AT&T's $39 billion T-Mobile buyout raises questions Phone maker publicly says 'No' to WP7 Did hackers nab RSA SecurID's secret sauce? Cisco sets the bar for mobile security The RSA hack FAQ Cell phones are 'Stalin's dream' AT&T's takeover of T-Mobile creates largest U.S. carrier Four steps to take if you depend on RSA SecurID tokens RSA's SecurID breach: What should you do? On the company dime: Rogue game server admins tell all
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