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	Wireless carriers delay paying Japan's text-to-give donations As the tragedy of the Japanese earthquake-tsunami-nuclear-meltdown continues to unfold, Americans want to help. We learned from the Haiti disaster that the easiest thing to do is to text a donation to our favorite relief organization. But, unlike Haiti, did you know that a text donation will take about three months to get to the relief agency? Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap Denver IT Roadmap Denver - April 28, 2011 IT Roadmap Denver returns April 28 to the Colorado Convention Center! Through executive keynotes, ROI workshops, technical tutorials, strategy sessions, networking opportunities and a private IT expo, attendees will gain insights into the latest IT issues, trends, challenges and solutions from top IT analysts and practitioners. Register now to attend! In this Issue March mobile madness: The most amazing videos from CTIA OpenFlow Seeks To Change The Networking World iPhone, Android, Windows and Linux: Microsoft now manages them all Smartphone OS shootout: Android vs. iOS vs. Windows Phone HP 'shocked' by Oracle's Itanium decision CTIA: Latest Windows Phone 7 firmware available on two new phones Japan telecom networks won't be fully restored for months Panasonic, NEC reopen some plants halted after Japan quake LinkedIn hits 100M users worldwide 7 communication mistakes CSOs still make No tax holiday for Cisco and other multinationals? WEBCAST: IBM How much network downtime can your business tolerate? 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 March mobile madness: The most amazing videos from CTIA The CTIA Wireless conference always showcases the latest and most innovative products in mobile and wireless, and this year's show is no exception. Check out these videos from the show floor that will make your jaw drop. Read More OpenFlow Seeks To Change The Networking World A new foundation was announced yesterday to foster a new approach to networking. The founding members of the foundation are: Deutsche Telekom, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Verizon, and Yahoo. Besides these tech nobodies, here are some of the other companies that joined the foundation: Cisco, Brocade, Juniper Networks, HP, Broadcom, Ciena, Riverbed Technology, Force10, Citrix, Dell, Ericsson, IBM, Marvell, NEC, Netgear, NTT and VMware. The foundation is the Open Networking Foundation. The aim of the foundation is to promote Software Defined Networking (SDN) and the open source standard they are pushing is called OpenFlow. Read More iPhone, Android, Windows and Linux: Microsoft now manages them all Steve Ballmer and crew aren't going to miss a moneymaking opportunity, even if that means managing iPhones, iPads, Androids and, yes, even Linux computers. 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! Smartphone OS shootout: Android vs. iOS vs. Windows Phone Smartphone operating systems compared side-by-side. Read More HP 'shocked' by Oracle's Itanium decision HP executives are critical of Oracle's decision to stop supporting its database and ERP products that run on Itanium processor-based systems. Read More CTIA: Latest Windows Phone 7 firmware available on two new phones Two "new" Windows Phone 7 handsets, for AT&T and Sprint, are on display this week at the CTIA conference in Orlando. Both are arriving with the latest version of the Microsoft mobile operating systems, which includes new features such as copying/pasting text. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Minimize the Risk of Negative Business Impacts A lack of centralized visibility within the IT infrastructure means a single problem spawns multiple alarms to several teams and the underlying root cause may go undetected for too long. CA technologies enable IT to better manage quality of service and transform into a more proactive organization. Learn More Japan telecom networks won't be fully restored for months Damaged caused to telecommunications networks in Japan by the March 11 earthquake will take months to fully repair. Read More Panasonic, NEC reopen some plants halted after Japan quake Panasonic and NEC restarted production on Wednesday at some factories that had been halted after a major earthquake hit eastern Japan on March 11. Read More LinkedIn hits 100M users worldwide LinkedIn this week announced that its membership list passed the 100 million mark as it continues working toward an initial public offering. Read More 7 communication mistakes CSOs still make For many years, we heard security professionals lament the way they are perceived. Terms such as "the place where good ideas go to die" and "the department of no" weren't uncommon just a few years ago when referring to the security function. Read More No tax holiday for Cisco and other multinationals? Multinational corporations lobbying for a "tax holiday" on repatriating overseas profits were hit with resistance this week when a top U.S. tax official said it would impede overall tax reform. 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 U.S. Patent Office finds Google Doodle dandy Linux Torvalds: Android copyright violation claim is "bogus" Google funds tools to expose gov't attempts to shut down 'Net First look at Firefox 4 Firefox 4 performance lags behind Chrome 10 and IE 9 Industry split on data center network standards On the company dime: Rogue game server admins tell all Want to get ahead in IT? Make yourself uncomfortable Does RSA SecurID have a U.S. gov't-authorized back door? Cell phones are 'Stalin's dream,' says free software movement founder
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