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	35 years of 'Apple' Fools Day fun Today is Apple's 35th birthday, as the company was launched on April 1, 1976. Today is also April Fools' Day, of course. (This year's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries) Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Systems Inc. Move Fearlessly Among the Clouds. It's open, yet secure. Agile, yet efficient. Virtual, yet real. It builds on your current network, combining servers, networking, storage and virtualization. So you can deploy applications in minutes, not weeks. Move among the clouds. Grow your business. And turn silos into new ways of working together. Introducing the Cisco Data Center Business Advantage. In this Issue April Fools Day 2011: The hilarious, the not so funny and the even unfunnier Gmail Tips: 10 Features to Try Now Tighter security available to .com sites, but upgrades required Verizon 100G plans good for Juniper, and maybe Cisco IBM: Mobile phone and cloud security issues can bite unwary IT departments IE9 tops Firefox 4, if you just ignore all those Windows XP users IT "geek squad" wins $319 million Mega Millions lottery Bad assumptions lead to false claim about Samsung laptops SCADA security arms race underway For women, Facebook can turn friends into frenemies WHITE PAPER: Compellent VMware Seven storage features every VM needs The key to maximizing your VMware environment is to create a storage environment as flexible as your virtual server environment. Learn how Fluid Data storage from Compellent maximizes VM Storage performance and efficiency, while being a cost-effective solution. Learn more. April Fools Day 2011: The hilarious, the not so funny and the even unfunnier Don't get fooled by the flood of April Fools Day pranks today in the technology sphere and beyond. Here's a roundup, which I'll update throughout the day. Seriously. Hootsuite Read More Gmail Tips: 10 Features to Try Now How e-mail savvy are you? We've sifted through Gmail's many customization features, from remote sign-out to keyboard shortcuts, to find the best time and aggravation savers. Read More Tighter security available to .com sites, but upgrades required VeriSign has added an extra layer of security to the Internet's .com domain, but e-retailers, banks and other Web site operators will need to upgrade their DNS hardware, software or services to take advantage of .com's new cryptographic features. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Security and Compliance in the Cloud Discover how to handle today's biggest challenges: coordinating user credentials and identities, controlling unmanaged user devices; and providing security when the datacenter,network and server assets exist in the Cloud. Compliments of Citrix. Read now! Verizon 100G plans good for Juniper, and maybe Cisco This week, Verizon announced it is turning up 100G Ethernet routes in the US at the end of the second quarter using Juniper routers and Ciena optical transport gear. The routes will be Chicago to New York, Sacramento to Los Angeles, and Minneapolis to Kansas City. Read More IBM: Mobile phone and cloud security issues can bite unwary IT departments IBM says IT staff need to pay extra attention to use of mobile devices and cloud infrastructure on business networks because both technologies are still young, and security can be sketchy. Read More IE9 tops Firefox 4, if you just ignore all those Windows XP users Microsoft hyped the release of Internet Explorer 9 as much as it could, but it wasn't enoiugh to stop the juggernaut of Firefox 4. Within days, it was clear Mozilla won the war to get the most user downloads. But Microsoft complained that the comparison wasn't really fair and it has a point. IE9 is only for Windows 7 (well, Vista too), while Firefox works on any operating system whether it's Windows,... Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle The New Economics of Midsize Enterprise Computing Oracle's Sun systems based on the Intel® Xeon®processor 5500 series provide that platform, combining the most-advanced processors available today with intelligent management software that significantly lowers total cost of ownership compared with previous generations of server platforms. Read more! IT "geek squad" wins $319 million Mega Millions lottery Think they'll keep their day jobs? Seven IT workers from the state of New York will split last week's $319 million Mega Million lottery winnings. Reports say the self-described "geek squad," which ranges in age from 29 to 63 years old will be taking one time payments of $19.1 million each - not a bad days work in the data center. More news: The weirdest, wackiest and stupidest sci/tech stories... Read More Bad assumptions lead to false claim about Samsung laptops Bad assumptions resulted in what turned out to be false allegations published by Network World that Samsung laptops came loaded with a key logger. Read More SCADA security arms race underway Following Stuxnet, security researchers are now taking a closer look at the software that controls industrial systems. Read More For women, Facebook can turn friends into frenemies A whopping 85% of women using Facebook say friends on the site annoy them, according to a survey by Eversave, a Groupon-like company that offers users local deals. 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 Tech's youngest billionaires The nine youngest billionaires in technology run the gamut from a social networking entrepreneur to the creator of the online coupon company, groupon.com. Think you know them all? Let's find out. No joy for would-be baby shakers and drunk drivers In this slideshow we'll take a look at some of the most notorious applications that were banned or removed from the big-name app stores. MOST-READ STORIES Samsung installs keylogger on its laptop computers Samsung responds to installation of keylogger on its laptops FBI wants public help solving encrypted notes Google building fiber network in Sprint's backyard Microsoft to raise license price, add software rights FTC puts Google on 20 years of 'privacy probation' Cisco data center revamp cuts across switches, servers, storage Hacker group defends exposing McAfee website vulnerabilities Dell draws derision for dissing iPad Microsoft researchers tout programmable prototype switch
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