15 incredibly useful (and free) Microsoft tools for IT pros

	Google founders were talked out of ignoring user email | Cisco returns fire in war of words with HP
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	15 incredibly useful (and free) Microsoft tools for IT pros We've dug through the jungle that is Microsoft Downloads and found 15 of the best free tools you've probably never heard of. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Exceptional Application Experience To improve and ensure the performance and availability of business-critical web applications, organizations need to be able to see and understand the actual user experience. This paper examines the five essentials of application performance monitoring. Learn More In this Issue Google founders were talked out of ignoring user email Cisco returns fire in war of words with HP 10 Comic-Con 2011 panels that should grab every geek FBI Arrests 14 Hackers, But Anonymous Still Sailing & 'Seeking Shiny Booty' NBA star Wade goes after alleged Texas hackers Soaring iOS device sales reap record Apple revenues, profits Oracle girds VirtualBox for enterprise use VMware rolls out vSphere enhancements, new storage products 5 Cool Add Ons for Firefox 5 Which Browser Is The Most Secure? Lenovo unveils three 10.1-in. tablets, two running Android WHITE PAPER: Fujitsu Midmarket Blades Lead the Pack A rock solid base for Dynamic Infrastructures. For IT organizations the blade server environment, in combination with virtualization technologies on various levels, is the IT infrastructure of choice to achieve considerable consolidation benefits and ensuring flexible usage of server resources. Read now! Google founders were talked out of ignoring user email In Google's early days, founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin argued that answering email complaints would be a waste of time. Google's customer service remains a problem today. Read More Cisco returns fire in war of words with HP Well, that didn't take long. Cisco lobbed the latest volley in the war of words with HP over each company's switching portfolio. Read More 10 Comic-Con 2011 panels that should grab every geek With Comic-Con 2011 opening tonight, we figured more than a few of our regular readers might be interested in what this year's conference has in store for fans of sci-fi, fantasy and super heroes. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers, 2010 The market for ADCs is consolidating. However, innovation continues, especially among some select smaller players. Although there are clear leaders in the ADC market, enterprises should focus their buying decisions on a vendor's ability to support specific application requirements. Learn more! FBI Arrests 14 Hackers, But Anonymous Still Sailing & 'Seeking Shiny Booty' Technology, we love it; some of us can't live without it. But when it's used against us, we tend to hate it. One hacking crew was so fed up with "constant monitoring" that it injected 42 trojans into a German police GPS tracking system. LulzSec was resurrected to attack Murdoch; but a day later a huge FBI sweep in the U.S. has so far resulted in 14 people being arrested for allegedly being connected... Read More NBA star Wade goes after alleged Texas hackers His Miami Heat team lost the NBA finals to the Dallas Mavericks last month and now Dwyane Wade is headed back to a Texas court, but not to play basketball. Read More Soaring iOS device sales reap record Apple revenues, profits Apple continues to be planet's mobile powerhouse, announcing record quarterly revenues and profits that were fueled by still-rising sales pace for its mobile devices. The company sold just over 20 million iPhones and just over 9 million iPads in the quarter ending June 25. What's more, accessories for those iOS devices is, all by itself, a multi-billion business for Apple: $6 billion in the just-ended... Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Wide Area Application Architecture and Exchange 2010 Massive consolidation can lead to single points of failure which could interrupt service of critical applications. ESG believes that this risk should be addressed by building applications on a Wide Area Application Architecture (WAAA) foundation, spreading applications across multiple data centers. Learn More! Oracle girds VirtualBox for enterprise use Oracle has updated its open source VirtualBox virtualization software to make it more suitable for widescale enterprise deployments, the company announced Tuesday. Read More VMware rolls out vSphere enhancements, new storage products VMware announced enhancements last week to its VMware vSphere, new versions of vShield 5, vCenter Site Recovery Manager and vCloud Director and a new vSphere Storage Appliance. Read More 5 Cool Add Ons for Firefox 5 Are you a Firefox user? Do you want to make pesky ads disappear, manage your passwords better or view photos and videos in 3D? Bill Snyder of CIO.com highlights his favorite fun and free browser add ons that will work on both Firefox 5 and 4. Read More Which Browser Is The Most Secure? My friends at NSS Labs have done some great work over the last few years in testing firewalls, IPS, anti-malware and even browsers. They just released their latest results on browser security against socially-engineered malware. The report is for the European market and is available for free download here. The report looked at almost all of the leading browsers including IE 8 and 9, Firefox 4, Chrome... Read More Lenovo unveils three 10.1-in. tablets, two running Android Lenovo announced a family of three 10.1-in. tablet computers, including two that run Android 3.1 and one that runs Windows 7. Read More
	GOODIES FROM THE SUBNETS Up for grabs from the Subnets: Cisco Subnet: 15 copies of IPv6 for Enterprise Networks books. Enter here. SLIDESHOWS 20 of the weirdest, wackiest and stupidest sci/tech stories of 2011 (so far!) From IT geeks winning millions to Google mush-brain syndrome, 2011 is shaping up to be one wacky year. MOST-READ STORIES 10 technologies that will change the world in the next 10 years Cisco to cut 6,500 jobs in cost-cutting blitz How dare Mercedes, Google exec use Apple's 'magical'? Anonymous takes aim at Google+ in more ways than one Getting at the real truth about IPv6 Microsoft struggles to get Hyper-V drivers in Linux kernel 7 high-tech programs that want to pick your brain 10 hard truths IT must learn to accept Apple iOS still rules but Windows Phone 7 edges Android Apple could be next to ride on Android patent gravy train
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