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Cisco injects new life into Catalyst 6500 switch
Cisco Tuesday took dead aim at HP and its own shrinking profit margins by introducing a major refresh to its venerable Catalyst 6500 Ethernet switching platform. Read More


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Ensuring High Availability for Client Access
F5's integrated application delivery solutions for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 provide the required hardware load balancing for CAS servers. Learn More!

The 8 Unfriendliest Cities for Teleworking
You would think in this day and age all businesses would be doing everything possible to support employees working at home or on the road. But a surprising number of companies in major American cities are still behind the teleworking times, according to a recent Microsoft survey of 4,500 information workers. Here are eight cities that finished at the low end of the teleworker totem pole. Read More

Cisco will be leaner, faster, more attentive, Chambers pledges
Cisco CEO John Chambers briefly addressed the company's current challenges, restructuring and imminent layoffs during his keynote address at this week's Cisco Live customer conference. Read More

What do you love? ... Just ask and Google will provide more
Google has a new site - What Do You Love? - that lets you type any answer to that question into a search box and receive in return a page with a dozen neatly organized piles of information, images and video about your love interest generated by Google's extended lineup of applications. (2011's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries) From a Google blog post: A while back, a few of us wanted to make a little... Read More


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Fired IT workers file lawsuit claiming H-1B workers replaced them
Eighteen IT workers in California have filed a lawsuit against their former employer claiming they were replaced by H-1B workers from India and then laid off in violation of the state's anti-discrimination laws. Read More

Google Ventures pushed iOS over Android
Until this year, Google Ventures partner Rich Miner recommended to mobile application startups funded by his company that they start out by developing for Apple's iOS rather than Android. Read More

Mac security firm ships first-ever iPhone malware scanner
French security firm Intego, which is known for its Mac OS X antivirus software, today released the first malware-scanning app for the iPhone and iPad. Read More


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Citrix moves into the cloud with Cloud.com purchase
Jumping into the quickly growing market of cloud software providers, virtualization software provider Citrix has purchased open-source cloud software provider Cloud.com, the companies announced Tuesday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Read More

RIM: 1 billion app downloads down, 14 billion to go to catch Apple
Research in Motion says its 2-year-old BlackBerry App World has crossed the 1 billion app download mark and that a beta version of the app store upgrade is on the way. Read More

Red Hat speeds JBoss 7 to market
Wasting little time since the last release of its flagship application server, Red Hat has launched the first community trial version for the next generation of JBoss, version 7.0, the company announced Tuesday. Read More

FCC proposes rules to combat phone cramming
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has proposed new rules designed to make it more difficult for telephone carriers and other companies to insert mystery fees onto customers' phone bills. Read More

The Latest Security Tool for Your Arsenal: Whitelisting
Attacks at RSA, Sony and others point to the need to get tough with what you allow on your network. Whitelisting requires more maintenance from IT, but it is the best way to fortify your network and protect your data. Read More



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10 HP TouchPad apps for newbies
HP took the wraps off its shiny new webOS-based tablet - the TouchPad - on July 1. And like the Apple iPad, the Motorola Xoom and the BlackBerry PlayBook, this tablet debuts with a pack of applications customized for the tablet form factor.

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