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	The horror of blue LEDs! Modern electronic products are amazing. If you cast your mind back to when you were young (some of us need more casting than others), the fact that any of these things exist at all is just short of miraculous. But along with this cornucopia of technical delights come some serious irritations. For example: Blue LEDs. Read More WEBCAST: Riverbed Tips to Investigate App Performance Issues Check out this video as "Jack," the network manager, deals with a barrage of slow network complaints from users throughout the company. See how Riverbed Cascade collects flow records from routers, switches and other devices and correlates them with packet inspection to get full application identification at Layer 7. Learn more! In this Issue How dare Mercedes, Google exec use Apple's 'magical'? Vista's Incredible Vanishing Act Words of Wisdom from Willam Shatner at Cisco Live A tablet is not a PC, or why Microsoft's Windows 8 strategy is puzzling the pundits The Next Wi-Fi: Is Your 802.11n Installation Already Obsolete? 3 Things I Love (and don't) about Spotify HP fires back at Cisco's Sup 2T Did Harvard Researchers Breach Students' Privacy? "The Trials of the Hogwarts IT Director" re-presented in honor of the last Harry Potter movie WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Adding Visibility to WAN Optimization Too often network professionals find themselves stuck in reaction mode, which can prevent them for strategically planning for positive, long-term benefits. Read this report to learn some best practices for understanding and improving the visibility and performance of mission-critical, networked applications. Read now! How dare Mercedes, Google exec use Apple's 'magical'? We know Apple has claimed possession of the lowercase letter "i" and is fearsomely combative toward anyone with the audacity to name anything iProduct. Same goes for the word "app" followed by the word "store." We also know that Apple considers its own products "magical;" so "magical," in fact, that the word is used over and over and over again in its advertisements and press releases. Read More Vista's Incredible Vanishing Act Steve Ballmer pulled off a great trick the other day. He made Windows Vista completely vanish. Well, he'd like to, but he needs your help to make it go away like the bad idea it was. Read More Words of Wisdom from Willam Shatner at Cisco Live The final keynote at Cisco Live held in Las Vegas this week was an interview of William Shatner conducted by Cisco senior VP and (and conference MC) Carlos Dominguez. Shatner was hilarious. He was also surprisingly sage. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Load Balancing 101: Firewall Sandwiches How to make a ''firewall sandwich''. Read now. Learn More! A tablet is not a PC, or why Microsoft's Windows 8 strategy is puzzling the pundits Microsoft's mobile chief Andy Lees turned a few heads this week by declaring that "we view a tablet as a sort of PC." Lees went on to say that a tablet should do "all of the things you would expect from a PC." Read More The Next Wi-Fi: Is Your 802.11n Installation Already Obsolete? The recent announcement from the Wireless Gigabit (WiGig) Alliance that their 1.1 spec is done and that (by implication) production can't be far off came as little surprise to industry observers. Read More 3 Things I Love (and don't) about Spotify Forget about the gold rush of trying to get a Google+ invite – that's so last week. Read More WEBCAST: F5 Networks Architect the Network This is a public sector focus webinar showing how to Architect the Network for a Highly Available SharePoint 2010 Deployment. Learn more! HP fires back at Cisco's Sup 2T Cisco's announcement of the Supervisor 2T for the Catalyst 6500 switch, and its positioning vis a vis HP's A9508, caught the attention of HP. Read More Did Harvard Researchers Breach Students' Privacy? When Harvard researchers aggregated Facebook data and supposedly anonymized it, then no one should have been able to identify those users. That was not the case, however, and the "privacy meltdown" caught Harvard researchers in a net of ethical turmoil. Read More "The Trials of the Hogwarts IT Director" re-presented in honor of the last Harry Potter movie The last Harry Potter movie is opening this week, to spectacular reviews as collected at RottenTomatoes. Read More
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