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	Is your IT support making you vulnerable to hackers? Data breaches are more prevalent and more costly than ever. Smarter technologies seem to breed smarter hackers, making it difficult for IT to keep up. But sometimes IT unwittingly helps the bad guys by improperly using core tools, such as remote support mechanisms. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CIO 100 Empower Yourself at CIO 100 Bestselling Author and Executive Career Coach, Marshall Goldsmith, will share 11 specific actions that CIOs can take to bolster their careers and inspire their teams, fostering more positive workplace behavior, attitudes and greater productivity in the process. Join us August 14-16, 2011 - Register today! In this Issue Cisco sought to paint whistleblower as 'sinister' Best of Google Labs: A Retrospective iPhone 5 rumor roll-up for the week ending July 22 AT&T still besting Verizon in iPhone activations Swartz, guilty as charged? Linux 3.0 a steady step forward Toyota system automatically stops car before it hits a pedestrian Google scrambles to accelerate Google+ business profiles Microsoft boasts record revenue but falls further behind Apple 7 Solid Reasons to Keep the Faith in RIM, BlackBerry IT Job Search Bible WHITE PAPER: Shoretel Reduce Cellular Spend With ShoreTel Mobility Organizations continue to spend valuable budget on international and long distance calls. This white paper shows how a multi-location organization can reduce cellular spend by leveraging current Wi-Fi and dual-mode smartphone deployments, and offloading expensive minutes from cellular networks to virtually free WLAN networks. Read now! Cisco sought to paint whistleblower as 'sinister' The storm surrounding Cisco and the 2010 arrest of a company whistleblower is darkening. New reports describing and showing the circumstances of the whistleblower's arrest and extradition proceedings have surfaced and it paints an unflattering portrait of Cisco's prosecutorial team. Read More Best of Google Labs: A Retrospective As Google shuts down Google Labs, we look back at the many innovations the effort brought us, including Gmail, Google Goggles, Google Earth and Google Maps, among others. Read More iPhone 5 rumor roll-up for the week ending July 22 Perhaps it's the heat, but this week's crop of iOSsphere rumors is pretty lackluster. Read More WHITE PAPER: ADTRAN Unified Communications: Getting the Green Light In these articles, Network World and its sister IDG Enterprise publications explore the rising importance of UC within the enterprise and provide advice on how to create a working strategy. Learn more AT&T still besting Verizon in iPhone activations If Verizon thought it could swoop in and take AT&T's iPhone market share overnight, it thought wrong. Read More Swartz, guilty as charged? Aaron Swartz, founder of progressive action group Demand Progress, has been a bad boy, but how bad? Read More Linux 3.0 a steady step forward Bucking standard conventions in software versioning, Linux Torvalds has designated the new release of the Linux operating system kernel, posted Friday, as version 3.0, even while maintaining that the release is only a routine update. Read More WHITE PAPER: Raritan Data Center Transformations Build outs, consolidations and acquisitions are large-scale projects that can be very disruptive and require careful planning and implementation to maintain operations. This white paper examines the process and what's required to meet IT goals and objectives and maintain business continuity. Read now! Toyota system automatically stops car before it hits a pedestrian With collision-avoidance systems becoming more advanced and widely used, Toyota has taken the technology up another level by fashioning a system that can detect not only other vehicles but human beings in the roadway. And it will stop the car if the driver doesn't. Read More Google scrambles to accelerate Google+ business profiles Demand for Google+ business profiles has reached white-hot intensity, prompting Google+ leader Vic Gundotra to acknowledge the company has been caught off guard, but pledging a fix is being fast-tracked. Read More Microsoft boasts record revenue but falls further behind Apple On the strength of Microsoft Office and Windows Server sales, Microsoft today reported "record [quarterly] revenue of $17.37 billion" and profits of about $6 billion, but the gap between Microsoft and Apple continued to grow in Apple's favor. Read More 7 Solid Reasons to Keep the Faith in RIM, BlackBerry It seems like nobody has anything good to say about BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) these days. Read More IT Job Search Bible Check out CIO.com's complete guide to finding an IT job in good times and bad, working with recruiters, using social networking websites in your job hunt, avoiding common job search mistakes, and much more. Use our expert advice, tips and analysis to help you find your next great job. 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 Google: Sun offered to license Java for $100 million Rackspace's cloud going all OpenStack Toyota system automatically stops car before it hits a pedestrian 7 Solid Reasons to Keep the Faith in RIM, BlackBerry Anonymous, LulzSec vow to hack on Alcatel-Lucent confirms Enterprise business may be sold Does this video depict a future Google+ spamageddon? Still Awesome After All These Years: Eight Excellent Free Downloads 10 technologies that will change the world in the next 10 years Google Labs' greatest non-hits
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