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	Purdue's hefty switch discounts 'unusual,' Cisco says The steep discounts that Purdue University recently received on Cisco's Nexus 7000 switches are 'unusual' and based on factors that go beyond the purchase alone, Cisco says. Read More WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc. Taming the Cloud This whitepaper explores the components of the cloud computing ecosystem, demonstrates how Akamai is delivering services for cloud optimization, and looks forward into the evolution of this dynamic and growing market. Read now In this Issue The epic unpopularity of Windows smartphones Google Apps vs. Microsoft Office 365 Spec wars: The new BlackBerrys face the iPhone 4 and the Galaxy II S Heartland unveils mobile-payment device for Android Remote Workers: An Easy Target for APTs Gartner: Smartphones Boom, Overall Mobile Sales Drop Augmented Reality Research: 'Offline to Online Recognition' Almost Half of all PCs Will be Running Windows 7 by Year-end Apple Gets Serious About iPad Security, Is It Enough? WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks DNSSEC: Secure Your Customers, Boost Your Brand Deploying DNSSEC has been a challenging proposition—but it can be a rewarding one, both for your customers' security and for building their trust in your organization and the integrity of its Internet infrastructure. Learn More Today! The epic unpopularity of Windows smartphones A smartphone platform you may never have heard of is more popular than Windows Phone 7. Read More Google Apps vs. Microsoft Office 365 Microsoft and Google agree that hosted productivity suites offer unique benefits for evolving business needs. Of course the two behemoths traveled very different paths to reach this conclusion, and bring different strengths to their respective offerings. Which one is right you? Read both sides and decide for yourself. Read More Spec wars: The new BlackBerrys face the iPhone 4 and the Galaxy II S Generation 7 RIM smartphones promise significantly better hardware, so we compare them to the kings of the mobile hill. Read More WEBCAST: CA Technologies Managing Service Quality Across the Infrastructure With zero tolerance for latency of web applications and a near total dependence on technology in the workplace as the norm, an unpredictable and unreliable infrastructure is too big a risk for today's speed of business. View Now Heartland unveils mobile-payment device for Android Heartland Payment Systems today unveiled a mobile-payment device for merchants called "Mobuyle" that works with any Android phone or tablet to handle customer card payments. Read More Remote Workers: An Easy Target for APTs After Black Hat, DefCon, and the recent McAfee report, you are probably tired of all of the hype around APTs. I agree that the industry has co-opted and obfuscated but these "low-and-slow" attacks are something we need to understand and address before more of our private information and intellectual property flies out the IP-connected door. Read More Gartner: Smartphones Boom, Overall Mobile Sales Drop Mobile phone sales floundered during the second quarter, in the wake of the earthquake in Japan. But smartphone sales continued to grow, as Android extended its lead in the operating system race, according to market research company Gartner. Read More WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc. Akamai Cloud Optimization for Amazon EC2™ The emergence of public cloud platforms and services has IT organizations thinking about which applications they want to keep in-house and which they can build within the cloud. Read more Augmented Reality Research: 'Offline to Online Recognition' At the Black Hat security conference, Carnegie Mellon University researchers Alessandro Acquisti, Ralph Gross and Fred Stutzman presented "Faces of Facebook: Privacy in the Age of Augmented Reality" [PDF]. During their research, they took photos of students with a web cam and then used facial recognition software to compare the photos with Facebook to get students' names. Read More Almost Half of all PCs Will be Running Windows 7 by Year-end Microsoft appears to be getting its wish in terms of seeing Windows XP get put out to pasture. IT research firm Gartner predicts that Windows 7 will become the leading operating system worldwide by the end of this year, with 42 percent of all PCs running the new operating system. Read More Apple Gets Serious About iPad Security, Is It Enough? Can you send encrypted email from your iPad? Not yet. As iPads pour into the enterprise, CIOs hope Apple can help solve this and other security problems. Read More
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