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	Microsoft may bid again for Yahoo, report says Just three years after a failed attempt to buy Yahoo, Microsoft may be considering whether to try again, Reuters reported. Read More WHITE PAPER: Intel Deploy 10GbE 10GBASE-T with Dell & Intel Virtualization, server and application technologies are shifting bottlenecks from the data center to network I/O. This paper describes how to use 10GBase-T to broadly deploy 10 Gigabit Ethernet and help avoid I/O networking bottlenecks. Click to continue In this Issue CEO Steve Ballmer 'underpaid,' Microsoft says Microsoft .Net skills in demand, job site reports Can Hotmail revamp win back Gmail defectors? My memories of Steve Jobs From friends and fans, Steve Jobs tributes pour in Steve Jobs dies: Statements from Apple, family, Bill Gates, Michael Dell Microsoft zapping Zune music player Kinect may act as Xbox 360 viewing police with parental control body scanner Virtualization saves Microsoft almost $50 million yearly WHITE PAPER: Dell SAM FLAX Moves Lines Faster and Accelerates Delivery Aging systems, capacity limitations and backup times that exceeded 12 hours were hampering the success of high-end art and office supply retailer SAM FLAX. Learn how the new systems enabled them to reduce backup times by 75%, eliminate downtime during business hours, keep their online business open 24x7, and improve data security. Read now CEO Steve Ballmer 'underpaid,' Microsoft says Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer received compensation valued at $1.38 million this year, according to documents filed this week with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. His total package is up roughly 2% compared to 2010, when he received compensation valued at $1.35 million. Read More Microsoft .Net skills in demand, job site reports There's a shortage of .Net talent in every area of the U.S., says Dice.com. Tech professionals who regularly develop for the Microsoft framework earn about $83,000 a year, the IT jobs specialist reports. Read More Can Hotmail revamp win back Gmail defectors? Microsoft's Hotmail has been around 15 years, longer than even Google. Some of you may remember it was rendered "HoTMaiL." But it fell victim to a deadly combination of Google momentum that included Gmail and Hotmail becoming a haven for spammers, both for sending it and being able to bombard you with it. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel Converged Infrastructure in the Branch Office HP's Converged Infrastructure incorporates tools that make remote support and management efficient and effective. HP Insight Control, for example, helps reduce server deployment time from four hours to just 20 minutes, a 12-fold decrease in deployment time. Read now My memories of Steve Jobs I wasn't looking forward to this day, but after certain pictures, I knew it was coming. The world has lost one of the most significant figures of the last century. Everyone will write their tributes. This is mine. Read More From friends and fans, Steve Jobs tributes pour in As news of the death of Steve Jobs spread around the Internet, the tributes came pouring in Wednesday, crediting Apple's co-founder and chairman with -- more than once -- changing computing as we know it. Read More Steve Jobs dies: Statements from Apple, family, Bill Gates, Michael Dell Apple has announced that Steve Jobs died. His failing health was widely known -- and became even more obvious when Jobs resigned his position as CEO at Apple, leaving the job to Tim Cook. But the world is saddened by the lost of one of the tech industry's visionaries. Read More WHITE PAPER: Palo Alto Networks The Definitive Firewall Buyers Guide To cut through the noise and hype, check out the buyers guide from Palo Alto Networks – the definitive resource guide that talks about the key requirements, generating an RFP and performing formalized testing. Read now! Microsoft zapping Zune music player Microsoft, confirming one of the technology industry's worst kept secrets, is killing off its Zune music player about 5 years after its debut as a potential iPod killer. Read More Kinect may act as Xbox 360 viewing police with parental control body scanner Microsoft wants the Xbox 360 to be the one-stop tech shop for all your entertainment needs: gaming, TV, movies, music and DVDs. But wait, there's more! Microsoft is trying to patent a Kinect 3D body scanner to estimate age and function as an Xbox viewing police AKA an automated parent control. Read More Virtualization saves Microsoft almost $50 million yearly In the eat-your-own-dogfood category, Microsoft recently released a pair of documents that showcase its use of Hyper-V in its own data centers. Read More
	SLIDESHOWS 26 helpful open source network management tools Over the last decade or so, open source development has skyrocketed, and network management software has ridden that wave. Many frustrated IT administrators have turned to free tools to monitor, configure and map their networked devices. Here are 26 examples of open source network management software tools to help you do your job. GOODIES FROM MICROSOFT SUBNET We've got books on System Center and Microsoft training of the winner's choice from Webucator.. Enter here.Also: Please take our survey on certifications and your career MOST-READ STORIES Steve Jobs narrates "Crazy ones" think different ad in never aired clip Apple Chairman Steve Jobs dead at 56 Steve Jobs at Apple: In pictures Steve Jobs dies Huawei gunning for Cisco in the enterprise Steve Jobs: A timeline Can Hotmail revamp win back GMail defectors? Steve Jobs gave Barack Obama an iPad 2 "a little bit early" Steve Jobs and life in the shadow of death TechAmerica: U.S. IT industry adds jobs in 2011
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