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	7 hot storage startups to watch From storage for virtual machines to cheap all-flash hardware, here are seven movers and shakers in the network storage market today. Read More WEBCAST: Quest Software The Business Impact of a Poor User Experience Don't miss this informative webcast exploring the value of monitoring web application performance from the user perspective and gain access to a free whitepaper "Monitoring Web Application Performance from the User Perspective" at the end of the presentation! View Now! In this Issue Black Friday Survival Guide: 15 Apps to Find the Best Deals, Parking, and More FCC chief declares AT&T/T-Mobile merger a turkey, prepares it for slaughter 9 best practices for successful IT projects Cisco rival Brocade hitting stride in Ethernet Five reasons the U.S. tech lead is in danger The week in Android rumors: Facebook and Amazon phones coming Maybe 802.11ad Will Dominate After All Turkey day deal: Verizon to offer Samsung Illusion for free High-tech toys top of Black Friday shoppers' lists Microsoft slashes upgrade times for Windows 8 Best tech videos of the week: Banana phones, iPads-turned-snowboards & weighing $1M with your mind Hottest Tablets for Your Holiday Wishlist RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: EMC EMC Webcast Series:Transforming IT Management Tuesdays, November 15, 29 & December 13, 2011 8:00 am PT / 11:00 am ET / 16:00 GMT Join us for a series live webcasts to hear Jim Frey from Enterprise Management Associates and EMC explore innovative approaches to IT management to enable you to overcome the challenges of managing the dynamic nature of today's virtualized data center. Click to continue Black Friday Survival Guide: 15 Apps to Find the Best Deals, Parking, and More These 15 apps for Android, iOS, and Windows Phone 7 can help you save money and time on your post-Thanksgiving shopping frenzy. Read More FCC chief declares AT&T/T-Mobile merger a turkey, prepares it for slaughter FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski dropped an unwelcome Thanksgiving treat on AT&T's lap Tuesday by announcing he wants an administrative hearing on the carrier's plan to gobble up T-Mobile. Read More 9 best practices for successful IT projects Most often when the watchdogs at the Government Accountability Office are called into to check out an agency, process or project they are looking for something that has gone wrong. This week, however the group took a look at some government IT projects that have gone right and came up with some best practices other government agencies or in public corporations could emulate to achieve success in their own IT projects. Read More Cisco rival Brocade hitting stride in Ethernet Brocade's fortunes are rising in Ethernet switching. After a few initial hiccups following the Foundry acquisition, Brocade is seeing solid traction. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: mNext BYOD, Security, Policy. Prepare at Enterprise MobileNext Enterprise MobileNext can help. Whether you are banking on mobile technology to drive enterprise growth or trying to protect your organization against risk, we'll show you how to successfully deploy, secure and manage your mobile strategy. Sign up today to secure your complimentary registration for Enterprise MobileNext, Nov 30-Dec 1, SF, CA. Click to continue Five reasons the U.S. tech lead is in danger There is a worldwide race to build the next generation of supercomputers, but U.S. efforts have stalled. Read More The week in Android rumors: Facebook and Amazon phones coming Android rumors -- from Facebook to Amazon phones -- for the week ending Nov. 26. Read More Maybe 802.11ad Will Dominate After All Hey, I know 802.11ac is being positioned as the successor to and logical upgrade path for 802.11n. But let's stop and think about that for a moment – 60 GHz. may make a lot more sense. Read More Turkey day deal: Verizon to offer Samsung Illusion for free The Samsung Illusion smartphone, made from recycled materials, will be offered for free by Verizon Wireless with a two-year contract from Thursday through Monday in an online promotion. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sybase Scaling Out Query Performance with Sybase IQ 15.3 This paper is meant to provide a holistic perspective and introduce the technical concepts behind DQP in general and Sybase® IQ 15.3's DQP implementation through the PlexQ Distributed Query Platform. Read now. High-tech toys top of Black Friday shoppers' lists If the latest survey from Nielsen holds water, you can expect to see a lot of smartphones, tablets and other popular devices under the Christmas tree this year. Read More Microsoft slashes upgrade times for Windows 8 Microsoft claimed yesterday that users will be able to complete a Windows 8 upgrade much faster, in some cases in one-tenth the time it took similar-configured PCs to upgrade to Windows 7. Read More Best tech videos of the week: Banana phones, iPads-turned-snowboards & weighing $1M with your mind University of Tokyo researchers working in the area of "invoked computing" are turning everyday objects into communications and computing devices, such as converting bananas into phones and pizza boxes into laptop PCs. Read More Hottest Tablets for Your Holiday Wishlist Tablet PCs have become the must-have holiday gift. This year though, Apple's iPad is no longer the only tablet on the market with significant "wow factor." CIO.com's Al Sacco presents a list of the best tablets available for this 2011 holiday season. Read More
	SLIDESHOWS Top IT Turkeys of 2011 You know, it just doesn't feel like Thanksgiving to me unless I have mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie, and an iPad with the annual Network World Top IT Turkeys slideshow all arranged on the table for the feast. So let's sharpen our knives and get to the carving, because these turkeys are getting cold. GOODIES FROM MICROSOFT SUBNET Everyone who enters will win free training from Webucator. Grand prize: a SharePoint training class worth $2,375. All who enter will be awarded a self-paced class of their choosing. Enter here: http://www.networkworld.com/community/contests. Enter here. MOST-READ STORIES Interview with a pirate Apple prepping iPhone 5 with 4-inch screen in 2012 How to get your kid into an elite computer science program 11 eye-popping Black Friday tablet, laptop and ereader deals Top IT turkeys of 2011 The Dirty Dozen of security vulnerable smartphones MalCon: Malware hacking conference for twisted pen testers Hottest major on campus? Computer science Gunman barricades himself inside Air Force's GPS satellite control facility Windows 8 coming in 2012? 6 reasons why this could derail Windows 7 now
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