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	Lamest and most bizarre iPhone 5 rumors of 2011 The imagination is the petri dish of rumors, and nothing proved quite so imaginative, and entertaining, as 2011's rumors about the Apple iPhone 5. Read More WHITE PAPER: Avaya Avaya: Creating Fit for Purpose Data Center Networking Simplified and optimized service orchestration maximizes the return from a virtualized computing environment. Click to read the White Paper. In this Issue Google Future Tech: 10 Coolest Google R&D Projects Security roundup for week ending Nov. 18: Facebook, Norway oil-industry cyberattacks, and why virtualization and mobile devices mean security stress The real force behind the consumerization of IT Amazon smartphone coming in late 2012, analyst says Siri for Android -- sort of Another tale of fun with naming Wi-Fi nets World Tech Update, Nov. 17, 2011 AutoDesk Brings 3D Printing to Your Desktop WHITE PAPER: IBM A Smarter Approach to CRM With instant access to information, customers expect a purchase experience that matches the ease and speed of the information-gathering experience. Read this white paper, created in collaboration with Frost & Sullivan, to see how a customer relationship management (CRM) solution can help you respond on the customers' terms. Read Now Google Future Tech: 10 Coolest Google R&D Projects From space elevators, robots, to curing cancer: Google works to make future generations brighter, healthier, and more informed. Read More Security roundup for week ending Nov. 18: Facebook, Norway oil-industry cyberattacks, and why virtualization and mobile devices mean security stress Last week's flood of pornographic and violent images that hit Facebook was a coordinated spam attack that caught the attention of the world. But less remarked-upon and perhaps more sinister was what may have been a denial-of-service attack on many organizations' DNS servers, based on an exploit of the BIND 9 protocol, temporarily knocking their networks offline. The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), which maintains several software products essential for Internet infrastructure, released a patch that's something of an interim fix for this and said it would conduct an investigation. This kind of attack -- which incapacitates entire networks, as it did in this case -- is truly worrisome. Read More WHITE PAPER: Symantec SMB Disaster Prepardness Survey SMB Disaster Prepardness Survey which measured the attitudes and practices of small- and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) and their customers toward disaster preparedness. The survey findings show that though SMBs are at risk, they are still not making disaster preparedness a priority until they experience a disaster or data loss. View Now The real force behind the consumerization of IT You can blame the iPhone, Salesforce.com, and Facebook, but the truth is that business itself has driven the shift to employee-directed tech Read More Amazon smartphone coming in late 2012, analyst says Amazon is working on a smartphone to be released in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to a Citigroup analyst quoted by All Things D. 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. Siri for Android -- sort of Although I'm happy with my Samsung Galaxy S II Android phone, I've also got a bad case of Siri envy. I, too, would like a "personal assistant" that responds to natural language requests such as "Move my meeting from 3 to 4." And I'm sure I'm not alone, as the millions of Google search results for "Siri for Android" attest. Read More Another tale of fun with naming Wi-Fi nets A recent item here about the FBI allegedly using "FBI Van 1" as a Wi-FI SSID (almost certainly a joke) elicited this anecdote from David Henderson, technology coordinator for the Southwest Arkansas Education Cooperative: Read More World Tech Update, Nov. 17, 2011 World Tech Update, Nov. 17, 2011 Coming up on World Tech Update this week the Nook Tablet has a secret, Google Music graduates from beta, Samsung plans a modified Galaxy Tab for Germany, developers speed date with potential employers and more. From: networkworld Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 06:40 More in Science & Technology Read More AutoDesk Brings 3D Printing to Your Desktop AutoDesk has launched two impressive desktop apps that allow you to convert pictures into a digital file that can be printed as a plastic or metal model, and also convert a computer model into a three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle. Read More
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