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	Skype adds new features to Facebook video calling Facebook, Skype, and Microsoft (which now owns Skype) have been working together again to offer Facebook-to-Facebook calls from within Skype. In November 2010, Facebook launched new features that brought together users chats, texts, emails and messages all in one place. And in July this year by working with Skype, Facebook introduced video calling and other improvements to its chat services. The latest calling features were included in Skype's 5.4 Beta for Mac and 5.7 Beta for Windows. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Network World What's the right route to IPv6? Attend The Critical Path to IPv6 and start creating your IPv6 roadmap to avoid costly pitfalls. At this exclusive one-day event, you'll learn from IPv6 experts--including ARIN CEO John Curran--sharing their strategies and best practices for ensuring a smooth transition to the new IP environment. Complimentary admission. Register today. Learn more In this Issue Cisco reorgs again, folds net management into new cloud group Maybe 802.11ad Will Dominate After All Nine successful, effective IT project tips HD Voice makes steady progress in mobile networks 11 eye-popping Black Friday tablet, laptop and ereader deals WHITE PAPER: FireEye The new threat landscape Advanced Malware Exposed is a 20+ page ebook providing a broad overview on the major aspects of advanced malware, its underpinnings, its impact on modern business practices, and briefly suggests possible solutions. Read now! Cisco reorgs again, folds net management into new cloud group Even though it completed the bulk of a major restructuring earlier this year, Cisco continues to tweak its internal organizational structure, combining its network management group into a larger cloud and systems management technology group, according to an internal Cisco memo. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Consolidation without Compromise Pay more to get less consolidation? The Iron Age is over. Shift to Citrix NetScaler. 2x consolidation. For less. Get Consolidation Without Compromise now. Read more Maybe 802.11ad Will Dominate After All My last posting on the subject of 60 GHz. WLANs and 802.11ad was a bit cautionary in nature. Following a briefing with the folks at the Wireless Gigabit Alliance (WiGig), I was surprised that I heard a lot about wireless docking, video streaming, and applications essentially WPAN in nature, but relatively little about the 802.11ad WLAN opportunity. I think all constituencies concerned with 60 GHz.... Read More WHITE PAPER: AMD Building the Intelligent Cloud-Ready Data Center For CIOs today, the challenges are many and often difficult. They must support more revenue generating projects without having to expand, rebuild or move their data centers. Many are turning to virtualization to consolidate resources and make this happen. Learn More! Nine successful, effective IT project tips 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... Read More HD Voice makes steady progress in mobile networks This year the number of operators that have implemented HD Voice has almost tripled, and more phones are also compatible with the technology, according to a report by industry organization GSA (Global mobile Suppliers Association). Read More 11 eye-popping Black Friday tablet, laptop and ereader deals Best Buy, Target and others practically giving away iPads, PlayBooks, Kindles and more Read More
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