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	Can you keep your IT staff in 2012? IT staff retention is shaping up to be one of the biggest challenges facing CIOs in 2012. Read More WHITE PAPER: McAfee Combating the Insider Risk to Data - McAfee Solution Brief Protecting your organization against internal data threats is not just about protecting the sensitive information you know could put your company at risk if exposed. It's also about discovering those hidden data sources that you don't even know exist and have not secured. Learn More In this Issue Best of Google 2011: Gags, Easter Eggs, Pranks, and Games The wacky USB gadgets of 2011 Plano, Texas schools see benefits from district-wide Wi-Fi LinkedIn open sources search engine Siri and Santa Claus take center stage in new Apple iPhone ad YEAR END 2011: Microsoft Cloud Development Documentation Insanity WHITE PAPER: NetIQ First Industy-Wide BSM Maturity Benchmark Study This first-of-its-kind benchmark study reporting the IT and Business maturity illustrating the business service management imperative today. The survey offers insight into the current and future state of the Business Service Management imperative across global organizations. Learn More Best of Google 2011: Gags, Easter Eggs, Pranks, and Games Google spent a goodly amount of time this year playing tricks on readers and amusing them with gags, Easter eggs, fake videos and Web pages, and, of course, the famous interactive Doodles. Read More The wacky USB gadgets of 2011 These silly gadgets could serve as stocking stuffers for your favorite geek -- or for yourself. 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. Plano, Texas schools see benefits from district-wide Wi-Fi At the Plano Independent School District in Texas, 82 schools and office campuses are equipped with Wi-Fi offering private channels for teachers and staff and a public channel for students. Read More LinkedIn open sources search engine Joining its fellow social-networking companies in the public release of internal code, LinkedIn has opened sourced software obtained in October with its acquisition of the IndexTank search-engine software provider. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Managing Cloud Services from Request to Retirement This lifecycle is tailored to the needs of the business, with both the flexibility to deliver the full required software stacks and the management rigor to ensure the operational integrity of the cloud. Learn More! Siri and Santa Claus take center stage in new Apple iPhone ad Apple this past weekend rolled out a new holiday-themed iPhone 4S ad highlighting, what else, Siri and Santa Claus. Keeping in line with previous Siri ads, the commercial tends not to focus on a user's face but rather on the feature itself being used. Read More YEAR END 2011: Microsoft Software giant Microsoft struggled to stay competitive for much of 2011, with big releases set for 2012. Read More Cloud Development Documentation Insanity Developing for the cloud -- particularly in customer-facing systems -- really is different. Time to change one "rule" of development. Read More
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