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	Google Android Market tops 10 billion downloads Google today said its Android Marketplace surpassed 10 billion app downloads -- a growth rate of 1 billion app downloads per month. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Get Ahead of the Post PC Era New devices, mobility, video, the cloud - learn how these powerful market forces are transforming business and the IT industry today. Learn More In this Issue Uncovering Tech's Most Peculiar Product Codenames Verizon cites security issue for nixing Google Wallet Naked truth: Dell Streak discontinued AT&T again ranks last in Consumer Reports survey PhoneFactor delivers iOS app for authentication Consumer Watchdog calls for investigation of Carrier IQ, carriers Father of RFID, Charles Walton, passes at 89 Apple: iOS 5 marked end of our Carrier IQ support Apple's Steve Jobs vs. Tim Cook Adobe Flash vs. HTML5 WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Visualization of an Intricate Network The Depository Trust & Clearing House required enhanced network visibility to support their custody and asset servicing valued at $40 trillion. See how Riverbed provided: • End-to-end visibility of encrypted traffic • Lower MTTR • Application and network activity analysis without requiring probes on every WAN link Learn more! Uncovering Tech's Most Peculiar Product Codenames Tech companies go to painstaking lengths to keep new products confidential, which is why many of them assign "secret" product codenames. Here's an insider's look at some of the most unusual codenames, with themes ranging from felines to fairy tales. Read More Verizon cites security issue for nixing Google Wallet On the surface, it looked like the kind of scenario that net neutrality advocates had long feared: A big incumbent carrier using its network to snuff out apps that compete with its own services. However, Verizon is insisting that this isn't the case. Read More Naked truth: Dell Streak discontinued Dell has yanked the Dell Streak 7 tablet computer from its online stores, quietly acknowledging the failure of the Android device to catch on with consumers as the company redirects its tablet focus to combination work/play products. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Running SAP NetWeaver on the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud This document outlines the value of using SAP on Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and the Oracle Exadata Database Machine and discusses architectural and practical considerations when deploying SAP on Exalogic and Exadata. Learn More! AT&T again ranks last in Consumer Reports survey AT&T once again has the lowest customer satisfaction ratings of any wireless carrier in the United States, according to the latest survey from Consumer Reports. Read More PhoneFactor delivers iOS app for authentication PhoneFactor, an authentication system that uses mobile phones as a second factor for improved security, is now available as an app for Apple's iPhone and iPad. Read More Consumer Watchdog calls for investigation of Carrier IQ, carriers Consumer Watchdog has called for a U.S. government investigation of Carrier IQ, the maker of tracking software for mobile phones, and its users. Read More WEBCAST: IBM IBM InfoSphere MDM Solutions for Insurance Master data management helps make insurers smarter. MDM enables them to connect disparate pieces of customer information across policy systems, departments, and channels, into a single, actionable view that is customer-centric rather than policy-centric. View Now Father of RFID, Charles Walton, passes at 89 Charles Walton, inventor of the RFID technology now common everywhere from warehouses to retail stores to public libraries, has died at the age of 89 in California. Read More Apple: iOS 5 marked end of our Carrier IQ support Apple Thursday issued a statement that it stopped supporting a controversial Carrier IQ software that is intended to collect smartphone performance data for carriers, but allegedly collects detailed personal information. Read More Apple's Steve Jobs vs. Tim Cook Apple became one of the world's most successful technology companies under Steve Jobs, and it remains to be seen whether new leader Tim Cook can sustain the company's market dominance and magic. Read More Adobe Flash vs. HTML5 You know a technology's future doesn't look promising when even the company that manages it has started offering a toolset for the competing approach. Read More
	SLIDESHOWS 25 free open source projects IT pros will love We asked SourceForge's new community manager and longtime open source coder, Rich Bowen, to sniff out a few of the cool, lesser-known projects he thinks IT folks will love. What follows are his picks, along with a few of our own. 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 10 most powerful cloud companies RSA security lapse led to March hack, says researcher Naked ruth: Dell Streak discontinued Microsoft updates Exchange 2010 Gartner predictions for 2012 Cloud computing disrupts the vendor landscape India's censors have asked the impossible of Facebook, Google Microsoft Research: Hunting for HIV vaccine with techniques that fight spam 2011's hottest holiday tech gifts Cracking ND5 ... with Google?!
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