Looking back to our 2011 predictions -- how'd we do?

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	Looking back to our 2011 predictions -- how'd we do? As has been our custom for over a decade, today we'll look back at the predictions we made a year ago and see how well we did with our crystal ball, then next time we'll look forward with some 2012 predictions about convergence, VoIP and unified communications. 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 Mobile Unified Communications: Looking at the Benefits – and the Costs 2011's top Google products RIM is so popular! Amazon, Microsoft, Nokia have all mulled buyout Verizon Wireless outage outraging customers Looking to decorate your desktop for the holidays? WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Eliminate Architectural Limitations of WLANs Reduce the cost and complexity of wireless networks with cloud-enabled, distributed Wi-Fi and routing. By removing the architectural limitations of traditional WLANs, you can support identity-based access and enable delivery of mission-critical applications and services to any user, on any device, at any time without a single point of failure. Read now! Mobile Unified Communications: Looking at the Benefits – and the Costs Unified communications can have, depending upon whom you ask, a very broad set of definitions, but the general idea is to logically merge multiple communications modes (say, wired and wireless, or multiple forms of wireless like cellular and Wi-Fi) and to present services running over these in a device-independent manner. In other words, virtualize the telephone and present the same set of services... Read More WHITE PAPER: Quest Software Data Protection Solutions The simpler a backup plan is to plan and execute, the more likely it is to be done. Read Now! 2011's top Google products Google+, tablets, mobile payments fill busy year for Google Read More WHITE PAPER: NetIQ Streamlining IT Operations with Business Service Management This IDC Technology Spotlight examines the benefits of a business service management practice and tools in response to IT environments becoming more dynamic and complex due to the increased use of virtualization, cloud, SOA, and n-tier application architectures. Learn More RIM is so popular! Amazon, Microsoft, Nokia have all mulled buyout Separate reports Wednesday morning show that Research in Motion, despite being battered this year for everything from outages to late products to lost market share, hasn't been without its admirers. Read More Verizon Wireless outage outraging customers Verizon Wireless customers have taken to the carrier's support forums and social media sites such as Twitter to complain about what appears to be a nationwide 3G/4G wireless data outage. Read More Looking to decorate your desktop for the holidays? Read More
	SLIDESHOWS 10 Things We Love and Hate about Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot 11.10 Ubuntu 11.10 has some jagged edges and documentation isn't easy to locate, but Canonical is certainly dreaming big with this latest update, dubbed Oneiric (dreamy) Ocelot. 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 Verizon Wireless outage outraging customers 5 Facebook Timeline changes you can't wait to make IBM predicts five big technologies of the future 25 useful iPad business apps Gartner: The top strategic technology trends for 2012 Juniper vs. Palo Alto: Next-gen firewall legal brawl 25 free open source projects IT pros will love Cisco impresses with UCS Cloud activity to explode in 2012 Microsoft in 2012: All eyes on Windows 8
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