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	Skeptics find flaws in Carrier IQ application analysis Only now are some skeptical voices being raised that the case against Carrier IQ may be a rush to judgment without a real, or at least an adequate, basis in fact. Read More WEBCAST: Oracle High Availability for SMBs Just Got Easy Tuesday, December 13, 9am PT / 12 noon ET Join this live Webcast to hear how Oracle has removed all the barriers to high availability with an appliance that provides a fully-configured, fully-patched system that can have you up and running in less than 2 hours. Learn More In this Issue Cable group to sell spectrum to Verizon for $3.6 billion The 10 Best Video Games of 2011 Maybe you can trash your boss online after all Security roundup for week ending Dec. 2: Carrier IQ stink, SCADA troubles IDC on 2012: Prep for cloud wars, mobile explosion, higher IT spending PlayBook sales decline; RIM takes $485M charge Cornell Prof: Carrier IQ affair 'my worst nightmare' No more Napster Shh! OpenSSH Secrets Here 'What's your handle?' to replace 'What's your number?' Facebook Privacy Tip: How to Disable Sharing in Social Reader Apps Portable Entertainment Tech Treasures [2011 Cool Yule Tools] WEBCAST: Cisco Systems, Inc. Register for Cisco's cloud 12/6 webcast. See how Cisco helps build complete cloud networks. Learn how we are helping deploy solutions that meet your organization's needs while navigating within, between, and beyond the clouds. Gain insight from industry leaders on using innovative cloud business models by registering for our December 6 webcast. Click to continue Cable group to sell spectrum to Verizon for $3.6 billion SpectrumCo, a joint venture among Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks, has agreed to sell mobile spectrum licenses covering 259 million U.S. residents to Verizon Wireless for US$3.6 billion, the companies announced Friday. Read More The 10 Best Video Games of 2011 Have a look at our picks for the 10 top video games of the year. Read More Maybe you can trash your boss online after all The Wall Street Journal has a must-read story this morning that undercuts the conventional wisdom that a non-union employee who gets fired for trashing his or her employer online has no legal recourse. Read More Security roundup for week ending Dec. 2: Carrier IQ stink, SCADA troubles If a cyberattack from a hostile foreign source ever hit a public electric or water utility, affecting its industrial control systems, causing America's critical infrastructures to fail, would we understand that had even happened? We have more doubts than ever, after every twist and turn in the saga that began with the Nov. 10 "Public Water District Cyber Intrusion" report from the Illinois Statewide Terrorism & Intelligence Center (STIC) that set off a media firestorm after the report was leaked to the media. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quest Software Create a Solid Backup Strategy The simpler a backup plan is to plan and execute, the more likely it is to be done. Read Now! IDC on 2012: Prep for cloud wars, mobile explosion, higher IT spending Researchers at International Data Corp. say some big battles will be brewing in 2012 in the cloud, mobile and Big Data arenas, so much so that "companies like Microsoft, HP, SAP, RIM, and others -- including Apple -- will face 'crossroads moments' in 2012. By the end of the year, we should have a good idea which vendors will -- and won't -- be among the industry's leaders at the end of the decade," said Frank Gens, senior vice president and chief analyst at IDC in a statement. Read More PlayBook sales decline; RIM takes $485M charge With the Research in Motion PlayBook tablet selling for about half its original price, RIM said Friday it is taking a $485 million charge on its third-quarter books. Read More Cornell Prof: Carrier IQ affair 'my worst nightmare' A Cornell University professor is calling the controversial Carrier IQ smartphone software revelations a privacy disaster. Read More No more Napster Napster, the pioneering and controversial peer-to-peer music sharing service that exploded onto the Internet scene in the summer of 1999, is officially gone. 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. Shh! OpenSSH Secrets Here If you routinely use multiple computers, turn to OpenSSH to share files without having to set up a file server, run applications remotely, and perform remote administration chores quickly and securely. Here are some clever OpenSSH tricks that can make life easier for roaming computer users. Read More 'What's your handle?' to replace 'What's your number?' Forget phones numbers and email addresses. The era of the Internet handle is emerging. Read More Facebook Privacy Tip: How to Disable Sharing in Social Reader Apps Some Facebook users are unintentionally broadcasting their reading habits to their network. Here's how to find out if you've added one of these social reading apps and how to adjust your privacy settings. Read More Portable Entertainment Tech Treasures [2011 Cool Yule Tools] In the category of portable entertainment, what once was filled with different portable music players has been replaced instead by accessories that go along with the iPod, iPhone or other smartphone device that can play music. Listening to music is no longer dedicated to a single device, but part of a comprehensive device. Instead, our portable entertainment category features a variety of cool earphones and speaker systems that you can take along with you when you travel or go running. 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	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 2011's biggest security snafus Cisco to introduce larger Cius tablet next year Don't expect Woz to bid on 'The contract that founded Apple' Chrome takes No. 2 browser spot from Firefox How to turn off Carrier IQ on your iPhone 25 free open source projects IT pros will love Cracking ND5 ... with Google?! Real life HAL 9000 meets Skynet New year, new job? Ten companies that are hiring Everything I need to know about Linux I learned from my pets
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