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	Squeeze WAN providers now for a better cloud later Businesses should be formulating cloud strategies now that get the most out of their network providers to better support whatever cloud services they wind up buying, according to a prominent cloud-economics expert. Read More WHITE PAPER: i365 12 Best Practices for Data Backup and Recovery When your backup completes, you know the data is secure and accessible on the disk drive. With tapes you never really know if your data is usable until you try to restore it, at which point it's too late. View Now In this Issue 3 tips for avoiding tablet management headaches 9 festive Microsoft themes for Windows 7 Chrome 15 tops IE8 as the world's most popular browser iBahn, supplier of hotel internet services, denies breach IT hiring expected to rise in 2012, says survey Facebook pushes out Timeline of users' online lives Apple in 2012: 5 Reasons It Will Be a Tough Year Intel reorganizes mobile business to speed and improve development Even Ga Tech College of Computing has a gift guide 12 Tech Gifts for Commuters Why You Shouldn't Jailbreak Your BlackBerry PlayBook WHITE PAPER: BMC Three Steps to Effective Cloud Planning & Design Before you build your cloud, there are many considerations. Are there security requirements? Compliance rules? Will you use public cloud resources as well? Learn more about how to plan a cloud effectively – from defining requirements to identifying the costs - in this compelling white paper from BMC Software. Learn More! 3 tips for avoiding tablet management headaches Tablets are a tricky proposition for many IT departments since they have many of the content creation capabilities of laptops but lack mature security software. Read More 9 festive Microsoft themes for Windows 7 Wrapped in the MajorGeeks seal of the season Read More Chrome 15 tops IE8 as the world's most popular browser Google's Chrome 15 browser is currently the most-used browser in the world, according to new data from Web analytics firm StatCounter. Read More WHITE PAPER: FireEye Attacks get through 95% of networks 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! iBahn, supplier of hotel internet services, denies breach iBahn, a provider of internet services to some 3,000 hotels worldwide, denied on Thursday a news report that its network was breached by hackers. Read More IT hiring expected to rise in 2012, says survey The IT job market in 2012 shows some signs of improvement when it comes to hiring, but most companies still aren't expanding. Read More Facebook pushes out Timeline of users' online lives Remember that photo of you at last year's company holiday party? It was so embarrassing the day your Facebook friends kept commenting on it. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sybase Sybase IQ Supercharges Predictive Analytics This white paper introduces you to Sybase® IQ—a high-performance, scalable column-store database engine which has been repeatedly proven to meet the predictive analytics needs for a wide variety of businesses. Read now. Apple in 2012: 5 Reasons It Will Be a Tough Year Apple's extraordinary run over the last few years may begin to show signs of slowing next year--its first year without visionary leader Steve Jobs. Read More Intel reorganizes mobile business to speed and improve development In a reorganization of its mobile business, Intel said Wednesday it has formed a new group, called the Mobile and Communications Group (MCG) that will focus on phones, tablets, and other mobile devices. Read More Even Ga Tech College of Computing has a gift guide Network World and its sister sites have produced a seemingly endless number of gift guides (See our Cool Yule Tools gift guide here) and we're far from alone. But I was surprised to see Georgia Tech's College of Computing pump out one of its own, highlighting some of the most clever creations to come from students and faculty this past year. Read More 12 Tech Gifts for Commuters Looking for the perfect present for someone who has a long commute to work? Here are a dozen great options that won't bust your budget. Read More Why You Shouldn't Jailbreak Your BlackBerry PlayBook A recently released software tool, called "DingleBerry," can "jailbreak" or "root" RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. But just because you can jailbreak the PlayBook, doesn't mean you should. CIO.com's Al Sacco explains why. Read More
	SLIDESHOWS 8 Free Wi-Fi security tools Here are several free programs you can use to do Wi-Fi stumbling and surveying on all the popular platforms - Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. You'll be able see all the nearby wireless access points (APs) and their details, including channels, signal levels, and MAC address. 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 Why Eric Schmidt's prediction about Android vs. iOS development is wrong 2012 looking ripe for disgruntled IT pros to switch jobs Microsoft to start automatic updates of IE without asking the users Googler's LAN-party house sparks awe and envy LAN-party house guy spills important cost details The weirdest, wackiest and coolest sci/tech stories of 2011 Best and worst celebrity technology moments of 2011 Killer resumes for techies Cisco study finds kids just don't get it iBahn, supplier of hotel Internet services, denies breach
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