2012’s 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries

	Thorsten Heins takes over as CEO at Research In Motion | LTE spectrum: How much do the big carriers have?
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	2012's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries Network World's 6th annual collection of the year's "geekiest anniversaries" this time includes the births of pioneering companies such as UUNet and NEXTEL; technologies like OS/2 and SPARC; television classics topped by "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and the first "Simpsons" shorts; disposable contact lenses; the first naked-eye supernova in four centuries; and who could possibly forget The Woodstock of Physics? Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CIO Leadership Don't Miss The CIO Leadership Event Network with your IT leader peers, CIO magazine and the CIO Executive Council, and the next generation of IT leaders at The 2012 CIO Leadership Event, April 29 - May 1, 2012 at The Marco Island Marriott Beach Resort in Florida. Save $200 when you register by Feb. 29th! In this Issue Thorsten Heins takes over as CEO at Research In Motion LTE spectrum: How much do the big carriers have? Review: Encrypted solid state drives protect laptop data Kodak: A look at the icons of an icon How to profit from new domain name rules U.S. tech firms add jobs despite automation Out with SOPA, in with cloud Former NASA OpenStack researchers enter private cloud market with Piston Enterprise OS 4 Consumer Technologies That Could Change Your Enterprise RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CloudPassage CloudPassage Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is one of the fastest-growing cloud computing. However, cloud providers usage agreements squarely make the user responsible for protecting servers, applications and data. CloudPassage Halo is the award winning cloud server security platform that has everything you need to secure your cloud servers. Read More Thorsten Heins takes over as CEO at Research In Motion Research In Motion's co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie have quit after a tumultuous period at the company, which saw intense competition, and a long services outage at the maker of the BlackBerry. Read More LTE spectrum: How much do the big carriers have? Spectrum has always been an important resource for wireless carriers, but with the dawn of true 4G LTE mobile broadband, carriers' need for large spectrum portfolios has grown even larger. Read More Review: Encrypted solid state drives protect laptop data Vendors are touting solid state replacement drives as a way to protect corporate data in the event of a laptop being lost or stolen, and to boost performance at the same time. Read More WEBCAST: NetIQ Disaster Recovery Planning and the Cloud Find out how virtualization is the stepping stone to the cloud and how to leverage virtualization technologies today to reduce the cost and improve the performance of your disaster recovery plan. Learn More! Kodak: A look at the icons of an icon From everything to do with film to the Brownie handheld and Easyshare digital camera, Kodak was photography. Read More How to profit from new domain name rules A new era in Web site naming has begun, providing a golden opportunity for savvy IT professionals to go on the offensive with new domains that can capture additional Web traffic and generate new revenue. Read More U.S. tech firms add jobs despite automation U.S. tech firms are investing more in machines than in people, but IT hiring is still rising, according to a new report by Forrester and a just-released National Science Foundation study. 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 Out with SOPA, in with cloud Count us among the critics of SOPA and PIPA, the two ill-conceived bills that were intended to protect American firms against copyright infringement by foreign websites. Read More Former NASA OpenStack researchers enter private cloud market with Piston Enterprise OS Piston Cloud Computing co-founder Josh McKenty has laid out the same objective on several occasions, from speaking to attendees at the inaugural OpenStack design summit to addressing friends and colleagues at his company's launch party: "Let's finish where we started." Read More 4 Consumer Technologies That Could Change Your Enterprise From technologies born out of gaming companies to hardware waterproofing products, we find some gems at the Consumer Electronics Show that CIOs will be glad to welcome to their IT shops. Read More
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