The Future is Now: CES 2012 Video Sneak Peek

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	The Future is Now: CES 2012 Video Sneak Peek I'm beginning to wonder why I'm bothering to travel cross-country next week to Las Vegas and fight with an estimated 140,000 other people at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show, when I could just stay at home and watch a bunch of videos by the vendors themselves. As part of the pre-show hoopla, several vendors are posting video previews of their wares – here are our favorite devices so far. 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 In this Issue Windows 8 can scrub data from disk, but not up to tough security specifications iPad 3 rumor rollup for the week ending Jan. 3 7 Quick Windows 7 Fixes Tips from IT professionals on how to handle virtual desktops, wireless, network performance issues File sharing "Church of Kopimism" becomes officially recognized in Sweden Can Thompson rejuvenate Yahoo? Broadcom to unveil four faster Wi-Fi chips Microsoft researcher: Passwords aren't dead but they need fixing Has the world's largest gadget expo lost its mojo? NASA Expands Open Source Activities WHITE PAPER: Citrix Is your network ready for the Cloud? Not with F5. The Iron Age is over. The Cloud Age is here. Shift to Citrix NetScaler. • 2x faster 2048-bit SSL performance. • 5x capacity on demand - no new hardware. • Consolidation of up to 40 appliances into a single platform. • All functionality, all devices, all the time. Shift up to the Cloud. See why every major Cloud has a Citrix lining. Download whitepaper: 8 Reasons Citrix NetScaler beats F5 Windows 8 can scrub data from disk, but not up to tough security specifications Windows 8 includes a reset function that restores the operating system to a clean state and scrubs data applications from the disk, but falls short of making that data unrecoverable, according to Microsoft. Read More iPad 3 rumor rollup for the week ending Jan. 3 As the New Year approached, iPad 3 rumors gushed like cheap bubbly, and the iOSsphere guzzled. Read More 7 Quick Windows 7 Fixes These tips and tricks can improve how you work in Windows. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap 2012 IT Roadmap Chicago - 3/21 Register Now! IT Roadmap is the one day, cost free, professional-level conference and expo that's full of job-ready solutions you can put to work now. IT Roadmap surrounds you with technology's most-followed analysts and the industry's most-innovative solution providers, all focused entirely on building the roadmap you need in crucial areas of enterprise IT. Click to continue Tips from IT professionals on how to handle virtual desktops, wireless, network performance issues Schools are for learning, and the information technology and security professionals who support networks and applications in the nation's K-12 and university systems are discovering new tactics in what can be challenging IT environments. Here we talk to four professionals in the education realm to get a sense for their top IT issues and what they do to handle them. Read More File sharing "Church of Kopimism" becomes officially recognized in Sweden The Church of Kopimism has been registered as a religious organization by the Swedish governmental agency Kammarkollegiet, it said on Wednesday. Read More Can Thompson rejuvenate Yahoo? Yahoo's choice of a new corporate head is sending the message that the company will be rebuilt instead of sold, analysts say. Read More WEBCAST: ForeScout Technologies CISO in the Know - Mitigating Modern Attacks This webcast examines sophisticated and targeted threats, security gaps, techniques and new technologies with regards to understanding and defending against zero-day threats, propagating worms, low-and-slow attacks and advanced persistent threats (APT). Learn more. Broadcom to unveil four faster Wi-Fi chips The International Consumer Electronics Show next week may be a major launchpad for a new, faster generation of Wi-Fi that goes about three times faster than current gear, with at least one major silicon vendor announcing and demonstrating a set of chips for the IEEE 802.11ac standard. Read More Microsoft researcher: Passwords aren't dead but they need fixing Password use needs an overhaul that is driven not by guesswork but by actually understanding the real damage that can be done when password security is compromised, according to a Microsoft researcher. Read More Has the world's largest gadget expo lost its mojo? The International Consumer Electronics Show takes place next week in Las Vegas, and as always there will be plenty to trigger our technolust. Teaser press releases from exhibitors augur a new suite of super-thin laptops and mid-range tablets, plus Internet-connected cars and TVs, as well as the latest developments in charging and connecting devices without wires. Read More NASA Expands Open Source Activities In a blog post, William Eshagh, a technologist working on Open Government and the Nebula Cloud Computing Platform out of the NASA Ames Research Center, explains. Read More
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