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	Gigabit Wi-Fi takes center stage at CES Vendors at CES 2012 will show the future of Wi-Fi: multi-gigabit data rates. First products are expected as early as mid-year. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive The Ultralight Branch By shifting from traditional mid-sized branches to several very small locations, the enterprise can more agilely address its business needs. Ultralight branches let the business drive the placement & lifespan of branches while minimizing real estate, infrastructure, operational, & service costs. Read Now In this Issue iPhone 5 rumor rollup for the week ending Jan. 6 Anonymous, LulzSec, AntiSec, Etc.: A Brief History of Hacktivism Career Watch: The hottest scripting languages 2012 Outlook: The end of everything? Big IT Vendors Lead Patching Laggards Cool graphene breakthrough could keep laptops from overheating Self-service IT: Are users up for the task? iPhone more dominant than ever, though Samsung makes strides LAPD Drops Google Apps Plan Huawei introduces "world's slimmest smartphone" CES 2012: Intel demos DX11 on Ivy Bridge based Ultrabook Apple and the CIO: The Great Love-Hate Relationship WHITE PAPER: SonicWALL Next-Gen Firewalls for HIED: SUNY College at Old Westbury SUNY College at Old Westbury implemented Next-Gen Firewalls for bandwidth management to optimize traffic for video streaming and other uses. Read now. iPhone 5 rumor rollup for the week ending Jan. 6 The iOSsphere got its groove back this last week, as reason and unreason alike fueled a spate of rumors. Read More Anonymous, LulzSec, AntiSec, Etc.: A Brief History of Hacktivism The hacktivist collective Anonymous began getting media attention in 2008 with its attacks on the Church of Scientology. Three years later, Anonymous and its many offshoots and associations, including LulzSec, AntiSec, TeamPoison and the Peoples Liberation Front, reached the pinnacle of their infamy with major attacks on powerful corporations and government agencies. Here, CIO.com presents in pictures an abridged (and admittedly U.S.-centric) timeline of hacktivist activity. Read More Career Watch: The hottest scripting languages Ask a Premier 100 IT Leader Dennis Hodges Read More 2012 Outlook: The end of everything? Gibbs reviews last year's predictions and sees that the end could be nigh ... Read More WHITE PAPER: Raritan What to Look for in Smart Card Readers Deploy servers with PKI authentication without sacrificing convenience or security. Learn how modern KVM switches with smart card capabilities go beyond simply integrating card readers as an additional peripheral at the KVM workstation, but rather make necessary KVM feature adjustments to enable seamless use of the reader. Learn More Big IT Vendors Lead Patching Laggards IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft led the list of companies that failed to patch vulnerabilities after being notified by the world's largest bug-bounty program, according to the TippingPoint Zero-Day Initiative. Read More Cool graphene breakthrough could keep laptops from overheating Graphene is starting to sound like a potential wonder material for the electronics business. Read More Self-service IT: Are users up for the task? Self-service procurement. Self-service business intelligence. Self-service recovery. User provisioning in private clouds. It's a wondrous world for end users today as IT departments roll out tools that hand them the reins to the data and services they desire, whether it's instant access to their employee benefits accounts or a deep dive into corporate data stacks that were once off-limits. Read More iPhone more dominant than ever, though Samsung makes strides The iPhone is by far the smartphone most in demand among 4,000 North American consumers surveyed by ChangeWave, but Apple's frequent court rival Samsung is coming on strong according to the research. Read More WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc. Protecting Your Online Channels and Web Applications This whitepaper gives a broad overview of the ways in which Akamai can help organizations bolster the security of their Web-based assets, with capabilities ranging across the application, network, and DNS layers, as well as solutions focused on Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation and business continuity. Learn more LAPD Drops Google Apps Plan After more than two years of work, the city of Los Angeles has abandoned its effort to migrate its police operations to Google's hosted email and office application platform because it says the service cannot meet FBI security requirements. Insider (registration required) Read More Huawei introduces "world's slimmest smartphone" At about 6.8 millimeters thick, Huawei Technologies' Android 4.0-based Ascend P1 S is the thinnest smartphone yet introduced, the company said on Monday. Read More CES 2012: Intel demos DX11 on Ivy Bridge based Ultrabook Coming clean in the end, Intel attempted to demonstrate DirectX 11 running on an Ivy Bridge based Ultrabook. It was recroded, rather than live game play though. Read More Apple and the CIO: The Great Love-Hate Relationship Apple started the consumerization of IT trend, which has led to many sleepless nights for CIOs. But Apple has also made tech cool again – and worker productivity is up! Read More
	SLIDESHOWS 10 essential data center appliances With all of the noise in data center networking focused on switches, fabrics and lossless Ethernet standards, appliances like WAN optimizers and application accelerators are often overlooked. But they are important components of the data center/cloud infrastructure, especially as organizations virtualize desktop applications for remote sites. Here's a listing of 10 of the top players, and their products, in data center appliances. 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 iPad 3 to sport HD camera on front, upgraded camera on back 9 hot technology startups to watch in 2012 FBI warns of new Zeus-based malware in phishing scam Six CES 2012 stories to watch When open source doesn't do it anymore IPad 3 rumor rollup for the week ending Jan. 3 IPhone 5 rumor rollup for the week ending Dec. 31 Avaya: Top 10 pitfalls with UC implementations Passwords aren't dead but they need fixing Microsoft patch blows 'perfect game' but sends important message
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