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	iPhone 5 rumor rollup for the week ending Dec. 31 The holiday season brought a stuffed stocking of iPhone 5 rumors to the iOSsphere, closing out 2011 with a whimper of joyful speculation. 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. In this Issue 5 major changes facing the Internet in 2012 History's infamous social engineers New Versions of the Cisco Cius - Excitement or Shoulder Shrugs? Up-and-coming tech jobs -- and how to land one IE 6 is Finally Dead. Long Live IE9 (Please?) 2012 Should Be The Year of Security Incident Response Is vulnerability an objective? DARPA wants to give dead, in-orbit satellites new life 10 programming languages that could shake up IT Microsoft Research delves into economics At Hospitals, iPad Screen Cleanliness Is Next to Godliness 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! 5 major changes facing the Internet in 2012 2012 is poised to go down in Internet history as one of the most significant 12-month periods from both a technical and policy perspective since the late 1990s, when this network-of-networks stopped being a research project and became an engine of economic growth. Read More History's infamous social engineers Read More New Versions of the Cisco Cius - Excitement or Shoulder Shrugs? Cisco recently announced that it will release both smaller and larger versions of its Cius tablets in 2012. While this is potentially exciting news, it also may be met with quite a bit of indifference. This is Cisco's ongoing attempt to get into a highly competitive, highly loyal, consumer market space. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Maintaining Continuous Compliance When trying to achieve continuous compliance with internal policies and external regulations, organizations need to replace traditional processes with a new best practice approach and new innovative technology, such as that provided by IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager. Read now Up-and-coming tech jobs -- and how to land one Forecasts for IT hiring are almost universally predicting that project managers and business analysts will be in demand in 2012, but what about cloud transformation officers? Read More IE 6 is Finally Dead. Long Live IE9 (Please?) After begging, pleading, and nearly coming to people's houses to bust their kneecaps, Microsoft has gotten its wish: Internet Explorer 6, which just passed its 10th birthday, is now as dead as the Zune. Read More 2012 Should Be The Year of Security Incident Response According to ESG Research, 20% of large organizations are certain that they've been the target of an APT attack while another 39% say that it is likely they have been targeted. Can organizations detect and react to sophisticated attacks like APTs? Unfortunately, the answer is likely "no" in both cases. ESG asked 244 security professionals working at enterprise (i.e. more than 1,000 employees)... Read More WHITE PAPER: AMD Make Virtual Desktops a Valuable Reality with AMD This paper will explore how the fast-emerging trend of "desktop virtualization" is giving IT managers a potent solution for tackling the problems associated with PC sprawl. Read More! Is vulnerability an objective? I ended last year with a death-of-the-Internet column, and I'm starting off the new year with a death-via-the-Internet one. Read More DARPA wants to give dead, in-orbit satellites new life Scientists at DARPA say there are some 1,300 satellites worth over $300B sitting out in Earth's geostationary orbit (GEO) that could be retrofitted or harvested for new communications roles. And it is now looking for a way to do just that herculean task. Read More 10 programming languages that could shake up IT Do we really need another programming language? There is certainly no shortage of choices already. Between imperative languages, functional languages, object-oriented languages, dynamic languages, compiled languages, interpreted languages, and scripting languages, no developer could ever learn all of the options available today. Read More Microsoft Research delves into economics You might think Microsoft's research centers would be all about software, security, mobile technology and the like, but the company's New England research group highlights in its year-end wrap-up the work it has done in areas such as economics, biology and maybe less surprisingly, social media. Read More At Hospitals, iPad Screen Cleanliness Is Next to Godliness Phones and iPads are everywhere at hospitals, but their screens carry more bacteria than a toilet handle (seriously). Enter Frog Skin, a clear film covering iPhones and iPads so they can be washed. Read More
	SLIDESHOWS 10 Things We Love and Hate about Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot 11.10 Ubuntu 11.10 has some jagged edges and documentation isn't easy to locate, but Canonical is certainly dreaming big with this latest update, dubbed Oneiric (dreamy) Ocelot. 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 Cisco dumps the UMI personal telepresence very quietly Two new tools exploit router security setup problem Confessions of a Chromebook addict Microsoft releases first unscheduled patch of 2011 Users desert Windows XP in near-record numbers iPhone 5 with new design set to launch in fall 2012 IPv6 doomsday won't hit in 2012, experts say Five open source technologies for 2012 Mobile campaigns to be hot in 2012 presidential race Fabrics vs. Networks: Part 1
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