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	New era for Web site names begins Thursday A new era of Web site naming begins Thursday, when Internet policymakers start accepting applications for hundreds - perhaps thousands - of new domain name extensions such as .hotel and .paris. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetSupport Inc Reducing Hidden Operating Costs Through IT Asset Discovery After reductions in headcount and procurements have been made, cost-cutting strategies are now turning to internal operations, and many IT decision makers are taking a closer look at indirect, or "soft," costs within these departments. Learn More In this Issue The Best of CES 2012: Gadgets galore IBM wins most patents for 19th straight year; Microsoft only other U.S. company in top 10 Lawsuit claims Symantec sells scareware-like products The hidden danger of touchscreens Spanish bank to move 100,000+ employees to Google Apps Kodak sues HTC, Apple over patent infringement Who's flying drones in U.S.? ... EFF sues government to find out Dell launches dedupe appliance, VMware integration Sandia Labs touts DNSSEC tool CES 2012: IDG Daily, Jan. 11 Facebook Timeline Scams Prey on Wishful Thinking WHITE PAPER: Quantum Big Data: Managing Explosive Growth Are you experiencing a data explosion? The trend toward leveraging Big Data for competitive advantage helps IT professionals successfully meet business goals. Learn how to reliably manage, store and access vast amounts of archived data while protecting it and keeping costs low. View Now The Best of CES 2012: Gadgets galore The giant Consumer Electronics Show 2012 is on display this week in Las Vegas, with its annual outpouring of electronic wonders. Here's our take on the best stuff this year, updated throughout the week of Jan. 9. Read More IBM wins most patents for 19th straight year; Microsoft only other U.S. company in top 10 IBM retained its patent crown for 2011, topping the list of U.S. patent winners for the 19th year in a row. The only other U.S. company to make the top 10, Microsoft fell from third place to sixth place, according to data from IFI Claims Patent Services. Read More Lawsuit claims Symantec sells scareware-like products Symantec has been accused in a lawsuit of California's unfair competition laws and fraudulent inducement by using scareware-like tactics to trick users into buying licenses for its PC utility-type products. 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! The hidden danger of touchscreens Spend five minutes on any busy street corner and you'll spot people using tablets and smartphones in dangerous ways, whether it's texting behind the wheel or strolling with their eyes on the screen. Read More Spanish bank to move 100,000+ employees to Google Apps Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) is adopting Google Apps for email and collaboration and expects to have its about 110,000 employees worldwide using the suite by the end of this year. Read More Kodak sues HTC, Apple over patent infringement Struggling Eastman Kodak is alleging that Apple's and HTC's smartphones and tablets infringe on its digital imaging technology, and has filed a complaint and lawsuits with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York, it said on Tuesday. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Disaster Recovery for Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) is the Oracle best practices blueprint for implementing Oracle high availability technologies and is one of the key requirements for any Oracle Fusion Middleware enterprise deployment. Learn more in this whitepaper about the various components of MAA and what this exceptional product can do for you. Learn More! Who's flying drones in U.S.? ... EFF sues government to find out Most of us think of drones in the military context - they're being used over there to watch and kill enemy combatants - and, collaterally, innocent civilians. Your opinion of their use likely dovetails with your opinion of the wars. Read More Dell launches dedupe appliance, VMware integration Dell today announced its first deduplication appliance, along with an upgrade to its Compellent Storage Center management software that includes tighter integration with VMware. Read More Sandia Labs touts DNSSEC tool Sandia National Laboratories is touting a free Web-based visualization tool called DNSViz to help domain name registrars, government organizations and others rolling out DNS Security to better manage the technology that federal entities have been mandated to employ. DNSSEC for the .com domain was also enabled last year, with big registrars like GoDaddy.com jumping on board. Read More CES 2012: IDG Daily, Jan. 11 CES 2012: IDG Daily, Jan. 11 Coming up today at CES we're working on an analysis piece on the magic number for Ultrabooks. How much do they need to sell for to be successful? Also celebrities Justin Bieber and rapper Ludacris will be at the show hawking gadgets. From: networkworld Views: 29 0 ratings Time: 02:18 More in Science & Technology Read More Facebook Timeline Scams Prey on Wishful Thinking If you're not a fan of the new Facebook Timeline design, beware of bogus Facebook groups and pages promising a return to the old design. Read More
	SLIDESHOWS CES 2012 ultrabooks and tablets Ultrabooks! Ultrabooks! That's the official biggest buzzword for this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Ultrabooks! In honor of these purportedly magical super-thin laptops, we've decided to make a compilation of some of the ultrabooks you'll see at CES next week. And for good measure, we've thrown in a tablet that will garner a lot of attention as well. Enjoy! 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 CES: Gigabit Wi-Fi takes center stage IPhone 5 rumor rollup for the week ending Dec. 31 5 reasons Linux Mint is better than Ubuntu Cisco cranks up Internet TV volume at CES 4 sweet smartphones from CES 2012 The skinniest, thinnest, most emaciated products of CES 2012 Cisco gains SAN share as Brocade looks for buyer Father's attempt at parental control resulted in hacked German police system Will Microsoft's WiFi-NC set new network standard? Financial services firms try to scrimp on IT pay
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