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	RSA chief: Last year's breach has silver lining Last year's industry-shaking RSA Security breach has resulted in customers' CEOs and CIOs engaging much more closely with the vendor to improve their organizations' security, according to the head of RSA. Read More WHITE PAPER: VCE/VMware VBlock Fastpath Desktop Virtualization Platform The Vblock FastPath Desktop Virtualization Platform is a purpose-built solution that helps IT organizations to automate desktop and application management by enabling rapid deployment, reducing costs and improving security through centralization of the desktop environment. Learn More In this Issue Best of Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2012 OpenFlow start-up aiming at Cisco's dominance 12 effective habits of indispensible IT pros Woz on smartphones: Wishes his iPhone could do all his Android can Survey: Security deployments, training reduce cyberattack wipeouts, downtime Wikipedia to go dark in SOPA protest, Twitter declines Worst of SOPA out, White House bolsters opposition More Confusion Over Windows 8 Tablets Non-US customers kept in dark as Zappos cleans up after data breach iPad 3 to feature quad-core processor along with LTE support RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Systems, Inc. Cisco UCS with intelligent Intel® Xeon® processors Learn how the Cisco Unified Computing System, powered by intelligent Intel® Xeon® processors, signals an evolution in the data center: Cisco Unified Computing at Work, Unified Computing Design Zone, Build a Cloud Ready Data Center and Changing the Server Industry. Learn More Best of Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2012 Smartphones, tablets, unique gadgets and yes, Ultrabooks make a splash at CES 2012 Read More OpenFlow start-up aiming at Cisco's dominance OpenFlow start-up Big Switch Networks is submitting its controller software to the open-source community in order to catalyze an ecosystem of application developers, according to GigaOm. Read More 12 effective habits of indispensible IT pros Ditch the slackers, take on dirty work, do it with data -- here's how to get the inside track on a highly rewarding career in IT 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 Woz on smartphones: Wishes his iPhone could do all his Android can Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is a big fan of smartphones running Google's Android OS . . . and in some ways finds them superior to mobile phones running iOS. "My primary phone is the iPhone. I love the beauty of it. Read More Survey: Security deployments, training reduce cyberattack wipeouts, downtime A survey of 1,425 information technology managers in 32 countries about the type of security they deployed on their network endpoints, as well as security training for employees, indicates that these technology investments paid off in mitigating cyberattacks and downtime. Read More Wikipedia to go dark in SOPA protest, Twitter declines Wikipedia has decided to black out the English version of the online encyclopedia for 24 hours on Wednesday to protest against controversial legislation in the U.S., following a cue given by some other Internet sites including social news site Reddit which will black out its site for 12 hours on the same day. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Take Your Business Relationships to the Next Level This IBM publication provides information about IBM Social Business and includes details about the business need and the value of transformation to a social business. Read Now Worst of SOPA out, White House bolsters opposition While it's far too early for SOPA opponents to declare victory, a trio of developments late last night and this morning make clear that concerted efforts to block or dramatically alter this ill-conceived antipiracy legislation are having a significant effect. Those developments: Read More More Confusion Over Windows 8 Tablets That soft chuckling you hear is Steve Jobs snickering in the afterlife. Jobs famously refused to do any kind of surveying, market research or focus groups, arguing people didn't know what they want "until we give it to them." It was how he brought quantum leaps to a society that tended to prefer evolution to revolution. Read More Non-US customers kept in dark as Zappos cleans up after data breach Online shoe and apparel shop Zappos.com is advising over 24 million customers to change their passwords following a data breach, but its website is currently inaccessible to people outside the U.S. Read More iPad 3 to feature quad-core processor along with LTE support Despite an onslaught of competitors, Apple's iPad remains the tablet to beat nearly 2 years after its initial release. As is often the case, Apple's rivals seem to be competing with Apple's current incarnation of the iPad, leaving them perpetually playing catchup. 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 IPad 3 rumor rollup for the week ending Jan. 11 IBM smashes Moore's Law, cuts bit size to 12 atoms Google Science Fair back for second year The best of CES 2012 New era for Web site names begins Thursday Cisco sending enterprises to the cloud IPhone 5 rumor rollup for the week ending Dec. 31 LTE explodes at CES IBM wins most patents for 19th straight year Google pleads for more unlicensed spectrum instead of more auctions
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