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	Are these the techiest business cards you've ever seen? Some examples of how to get creative with an overlooked medium Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Microsoft Try Microsoft Office 365, free Collaborate in the cloud with Office, Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync videoconferencing. Access, edit, and share documents. Starting at $8/user/month. Try it free. In this Issue What the cloud really means for your IT job Review: HP, IBM, CA deliver highly scalable network management suites Judea Pearl, a big brain behind artificial intelligence, wins Turing Award 7 hot security companies to watch Could China easily take down US military's air-refueling logistics in a cyberwar? Microsoft: Don't hate on IE 10 New iPad wins rave reviews Alcatel-Lucent switch pushes Cisco, HP at the edge 40% of U.S. government Web sites fail security test WEBCAST: Motorola Mobility Authentication, Certificates and VPNs MOTODEV for Enterprise can help get you up to speed quickly on key topics such as how to enable secure access to a company intranet from outside the firewall. This webinar provides a clear explanation of terms and technologies and what they can do for your enterprise app development. View Now What the cloud really means for your IT job Depending on which survey or story you read, the cloud can be either a good thing for IT workers and their job security, or it can be terrifying. Read More Review: HP, IBM, CA deliver highly scalable network management suites A network that measures downtime in millions of dollars per minute (or per second!) needs a serious, enterprise-level network management tool. Nothing less will do. Read More Judea Pearl, a big brain behind artificial intelligence, wins Turing Award Judea Pearl, a longtime UCLA professor whose work on artificial intelligence laid the foundation for such inventions as the iPhone's Siri speech recognition technology and Google's driverless cars, has been named the 2011 ACM Turing Award winner. Read More WEBCAST: Mitel Real World Perspectives from Real World Practitioners Join your peers as they discuss Unified Communications and their move to voice virtualization—the business drivers behind their decisions, the benefits they've received and the best practices they've learned along the way. It's a must-see event for joining voice and data on a single virtualized infrastructure. Learn More 7 hot security companies to watch There's a rush in security startups looking to tackle everything from identity management to encrypting cloud data. Here are some of the latest companies worth keeping an eye on. Read More Could China easily take down US military's air-refueling logistics in a cyberwar? A lengthy report prepared for the U.S. government about China's high-tech buildup to prepare for cyberwar includes speculation about how a potential conflict with the U.S. would unfold -- and how it might only take a few freelance Chinese civilian hackers working on behalf of China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) to sow deadly disruptions in the U.S. military logistics supply chain. Read More Microsoft: Don't hate on IE 10 Microsoft says its latest version of Internet Explorer clears out a lot of clutter and creates a more immersive browser experience when paired with Windows 8's touch environment, and that it can be navigated by mouse and keyboard as well, although from the sounds of it not as elegantly. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Best Practices to Architect Applications in the IBM Cloud It's clear that cloud environments are a great way to deliver software—but what are the best ways to use it really well? Read this report to learn how to leverage cloud environments, design applications for successful cloud-based deployments and safeguard your virtual machines. Read Now New iPad wins rave reviews The first hands-on reviews of the new iPad make it clear not only that Apple keeps the tablet crown but why it continues to do so. Read More Alcatel-Lucent switch pushes Cisco, HP at the edge Alcatel-Lucent this week will unveil a new Ethernet switch for enterprise campus networks that is designed to extend voice, data and video convergence to the wiring closet and access tier. Read More 40% of U.S. government Web sites fail security test Approximately 40% of federal government agencies are out of compliance with a regulation that requires them to deploy an extra layer of authentication on their Web sites to prevent hackers from hijacking Web traffic and redirecting it to bogus sites. Read More
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