Sunday, April 01, 2012

April Fools' Day edition of Network World's Must-Read stories

  (From last year...) 35 years of 'Apple' Fools Day fun | IETF attendees re-engineer their hotel's Wi-Fi network
 
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10 funny (?) April Fools' pranks - Web style
Our roundup of some of 2011's Internet-based April Fools' pranks should get you in the mood for this year's inevitable crop. Get ready to wince. Read More


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(From last year...) 35 years of 'Apple' Fools Day fun
A look at April Fools' Day through Apple-colored glasses Read More

IETF attendees re-engineer their hotel's Wi-Fi network
What happens when a bunch of IETF super nerds show up in Paris for a major conference and discover their hotel's Wi-Fi network has imploded? Read More

Google's 2011 April Fools Day gags
A human autocompleter, Google teleport, gesture-based email and more Read More


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Customer Success - Tree In The Glen
Treehouse in the Glen replaced a variety of security solutions with Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition. Since deployment, the store has had zero virus infections, system performance has improved, and security management time has dropped from three hours a week to 15 minutes. Learn More

6 outrageous office pranks
Nothing livens up the work day or gets HR's attention better than a good old office prank. Here's a collection of some of the best, or worst, depending on your perspective. Read More

Big news for IPv6: Akamai to launch service in April
Akamai will offer IPv6 services to its entire customer base in April -- a long-awaited move that will be a major boon to the adoption rate of the next-generation Internet Protocol. Read More

Microsoft Apologizes After Botched Windows Phone Challenge
Microsoft is apologizing for a Windows Phone marketing campaign gone wrong, after a tech writer "smoked" a Windows Phone using an Android handset. Read More


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SANS Review of NetIQ Sentinel 7
A SIEM solution fully installed and capturing logs in under 15 minutes! Read how SANS analyst Jerry Schenk did it, and why he feels NetIQ Sentinel 7 is a great solution for the most pressing security problems facing enterprises today. Learn More!

Arista 10G switch: Fast and flexible
Packing 384 10G Ethernet ports into an 11-rack-unit form factor is only the beginning for Arista Networks' DCS-7508 data center core switch. Read More

iPhone 4 owners entitled to $15 as part of Antennagate class action suit
Believe it or not, but Antennagate - the scandal that wasn't - is still in the news these days. As you may recall, the iPhone 4 antenna design caused a firestorm of controversy back in the Summer of 2010 following reports that holding the phone in certain spots resulted in significantly poorer reception. Read More

Google Drive will offer 5GB of free storage, leak suggests
It looks as though Google will offer users 5GB of free cloud storage space on its new Drive service. Read More

 
 
 

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