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	(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 RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CDW Leverage Unified Communications for Greater Productivity Join CIO magazine, Computerworld, and Network World in a city near you for a dinner discussion on how organizations are successfully extending workforce communication and collaboration to mobile endpoints to drive greater productivity, faster results and especially employee satisfaction. Learn more at: http://events.cio.com/UCDinner In this Issue (From last year...) 35 years of 'Apple' Fools Day fun IETF attendees re-engineer their hotel's Wi-Fi network Google's 2011 April Fools Day gags 6 outrageous office pranks Big news for IPv6: Akamai to launch service in April Microsoft Apologizes After Botched Windows Phone Challenge Arista 10G switch: Fast and flexible iPhone 4 owners entitled to $15 as part of Antennagate class action suit Google Drive will offer 5GB of free storage, leak suggests WHITE PAPER: BMC Software Workload Automation Challenges and Opportunities This Executive Brief discusses IDC's perspective on how enterprise workload management requirements are changing and highlights the ways that workload automation solutions can address these emerging requirements. Learn More! (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 WHITE PAPER: Symantec 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 WHITE PAPER: NetIQ 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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