Friday, May 25, 2012

Cisco all but kills Cius tablet computer

Solar plane begins transcontinental journey | Smartphones with quad-core chips and 4G LTE coming soon

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Cisco all but kills Cius tablet computer
Cisco is slowly killing off its Cius business tablet less than a year after it started shipping. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Silver Peak Systems, Inc.

Top 8 WAN Optimization Vendors Rated and Ranked
Limited bandwidth, long distances and poor network quality prohibit cost reductions for today's critical IT initiatives. Your IT organization needs WAN optimization that can be deployed anywhere, on any platform, and for the lowest cost. See how the new Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers can help. Read now.

WHITE PAPER: Dell

Managing Data Growth
Small and midsize businesses can get the storage strategy advice they need in this issue of "Data Storage Insights." With a focus on managing data growth, expert articles include how tiered storage saves, tips to cost-effectively expand storage capacity and what to do once your business has outgrown its backup strategy. Learn More

Solar plane begins transcontinental journey
The experimental sun-powered aircraft Solar Impulse landed in Spain early today after successful completion of a warm-up flight preceding what stands to be a first-of-its-kind 1,500-mile transcontinental flight from Madrid to Rabat, Morocco. A Reuters photographer captured the following images as the plane, fitted with 12,000 solar cells, was prepared for and executed its take-off yesterday from an airfield in western Switzerland. Network World's Layer 8 blog has been following the development of Solar Impulse since 2007. Read More

Smartphones with quad-core chips and 4G LTE coming soon
Quad-core processors have not yet been combined with 4G LTE in smartphones, but that could change soon. Read More

Who are tech's highest paid CEOs?
Oracle's Larry Ellison finally ousted from the top spot on our list of highest paid tech execs Read More


WHITE PAPER: Limelight

Warp Speed: The Nuts and Bolts of Web Acceleration Solutions
Enterprises are quickly realizing that they can't achieve the web performance they need by simply deploying their web server on a high-speed network. Improving page rendering speeds incrementally through content caching is no longer enough. It's time to look for dramatic performance gains by applying optimization techniques right at the browser. Learn More!

Yahoo Axis may be game changer for search and the troubled company
With Axis, Yahoo is trying to change the search game, while also trying to change its image as a troubled company. Read More

Massive Layoffs at HP Make for IT Outsourcing Identity Crisis
It's been more than three years since HP acquired IT services provider EDS, and the long-term direction of its bigger--if not better--outsourcing business is no more clear than it was on the day the deal closed. Read More

Confidential data: Delete it or eat it, say security experts
Hoarding sensitive information is easy and inexpensive, but as the collected information grows, so do the risks Read More


WHITE PAPER: IBM

Leveraging Emerging Technologies for Business Intelligence
This whitepaper addresses how Instead of storing data in a data warehouse, in-memory analytics stores the data set in memory, allowing for dramatic improvements in query response and the end-user experience. Learn More

Google chairman pledges to fund Raspberry Pi availability in U.K. schools
Google chairman Eric Schmidt announced this week at the London Science Museum that his company would fund the U.K. charity Teach First, which will provide teacher training and student equipment, including the Raspberry Pi, for the purpose of improving computing education in the country. Read More

12 cool, creative and just plain weird gadget concepts
Take a gander at a dozen delightful concept designs for tomorrow's smartphones, laptops, gaming devices and more. Read More

Lawmakers call on DOJ to reopen investigation into Google Wi-Fi spying
Two U.S. lawmakers have called on the U.S. Department of Justice to reopen its investigation into Google's snooping on Wi-Fi networks in 2010 after recent questions about the company's level of cooperation with federal inquiries. Read More

Researchers propose TLS extension to detect rogue SSL certificates
A pair of security researchers have proposed an extension to the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol that would allow browsers to detect and block fraudulently-issued SSL certificates. Read More

LulzSec MilitarySingles data breach caused by weak security
The major LulzSec data raid on the MilitarySingles.com dating site in March was caused by a catalogue of security problems including poor web application design and the use of weak encryption, an analysis from Imperva has claimed. Read More



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