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	The Great Verizon Network Extender rip-off A few months ago I started writing about my saga of getting AT&T U-verse DSL service established at the new location of the Gibbs Universal Industries Secret Underground Bunker. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Software Switching Schedulers – Not As Complicated As You Think Changing or consolidating job schedulers may seem daunting. However, the benefits of switching to enterprise workload automation outweigh the risks. Read how BMC can help realize goals like reduced cost, top-down visibility, improved SLAs, and a single enterprise view across all platforms. Learn More Today! In this Issue PC makers 'not thrilled' with Windows 8, holding off on tablets Apple: Great new products, but secrecy as a religion Is Microsoft right and W3C wrong about Do Not Track being turned on by default? Made in America, who is manufacturing in America? Dept. of Homeland Security to focus on cyber workforce development WHITE PAPER: SAP Options for Improving Supplier and Customer Integration A new report from Gartner outlines nine different frameworks that companies are using to address their integration challenges, and the benefits of including B2B outsourcing as part of a successful IT strategy. Learn More PC makers 'not thrilled' with Windows 8, holding off on tablets If the accumulating negative reviews for Windows 8 (here, here and here, among others) aren't enough to raise alarm bells in Redmond, maybe this will do it: a Wall Street analyst firm has issued a research note that says OEMs are giving Windows 8 a thumbs-down. Read More WHITE PAPER: Limelight Web Acceleration: The Rules Have Changed Optimizing your web page loading time is essential for retaining your website visitors. Download Web Acceleration: The Rules Have Changed to learn how front-end optimization can improve Time to Action for your web and mobile content, and how it can be done in front of your existing CDN with minimal integration required. Learn More! Apple: Great new products, but secrecy as a religion Apple CEO Tim Cook, along with a few friends, Monday performed the annual Apple Worldwide Developers Conference keynote. The show must go on, even without Steve Jobs, and it sure did go on -- two well-packed hours of Apple mantra and mania. They did not talk about what I was watching for, but it turned out OK anyway. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems 2x consolidation for less than F5. Shift up to the Cloud Pay more to get less consolidation? How dense does F5 think you are? Shift to Citrix NetScaler. 2x consolidation—for less. Don't compromise your consolidation project. The Iron Age is over. The Cloud Age is here. Learn how virtualization streamlines your datacenter and consolidates network resources. Learn More Is Microsoft right and W3C wrong about Do Not Track being turned on by default? Some of us, including Senator Al Franken, believe privacy is a fundamental right. Choice is great, but it's also a problem since many users will not take steps to change settings and protect themselves or their privacy. Read More Made in America, who is manufacturing in America? Read More Dept. of Homeland Security to focus on cyber workforce development Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today said the agency will form a cybersecurity workforce task group that will consider strategies such as expanding DHS involvement in cyber competitions and university programs, enhancing public-private security partnerships and working with other government agencies to develop a more agile cyber workforce across the federal government. The new task... Read More
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