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	How to determine if your LinkedIn password has been compromised As reports have swirled throughout the day that approximately 6.5 million LinkedIn passwords have been leaked, security experts have been trying to figure out what happened, as well as checking to see if their own passwords have been compromised. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Avaya Avaya Mobile Collaboration Read a complimentary Frost & Sullivan white paper: Prepare Your Enterprise for the Mobile Revolution. The world is becoming increasingly mobile., Learn how to keep costs in check, boost user productivity, deliver a consistent experience, and maintain a single, manageable corporate identity for all end-users. Click to continue In this Issue The life of a 'booth babe': high heels, long hours and leering visitors Microsoft to run Linux on Azure Cerf: IPv6 'launch' was 20 years in the making Microsoft on{X} makes Android phones smarter than Windows phones 11ac chip with NFC, Bluetooth unveiled by Marvell Cisco touts TelePresence endpoint for 'harsh' environments Splashtop releases virtual Windows 8 environment for Android tablets Red Hat launches hybrid cloud management software 10 Ways to Use Smartphones to Grow Your Sales WHITE PAPER: Check Point Software Check Point 3D Security Analysis Report Tool Reduce security risks with the Check Point 3D Security Analysis tool. This comprehensive security analysis provides an easy-to-read report that summarizes security events, their risks, and remediation. See sample report View Now The life of a 'booth babe': high heels, long hours and leering visitors For six to seven hours on Wednesday, 22-year-old Amanda Lin will pose in a short black cocktail dress with a laptop from Gigabyte Technology, the company's logo stamped across her upper arm. Her main challenge: trying to stand comfortably in her high heels. Read More Microsoft to run Linux on Azure After years of battling Linux as a competitive threat, Microsoft is now offering Linux-based operating systems on its Windows Azure cloud service. Read More Cerf: IPv6 'launch' was 20 years in the making The official World IPv6 Launch event, which began at 8 p.m. EDT yesterday, passed with little if any attention from the typical Internet user. For some in the Internet engineering community, however, the day marked the culmination of two decades' worth of work. Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation Easing the Transition to a Virtual Endpoint Infrastructure This Technology Spotlight discusses the drivers, benefits, and challenges of creating virtual desktop environments, and looks at the role EMC Global Services plays in helping companies achieve successful deployments of this important technology. Learn More Microsoft on{X} makes Android phones smarter than Windows phones It seems strange -- and it is -- but Microsoft is launching an application programming system called on{X} for Android phones that make it easy for Java-savvy users to turn the phones into smart, hypervigilant assistants. Read More 11ac chip with NFC, Bluetooth unveiled by Marvell The next generation of Wi-Fi -- the superfast IEEE 802.11ac standard -- will integrate a range of wireless technologies on the same chip, as Marvell showed this week at Taiwan's giant annual Computex show. The semiconductor vendor announced a chip that will include 11ac with Bluetooth and near-field communications (NFC). Read More Cisco touts TelePresence endpoint for 'harsh' environments Cisco this week unveiled a TelePresence endpoint for workers in nontraditional settings, like those caught in a storm, stuck in traffic or otherwise detached from the usual 9 to 5 business world. 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! Splashtop releases virtual Windows 8 environment for Android tablets Want to try out Windows 8's Metro interface, without having to ditch your Android tablet? Now you can. Remote desktop vendor Splashtop announced Wednesday that it would add Android support to its Windows 8 Metro testbed product, which allows users to simulate a Metro tablet environment. Read More Red Hat launches hybrid cloud management software After a year of testing the software in beta, Red Hat Wednesday launched its hybrid cloud management software, called CloudForms. Read More 10 Ways to Use Smartphones to Grow Your Sales Smartphones can give your sales reps--and your business--a competitive edge by enabling them to respond quickly to customer needs and questions. Smartphones also provide instant access to customer data and let your workforce share information and presentations, check inventory and close deals. Read More
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