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	Online propaganda and the National Defense Authorization Act The National Defense Authorization Act has proposed amendments that would let the government wage a propaganda war online ... in the history of bad political ideas, this is epic. Read More WEBCAST: HP and Polycom Dramatically Simplify Video Collaboration Deployments If you want to dramatically simplify video collaboration deployments, centralize management, improve business productivity, and reduce IT costs associated with rich media communications, you do not want to miss this informative webinar. Register now! In this Issue RIM – OK, Now It's Over Once You Go Ipv6 You Won't Go Back Who Can You Trust? A Facebook Phone? You're Kidding, Right? Cisco gear sold to Iran despite sanctions The Information Security 80/20 Rule In Search of the Value of Session Management Get ready for more TSA pat-downs Why can't Microsoft innovate with Windows 8 as it is with Xbox 360? Cloud fever and TonidoPlug: Your own personal cloud RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap Denver Final Week to Register! IT Roadmap only comes to Denver once a year so don't miss this opportunity to join hundreds of local colleagues who will gain a year's worth of enterprise-ready ideas, answers, best practices, and key contacts all in one day – in one place. Attend Free. IT Roadmap Denver – 6/20 - Colorado Convention Center. RIM – OK, Now It's Over Let me begin by saying that it pains me deeply to write this one. I'm not a BlackBerry user, but my history with Research in Motion goes way, way back, all the way, in fact, to the legendary 850/950 and 857/957 models that were initially compared (very favorably, I might add) to pagers, not phones. RIM is one of the truly pioneering firms in subscriber units for wide-area mobility, but, just like Palm... Read More Once You Go Ipv6 You Won't Go Back In case you didn't already know it, today is the second annual IPv6 day (or IPv6 Launch Day). Last year some of the leading website operators and ISPs switched over to IPv6 for the day. Despite predictions of doom and gloom, the day went off without hardly a hitch. Read More Who Can You Trust? There has been much written recently about Flame, the latest sophisticated cyber attack /malware discovered by security researchers. Flame follows Duqu and Stuxnet before that as very sophisticated cyber attack vehicles that seem to be state-sponsored cyber weapons. In fact the NY Times ran a whole expose on this last week. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn Do More with LogMeIn Central! Monitor, Manage and Automate system tasks with LogMeIn Central. Take back your time. Use Central to quickly deploy Windows Updates at the same time across multiple PCs. Free trial for 30 days. A Facebook Phone? You're Kidding, Right? I normally don't comment on rumors, and I have no direct knowledge of any initiatives related to the topic at hand today, so let's put this one in the realm of hypothetical strategy. We do a lot of strategy work here at Farpoint Group; I think the setting of grand objectives and the derivation of the plans, techniques, procedures, resoruces, tools, and risk/reward analysis to achieve those objectives... Read More Cisco gear sold to Iran despite sanctions Despite sanctions that prohibit sales of American technology to Iran, an Iranian mobile operator was able to source equipment from Cisco, HP and Sun, which is now owned by Oracle. Read More The Information Security 80/20 Rule Over the past few months, I've been engaged in a research project on enterprise security management and operations. As part of some quantitative research, ESG created a segmentation model that divided survey respondent organizations into three sub-segments. The segmentation model broke down as follows: 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 In Search of the Value of Session Management It's been a couple of weeks since Interop and I've had some time to think about some of the happenings from the conference. One of the sessions I ran was a panel on the value of session management, and I came away disappointed in the panel responses. Session management has been hyped by the vendors as one of the next big things in Unified Communications. On my panel I had a number of representatives... Read More Get ready for more TSA pat-downs Most everyone hates pat-downs, even TSA employees are sick of them which resulted in firing or suspending 43 TSA supervisors and front-line screeners, 15% of the 280 TSA workers at Southwest Florida International Airport. Read More Why can't Microsoft innovate with Windows 8 as it is with Xbox 360? At the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) today, Microsoft unveiled a number of interesting innovations that link the company's successful Xbox 360 game console to other devices, including PCs, smartphones and tablets, and finally give the Xbox 360 the ability to easily browse and navigate the web. Before unveiling SmartGlass and Internet Explorer for Xbox, Microsoft posed the following questions... Read More Cloud fever and TonidoPlug: Your own personal cloud I know why you're happy ... you've got cloud fever. You can't get enough of cloud this and cloud that so, as a change from megascale, enterprise-scale, cumulonimbus-like behemoths, let's look at a something more on the wispy, happy, summer stratus-like scale. The TonidoPlug 2, which is based on the SheevaPlug and developed and marketed by CodeLathe LLC, is a personal cloud system that is really cool, amazingly well-featured, and remarkably inexpensive. Read More
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