2012 Tech Industry Graveyard

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	2012 Tech Industry Graveyard As 2012 winds down, it's once again time to pay respects to technology companies, products, concepts and more that have died off this year, some mercifully. For companies such as Apple and Google, despite losing some of their loved ones, there remain plenty of others that are full of life. Read More WHITE PAPER: Avaya Delivering game-changing productivity & dependability By creating one contiguous, end-to-end Fabric, Avaya is empowering businesses to achieve unprecedented levels of infrastructure productivity, service agility, and network dependability, the very essence of the fast, flexible, and secure design aspirations. Read Now In this Issue EFF, 9 other groups, push Open Wireless Movement Trick or Treat: Top 10 Halloween apps for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch Android jobs outstripping work on Apple iOS Sandy slams mobile, wired and cable networks as far west as Michigan 10 essential ingredients of a killer Windows 8 business PC Gartner: How big trends in security, mobile, big data and cloud computing will change IT The 7 scariest monsters in tech Hopes for federal cybersecurity standards fading INSIDER Do you have a disaster-preparedness plan? Microsoft greases the skids for Windows 8 developers VMware beefs up its app data management tools Microsoft CEO Ballmer touts Windows 8 momentum INSIDER Virtual Instruments CEO: We're the bridge between physical and virtual WEBCAST: Dell SonicWall Why First Generation Firewalls Aren't Making the Grade In this exclusive webinar, learn from Dell-SonicWALL's Patrick Sweeney, how today's Next-Generation Firewalls allow businesses to scale their network security to meet the demands of emerging threats and new technology trends, while ensuring performance to meet key business objectives. Resister Now! EFF, 9 other groups, push Open Wireless Movement Forging ahead with an initiative that proved controversial when floated last year, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and nine other groups today are advancing the Open Wireless Movement to encourage ubiquitous sharing of Internet access. Read More Trick or Treat: Top 10 Halloween apps for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch Carved pumpkins, cobwebs and creepy crawlies are out in force as Halloween approaches, so we've rounded up some spooky apps for your iOS devices to celebrate this frightening occassion. Read More Android jobs outstripping work on Apple iOS Freelancer.co.uk's third quarter digital jobs survey among its 4.3 million users shows jobs relating to Apple iOS are falling away behind those linked to to Google's Android. Read More Sandy slams mobile, wired and cable networks as far west as Michigan Post-Tropical Cyclone Sandy knocked out mobile, phone and cable service in many parts of the eastern U.S. on Monday, with about one in four cell sites affected in the hardest-hit band of the country between Virginia and Massachusetts, according to an FCC estimate. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T VoIP Solutions Provide Enterprises With Various Benefits VoIP migration is a top telecom priority for many North American enterprises. Do you know why? Find out in this Forrester study, which reveals the opinions of telecommunications decision-makers like you. Read the report. 10 essential ingredients of a killer Windows 8 business PC Windows 8 is here. In form and functionality, the new flagship operating system is the most dramatic makeover of Windows since its inception. Windows 8 was developed from the ground up with a touch-enabled interface that works best when tapped and swiped. Under the hood, the same old Windows is still present, but the Modern UI and the Windows Store shift the focus to mobile. Read More Gartner: How big trends in security, mobile, big data and cloud computing will change IT When you go to a Gartner conference one of he main things you'll notice is the sheer volume of data they can generate on just about any IT topic. Last week's Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Fla., was no different. The conference, attended by some 9,000 executives focused on the changes security challenges, mobile computing, big data and cloud will be bringing to IT in the near future. Read More The 7 scariest monsters in tech They're the stuff that nightmares are made of, the rude beasts that haunt IT pros' dreams and make them wake up in a cold sweat. Look closely and you'll start to see them everywhere. Read More Hopes for federal cybersecurity standards fading Cybersecurity is clearly on the agenda of both Congress and President Obama. But it is just as clearly not at the top of their list. Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Scaling Out Data Centers Organizations of all sizes are facing daunting challenges as they struggle to adapt their data center networks to new technologies and applications. The move toward cloud architectures in particular is demanding a high-performance network interconnect that can host servers potentially numbering in the thousands. Read Now INSIDER Do you have a disaster-preparedness plan? What Sept. 11, 2001 taught network administrators is that having your backup server on site was not much of a backup if the entire grid went down. So in the past decade big strides have been made to create duplication offsite. With the latest natural disaster in Hurricane Sandy making a path of destruction through the East, the disaster preparedness plan is being put to a test. Read More Microsoft greases the skids for Windows 8 developers How badly does Microsoft need attractive applications for its Windows 8 operating system? Read More VMware beefs up its app data management tools Seeking to firm its position in the budding application data management space, VMware today released the latest upgrade to its vFabric GemFire product that enhances administrative controls, provides a new interface and aims to make it easier for applications to handle larger amounts of data faster than previous versions. Read More Microsoft CEO Ballmer touts Windows 8 momentum Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer kicked off the company's annual Build developer conference emphasizing the momentum of the company's new Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 operating systems. Read More INSIDER Virtual Instruments CEO: We're the bridge between physical and virtual John Thompson, former Symantec CEO, explains why the company he now heads offers a better way to manage the performance of cloud infrastructure. Read More
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