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	5 key forces driving open source today From the rise of foundations to emerging revenue models, the open source movement is primed for even greater impact on tomorrow's technologies. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Cisco Wide Area Application Services Software Release 5.0 Cisco® Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) provides the industry's most scalable, highest performance WAN optimization solution. Cisco WAAS is able to improve end user experience and reduce bandwidth for key applications. Learn more. In this Issue Tech bets on Obama with campaign donations Japan's Softbank offers to buy 70 percent of US operator Sprint for $20 billion Japanese virtualization start-up invades the USA Good news for job hunters in Android, Linux, and open source Apple Maps confuses Dark Knight Cisco, NetApp announce pre-configured platform for SMBs What does your degree matter? Millions of dollars over time Cisco, others chilling the Huawei cold shoulder? 5 examples of "really good stuff" Driverless car is wireless star at MIT Facebook reflects swings in presidential campaigns RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn LogMeIn Central: Automate, Monitor and Manage PCs. LogMeIn lets you Monitor and Manage PCs, deliver patches and updates to multiple PCS simultaneously. Central helps IT deliver seamless support that keeps employees productive and up and running. LogMeIn Central - automate routine tasks and do more. Free Trial Tech bets on Obama with campaign donations The tech industry's 2012 campaign donations show a clear preference for President Barack Obama, and industry executives believe he will win reelection, according to a new survey. Read More Japan's Softbank offers to buy 70 percent of US operator Sprint for $20 billion Japan's Softbank said Monday it has reached a deal to acquire a 70 percent stake in U.S. mobile operator Sprint Nextel for US$20 billion, forming one of the world's largest telecom operators. Read More Japanese virtualization start-up invades the USA Midokura, a Japanese startup focused on network virtualization, this week said it is entering the U.S. market with a distributed software defined network product designed for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Google Google Apps for Business Do more for less with your team using Google Apps. Custom web-based email, calendars, and documents to easily share & work together in the cloud. Start with a free 30-day trial! Good news for job hunters in Android, Linux, and open source Job candidates with tech skills in general and Linux skills in particular tend to face better-than-average prospects in today's otherwise gloomy hiring marketplace, but in the past few days the outlook appears to have gotten even brighter. Read More Apple Maps confuses Dark Knight The iOS 6 Apple Maps problems, for which Apple CEO Tim Cook apologized, have now apparently even negatively affected the Dark Knight's ability to track down the bad guys. How else to explain Batman and his fat-wheeled bike winding up in a mall? Read More Cisco, NetApp announce pre-configured platform for SMBs NetApp and Cisco this week revealed ExpressPod, a new, converged infrastructure for small and medium-sized organizations based on its predecessor, FlexPod. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Join the scale revolution for cloud ready networks Today's cloud evolution requires a full scale revolution. Citrix TriScale technology transforms enterprise data centers into highly scalable enterprise clouds. Download this whitepaper and learn how to scale your cloud network for more elastic performance, seamless expansion and simple consolidation. Learn More What does your degree matter? Millions of dollars over time Over the course of a working career, the type of degree you have can be worth millions of more dollars to your bottom line. Read More Cisco, others chilling the Huawei cold shoulder? Are Cisco, Juniper and other U.S. telecom firms orchestrating the recent backlash against Huawei, ZTE and other Chinese vendors? And if they are, are they only damaging their own opportunities? Read More 5 examples of "really good stuff" In the quest to keep you, dear reader, entertained and informed I undertake extensive research to find what's hot, interesting and useful. This means that I spend a lot of time looking at "stuff" of which only a small fraction of the "really good stuff" gets published. Read More Driverless car is wireless star at MIT At a launch event for the school's new wireless technology research center, MIT PhD student Swarun Kumar presented technology for a new autonomous vehicle that recognizes when it may be in danger of striking other cars and pedestrians. Read More Facebook reflects swings in presidential campaigns Social networking has become so critical to the 2012 presidential campaign that one analyst said Facebook is accurately predicting swings in the election polls. Read More
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