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	The geek skills challenge: 10 talents worth mastering From replacing a hard drive to picking a lock, these are the skills you need to earn the name 'geek' Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel Top 10 Benefits of Virtualization In this eGuide, Network World sister publications InfoWorld, and PC World examine some of the current uses of blade servers in today's data center, as well as how trends such as server virtualization are reshaping enterprise computing. Read Now! In this Issue Google honors Bob 'Happy Little Clouds' Ross Campaign 2012: Mining for voters Halloween Google Doodles through the years Ernst & Young's IT security survey shows struggle to control cloud computing, social media and mobile risks NYC shuts parts of lower Manhattan, other areas due to hurricane IPv6 Is Not an All-or-Nothing Proposition IBM moving to replace silicon with carbon nanotubes in computer chips App wars: Windows 8 Metro vs. the iPad WHITE PAPER: Symantec Taking the Leap to Virtualization Read this whitepaper to learn how virtualization offers dramatic benefits for midsize companies, including efficiency, cost savings, and increased reliability and performance. Read Now! Google honors Bob 'Happy Little Clouds' Ross I can't help but note the irony of Google honoring painter Bob Ross on a morning when the "happy little clouds" from Hurricane Sandy are anything but happy and threatening to make kindling out of "happy little trees" all up and down the East Coast. Read More Campaign 2012: Mining for voters Big data, analytics and mobile apps are enabling smaller political campaigns and advocacy groups to be more effective when it comes to winning over voters and raising money. Read More Halloween Google Doodles through the years The first Halloween Google Doodle, posted in 1999, was just the fourth Doodle ever and second to mark a holiday, following only Thanksgiving 1998. As we await a new one on Wednesday, here's a quick look at how Halloween Doodles have evolved over the years. (Last year's video at the bottom is a gem.) Read More Ernst & Young's IT security survey shows struggle to control cloud computing, social media and mobile risks Many CIOS and chief information security officers are struggling to adapt security practices to a changing environment that includes cloud computing, social media and tablets , according to a survey of 1,850 such IT pros. Read More NYC shuts parts of lower Manhattan, other areas due to hurricane Parts of New York City received mandatory evacuation notices from the governor's office as Hurricane Sandy came ashore Monday. Along with other businesses in the city's financial district, the New York Stock Exchange voluntarily shut down. Read More IPv6 Is Not an All-or-Nothing Proposition I have recently met many people who are under the impression that an organization must transition directly from IPv4 to IPv6. Thankfully, this is not the case. You can run IPv4 and IPv6 side-by-side during the interim stage of migration. Only after a long period of running both will you eventually be able to start to disable IPv4. A decade or more from now, IPv6 may be the only network-layer... Read More IBM moving to replace silicon with carbon nanotubes in computer chips IBM has hit a milestone in its quest to come up with a successor to silicon computer chips. Read More App wars: Windows 8 Metro vs. the iPad Microsoft's Metro environment in Windows 8 and Windows RT takes the iPad approach to apps, but is it better? Read More
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