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	11 sorriest tech companies of 2012 Vendors apologize in 2012 for everything from Apple Maps to Cisco Connect Cloud to outage after outage and breach after breach Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Ipswitch Wired & Wireless Networks? Learn More in our Live Webcast BYOD, rogue access, bandwidth abuse and access point performance are key issues impacting your ability to control your wireless IT environment. Join Brian Jacobs, WhatsUp Gold Senior Product Manager, for a live webinar on Nov 15th where he'll cover ways to address these key issues through best practices and a wireless management software. Register today this exciting, live webcast! November 15th at 8 AM US EST or November 15th at 2 PM US EST In this Issue Cisco VP to memo leaker: Finding you is now 'my hobby' Twitter asks many users to change passwords Samsung Galaxy S III is smartphone top seller - for the moment Cisco replaces collaboration group head again ISOC honors Facebook, Comcast execs for IPv6 work Five must-have business apps for the iPad Mini Verizon expands Lync service to hosted operations, management of UC Heist once again highlights e-banking vulnerabilities Chinese ex-hacker says working for the government would be too boring BlackBerry 10 is FIPS certified in advance of platform's release Is Apple Getting Soft? Products of the week 11.5.12 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 Cisco VP to memo leaker: Finding you is now 'my hobby' Cisco vice president of services Mike Quinn, a former CIA operations officer, believes that whoever recently leaked an internal company memo to a blogger committed corporate treason and violated a "family" trust. In an email sent to Cisco employees, Quinn invites the anonymous leaker to voluntarily step forward, concedes that such a confession is unlikely, and adds, "so I will now make (finding) you... Read More Twitter asks many users to change passwords Twitter appears to have reset the passwords for an undetermined portion of its user base because of a possible security breach. Read More Samsung Galaxy S III is smartphone top seller - for the moment The Samsung Galaxy S III, for the first time, is the top-selling smartphone in the world, beating out both the iPhone 4S and iPhone 5, according to Strategy Analytics data for the third quarter of 2012. Read More Cisco replaces collaboration group head again Cisco has named a former Symantec executive to head its struggling collaboration group, which saw three different leaders in less than a year. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Simplify Time-Consuming DBA Tasks See how Oracle was able to save 835 DBA hours its first year due to its pre-configured nature, ability to automatically bring a system up to its proper patch level, validate an environment and quickly gather all necessary log files and more. Learn More ISOC honors Facebook, Comcast execs for IPv6 work The Internet Society last night awarded its highest honor for work related to IPv6, the next generation Internet Protocol, to executives from Facebook and Comcast. Recipients of the award were Paul Saab and Donn Lee, software engineers at Facebook, and John Brzozowski, Distinguished Engineer and Chief Architect for IPv6 at Comcast. Read More Five must-have business apps for the iPad Mini How does the iPad Mini rate as a business tablet? PC World's Tony Bradley recently tackled that topic in "Apple iPad Mini: All the iPad at (nearly) half the cost." Read More Verizon expands Lync service to hosted operations, management of UC Verizon said it is extending its managed services offering for Microsoft Lync Server to its business customers by adding the ability to operate, monitor and manage unified communications and collaboration servers and functions. Read More Heist once again highlights e-banking vulnerabilities The CFO of a Missouri firm who discover that cyber thieves had withdrawn $180,000 from the company's account overnight called it "a helluva wake-up call." But he might have avoided the mess if he has paid better attention to the risks of electronic banking. Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Communications Universities Face Big Data Test Big Data will help university stakeholders make better-informed decisions across the board, from student recruitment to day-to-day operations. To carry that Big Data, Ethernet fabrics and software-defined networks are stepping up to help institutions build flexible and resilient network topologies. Learn more. Chinese ex-hacker says working for the government would be too boring Tao Wan now works at IBM, but said he was once an angry young man, a veteran of the hacking scene that burgeoned in China in the late 1990s. Read More BlackBerry 10 is FIPS certified in advance of platform's release Research In Motion took the unusual step of announcing a tough security certification for BlackBerry 10 in advance of the device's launch next quarter. Read More Is Apple Getting Soft? Apple ousts Steve Jobs protégé Scott Forstall. Will Apple's risk-taking and innovation go with him? 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