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	Bye-bye, mouse. Hello, mind control When workplace computers moved beyond command-line interfaces to the mouse-and-windows-based graphical user interface, that was a major advance in usability. And the command line itself was a big improvement over the punch cards and tape that came before. Read More WHITE PAPER: AT&T / AT&T Wireless Data Growth Presents Challenges And Opportunities This study focuses on storage-as-a-service and the value of cloud-based services to securely store, manage, and effectively leverage data to find valuable information that can improve a business' process or offering. Learn more. In this Issue Company denies being bought by Google NW's products of the week 11.26.12 PGP Corp. co-founder's startup targets cloud authentication INSIDER CEO Interview: Blue Coat Systems Mike Borman 7 Most Important Tech Trends Of 2012 12 Sweet Cyber Monday Tech Deals Apple's Eddy Cue takes firm control over iOS Maps U.S. Government Progress on IPv6 Deployment Patent wars over wiretapping VoIP & surveillance backdoors into Internet chats Nikon and Samsung create a new camera category by embedding Android 15 Best iPad Apps for Newbies (2012) RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Ipswitch Wired & Wireless Networks? WhatsUp Gold can help! As an IT manager, you're busy taking care of the availability, performance & security of your company's IT infrastructure. But things like BYOD, rogue devices, AP over-subscription & bandwidth policy abuse can make that complex. WhatsUp Gold provides ONE dashboard to visualize, isolate & resolve wireless problems before they impact your organization. Stop being the last to know about your wireless issues- Try WhatsUp Gold free for 30 days! Company denies being bought by Google An apparently fictitious press release purporting to announce the acquisition by Google of a Wi-Fi provider called ICOA has some in the tech press scrambling to find their erasers. No such acquisition has occurred, insist both non-principals. According to TechCrunch: Read More NW's products of the week 11.26.12 Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as HP and Blue Coat Read More PGP Corp. co-founder's startup targets cloud authentication When Phil Dunkelberger co-founded PGP Corp. in 2002 with Jon Callas, it was to acquire the codebase for the famous encryption technology known as "Pretty Good Privacy" which had been sold to Networks Associates in 1997. That proved a good move for public-key encryption, and now Dunkelberger says his next project -- the formation of a company called Nok Nok Labs -- involves a revolutionary way to support authentication in corporate networks and the cloud. Read More WHITE PAPER: AccelOps Putting the Top 10 SIEM Best Practices to Work This eBook provides guidance to operationalize security and put the top 10 best SIEM practices to work, offering pertinent insights and details about how to gain more assured value from SIEM. Learn more. INSIDER CEO Interview: Blue Coat Systems Mike Borman In a candid discussion, brand-new CEO Mike Borman lays out his plans for WAN and network security vendor Blue Coat Read More 7 Most Important Tech Trends Of 2012 Technology trends can come and go with little more than a (Google) Wave, but seven trends of 2012 are here to stay. Some came out of nowhere, while others emerged after years of development. Read More 12 Sweet Cyber Monday Tech Deals The blur of in-store and online Black Friday deals came at us since October, but Cyber Monday offerings really only started to trickle out over the weekend and are in full force today, Nov. 26. Read More WEBCAST: Avaya, Brocade, HP Getting Server Virtualization Right Supporting server virtualization is the most important task network managers face today. Robin Layland leads a discussion with Paul Unbehagen from Avaya and John Gray from Hewlett-Packard on what needs to be done to support server virtualization. View Now Apple's Eddy Cue takes firm control over iOS Maps As time marches forward, the release of Apple's Maps app may soon be remembered more as the piece of software that led to the unceremonious exit of Scott Forstall than as Maps app riddled with problems and perhaps released too soon. Read More U.S. Government Progress on IPv6 Deployment The United States government has been striving to deploy IPv6 for many years. October 1st was the date that the government wanted to have functional IPv6-enabled Internet applications. Some agencies were able to configure some of their systems to use IPv6, but many systems did not achieve the goal. We should check how many of these systems are using IPv6 and what the government will do in the... Read More Patent wars over wiretapping VoIP & surveillance backdoors into Internet chats After Microsoft acquired Skype, we looked at a Microsoft patent called "Legal Intercept" meant for monitoring and recording VoIP communications. At that time, there were questions about if Microsoft would ruin Skype by making a backdoor for easy spy and pry government and law enforcement access. Read More Nikon and Samsung create a new camera category by embedding Android A first-time experience with a Nikon S800c or Samsung EK-GC100 camera is an epiphany. Android-embedded cameras change the definition of consumer camera forever and widen the distinction between cameras and smartphones. Android may not save the shrinking consumer camera industry, but it will convince many smartphone photographers to buy an Android camera to complement their smartphone so that they stop... Read More 15 Best iPad Apps for Newbies (2012) Got a shiny, new iPad or iPad Mini? The first thing you'll notice is that the tablet itself isn't all that exciting. It's the apps that make the iPad special. Here are 15 must-have apps. Read More
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