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	Cisco, other router rivals challenged by economy, competition The worldwide carrier routing and switching markets dropped a bit in the third quarter, decreasing 2.5% from last year and 1.7% from Q2, to $2.75 billion. Global economic uncertainty - underscored by the U.S. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed The Key to Effective Private Clouds A crucial element to any private cloud is the ability to provide reliable application performance and data transfer over the WAN. What's more, additional bandwidth won't' solve performance problems caused by latency. See how key features in WAN optimization can make the difference between a private cloud success or failure. Learn More In this Issue Bye-bye, mouse. Hello, mind control DEA issues extortion scam warning involving Internet drug buys Ex-Apple engineer claims company is failing at Internet Leaked internal Apple Store video explains how retail outlets can be "tranformational to your life" New Star Wars USB flash drives coming Digital watchdogs warn of spam, privacy issues with Facebook changes User ranked top LTE smartphones House set to vote again on STEM visas LulzSec hacker faces 30 years to life Java inventor James Gosling building smart marine robots Did #FoolishParents name a child Hashtag? Pay no heed to Facebook status updates concerning copyright ownership 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! Bye-bye, mouse. Hello, mind control New interface methods will revolutionize how we interact with computers Read More DEA issues extortion scam warning involving Internet drug buys The Drug Enforcement Administration today issued a public warning that criminals posing as DEA agents have apparently amped up an old scam to steal consumers' money. Read More Ex-Apple engineer claims company is failing at Internet Former Apple enginner claims Apple's Internet problems will be its undoing. Read More Leaked internal Apple Store video explains how retail outlets can be "tranformational to your life" Long before iPad 4, iPhone 5 and the iPad mini graced our world, Apple opened its first Apple Stores in 2001. Here's an internal video from last year leaked onto the Web this week. The glass-and-chrome stores were Steve Jobs' vision for boosting consumer sales via a great shopping experience. The feel-good video is chock full of Apple's bravado/pretentiousness, as Apple discusses its philosophy on... Read More New Star Wars USB flash drives coming If you haven't spent all your holiday shopping money just yet, check out these Star Wars-themed USB flash drives from Italian company Tribe. Read More Digital watchdogs warn of spam, privacy issues with Facebook changes Two digital rights group urged Facebook on Tuesday to halt changes to its governance and data use policies, warning the modifications could increase privacy risks. Read More User ranked top LTE smartphones Here's what customers of three carriers say about their LTE smartphone purchases. Read More House set to vote again on STEM visas For a second time in as many months, U.S. House Republicans will try to win approval of legislation to issue up to 55,000 so STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) visas to students who earn advanced degrees at U.S. universities. Read More LulzSec hacker faces 30 years to life Jeremy Hammond is in really big trouble. Or, perhaps, the government is just trying to "scare the (expletive) out of him," in the words of Kevin Mitnick, formerly known as the world's "most-wanted hacker" and now a security consultant. Read More Java inventor James Gosling building smart marine robots James Gosling, the inventor of the Java programming language when he worked at Sun Microsystems, finds the security framework for Java he designed still stands up after all these years. In fact he's using it today to design marine robots that can be sent across the ocean to gather weather data or carry out research projects. Read More Did #FoolishParents name a child Hashtag? One would hope that this is a hoax, because the alternative is that an 8-pound newborn baby girl has entered this world burdened by the name Hashtag. Although as you'll see in a moment, burden is in the eye of the beholder. Read More Pay no heed to Facebook status updates concerning copyright ownership On Monday morning, I noticed a few posts on my Facebook newsfeed that were a bit bizarre. All of the posts in question were the same and read as follows. Read More
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