The smartphone is 20 years old, believe it or not

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	The smartphone is 20 years old, believe it or not The breakneck pace of change in the smartphone world is well known: Since the iPhone catalyzed popular demand in 2007, development has been moving faster and faster, to the point where devices are out of date mere months after their release. However, this wasn't always the case. In fact, according to some estimates, the smartphone is actually all of 20 years old, as of last Friday. Read More 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! In this Issue Be a hero for the holidays McAfee wants his guns back, admits poor aim INSIDER Tech job market on the upswing 10 tips for implementing IPS securely Google offers 10 times as many cloud computing options, plus drops prices 99-cents store: Best Black Friday deals of all? What not to put in the cloud What do Star Trek and software-defined networking have in common? Apple and Samsung extend accused product list in second California lawsuit Creepy surveillance: Mannequins secretly record shoppers and profile behaviors Windows XP's countdown to retirement: T-minus 500 days LTO-6 tape with up to 6.25TB capacity ships Get a grip: 18 winter gloves that work with smartphones, tablets WEBCAST: Fluke Networks Solve QoS Problems in VoIP Call Centers View this short video "Maintaining High VoIP Quality for Call/Contact Centers with Network Time Machine", to learn more about how carrier and call center customers are using Network Time Machine to rapidly determine problem domain and identify choke points in the network. View Now! Be a hero for the holidays Peruse through Network World's 2012 version of the cool yule tools. Read More McAfee wants his guns back, admits poor aim As we enter week three of this bizarre saga, please don't forget that reportedly on-the-lam John McAfee is a "person of interest" in the shooting death of his next-door neighbor. And I say that as much as a reminder to myself as anyone, given the seemingly inappropriate entertainment value that I am deriving from McAfee's frequent blog posts and tweets. Read More INSIDER Tech job market on the upswing To see the state of the job market for tech workers, just look at the headlines over the past few months: Read More 10 tips for implementing IPS securely An intrusion prevention system (IPS) includes all the features of an intrusion detection system but also has the ability to act upon malicious traffic. Since the IPS usually sits in line with network traffic it can shut down attacks, typically by blocking access from the attacker or blocking access to the target. In some cases, the IPS can talk to the firewall to block an attack. Read More WHITE PAPER: Capella University MP Explore Capella University IT/MBA Programs As an accredited university, Capella University offers online graduate degrees in business, education, human services, information technology, psychology, public health, and public safety and undergraduate degrees in business, information technology, and public safety. Learn More. Google offers 10 times as many cloud computing options, plus drops prices Google on Monday announced a significant ramp-up of its infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud offering, upping the number of virtual machine sizes available on its platform across the United States and Europe from four to 40. Read More 99-cents store: Best Black Friday deals of all? In compiling lists of hot tech deals for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, we're kicking ourselves for overlooking perhaps the best Black Friday deals of all at a New York City 99-cent store. Read More What not to put in the cloud The cloud promises unlimited capacity, pennies per hour to operate, 4+ nines of uptime and infrastructure managed by a dedicated staff. Even technical challenges around security and compliance can be achieved and are no longer suspect. So why wouldn't you send everything to the cloud? Read More What do Star Trek and software-defined networking have in common? For decades, networks have been built on closed, proprietary infrastructure. It's what's allowed vendors to create unique features and differentiate themselves. Those features are what have enabled the networks to be as reliable, secure and resilient as they have been in the past. However, over the past couple of years it seems that "open" has become the new black when it comes to network infrastructure... Read More WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors Standards-Based Platforms are Transforming IT More and more businesses are saving time and money by transforming proprietary, siloed computer environments for resource-intensive workloads into consolidated IT infrastructures built on industry standards and open systems. Learn More Apple and Samsung extend accused product list in second California lawsuit Not only is it challenging to stay up to date with all of Apple and Samsung's pending lawsuits, it's even tough to keep up with litigation in just one particular jurisdiction. Read More Creepy surveillance: Mannequins secretly record shoppers and profile behaviors It's doubtful you ever stop to think about all of the overhead security surveillance cameras in stores, but you are aware it's there. A new twist on secretly spying on shoppers would put the camera at your eye level because it is hidden in the eye socket of $5,130 Almax mannequins. If you think dolls are a bit creepy, then how about life-sized dolls that can record a shopper's "age range; gender; race;... Read More Windows XP's countdown to retirement: T-minus 500 days We are now less than 500 days from the end of support for Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Office 2003. Looking at the size of the existing XP population, that makes me rather nervous. Read More LTO-6 tape with up to 6.25TB capacity ships Tandberg Data, Imation and Fujifilm have announced separately that they are shipping the new LTO-6 tape drive technology offering up to 1.4TB per hour throughput. Read More Get a grip: 18 winter gloves that work with smartphones, tablets Smart gloves with conductive fabrics let you operate smartphones, tablets and e-readers without exposing your digits. Read More
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