'World's largest' telecom deal turns out to be a dud

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	'World's largest' telecom deal turns out to be a dud Originally billed as the world's largest telecommunications purchase, the U.S. government's Networx contract is turning out to be chump change for the five carriers involved in the deal. Halfway through its 10-year term, the contract has driven around $2 billion in revenue compared to projections as high as $34 billion for this stage of the program. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Checkpoint Are you prepared for a denial of service attack? Today, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks pose the greatest risk to organizations. With Check Point DDoS Protector™, organizations canextend their security perimeter, blocking all major attack types such as network floods, server floods, application layer DoS attacks, as well as low-and-slow attacks. Download this white paper "DoS Attacks Response Planning and Mitigation" to learn about counter-measures and technologies that can protect your organization>> In this Issue Tech 'firsts' that made a President's day (from the NW archives) US relief agency sets up 'rumor control' to counter online misinformation INSIDER Top tools for BYOD management VMware: Leaked source code dates to 2004, customers should patch How the Presidential Election Will Impact IT Outsourcing 4G World: A New Role for the Cellular Carriers? Windows 8 presses developers to update their skills Use of evoting machines unaltered despite power outages caused by Hurricane Sandy Researcher uncovers Android SMS phishing vulnerability 7 free Election Day apps for political junkies WHITE PAPER: HP Tie Together Multi-Vendor Devices in the Enterprise Network The complexity of multi-vendor network management is bogging down IT. Discover a platform that provides comprehensive insights into the network across the entire enterprise – from wired and wireless networks to physical and virtual environments. Manage all network resources, services and users with one tool, regardless of device manufacturer. Learn More Tech 'firsts' that made a President's day (from the NW archives) From the first presidential steamboat ride to the introduction of electricity in the White House to Obama's famous BlackBerry, our nation's commanders in chief have always enjoyed the privilege of being exposed to technology's cutting edge -- even if they haven't always embraced the opportunities. Read More US relief agency sets up 'rumor control' to counter online misinformation The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency has set up a "rumor control" section on its website to counter misinformation on social networks that has affected relief efforts after Hurricane Sandy. Read More INSIDER Top tools for BYOD management When we tested mobile device management (MDM) last year, the products were largely focused on asset management - provisioning, protecting and containing mobile devices. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Optimizing the Datacenter By embracing application and server consolidation strategies, IT managers can gain real efficiencies that lower costs and streamline operations. Oracle's servers offer the scalability required to tackle consolidation projects. Learn More VMware: Leaked source code dates to 2004, customers should patch VMware warned on Sunday that more of its source code for its ESX hypervisor technology could become public after another batch of code was released by a hacker. Read More How the Presidential Election Will Impact IT Outsourcing The issue of offshore outsourcing and its impact on American jobs has been front and center throughout the 2012 U.S. presidential campaign. But as election day draws near, both President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney are singing more or less the same tune on the subject-offshoring is bad; job creation is good. Read More 4G World: A New Role for the Cellular Carriers? I ran a short (three-session) track at 4G World in Chicago this week, continuing the theme of the Mobile Connect event we did in Boston in June. The concept behind Mobile Connect is how wireless and mobile benefit the enterprise, moving, if you will, up the protocol stack. If Interop is at its core all about Layers 1-3, then Mobile Connect is all about Layer-7. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Forrester: Virtualization and the Mobile Workspace How will you meet evolving security requirements? Discover IT approaches to BYOD and other workspace challenges in a Forrester study that examines policy management, desktop virtualization and mobility solutions. Read Now Windows 8 presses developers to update their skills Microsoft likes to talk about Windows 8 as being Windows "reimagined," and in many ways it is quite a departure from its predecessors. To allow the operating system's use across a range of touchscreen devices, Microsoft radically redesigned the look and feel of the OS. Read More Use of evoting machines unaltered despite power outages caused by Hurricane Sandy Plans to use electronic voting machines in Tuesday's presidential election appear to be largely unaltered in states that were hit hard by Hurricane Sandy. Read More Researcher uncovers Android SMS phishing vulnerability A researcher at North Carolina State University has uncovered a vulnerability that could be exploited to send deceptive text messages from some Android devices, as part of a phishing scheme. Read More 7 free Election Day apps for political junkies iOS and Android users alike can get their horse-race fix with these mobile apps. Read More
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