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	Why did BlackBerry blacklist the 'Pooh' gang? A report surfaced earlier this week contending that BlackBerry OS 10 will include a list of 106 prohibited passwords designed to prevent the clueless from choosing the likes of 123456, blackberry, or the ever-popular "password" as their password. However, a RIM spokesman told me today that the list actually applies to BlackBerry ID universally, not only the upcoming operating system, and "has been... 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 The year in madly cool robots Google Ingress: How to save the world with your Android phone Cisco Catalyst 6500 vs. Cisco Nexus 7000 Cloud computing showdown: Amazon vs. Rackspace (OpenStack) vs. Microsoft vs. Google #DroidRage stunt brings Microsoft a world of hurt Gartner: Amazon, HP cloud SLAs are "practically useless" A gift guide to please any geek ... 25 years ago Six free databases with commercial-quality features 10 cloud predictions for 2013 WHITE PAPER: Coyote Point MS Exchange Deployment Guide This Deployment Guide provides detailed instruction for running Exchange 2010 with Coyote Point's Equalizer®, a qualified hardware vendor for load balancing Exchange Server 2010 View Now The year in madly cool robots From giants to itsy-bitsy shape shifters, robots are hot Read More Google Ingress: How to save the world with your Android phone If you'd been hanging around Kendall Square in Cambridge this weekend, you might have seen a brave freedom fighter lurking near MIT, battling nefarious paranormal forces, windchill and GPS problems. That was me. Read More Cisco Catalyst 6500 vs. Cisco Nexus 7000 These days, Cisco network administrators are a nation divided. Read More WHITE PAPER: Netscout Systems Inc. Good APM Practices Get Results According to NetForecast's survey, enterprises with application performance management (APM) best practices benchmark scores above six on a ten-point scale experience 75% better results in critical areas. This research paper reveals the survey results as well as discusses the best practices for APM. Learn More. Cloud computing showdown: Amazon vs. Rackspace (OpenStack) vs. Microsoft vs. Google It wouldn't be a mischaracterization to equate the cloud computing industry to the wild, wild west. Read More #DroidRage stunt brings Microsoft a world of hurt Microsoft might be looking for a new Windows Phone Twitter account manager today after an attempt to crowd-source attacks on Android-based phones backfired and instead prompted a barrage of attack tweets against Windows Phone, Windows security and Microsoft. Read More Gartner: Amazon, HP cloud SLAs are "practically useless" Amazon Web Services, which Gartner recently named a market-leader in infrastructure as a service cloud computing, has the "dubious status of 'worst SLA (service level agreement) of any major cloud provider'" analyst Lydia Leong blogged today, but HP's newly available public cloud service could be even worse.. Read More WEBCAST: Oracle America's Cup Analytics Dashboard in Action Watch this Webcast and you will have the opportunity to experience a live demo of the analytics dashboard. It's a great opportunity to see what analytics can do for your business Learn More A gift guide to please any geek ... 25 years ago I recently stumbled across this 25-year-old holiday gift guide segment - highly amusing in retrospect - that was produced by Computer Chronicles, a popular PBS series from 1981 to 2002. Read More Six free databases with commercial-quality features Microsoft, Oracle offer impressive free versions of their commercial offerings, but MariaDB wins our test Read More 10 cloud predictions for 2013 Read More
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