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	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 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 Network World's Products of the Week 12.3.12 10 must-have features for Windows 9 Don't be a Scrooge with at-work holiday shoppers Network World's 15 Hottest Tech Arguments Is it time for the US to ditch the dollar bill? How to get the FTC's attention: Illegally robocall consumers while spoofing the agency's consumer hotline number Nokia Siemens Networks sells optical networking business IETF vs. ITU: Internet standards face-off Next viral PBS remix video? LeVar Burton's Reading Rainbow Vatican unveils Pope's Twitter account CIO succession: Promote from within vs. hire an outsider New twists on laptops: Purebred tablets vs. hybrid laptops 10 cloud predictions for 2013 WHITE PAPER: Condusiv Technologies (formerly Diskeeper Corporation) What Really Happens to Your Deleted Files You might be surprised! In this White Paper, many of the common and incorrect assumptions about file protection and recovery are detailed as well as a look Condusiv Technologies' Undelete 10, which fills many of the gaps left by other "recovery" methods. Read Now! Network World's Products of the Week 12.3.12 Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as A10 and Red Hat Read More 10 must-have features for Windows 9 Desktop users deserve a significant rethink of the Windows 8 gaffes and omissions for the next version of Windows Read More Don't be a Scrooge with at-work holiday shoppers Now that holiday gift-buying season is under way, IT managers should be prepared for a fair amount of that shopping being done at work. Read More Network World's 15 Hottest Tech Arguments Here's our take on the nastiest, most colorful and in some cases, still unresolved network industry arguments. Read More Is it time for the US to ditch the dollar bill? It seems well past time that the US ditch its $1 bill, considering such a move could save the country somewhere in the neighborhood of $4 billion. Read More How to get the FTC's attention: Illegally robocall consumers while spoofing the agency's consumer hotline number Seems these folks just wanted the Federal Trade Commission to smack them down. The FTC today said it had a federal court shut down an illegal robocall operation that allegedly impersonated the agency in an attempt to trick consumers into turning over all manner of sensitive personal data. Read More Nokia Siemens Networks sells optical networking business Nokia Siemens Networks is selling its optical networking business unit to private investment firm Marlin Equity Partners, the latest in a series of sell-offs as the vendor concentrates on mobile broadband networks. Read More IETF vs. ITU: Internet standards face-off A battle is brewing between two standards bodies - the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) - over which group will be the primary source of the underlying communications protocols that allow the Internet to operate in the future. Read More Next viral PBS remix video? LeVar Burton's Reading Rainbow LeVar Burton, he of Roots and Star Trek: The Next Generation fame, is getting another career boost thanks to a new YouTube remix video featuring his old PBS Reading Rainbow show autotuned to the hilt. Read More Vatican unveils Pope's Twitter account Pope Benedict XVI will extend his online presence to Twitter and start answering questions put to him via the social network in English and seven other languages. Read More CIO succession: Promote from within vs. hire an outsider Tapping an outsider can bring fresh perspective and experience to the CIO's office, but it also can have a negative effect on companies' efforts to develop IT management talent internally Read More New twists on laptops: Purebred tablets vs. hybrid laptops The lines between laptops and tablets are blurring with a new generation of hybrid devices, which are multi-mode laptops that can also function as slates. Read More 10 cloud predictions for 2013 Read More
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