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	Give the gift of Gigabit WiFi: 802.11ac product sampler A round-up of current products that implement the 802.11ac "Gigabit Wi-Fi" draft standard Read More 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 In this Issue Ho-ho-hottest Android news and rumors for week ending Dec. 21 Could smart gun technology make us safer? The year in tech: Biggest fails, flops, and faux pas The Mayans really predicted the release of E17 A geek named Jeff just tweeted his 100,000th tweet Facebook messaging changes could let paid advertisements into users' inboxes End of the world: essential apps and gadgets to survive the apocalypse Chinese Catholic domain first drawn in ICANN lottery YEAR END 2012: Apple Review How to have a very Android Christmas WEBCAST: HP Storage in the Cloud Cloud will impact your storage environment. Hear what a HP Storage expert has to say. View Now! Ho-ho-hottest Android news and rumors for week ending Dec. 21 It's awfully hard not to start this with a holiday joke of some sort, but I'll do my best - it helps that the biggest Android news of the week isn't particularly cheery, what with the botnets and security breaches and all. We'll get all holly-jolly when we talk CES predictions and phone rumors later on. Read More Could smart gun technology make us safer? In the latest James Bond film, Skyfall, smart gun technology prevents a bad guy from using Bond's own Walther PPK to shoot him. Far fetched? Not at all. Read More The year in tech: Biggest fails, flops, and faux pas Read More The Mayans really predicted the release of E17 On Friday, December 21st, 2012, the world won't be ending. But something far, far more surprising will be happening. In fact, the most improbable event, in human history, will occur on December 21st. That's right. I'm talking about the release of Enlightenment 17 (aka "E17"). Not familiar with E17? Here's a quick overview. *Clears throat* Read More A geek named Jeff just tweeted his 100,000th tweet You never know what's going to pop up in your Twitter stream. This just popped into mine: Having no choice but to do the math, I can tell you that 100,000 tweets over six and a half years means that Jeff - who goes by @ageeknamedjeff on Twitter - averaged 42 tweets a day for 2,373 days. Read More Facebook messaging changes could let paid advertisements into users' inboxes Facebook today announced a trial that could let paid advertisers directly message users' in-boxes, which have traditionally been held for messages from friends. Read More End of the world: essential apps and gadgets to survive the apocalypse We want to make sure you are in with the best chance of surviving the upcoming end of the world so we've collected together a few essential apps and gadgets that might come in useful should the worst happen on Friday. Read More Chinese Catholic domain first drawn in ICANN lottery Internet name regulator ICANN has revealed the results of a lottery to determine the order in which generic top level domain (gTLD) names will be considered for approval, with the Vatican first in line. Read More YEAR END 2012: Apple Review YEAR END 2012: Apple Review It was a big year for Apple as it rolled out a new smartphone, tablets and updated its operating system as well as other tweaks to existing programs. 2012 saw Apple reach MVP status, for most valuable public company. From: networkworld Views: 2 0 ratings Time: 06:31 More in Science & Technology Read More How to have a very Android Christmas The first thing to do to get into the Android holiday gift-giving spirit is to customize your Android phone with Christmas wall paper and ring tones. Read More
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