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	How the fiscal cliff affects IT Since the election, the political news cycle has revolved around the impending "fiscal cliff," a perfect storm of tax increases and government spending cuts set to take effect on Jan. 2, 2013. Although the IT industry may not have paid much attention, it's just as susceptible to the policy changes as the rest of the economy. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: SolarWinds Tired of hearing about how slow the internet is? Online shopping, streaming music, You Tube videos, and Skype calls to Grandma can wreak havoc on your network bandwidth this holiday season. Turn to SolarWinds Bandwidth Analyzer Pack (BAP) the next time you're told the internet is slow. SolarWinds gives you visibility into how much network capacity is being used and why bottlenecks are happening Download BAP for real-time bandwidth monitoring and alerting so you never get asked if the Internet is down again. Click to get started today with a free, 30-day trial! In this Issue IT industry could be blindsided by fiscal cliff Google to start charging small businesses for Google Apps Apple CEO Tim Cook says Mac production will begin in the U.S. Avaya brings virtualization to the communications space Despite Zynga's flop, social gaming is not a fad Pandora shares plummet despite increased revenue and growing audience What if Linux went closed source? Would you still use it? Why did BlackBerry blacklist the 'Pooh' gang? Government board aims to revamp decrepit US security classification system 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! IT industry could be blindsided by fiscal cliff As Congress continues to debate how it should prevent the federal government and national economy from plummeting off the so-called fiscal cliff at the end of the year, many technology companies - particularly smaller businesses and startups - may be unprepared for the ensuing changes. Read More Google to start charging small businesses for Google Apps Google has ended a free version of its Google Apps online application suite for small businesses, saying it wants to provide a stronger and more uniform experience to users. Read More Apple CEO Tim Cook says Mac production will begin in the U.S. Apple will begin manufacturing one of its existing Mac lines in the United States next year, CEO Tim Cook told several news organizations--a move that may address fierce criticism over the company's overseas manufacturing processes. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Make Your Sharepoint Social IBM can help extend your current SharePoint implementation to include true social capabilities reducing the friction associated with discovering, sharing and collaborating within a team, across the company or with your business partners and customers. Learn More Avaya brings virtualization to the communications space A couple of years ago, there was great debate as to whether Tom Brady-led Patriots or the Peyton Manning-led Colts were the "team of the decade" for the decade ending in 2010. In tech, though, we have no ESPN or JT the Brick to pose such questions, but if we were to give an award to the "technology of the decade" for that same time period, there would be no question as to what the winner... Read More Despite Zynga's flop, social gaming is not a fad Read More Pandora shares plummet despite increased revenue and growing audience Shares of Pandora have plummeted in the last two days after the mobile Internet radio company issued a dissapointing forecast for next quarter's earnings. On Wednesday, shares dropped by nearly 18% down to $7.80 a share and as of Thursday afternoon are trading at $7.95 a share. At the root of the drop were worrying comments made by Pandora executive Joe Kennedy who explained that given the current... Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Building modern, virtualization-optimized data centers HP offers a flexible, virtualization-optimized data center network architecture that requires far fewer devices, interconnections, layers, and discrete appliances. HP Networking solutions streamline network operations and accelerate application and service delivery; reduce space, power, cooling, and capital requirements. View Now What if Linux went closed source? Would you still use it? When was the last time you downloaded source code? Seriously. Take a look at the applications you currently have running – your web browsers, office suites, terminals, graphics editors and the like. Have you ever downloaded the source code for any of them, made a change and recompiled? (Okay, all of you Linux-From-Scratch and Gentoo-ers can put your hands down.) Read More 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 Government board aims to revamp decrepit US security classification system The US government's overly complicated way of classifying and declassifying information needs to be dumped and reinvented with the help of a huge technology injection if it is to keep from being buried under its own weight. That was one of the main conclusions of a government board tasked with making recommendations on exactly how the government should transform the current security classification... Read More
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