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	Worst security snafus of 2012 The first half of 2012 was pretty bad -- from the embarrassing hack of a conversation between the FBI and Scotland Yard to a plethora of data breaches -- and the second half wasn't much better, with events including Symantec's antivirus update mess and periodic attacks from hactivists at Anonymous. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Verizon Wireless Verizon M2M technology helps transform businesses. Verizon offers customizable, scalable, end-to-end machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions. Only Verizon has the expertise, industry-specific knowledge and high-performance 4G LTE network to develop and deploy integrated solutions to meet the needs of your business. And the Verizon Machine to Machine Management Center helps you monitor and control your deployment from a single, easy-to-use portal. In this Issue NW's products of the week 12.10.12 Weighing Cisco's prospects for 2013 Gmail outage provokes snark, anxiety among users SDN switch company takes aim at the cloud Stallman attacks are 'FUD,' argues Canonical community manager Amazon lops $50 off Kindle Fire HD for Monday only Kaiser plans to hire 500 for new IT center in Colorado Apple TV faces significant barriers to mainstream adoption, even for Apple Can HYOD Replace BYOD? Windows 8 Can't Afford to Fail Like Vista YEAR END: 2012 Robot Review 10 things to know about Firefox 17 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! NW's products of the week 12.10.12 Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as McAfee, SafeNet and ExtraHop Read More Weighing Cisco's prospects for 2013 All eyes were on Cisco last Friday, December 7th as the company held its annual Financial Analyst conference in New York. Cisco, the undisputed 800-pound gorilla in networking, has been rapidly transforming itself into a broader IT company. At the event, CEO John Chambers made the bold claim that the company's goal is to not just be an IT company, but indeed the No. 1 IT Company. Chambers did clarify... Read More Gmail outage provokes snark, anxiety among users Gmail is back online after an outage late Monday morning that provoked a global response on social media. Read More SDN switch company takes aim at the cloud SDN switch vendor Pica8 this week unveiled a reference architecture intended to help cloud providers develop their programmable networks using Pica8 products. Read More WHITE PAPER: Autonomy, an HP company Data Protection in the Cloud This paper defines cloud computing, how a private cloud benefits organizations in achieving their information governance goals, and offers best practices for secure cloud adoption. Read Now! Stallman attacks are 'FUD,' argues Canonical community manager Canonical community manager Jono Bacon says that Richard Stallman's accusations that Ubuntu spies on users are "childish" and aimed at creating an air of FUD around the product. Read More Amazon lops $50 off Kindle Fire HD for Monday only Amazon is offering its Kindle Fire HD tablet, an 8.9-inch Android device that competes with the Apple iPad, for $50 less on Monday only as a Deal of the Day. Read More Kaiser plans to hire 500 for new IT center in Colorado Health care provider Kaiser Permanente has begun hiring about 500 IT professionals to staff its new information technology campus in Englewood, Colo. Read More Apple TV faces significant barriers to mainstream adoption, even for Apple Apple CEO Tim Cook attracted a lot of attention when he said that TV is "a market that we see, that has been left behind" in his interview with NBC anchor Brian Williams. However, the more important Steve Jobs-inspired Cook quote came later in the interview: "Our whole role in life is to give you something you didn't know you wanted. And then once you get it, you can't imagine your life without it." The... Read More WEBCAST: CDW & Symantec A Simple Backup Solution Hear from real-world IT professionals about their experiences using Backup Exec 2012. See how they implemented their backup solutions, from simple backups to total overhauls, for both physical and virtual servers. Plus, discover what Backup Exec 2012 did to gain their trust for years to come. Learn More. Can HYOD Replace BYOD? I received an invite to listen in on a webinar tomorrow by the folks at Zscaler. Featuring Rick Holland of Forrester, the webinar will focus on the bring your own device (BYOD) approach compared to the "here is your own device" (HYOD) approach. The BYOD wave has been a nightmare for many a security and IT admin for years. Read More Windows 8 Can't Afford to Fail Like Vista Calling Windows 8 "Vista Part 2" is premature and naïve. Yet Windows 8 is vulnerable in the same way Vista was and will pay a higher price for failure. Read More YEAR END: 2012 Robot Review YEAR END: 2012 Robot Review Robots often end up as toys or eye candy at trade show booths, but many of them have more noble purposes. We'll show you both in the 2012 robot review. 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