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Where do Cisco's network security plans go from here?

Best Tech Careers for Introverted IT Pros

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March 21, 2013
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Where do Cisco's network security plans go from here?

Despite its leadership position in most enterprise security product areas, Cisco faces a number of technological and competitive challenges to stay out in front.

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4. Defense spokesman says DoD not dumping BlackBerry

5. Cisco, others see run on data center switches

6. Chrome kicking browser butt just about everywhere

7. Would a 3D-printed gun really be legal?

8. How the 'largest and most IPv4 census ever' broke the law, but still respected user privacy

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Best Tech Careers for Introverted IT Pros

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Defense spokesman says DoD not dumping BlackBerry

A U.S. Department of Defense spokesman on Thursday said a report suggesting the defense agency is dumping BlackBerry devices was inaccurate, and that BlackBerry is still part of ongoing DoD mobile device deployment plans. READ MORE

Cisco, others see run on data center switches

Data center Ethernet switch revenues exceeded $2 billion in the fourth quarter of 2012, putting this market on an $8 billion annual run-rate, according to Crehan Research. Calendar 2012 revenue growth "far exceeded" that of 2011, the firm states, helped by a slowdown in the decline of chassis/modular Ethernet switch shipments and increasing adoption of 10G Ethernet switches. READ MORE

Chrome kicking browser butt just about everywhere

Website monitoring company Pingdom has posted a series of graphics today that illustrate at a glance the full extent to which Google Chrome has come to dominate the browser market, an outcome that few if any could have foreseen when Chrome first appeared in beta a mere four-and-a-half years ago. At that point in time, Microsoft's Internet Explorer controlled 75 percent of the market. READ MORE

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Would a 3D-printed gun really be legal?

Defense Distributed, the pro-gun nonprofit working to make 3D-printable gun designs freely available to everyone on the Internet, recently inched one step closer toward achieving that goal. The Austin, Texas-based group last week was granted a federal firearms license from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. READ MORE

How the 'largest and most IPv4 census ever' broke the law, but still respected user privacy

It started as a joke – "we should try the classic telnet login root:root on random IP addresses" – but it soon evolved into a massive, illegal project to hack into nearly half-a-million internet-connected devices solely for the purpose of mapping out global internet activity. The data would materialize as this fascinating .gif: READ MORE

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