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	20 essential business apps for iPhone and iPad Read More   RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: SolarWinds Right Size Your Network Performance Management Solution Paying too much for network monitoring? This white paper follows four organizations in their search for the most cost-effective network performance management tool. See the challenges they encountered along the way and how they used product fit and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) to make the switch from bloated, overpriced solutions to SolarWinds. Click here to get this FREE whitepaper from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) and learn how four organizations benefitted from choosing SolarWinds award winning Network Performance Monitor. In this Issue Boulder's tech workers cope with historic flood Juniper ships SDN controller, dismisses OpenDaylight technology INSIDER The best laptops, convertibles, and Ultrabooks for Windows 8 Google acquires Bump for undisclosed amount Patch expert wants Ballmer to get to the bottom of buggy Windows, Office updates An alternate method of SDN network programmability Super-fast Wi-Fi: Cisco, Ubiquiti access points top out at nearly 400Mbps 8 reasons why Chromebooks aren't going away 50 million users strong, Versafe brings online fraud protection to North America Best and worst tech bloopers: September edition RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: SolarWinds Free Whitepaper from SolarWinds: NetFlow Tips & Tricks Network bandwidth usage is one of the biggest contributors to your network performance. By taking advantage of the flow technology that is built into most routers and switches, you can quickly identify bottlenecks and troubleshoot bandwidth related problems. Take your NetFlow skills to the next level! Read this FREE whitepaper for an introduction to NetFlow & other flow technologies, as well as configuring your network to collect flow data. Boulder's tech workers cope with historic flood Tech firms in Boulder must shutter downtown offices as floods damage offices and close most roads. But the Internet-based firms keep running smoothly. Read More   Juniper ships SDN controller, dismisses OpenDaylight technology Juniper Networks is now shipping its SDN controller and has also made it available as open source code, signaling an intention to not develop product around the OpenDaylight SDN consortium's work. Read More     INSIDER The best laptops, convertibles, and Ultrabooks for Windows 8   From classic clamshell notebooks to next-gen touch hybrids, see how HP, Dell, Samsung, Lenovo, and Acer stack up in InfoWorld's reviews Read More   Google acquires Bump for undisclosed amount Google today made an interesting acquisition, snatching up a mobile startup that first made a name for itself in the world of iOS. According to All Things D, Google purchased Bump for somewhere between $30 million and $60 million. Read More   Patch expert wants Ballmer to get to the bottom of buggy Windows, Office updates A Microsoft MVP and Windows expert has sent company CEO Steve Ballmer a letter asking him to look into the worrisome trend of releasing sub-standard patches. Read More   An alternate method of SDN network programmability If you haven't been living under a rock for the past few years, your head is probably about to explode from Software Defined Networking overload. Rooted in Stanford academic research, SDN was initially branded as a "science project," which in reality it was. However, rapidly growing market interest quickly propelled it from theory to practice and the era of SDN startups had begun. Read More   Super-fast Wi-Fi: Cisco, Ubiquiti access points top out at nearly 400Mbps Earlier this year we tested several consumer-level 802.11ac routers. Here, we take a look at two enterprise-level access points. They're a part of the so-called "Wave 1" phase of the 802.11ac standard: both access points support up to three spatial streams and 80 MHz wide channels, offering theoretical data rates up to 1.3Gbps. But just as we saw with the 802.11ac routers, you won't get throughput rates nearly that fast. Read More   8 reasons why Chromebooks aren't going away Chromebooks are here to stay. Here's why: Read More   50 million users strong, Versafe brings online fraud protection to North America There was a time when if you were not in the US Internet market, you were not in the Internet market. Fully two thirds of the market for the Internet was US based. Of course those days are long gone as the law of numbers have evened things out, but still it is surprising to me when I hear about companies that have had such great success without penetrating the US market. Such is the case with Versafe... Read More   Best and worst tech bloopers: September edition While watching a blooper reel at a recent baseball game, I got to thinking about whether we could pull off a regular bloopers collection of technology-related incidents. Read More
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