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	Cisco profit halved as revenue falls Cisco Systems reported another tough quarter on Wednesday, saying profits in its fiscal second quarter fell by more than half and revenue declined by nearly 8 percent. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Software Anatomy Of A CyberAttack Do you know how to keep cyber-criminals out of your network? Cyber-criminals employ complex techniques to avoid detection as they sneak into corporate networks to steal intellectual property. Don't give the bad guys the keys to your network. Learn how to protect your organization from emerging threats in our e-book. Read Now In this Issue 11 Best Places to Take a Techie on a Date Grande Communications makes big headlines with gigabit Internet service Researchers show-off high-speed laser communications device for space Tune in tomorrow for World Radio Day Toyota recalling nearly 2 million Priuses due to software glitch Verizon reboots its home monitoring service Are Silicon Valley Techies Becoming 'The Man'? GoGrid wants to be your open source alternative to Amazon's cloud databases Mac Pro ship date slips to April as profiteers mark up computer 50% or more 6 tips for smartphone privacy and security Top 10 States for IT Jobs WHITE PAPER: Dell Software 12 Things Effective Intrusion Prevention Systems Should Do Today's intrusion prevention systems (IPS) provide advanced security intelligence and the ability to identify and block malware before it can enter your network so that you can defeat today's sophisticated evasion techniques. Learn More 11 Best Places to Take a Techie on a Date Not too late to plan a Valentine's Day extravaganza Read More Grande Communications makes big headlines with gigabit Internet service Has gotten in ahead of Google, AT&T to provide ultra-high-speed service to Austin. Read More Researchers show-off high-speed laser communications device for space Using lasers to communicate quickly through the long distances of space has generally been the purview of science fiction. But researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) are out to change that notion with a prototype array that can information - and allow much higher data rates than conventional systems -- than usual... Read More Tune in tomorrow for World Radio Day Rarely does a day go by without me driving, so rarely does a day go by without me listening to the radio (sports talk, almost exclusively). Yet radio gets dismissed - ridiculed even -- as so 20th Century, especially by those too young to remember when radio ruled. So allow me a shout-out to UNESCO for turning up the volume on tomorrow's second annual World Radio Day. From the organization's website:... Read More Toyota recalling nearly 2 million Priuses due to software glitch Toyota is recalling nearly 1.9 million Prius hybrid vehicles around the world in order to fix a software glitch that could damage transistors and cause a loss of power. Read More Verizon reboots its home monitoring service Two years after launching its smart home remote monitoring service amid fanfare, Verizon Communications stopped offering the service to new customers. It plans a reboot later this year. Read More Are Silicon Valley Techies Becoming 'The Man'? In the good old days, technology types were viewed as likeable geeks, the underdogs everyone could root for. But these days, techies are seen as wealthy elite. How did they become the most despised group of the Valley? Read More GoGrid wants to be your open source alternative to Amazon's cloud databases Amazon Web Services is a juggernaut in the infrastructure as a service market, but GoGrid, a midsize IaaS competitor that aims to be the cloud for big data, says it wants to offer an alternative to AWS's platform. And it's hoping to do so through open source databases. Read More Mac Pro ship date slips to April as profiteers mark up computer 50% or more Apple continued to have problems meeting demand for its radically redesigned Mac Pro desktop computer, with ship dates today extending into April. Read More 6 tips for smartphone privacy and security In the digital world, things are getting worse rather than improving with regard to the populist quest for personal privacy and security. Our smartphones track wherever we go, what we say, who we say it to, our likes and dislikes, and when we are playing games instead of working. Our computers track and record the same types of information day in and day out. Read More Top 10 States for IT Jobs Looking for an IT job? It only makes sense to go where the most technology companies are located. The 10 states listed here boast the highest number of IT firms. Read More
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