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Apple, Linux welcomes you to 1998!
A lot of people are buzzing about Apple's Mac App Store, but I'm nonplussed. I've had the same features on Linux since the late '90s. Read More


ARTICLE: BICSI

The Best Networking Manual
BICSI's Network Design Reference Manual, 7th edition, is a comprehensive resource for organizational network design which covers the fundamentals of network architecture, connectivity and communications. This edition includes a data center chapter, information on network security and wireless technology. Click here to learn more.

WHITE PAPER: IBM

IBM Smarter Planet Storage Solutions
Data warehousing and business intelligence applications play an important role in data analysis, but today's enterprises require the capability to integrate and combine wired and wireless data sources into the data analytics-based decision making process. The Evaluator Group examines IBM's offerings to implement pervasive information systems. Read Now!

The problem with Windows 7 tablets: they still run Windows
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and cohorts drew some major applause at CES by showing off new tablets running Windows 7, and for good reason. New devices from Acer, ASUS and Samsung are sleek and have innovative form factors, for example dual screens and slide-out keyboards. But the advances can largely be attributed to the good work of Microsoft's hardware partners. Read More

Is RSS becoming irrelevant?
Everybody panic! RSS is dying, or becoming irrelevant, or... something. So says Kroc Camen, anyway. According to Camen, RSS should be a browser's second most important feature, but instead it's going the way of the Dodo. Read More

Windows Phone 7 at CES: Hellooooo? Anyone there?
The Big News for Windows Phone 7 coming out of this week's Consumer Electronics Show was captured in a single, brief blogpost at MobilityDigest: the first software update for the mobile UI will be ready in 30-60 days. For the calendarically-challenged that would be early February. Or perhaps early March. Somewhere in there. That's not much, but it was enough to trigger a spasm of vitriol. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Riverbed

Accelerating the Cloud
To stay competitive and keep costs down, today's enterprises need to consolidate resources, quickly provision services, and more effectively rationalize costs with new business models. If done correctly, cloud computing can help solve these problems, and further help IT managers maintain business-critical applications and data. Learn More Now.

A lot to like about Cisco's new Internet TV
There's a lot to like about Cisco's newly unveiled Internet TV platform, Videoscape. Cisco is in an increasingly crowded arena with its next-generation television experience, one that marries subscription TV with Web content, personal videos and social media. Read More

Cisco at a quieter table in Vegas this year
Cisco looks like it will be glued to TV at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas later this week but the real focus will be on tablets, according to analysts sizing up the upcoming event. Read More

Not a great day in the news for Microsoft
If perception is important, which it is, January 4 was not a terrific day in the news for Microsoft. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Quantum Corporation

Long-Term Data Protection and Retention
IT organizations of all sizes contend with a growing data footprint with more data to manage, protect and preserve for longer periods of time. Read Now

Because pop-ups are so popular online?
To say I don't have high hopes for interactive television in the near term would be an understatement. Yahoo disagrees, witness its announcement this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Read More

How Many Devices are Enough?
UCOne of the more significant changes we're seeing regarding the enterprises' view toward mobility is the proliferation of supported device types. Read More

Hoping for WAN Acceleration at CES on mobile phones is heartbreaking
For the last two years I have waited for CES and Interop to see if a cellular carrier will come forward with a plan to provide WAN Acceleration for mobile phones. Each year I am filled with more doubts that we will never see it as that would cost the carriers more money in bandwidth lost and not billed. Read More

Conspiracy Theory With Teeth: Government Allegedly Forced TruTV To Yank FEMA Camps Episode
What is one sure-fired way to feed a conspiracy theory? Make a TV episode supposedly exposing a conspiracy theory and then, after alleged government pressure, have truTV yank that episode off the air. Read More



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