25 top network and IT industry news stories of 2011

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	25 top network and IT industry news stories of 2011 2011 will be remembered for Jobs' death, Cisco's refocusing, IPv6's coming out party and more Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn Provide instant on-demand remote support with LogMeIn Rescue Without pre-installed software, quickly connect to PCs, Macs, smartphones and tablets anywhere in the world. Get in, solve the problem, and be done in a flash. Plus, Rescue's SaaS-based platform means free upgrades and zero maintenance. Try it free today. In this Issue What's really going on with Carrier IQ on your phone FAQ: CNET's "Trojan" installer Migrating from T1 to fiber WAN Cross-site scripting flaws plague web applications, report says Music service Deezer goes global Mythbusters accidentally set cannonball on path of destruction Virtualization vs. Native apps Changes Coming To The CISO Position Miscellaneous Tech Treasures [2011 Cool Yule Tools] Online Security's Weakest Link: Men--and It's No Secret Why RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cyrusone Free capacity planning white paper. Running out of data center space? Help plan for capacity and discover the pros and cons of building, retrofitting or buying data centers by reading this new white paper. Co-authored by CyrusOne and Data Center Knowledge, it identifies the top seven IT infrastructure management challenges so you can minimize risk and plan ahead. Click to continue What's really going on with Carrier IQ on your phone More details are emerging that reveal the Carrier IQ smartphone application does exactly what the vendor says it does. These new findings directly contradict the nearly universal allegations of keylogging, spying, and tracking, all based on the uncritical acceptance of the original analysis by Trevor Eckhart. Read More FAQ: CNET's "Trojan" installer CNET is under fire for downloading more than just open source software with the open source software that it makes available on its Web site. Read More Migrating from T1 to fiber WAN Migrating from multisite MPLS to 100Mbps Ethernet can save you a bundle; here's how Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Consolidation without Compromise Pay more to get less consolidation? The Iron Age is over. Shift to Citrix NetScaler. 2x consolidation. For less. Get Consolidation Without Compromise now. Read more Cross-site scripting flaws plague web applications, report says Cross-site scripting flaws are the most prevalent vulnerabilities found in Web applications, posing a risk to data and intellectual property, according to a study of thousands of applications by vendor Veracode. Read More Music service Deezer goes global Deezer is planning to roll out its streaming music service in more than 200 countries, the company announced at the Le Web conference in Paris on Wednesday. Read More Mythbusters accidentally set cannonball on path of destruction The Mythbusters have some explaining to do, and this time they're more likely to be doing it in courtrooms than on TV. From a San Francisco Chronicle account that I'm excerpting at greater length than usual because it's the only way to do justice to the sequence of events: Read More WHITE PAPER: AMD Make Virtual Desktops a Valuable Reality with AMD This paper will explore how the fast-emerging trend of "desktop virtualization" is giving IT managers a potent solution for tackling the problems associated with PC sprawl. Read More! Virtualization vs. Native apps About a year ago, a few of the larger virtualization software vendors, such as VMware and CA Technologies, started campaigning against a phenomena that they called virtual stall. Read More Changes Coming To The CISO Position It's that time of year when industry experts of all types look into their crystal balls and make bold predictions for what's coming in 2012. As far as security goes, lots of these predictions will center on threats (i.e. new attacks patterns, malicious code, etc.) and defenses (i.e. security technologies, services, etc.). Allow me to make offer a trend that has nothing to do with either area.... Read More Miscellaneous Tech Treasures [2011 Cool Yule Tools] In our 12th year of presenting our Cool Yule Tools holiday gift guide, we've done our best to try to categorize the gift ideas into different groups – portable entertainment, travel gear, etc. While many of these ideas could, in theory, be placed there, sometimes we just feel that the device/gift idea should just be placed in "miscellaneous." So that's what we did with some of these. Enjoy! Read More Online Security's Weakest Link: Men--and It's No Secret Why Forget about bots, software flaws and hacking passwords, here's a way to do some serious online crime without all that high tech bother: Pass yourself off as woman. Read More
	SLIDESHOWS 25 free open source projects IT pros will love We asked SourceForge's new community manager and longtime open source coder, Rich Bowen, to sniff out a few of the cool, lesser-known projects he thinks IT folks will love. What follows are his picks, along with a few of our own. GOODIES FROM MICROSOFT SUBNET Everyone who enters will win free training from Webucator. Grand prize: a SharePoint training class worth $2,375. All who enter will be awarded a self-paced class of their choosing. Enter here: http://www.networkworld.com/community/contests. Enter here. MOST-READ STORIES CNET accused of wrapping malware in Windows installer for Nmap security tool 10 most powerful cloud companies New Cisco cloud computing framework pushes management, collaboration Naked truth: Dell Streak discontinued Verizon cites security issues for nixing Google Wallet Cloud computing disrupts the vendor landscape Tablet priced under $100 with Android 4.0 surfaces RSA security lapse led to March hack, says researcher Gartner predictions for 2012 iPad 3 rumor rollup for the week of Nov. 28
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