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IT Blogwatch: Twitter “terrorist” taken to task
Paul Chambers, a Brit twit, is ruing the day he posted a joke bomb threat to his Twitter followers. He was summarily arrested as an alleged terrorist, suspended from his job, and banned from Doncaster’s Robin Hood Airport. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers steal from the poor to give to the rich. Not to mention teleporting goats … Read More

DirectAccess and UAG: Better Together
Here are some of the key reasons why you would want to run Unified Access Gateway with DirectAccess Click to continue

Data Center Survival Guide
Today’s data center has become very complex and hard to manage. This drives up costs, power and cooling requirements and provisioning time. It also makes the entire network inefficient, difficult to scale and vulnerable to security breaches. New technologies and services, such as Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Oriented Architecture (WOA), Cloud Computing and Software as a Service (SaaS) will make the situation worse, taking an even bigger bite out of data center performance and bandwidth—and presenting new security challenges. The Juniper Data Center Survival Guide shows IT professionals how to survive in this increasingly complicated environment. It explains how to simplify your infrastructure and network management now with Juniper Networks®. It identifies four of the most difficult challenges you face today in your data center—and the simple steps you can take with Juniper Networks to not only survive the onslaught of new applications and services, but enable your data center to thrive. Read More!

Seth Weintraub: Apple iSlate event confirmed for January 27th
Apple today sent out invitations to the Jan. 27 presentation that we’ve been hearing much about lately. Along with the colorful invite graphics, they included the caption, ‘Come see our latest creation’. Read More

Preston Gralla: Apple: Still kowtowing to Chinese censorship
Apple has worked for years to build a company image as freedom-loving and iconoclastic. But the truth is far darker: Apple is cooperating with the Chinese government to ban iPhone applications in China related to the Dalai Lama and Uighur activist Rebiya Kandeer. One word describes Apple’s behavior: hypocritical. Read More

Michael Horowitz: Anatomy of a Haiti texting scam
Considering donating to Haiti? Here’s the anatomy of one scam, involving a hacked website, designed to install malicious software on your computer. Read More

Preston Gralla: How to protect yourself against the Chinese Google hack
Worried about the security hole in Internet Explorer that was used to launch attacks by China against Google and others? There are ways to help close it and limit your exposure to similar threats — and it won’t take more than a few minutes. Here’s how to do it. Read More

Application Delivery over the WAN: Acceleration Alone is not Enough
Looking to maximize IT performance by leveraging WAN optimization solutions across your organization? Today, the fact is that acceleration alone is not enough. This Aberdeen Group report examines best practices for managing application performance over the wide area network. Download White Paper!

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: The best Linux file system of all?
According to Google, it’s Ext4, and that’s why they’re moving their servers to it. Read More

Seth Weintraub: Next iPhone killer? WiMAX-enabled ‘Supersonic’ with Android
Don’t you just love the term ‘iPhone killer’? The term itself at this point implies that the device it describes won’t be such. But now that the buzz from the Nexus One is starting to wane, we need a new king of the hill Android device to crown the next iPhone killer. Enter the ‘Supersonic’. Read More

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Should Ubuntu include proprietary software?
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, wants to know if proprietary programs should be included in their distributions and, if so, which ones. Read More

IT News Podcast: Microsoft to erase some search data after six months
In today’s podcast: Microsoft to erase some search data after six months; Google investigates insiders in hacking case; and Apple may be striking deals with book publishers. Read More

What kept you?
Pilot fish gets a help desk call from a user who also happens to be a personal friend. He says he’s on his way over with a laptop that’s not printing properly — but the rest of the day passes without the user showing up. Read today’s complete Shark Tank at Read More

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