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Cool stuff: Your 2009 holiday gift guide
We asked what you wanted for the holidays, and you answered. Here are the best HDTVs, e-readers, smartphones and some surprise goodies to wrap up for yourself or anyone on your list.
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Seven Design Requirements for Web 2.0 Threat Protection
Do you know if your web gateway, applications and confidential data are at risk? The Internet today is a different place than it once was. Manage new web threats with a proactive security paradigm to help you secure Web 2.0 applications and protect your enterprise and the employees that use these applications on a daily basis.
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Seth Weintraub: AT&T drops lawsuit against Verizon, should get sued themselves
AT&T today dropped its lawsuit against Verizon. I don’t think they had a great case since even AT&T admitted that Verizon wasn’t wasn’t lying. In fact, Verizon was being a lot nicer to AT&T than Consumer Reports was yesterday. It turns out that AT&T has very close personal knowledge of false advertising…
Can Windows Azure deliver on IT’s interest in it?
IT specialists see potential for Microsoft’s cloud platform to take care of peak compute loads
IBM offers Tivoli Monitoring for Amazon cloud deployments
Companies running applications on Amazon Web Services can now monitor their environments using IBM’s Tivoli Monitoring software.
SPONSOR: VMWare
The Benefits of Virtualization: Why It’s Time for IT to Move Now
Virtualization makes it possible for IT managers with fewer than 50 servers to be more responsive to their internal and external customers, provide higher-quality service and react quickly to business needs. As a result, adoption of virtualization is growing fast. This white paper reveals six major benefits of virtualization.
Blades are server market’s bright spot, says IDC
IDC reported that blade server revenue rose in the third quarter, the first server category to show increased year-over-year sales in a year.
Seth H. Weintraub: Google closes paywall back door…sort of
You know your sneaky little trick of getting around the Wall Street Journal’s paywall is mainstream if they demonstrate it on the NBC primetime show the Office.
Google exec says it resists hiring some industry stars
Google holds back from hiring some people it believes are doing good work because it’s better for the Internet industry not to concentrate too much talent in one place, a company executive said Tuesday.
SPONSOR: Citrix
Tolly Performance Report “Citrix NetScaler with nCore Outperforms F5 BIG-IP”
Tolly Performance Report “Citrix NetScaler with nCore Outperforms F5 BIG-IP” shows you how Citrix® NetScaler® significantly outperforms F5. In head-to-head testing, NetScaler delivered Web traffic at least 3X faster “right out of the box” with significantly lower latency, CPU utilization and higher throughput. **Compliments of Citrix**
Lawsuit seeks information on federal surveillance of social networking sites
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the University of California, Berkeley have filed a lawsuit against six government agencies, seeking information on their use of social networking sites for data collection and surveillance.
Facebook kills regional networks in privacy revamp
Facebook will soon make major changes to the social-networking site’s privacy settings as it tries to make it easier for users to know what personal information and photographs they’re sharing.
Nominate your world-class company
Is your IT department great place to work? Our 17th annual “Best Places to Work in IT” special report and listing will honor 100 organizations that offer great benefits, salaries and opportunities for training and advancement, as well as provide interesting projects and a flexible and diverse work environment.
Computerworld’s Salary Survey: What’s your earning power?
How does your salary compare with your peers? Computerworld’s 24th Annual Salary Survey will feature the latest IT salary trends and advice on where to find the best-paying jobs. This year’s survey participants can enter a drawing to win one of 10 new 8GB Apple iPod Nanos. The drawing is open to legal U.S. residents, age 18 or older. Take our annual Salary Survey today!
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SHARK BAIT OF THE DAY
Twitter’s dirty laundry
Despite often being a waste of time, Twitter does has value, such as providing Iranians with an outlet during this past summer’s elections. Turns out Twitter can be used to keep you apprised of more domestic developments as well …
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