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	The networked world Cell phones and social media tools help topple Middle Eastern regimes. Telemedicine lets surgeons reach across time and space. Smart grids let power companies reduce fuel consumption and lower pollution. Networking has changed the world. Read More WHITE PAPER: Argent What's the biggest bottleneck in VMware? Do more CPUs improve VMware?    Using VMware NIC Teaming?    Does TCP/IP affect VMware? (You'll be surprised)    Get this essential FREE white paper now    11 pages of technical details, not sales fluff     Click to continue In this Issue Cisco's 3 biggest weaknesses Groups ask FCC to investigate AT&T broadband caps Sen. Rockefeller to introduce online do-not-track bill Elgan: How to pop your Internet 'filter bubble' Hallmark's website gets a reboot 25 ways IT will morph in the next 25 years Living Legend: Vic Hayes Why my job is still cool Network World's Wider Net John Chambers on the network 82-year-old father of the cell phone buys new smartphone every 2 months WHITE PAPER: Cisco Social Technologies Add Business Value Social technologies are moving from the consumer space into the enterprise, and Enterprise Social Software (ESS) is changing how people work. A white paper based on a Forrester Consulting survey commissioned by Cisco reveals the benefits and inhibitors faced by decision makers and how ESS is transforming business processes. Read the white paper now. Cisco's 3 biggest weaknesses Cisco has stumbled, realized it needed to change course and has begun to make those changes. This week's management and business unit restructuring is the most recent change. Read More Groups ask FCC to investigate AT&T broadband caps The FCC should investigate AT&T's new broadband caps and ask questions about why the company needs them, two broadband advocacy groups said. Read More Sen. Rockefeller to introduce online do-not-track bill A U.S. senator says he plans to introduce an online do-not-track bill. Read More Elgan: How to pop your Internet 'filter bubble' The Internet you see is not the Internet I see, writes columnist Mike Elgan. Companies using personalization algorithms are presenting you with a custom version of the world online that they think you're interested in. Read More Hallmark's website gets a reboot Hallmark saw a 30% increase in its customer conversion rate when it built a new website whose response time was 370% better than that of the previous site. Read More WEBCAST: Platform Computing, SAS and Teradata Accelerating Business Analytics High Performance Computing enables organizations to drive proactive, evidence-based business decisions and agile strategies to anticipate and manage change in a volatile market. In this webcast, see how Grid Computing, In-Database processing and state-of-the-art business analytics work in the real world. View Now 25 ways IT will morph in the next 25 years Imagine a world where the computers, networks and storage systems are all tens of thousands of times faster than they are today -- and then think about the sci-fi type of applications that will be possible. Read More Living Legend: Vic Hayes Vic Hayes, sometimes called the "Father of Wi-Fi," hardly fits the conventional image of a "legend." Soft-spoken on the phone, self-effacing, he's less a technological visionary and more of a problem solver. Read More Why my job is still cool It's tough to write a 25-year-anniversary column when you haven't been here for 25 years – my time at the helm of the Cool Tools column has only been about 10 years or so now. Instead, I'll reflect on the past 25 years in my own life and how technology (and networking!) has changed not only what I do for work, but within my life as well. Read More Network World's Wider Net Network World started its Wider Net stories in 2003 in an effort to lighten up our news pages, acknowledging that there is a lot more to the world of enterprise networking and IT other than speeds and feeds of switches and routers and WAN links. Read More John Chambers on the network The network is more important today than at any time in history. In the last 25 years it has had a transformative effect on the way we all live, work, learn and play but I believe it will deliver even greater change in the next decade than it has in the last quarter century. Read More 82-year-old father of the cell phone buys new smartphone every 2 months A Q&A with Martin Cooper, the so-called "father of the cellular phone" Read More
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