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	Desktop PCs: Seeking relevance in a mobile world Don't listen to those that say the desktop is dead in the "post-PC" market because 2011 is perhaps the most exciting year for the consumer desktop PC in the past decade. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sophos What is FakeAV? FakeAV or Fake AntiVirus, also known as Rogue AntiVirus, Rogues, or ScareWare, is a class of malware. This paper provides insight into where FakeAV comes from, what happens when a system is infected with FakeAV, and how users can protect themselves from FakeAV. Read Now In this Issue Virtualizing network appliances Can ink jet save Kodak? Chip makers downplay tablets' impact on PC sales Jonny Evans: iPhone 5 lessons from the iPod nano Apple boom Economic issues to hurt semiconductor revenue, IDC says Alcatel-Lucent confirms Enterprise business may be sold NASA bids farewell to shuttle era with Atlantis landing Foxconn worker falls to death in suspected suicide Wall Street Beat: Tech earnings show sector strength VIDEO: Cisco Avoid Downtime with Network Resilience Network resiliency is a complex vision that encompasses security, availability, and network responsiveness. No single technology or system makes end-to-end network resiliency possible. However, a combination of Cisco innovations provides your network with high performance, fast recovery, and the ability to adapt dynamically to changing conditions. Learn More> Virtualizing network appliances With the explosion of job-specific data center appliances, it is common today to find several appliances monitoring a single resource. A typical scenario, for example, is three appliances monitoring the same connection, with one monitoring flows, another doing performance analysis and a third providing intrusion detection functionality. Read More Can ink jet save Kodak? Kodak is selling off assets as it struggles to build a sustainable digital imaging business. But profitability remains elusive in the competitive ink jet business. Insider (registration required) Read More Chip makers downplay tablets' impact on PC sales The post-PC era is not yet upon us, executives from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices insisted this week in conference calls to discuss their earnings, where the impact of tablets on their businesses was the big question. Read More Jonny Evans: iPhone 5 lessons from the iPod nano Apple boom Apple now sells as many Macs in a quarter as it once sold in a year, is the world's biggest smartphone maker and dominates the tablet industry in the absence of anything like credible competition. The iPod nano was arguably an early catalyst for part of this growth... Read More WEBCAST: Red Hat Migrate from VMware to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Join us for a webinar highlighting the cost benefits of migrating from VMware to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. Hear about common customer deployments and the drivers that lead to migrating to Red Hat and the tools available to help organizations with planning and executing a migration of their own. Learn more! Economic issues to hurt semiconductor revenue, IDC says Worldwide semiconductor revenue will grow at a slower rate next year, hurt by an uncertain economy in developed and emerging markets, research firm IDC said on Thursday. Read More Alcatel-Lucent confirms Enterprise business may be sold Alcatel-Lucent this week confirmed it is "exploring strategic options" for its Enterprise business, a non-core asset that's been reported to be shopped around for a possible sale. Read More NASA bids farewell to shuttle era with Atlantis landing As NASA's space shuttle Atlantis touched down for the final time early today, the 30-year space shuttle program came to a bittersweet end. Read More Foxconn worker falls to death in suspected suicide An employee of Foxconn fell to his death in China earlier this week, just a year after a string of suicides at its facilities in the country. Read More Wall Street Beat: Tech earnings show sector strength A raft of computer and software vendor financial results this week, including reports from IBM, Intel, Apple and Microsoft, revealed some record quarterly results and a healthy market for business technology, though clouds remain for segments of the consumer arena. Read More
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