SOPA bill prompts boycott of supporters

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	IT Blogwatch: SOPA bill prompts boycott of supporters The widely-hated Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is causing its supporters to suffer boycotts. Organizations such as GoDaddy and 3M are being targeted by serious activism. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers ponder protectionism and DNS Balkanization. Not to mention: The 45 Most Powerful Images Of 2011 ... Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Citrix Scale capacity on demand? Not with F5. The Iron Age is officially over. The Cloud Age is here. Shift to Citrix NetScaler. 5x capacity on-demand. No new hardware. Shift up to the cloud. Get investment protection and elasticity for your network with NetScaler Pay-as-You-Grow. Simple, software-based licensing. The capacity you need, when you need it. Click to continue In this Issue Christopher O'Malley: Big economic recovery from small technology projects Preston Gralla: How much does Google fear Microsoft's Bing? Almost $1 billion worth, as counted by the Firefox deal Shark Tank: Bah! Humbug! RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Red Hat FOUR STEPS TO A PRIVATE OR HYBRID CLOUD STEP 3: OPTIMIZE AND AUTOMATE IT IN THE CLOUD. WEBINAR-DECEMBER 14, 2011. In the From Virtualization to Cloud webinar series, Red Hat® and the IT Process Institute guide you through the process and best practices of cloud-building. Learn how to expand automation, manage hybrid and heterogeneous environments, and update service management processes. REGISTER NOW Christopher O'Malley: Big economic recovery from small technology projects To create jobs and sustain economic activity, businesses have to actually create value. In today's pervasively wired global marketplace, technology only creates vlaue insofar as it delivers concrete competitive advantage. Since small to mid-market businesses create most of our jobs, it stands to reason that if we want to increae employment, the most important thing we can do is to technologically empower SMBs. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Business Analytics: Pushing Toward Relevance Although business analytics and business intelligence tools are becoming ubiquitous, they frequently remain underutilized. Part of the challenge is the disconnect between the IT teams deploying these tools and the business users who are supposed to be using them. Learn More Preston Gralla: How much does Google fear Microsoft's Bing? Almost $1 billion worth, as counted by the Firefox deal Why has Google agreed to pay Mozilla nearly $1 billion over three years to be Firefox's default search engine? There's a three-word answer: Fear of Bing. Read More Shark Tank: Bah! Humbug! This county government's chief administrative officer calls IT to complain that every time he moves his mouse pointer to the bottom of the screen, he hears "Jingle Bells." Read More
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