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	Cisco's big comeback Just a year ago, Cisco's stock was taking a beating after the sales failed to meet Wall Street expectations.The company wasn't exactly reeling, but CEO John Chambers knew something had to be done to right the ship. Insider (registration required) 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 LTE option poses data dilemma for iPad, smartphone users Study finds major flaws in single sign-on systems Three-stream Wi-Fi hits the mark ISPs commit to new cybersecurity measures IBM CIO discusses Big Blue's BYOD strategy Internet Society celebrates 20 years of standards, advocacy Richi Jennings: That's a TERRIBLE way to fix spam RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Microsoft Try Microsoft Office 365, free Collaborate in the cloud with Office, Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync videoconferencing. Access, edit, and share documents. Starting at $8/user/month. Try it free. LTE option poses data dilemma for iPad, smartphone users The new iPad's LTE option, which enables access to fast 4G networks, means customers can use up an entire month's worth of data in a couple of hours. Bandwidth-versus-cost poses a dilemma for carriers, too. Read More Study finds major flaws in single sign-on systems The single sign-on protocols that allow users to sign in to a range of websites with their Google or Facebook accounts suffer from security flaws that could allow scammers to log in as somebody else, security researchers have reported. Read More Three-stream Wi-Fi hits the mark The rapid adoption of 802.11n has become a significant milestone in the history of wireless LANs. The MIMO-based technologies used in most 802.11n systems provide enough throughput, reliability, and rate vs. range performance to effectively remove the last major barriers to the broad adoption of WLANs in the enterprise. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Hosting.com What if your key applications FAIL? Build for 100% application availability in the Cloud with Microsoft SQL Server. Achieve the highest levels of availability, performance, scalability, and security for your mission-critical applications while minimizing cost. Learn more at the April 12 webinar from Microsoft and Hosting.com subject matter experts. Register now! ISPs commit to new cybersecurity measures A group of U.S. Internet service providers, including the four largest, have committed to taking new steps to combat three major cybersecurity threats, based on recommendations from a U.S. Federal Communications Commission advisory committee. Read More IBM CIO discusses Big Blue's BYOD strategy IBM CIO Jeanette Horan has plenty of IT projects and systems to worry about, but perhaps one of the most pressing and timely is Big Blue's ongoing BYOD (bring your own device) rollout, which is aimed at including all of the company's 440,000 employees over time. Read More Internet Society celebrates 20 years of standards, advocacy The Internet Society, a nonprofit that operates the .org registry and funds Internet standards development work, is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a gala event in Geneva next month. Read More Richi Jennings: That's a TERRIBLE way to fix spam A respected email technologist has been quoted in the mainstream media as saying he has a plan to solve spam. Oh really? Sadly, it seems he's just repeating a failed idea... INSIDER (free registration requested) Read More
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