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	Western Digital bounces back with a vengeance After suffering the loss of some of its major hard drive manufacturing facilities in Thailand due to flooding, WD announced it's back in the black with record financial results for 2012. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Webcast Demonstrates New Collaboration Advances An insightful webcast demonstrates how you can harness the power of people-centric collaboration in today's post-PC world. You'll learn about new collaboration tools and technologies and witness firsthand why they're making the experience more immersive and more mobile, in boardrooms, bistros, and everywhere in between. Watch the webcast today. See how these solutions make collaboration possible from iPads to boardrooms. And learn how they're enabling organizations to accelerate decisions, be more productive, and save countless dollars in the process. View the webcast and see for yourself. In this Issue Finding out what's flowing over port 80 on your network Richi Jennings: VMware buys Nicira: Open-source threat or cloudy opportunity? Sharky: One at a time -- remember? Fraudsters tempt Olympic fans with bogus streaming websites Organs on a Chip: Harvard plans to recreate the human body on silicon RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: FileMaker, Inc Create, deploy and manage custom business apps for iPad The FileMaker Platform is a complete software suite to create, deploy, and manage custom business apps for iPad and iPhone. Design and build stunning iOS apps. Integrate mobile apps into existing enterprise systems. Deploy and instantly update your apps. Secure your apps with industry-standard authentication. Learn more, Watch overview video, Read the white paper > Finding out what's flowing over port 80 on your network HTTP was designed as a protocol to transport requests and data between clients and web servers. Using this information, you could then lock down your firewall to only allow TCP port 80 and 443 so that other applications would be blocked. This worked okay for a while until application developers figured out ways of tunnelling their data over port 80. Read More Richi Jennings: VMware buys Nicira: Open-source threat or cloudy opportunity? VMware (NYSE:VMW) is buying Nicira for $1.26 billion. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder what the future holds for open-source software-defined networking and cloud-computing generally. Read More WHITE PAPER: M*Modal Speech Understanding: The Intelligent Speech Alternative This white paper reveals how cloud-based Speech Understanding technology and services convert the physician narrative into a high quality and customized electronic record that improves the quality of clinical data, while accelerating and automating the documentation process. Learn More Sharky: One at a time -- remember? Flashback to 1999, when this electric utility is converting to a new Y2k-compliant accounting system -- which means 150 million transactions to convert for the previous five years. Read More Fraudsters tempt Olympic fans with bogus streaming websites The Olympic Games in London have sparked interest from fraudsters, with a raft of sites supposedly offering live video streams of events, according to security vendor Trend Micro. Read More Organs on a Chip: Harvard plans to recreate the human body on silicon One day, pharmaceutical companies might not have to test new drugs on animals or even humans. Instead, drugs could be tested with organ-on-a-chip technologies. These are not silicon chips that simulate organs or organisms, mind you; they contain real living, human tissue. Read More
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