Retailers try to turn 'Cyber Monday' into 'Cyber Weekend'

	Online holiday shopping at work may be huge drain on time, bandwidth | U.S. agencies try to shut down bogus business opportunities
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	Retailers try to turn 'Cyber Monday' into 'Cyber Weekend' A few major retailers want to get a jump on Cyber Monday by launching their online sales over the Thanksgiving weekend. Read More WHITE PAPER: Symantec Messaging and Web Security Best Practices Download this white paper to learn the risks that organizations face from spam, malware and other threats directed at their messaging and Web capabilities. Read Now! In this Issue Online holiday shopping at work may be huge drain on time, bandwidth U.S. agencies try to shut down bogus business opportunities Priceline to buy travel research site Kayak for $1.8B MasterCard demonstrates new ways to pay online using mobile devices WHITE PAPER: Cisco Top 10 Reasons to Consider Hosted Collaboration Solutions See why ROI potential has made unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) a top IT priority. Learn how cloud-based UC&C can boost productivity, overcome skill-set gaps, and lower TCO up to 40% with real-time, global deployment. Read Now Online holiday shopping at work may be huge drain on time, bandwidth With Black Friday just a few days away and the nagging feeling that we need to get our holiday shopping done, how much online buying will be done at work? Read More U.S. agencies try to shut down bogus business opportunities Three U.S. agencies and a group of state attorneys general have filed more than 70 civil and criminal cases against defendants offering allegedly bogus business opportunities, with some of the defendants offering to help customers set up online businesses. Read More WHITE PAPER: VMware Forrester: Business Value of Virtualization Forrester interviewed individuals responsible for the IT infrastructure and architecture and asked executives to rate the benefits received from consolidating servers, performing business continuity/disaster recovery, reclaiming data center capacity, and executing similar initiatives. Read Now! Priceline to buy travel research site Kayak for $1.8B Online hotel-booking giant Priceline.com plans to acquire Kayak, another Internet-based travel company, for US$1.8 billion in cash and stock, the companies announced. Read More MasterCard demonstrates new ways to pay online using mobile devices MasterCard is testing new ways to make online transactions more secure with its PayPass application and a mobile phone, including using QR codes to secure the transactions. Read More
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