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	First look at Apple iPad 2: what's new, unchanged and still missing Can't tell the difference from iPad 1 - except for that white color of the tablet computer? Look more closely. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Five CIO Challenges Addressed by Better Change Management Addresses five of the foremost change management challenges that CIOs have to meet and how organizations can turn these challenges into a business advantage. Read More In this Issue Google Android's infected apps spotlight mobile danger What's Next with IPv6? Cisco's call to arms We need to ignite a Layer-1 revolution Juniper merges network core elements to cut carrier costs Novell steps up to managing enterprise Linux servers Google gives antiquated 404 page a makeover "Nothing new with iPad 2?" What's new is... the iPad iPad owners rush to dump old tablets for new model iPad 2 spoiler: RIM PlayBook tablet coming April 10? If Stuxnet was act of cyberwar, is US ready for a response? The cost of bad cloud-based application performance WHITE PAPER: IBM Four keys to Improving Quality This white paper examines the systems engineering life cycle and discusses four keys for improving quality across the systems engineering "V" to help A&D companies deliver quality on time while containing costs more effectively. Read Now Google Android's infected apps spotlight mobile danger The Google Android Market for apps is supposed to be an apps showplace, but the fact that Google this week yanked down about 50 Android apps it found out were malicious came as something of a jolt to many in the security industry. Read More What's Next with IPv6? IPv4 depletion is a reality, so the only message left for us is "We told you so." Almost all service providers have IPv6 deployment plans underway and at some stage of completion. Any IP networking class worthy of your money teaches IPv4 and IPv6 as equally important versions of IP. Is there anything of importance left for an IPv6 advocacy group to do? Yes! Read More Cisco's call to arms Chambers, other execs fire up the channel for clouds, architecture at the Cisco Partner Summit. Read More We need to ignite a Layer-1 revolution The really interesting story out of Egypt - and more recently Libya, Iran and other places - was the communications blackouts imposed by each regime. While the West focused on Layer-7 technologies, the tyrants were smart enough to strike at the root of their citizens' efforts: Layer-1 physical-layer connectivity for phones. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed ANPM Vendor Analysis Riverbed® Cascade© stacks up extremely well against the competition. How well? In particular, Cascade outperforms other application-aware network performance management solutions in such important areas as product strength and cost efficiency. Read Now. Juniper merges network core elements to cut carrier costs Juniper Networks is developing a massive switch that could replace traditional IP routers in the core of service-provider networks and combine optical and electronic technologies that today exist in separate systems with dedicated staffs. Read More Novell steps up to managing enterprise Linux servers Novell Thursday shipped software for managing enterprise Linux servers made by Novell and Red Hat, taking its systems management approach to a higher level. Read More Google gives antiquated 404 page a makeover The robot icon has fallen all to pieces and wears an expression of utter despair, but the message on Google's new 404 page maintains the company's traditional emphasis on simplicity. "That's an error. The requested URL /whatever was not found on this server. That's all we know." Read More "Nothing new with iPad 2?" What's new is... the iPad One recurring theme in initial reactions to iPad 2, announced today, is that the new tablet is "incremental," doesn't have any surprises, and "failed" to achieve a big hardware breakthrough. In general, that theme misses the point. Which is: the iPad itself represents The Surprise and today, iPad 2 is no more incremental than iPad 1 was when it was first introduced 11 months ago. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Solving the Top 4 Network Management Challenges Join us for this webinar, featuring Jim Frey, Research Director from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) and Heath Newburn, Program Director from IBM as they discuss Netcool's flexible solutions for a complex and dynamic IT environment. Learn More iPad owners rush to dump old tablets for new model Consumers unloaded their old iPads in unprecedented numbers so they can trade up to Apple's latest tablet, a gadget buy-back company said Wednesday. Read More iPad 2 spoiler: RIM PlayBook tablet coming April 10? RIM has been talking up its PlayBook tablet for months, but has been coy about when the latest Apple iPad killer will ship and what it will cost. Speculation heated up Wednesday, on the same day that Apple is expected to make big iPad news, that April 10 will be the day of the PlayBook's real coming-out party. Read More If Stuxnet was act of cyberwar, is US ready for a response? The complex Stuxnet worm proved attacks on SCADA and other industrial control systems were possible. Are we ready if one comes our way? Read More The cost of bad cloud-based application performance If you were worried about the performance of cloud-based applications, here's fair warning: You'll probably be even more so when you consider findings from a recent survey conducted by Vanson Bourne on the behalf of Compuware. Read More
	GOODIES FROM THE SUBNETS Up for grabs from Microsoft Subnet: a Windows 7 Enterprise Technician class for three people. From Cisco Subnet: 15 copies of VMware ESXi books. Enter here. SLIDESHOWS 20 awesome tech products at DEMO Build-your-own iPhone and Android apps, cloud services, photo tools and more on display at DEMO Spring 2011. Top 10 Chrome OS extensions Though Google is pitching it as an operating system for netbooks and lightweight notebooks, Chrome OS is essentially the Chrome Web browser bolted on top of a bare minimum version of Linux. The following extensions can improve the user experience of Chrome (OS or browser) to give you some of the functionality found in a traditional operating system. MOST-READ STORIES Welcome to the iPad 2: Inside Apple's new tablet Open source expert takes on the hardest job at Microsoft Meet Google's human search engine for innovation Man gets 7 years for forcing modems to call premium members IE wins, Firefox loses as Internet population shifts Google apologizes for Gmail bug that shook 150,000 users Mr. Linux goes Hollywood for the Oscars 20 awesome tech products at DEMO PHP user group lauds Microsoft's open source contributions Windows Live Mesh goes live without support for Linux
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