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	AT&T/T-Mobile merger to get Senate hearing The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold hearings on the proposed merger between AT&T and T-Mobile next month to examine the deal's potential impact on the telecom market. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Defending the Assault on Your Data Learn how turning to outside help, specifically designed for small and midsized businesses, can affordably provide the protection you need. It's just one of the resources, along with expert Webcasts and IDG security survey results, you'll find in this data security KnowledgeVault. Learn more. In this Issue 10 Free Sports Apps for Android and iPhone The staged approach to troubleshooting database issues Akamai CEO pay falls 15% while president nets $6 million signing bonus Google's mole within Twitter is ... Twitter? Japan's NTT aims to fix quake-hit undersea cables by May Verizon to drop new one-year contracts starting April 17 Epsilon a victim of spear-phishing attack, says report The Financial Roadblock to Technological Nirvana: Electric Cars and the Smart Grid WHITE PAPER: Aerohive SLA Compliance: Wireless Fidelity Achieved Aerohive delivers the next level in network visibility and reactive response with a new infrastructure-side performance monitoring and response system: SLA Compliance. Read now! 10 Free Sports Apps for Android and iPhone Calling all sports fans: Check out these 10 great apps for Google Android and Apple iPhone that will keep you up to date on your favorite sport or team while on the go. And save your spending money for the ballpark. Read More The staged approach to troubleshooting database issues I've had a bit of a time lately troubleshooting some database issues and I finally got them worked out so I thought I'd talk about my layered approach to pinning down issues on a busy box. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Forrester: The Emergence of Service Assurance Forrester interviewed more than 150 IT professionals to understand the fundamental issues around managing the performance of business application and business services and their underlying transactions. Read their key findings and expert recommendations. Read Now Akamai CEO pay falls 15% while president nets $6 million signing bonus Akamai CEO Paul Sagan netted $6 million last year, down from $7.1 million in 2009. President David Kenny took home a $6.6 million pay package, including a new hire equity grant worth $6 million. Read More Google's mole within Twitter is ... Twitter? Google reportedly has awarded a pair of executives – Neal Mohan and Sundar Pichai -- $100 million and $50 million, respectively, to keep them from leaving Google to work for Twitter. That's according to TechCrunch, which also says that Google has been aided in this employee-retention effort by a "high level mole" within Twitter. Some are questioning those numbers. I'm here to question the... Read More WHITE PAPER: Sophos Attack of the PDF Documents The PDF standard now supports JavaScript, along with tighter connections into user systems from the Adobe Reader program. This makes it very easy for virus writers to utilize scripting within PDF documents and security holes in the Reader software to load malware code and deliver this code onto computers. Read more Japan's NTT aims to fix quake-hit undersea cables by May Seven segments of undersea data and telephone transmission cables that were damaged in the March 11 earthquake off Japan should be repaired by early May, an arm of Japan's biggest telecom group said on Friday. Read More Verizon to drop new one-year contracts starting April 17 Verizon Wireless confirmed it will eliminate its one-year contract plan on smartphones and other mobile phones, effective April 17. Read More Epsilon a victim of spear-phishing attack, says report A targeted spear fishing campaign described in a security alert last November may have caused the massive data breach revealed this week by email service provider Epsilon. Read More The Financial Roadblock to Technological Nirvana: Electric Cars and the Smart Grid I was having a conversation with a wireless firm earlier this week about the potential for broadening the application of Wi-Fi to those involving telemetry and such. Along these lines, the subject of the "Smart Grid" came up, as it always does when industrial applications are the topic. While there isn't broad agreement on exactly what the "Smart Grid" is, the idea in a nutshell is to modernize the... Read More
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