Push on to cut 100G Ethernet's price

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	The push is on to cut 100G Ethernet's price Less than a year after 100-Gigabit Ethernet was standardized, an industry group is considering a set of specifications that might make the high-speed technology less expensive and more useful. Read More WHITE PAPER: Internap Colocation versus Managed Hosting The practice of outsourcing certain business functions or responsibilities has become more prevalent because it addresses two simple business needs, lower expenses and better allocation of resources. Learn More In this Issue A brief history of the Apple MacBook family Google I/O tickets going for $2,000 on eBay, quadruple face value Windows Phone 7 glitch magnified by confusion, inflexibility Cisco gets the message, ditches hosted e-mail service Android-based ATRIX 4G boasts "impressive specs," says iFixit Study finds cell phones stir brain cells Ex-Microsoft exec becomes CEO at Parallels 10 Great Error Messages HP's new laptops provide easy self-repair Google launches Apps certification program for IT pros WHITE PAPER: Brocade The CIO Challenge CIOs can elevate the role of IT in their organizations by enabling new business opportunities with innovative cloud technologies. Read now! A brief history of the Apple MacBook family A look into the origins of the MacBook Pro as Apple refreshes the line Read More Google I/O tickets going for $2,000 on eBay, quadruple face value After selling out in less than an hour, Google I/O conference tickets are being listed for more than $2,000 on eBay. Read More Windows Phone 7 glitch magnified by confusion, inflexibility The software glitch affecting some Windows Phone 7 is being made worse by lack of coordination, misinformation, and inflexible procedures by handset makers and mobile carriers. Read More WHITE PAPER: Eaton Corporation Maximizing UPS Availability This white paper explains why, contrary to popular belief, modular UPS designs provide superior availability even though they typically contain more parts that could potentially fail. Read now! Cisco gets the message, ditches hosted e-mail service Foray into a mature, crowded market proves unwise, unsustainableSecond-guessing is always easy ... and sometimes warranted. (2011's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries) Take, for example, this morning's news that Cisco has decided to pull the plug on its year-old hosted e-mail service, Cisco Mail, citing as a reason the apparently newfound realization that IT executives have come to view e-mail as more of a commodity than a strategic application. You don't say. Read... Read More Android-based ATRIX 4G boasts "impressive specs," says iFixit While new smartphones often tout their superior hardware, Motorola's ATRIX 4G is living up to the hype, says iFixit Read More Study finds cell phones stir brain cells A new federal study finds that holding a cell phone to your ear for a sustained period of time does cause temporary changes to your brain, though it's unclear whether the impact is good, bad or neutral. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Improve Application Performance Management 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. Ex-Microsoft exec becomes CEO at Parallels Six months after leaving Microsoft to join desktop virtualization vendor Parallels, executive Birger Steen has been promoted to CEO. Read More 10 Great Error Messages A good computing day is an error-free day. Unfortunately, those are rarer than we would like. Have you seen any of these funny and original error messages lately? Read More HP's new laptops provide easy self-repair Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday announced Intel-based business laptops with features that could make it easier to swap components or fix the PCs. Read More Google launches Apps certification program for IT pros Google has launched a program to certify that staffers at Google Apps resellers have specific expertise, knowledge and experience working with the company's hosted collaboration and communication suite. Read More
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