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	First Look at Firefox 4 Firefox 4 offers features like tab management, remote device sync, and speed improvements. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Polycom Win a 360º unified conference station It's a chance to win the Polycom® CX5000, featuring a 360 degree panoramic view. Easily add group video collaboration to Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007 and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007. Bring a whole new perspective to your meetings. Enter the sweepstakes today! In this Issue U.S. Patent Office finds Google Doodle dandy Firefox 4 performance lags behind Chrome 10 and IE 9 Brocade unites IPv4 and IPv6 WoW player offers $1,000 bribe to have account ban lifted Google says Microsoft patent lawsuit threatens innovation Sprint CEO says AT&T takeover would stifle innovation Microsoft preps System Center for the cloud Microsoft Sues Barnes & Noble Over Nook, Claims Android Patent Infringement CTIA 2011: Snapkeys demos 'invisible' tablet typing Dell's PowerEdge microservers take shape WHITE PAPER: IBM Discover the Mishaps of Digital Channels Digital has been widely embraced by consumers and by many parts of the enterprise. But the adoption of digital channels - Web sites, mobile apps, online sales and customer service, and other smart touches - has often occurred in a piecemeal way. Read More U.S. Patent Office finds Google Doodle dandy Now I enjoy a good Google Doodle as much as anyone, but a patent? For Google Doodles? Really, Google? Really, patent office people? Read More Firefox 4 performance lags behind Chrome 10 and IE 9 Chrome 10 kicks the butts of Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 4 in my benchmark testsWhen it comes to browsers, faster is better. Chrome 10 kicks the butts of the brand new Firefox 4 and Internet Explorer 9 in benchmark tests run on my 2Ghz Intel-based Windows 7 PC. All three new editions of browsers released this month promise performance gains. Of them Chrome 10 really delivers and Firefox 4 is the slowest of the bunch. So finds Futurmark's Peacekeeper Javascript browser benchmark... Read More Brocade unites IPv4 and IPv6 Brocade this week unveiled software for its application acceleration switches that enables them to function as gateways between existing IPv4 networks and new ones built on IPv6.  Read More WHITE PAPER: Sprint Gearing Up for IPv6 Do you have your checklist to get ready for IPv6? Iyad Tarazi, Vice President of Network Development & Engineering for Sprint, discusses what it's going to take for you to make the transition. Read Now WoW player offers $1,000 bribe to have account ban lifted Quite a price to pay for not liking archaeology Yes, it could be just another Craigslist hoax, but my go-to guy for all things gaming says he doesn't think that's likely, so I'll just shake my head in wonderment. The Craigslist ad was placed on March 16 by a displaced World of Warcraft player from Irvine, Calif. It reads: I got my WoW account banned yesterday during the archaeology bot ban wave. I wasn't a gold farmer or seller, never bought gold.... Read More Google says Microsoft patent lawsuit threatens innovation Google took a slap at Microsoft on Tuesday, saying the software giant's patent lawsuit against bookseller Barnes & Noble's Android-based e-reader stifles innovation. Read More Sprint CEO says AT&T takeover would stifle innovation Sprint CEO Dan Hesse said Tuesday that the proposed $39 billion AT&T takeover of T-Mobile USA would "stifle innovation and put too much power in the hands of just two carriers." Read More WEBCAST: Cisco Mobile Powerplay: Secure, High Performance, Unified The mobile revolution is here—and here to stay. iPhone, iPad, Droid--employees bring their mobile devices into the workplace, and they want access to personal and professional information. This brings a new set of concerns for IT and the business: IT needs to ensure that the corporate network and the access remains secure. Register Now Microsoft preps System Center for the cloud Microsoft is adding capabilities to System Center for both cloud and local deployments Read More Microsoft Sues Barnes & Noble Over Nook, Claims Android Patent Infringement Microsoft claims that Android violates Microsoft patents, yet it hasn't sued Google. Instead it sued Motorola and now is suing Barnes & Noble for the Nook e-reader running the Android operating system which the Mighty M claims is infringing on its patents. Read More CTIA 2011: Snapkeys demos 'invisible' tablet typing At the ShowStoppers event at CTIA 2011, Computerworld's Matt Hamblen gets a demonstration of Snapkeys' 'invisible typing' technology, which can be used on tablets to help speed up typing skills on those mobile devices. Read More Dell's PowerEdge microservers take shape Dell on Tuesday is set to announce low-power PowerEdge servers that can quickly band together to execute transactions more efficiently than traditional servers, which use faster, but more power-hungry chips. 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 Perks drive up pay for tech CEOs Many tech vendors have shied away from extravagant perks, but there are still plenty worth highlighting. Like a $1.5 million tab for home security. Or how about the $36,619 one company paid to reimburse its CEO for the taxes he had to pay on the $106,589 he gained by using company aircraft for personal flights? Read on to find out which tech CEOs enjoyed the priciest perks in 2010 and which ones went to work perk-free. First look at Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 Microsoft has a real competitor once again with IE9, released at midnight Monday night on Windows 7 and Vista after several months of beta testing. The focus is on speed, privacy and simplicity, with a stripped-down interface, tracking protection, pinned sites, jump lists and enhanced support for HTML5. MOST-READ STORIES U.S. govt. sides against Microsoft in Supreme Court patent case On the company dime: Rogue game server admins tell all Should you stop using RSA SecurID tokens? 39 free security software tools Apple sues Amazon for trademark infringement over "App Store" Microsoft sues Barnes & Noble over Android Cisco sets the bar for mobile security Did hackers nab RSA SecurID's secret sauce? Google Voice coming to all Sprint phones The RSA hack FAQ
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