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	HP to Acquire Palm for $1.2 billion (with a B) Big news - HP and Palm announced that HP will buy Palm at $5.70 per share of Palm common stock in cash, a value of approximately $1.2 billion. Read More WHITE PAPER: ArcSight Building a Successful Security Operations Center This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center In this Issue Rock-It turns any object into a speaker Google Search Stories: Creating Video through Search Requests Eye-Fi expands hotspot coverage for Wi-Fi photo cards Green tech on display at EcoFocus Las Vegas SkyJump latest thrill ride WHITE PAPER: Sprint SIP Addresses Unified Communications Deployment This white paper gives strategic guidelines for deploying UC. Read why SIP matters. Read More Rock-It turns any object into a speaker I've been having a lot of fun with the Rock-It device, a handy gadget that lets you turn any ordinary object into a speaker system for your iPod, iPhone or other music player. The $49.99 gadget really does deliver on its promise to speaker-enable anything. Read More WHITE PAPER: Microsoft Extended Security Features of Windows 7 Microsoft has added significant security enhancement to Windows 7. This Gartner research note details the capabilities available (many are only available to EA/SA subscribers), which features should be activated and where some security holes still remain. Read More. Google Search Stories: Creating Video through Search Requests Finally, a collaboration between Google-owned YouTube and Google Search! I ran across the new Google Search Stories Video Creator page on YouTube, which lets you create a mini-video through the use of Google Searches. By typing in five to seven different search requests, you can create a video storyline that also showcases Google's search functions (Web search, images, books, maps, etc.). Read More WHITE PAPER: Adobe Close the Web 2.0 Communications Gap Web 2.0 tools have yet to reach critical mass and broad user adoption. This Forrester report identifies the key Web 2.0 gaps and offers advice to: Build a framework that extends email, Upgrade document-based data collection, and Improve email and document exchange security. Read More Eye-Fi expands hotspot coverage for Wi-Fi photo cards I'm really surprised that having Wi-Fi in your digital camera or video camcorder hasn't taken off like I thought it would. Still, there are companies like Eye-Fi Inc., which are making it easier for users to upload images via Wi-Fi quickly. The company today announced its plans to add hundreds of thousands more Wi-Fi networks to its Hotspot Access service. Read More Green tech on display at EcoFocus Green tech on display at EcoFocus Read More Las Vegas SkyJump latest thrill ride The new SkyJump Las Vegas attraction lets riders base jump 829 feet off the tower onto a landing platform through the use of a high-speed descender machine. Read More
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