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McAfee apologizes for PC anti-virus snafu
McAfee has apologized for its anti-virus update that took down Windows XP computers around the world, but says it affected a small percentage of its customers. Read More


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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

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BeyondTrust 2009 Microsoft Vulnerability Analysis
The results show that despite unpredictable and evolving attacks companies can greatly reduce risk, experience greater protection from zero-day threats and reduce the threat from vulnerabilities by removing administrator rights. Learn More

CenturyTel to buy Qwest for $10.6B
Telecommunications carrier CenturyTel has agreed to buy Qwest Communications International for around US$10.6 billion in stock. The merged company will operate around 17 million phone lines and serve 5 million broadband customers across 37 U.S. states. Read More

Five iPhone apps for managing your money
Read on to see how your iPhone, iPad or iPod can help you and your finances. Read More

Few answers after McAfee antivirus update hits Intel, others
After distributing a buggy antivirus update that apparently disabled hundreds of thousands of computers on Wednesday, McAfee is still at a loss to explain exactly what happened. Read More

McAfee flub sets off Twitter storm
After dealing with McAfee's most recent fix that sabotaged Windows XP PC clients worldwide, users of the anti-virus software to Twitter to vent their rage, creating a public-relations and legal nightmare that will likely continue long after the last machine is patched. Read More


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Understand the Network Impact of 802.11n
As performance and reliability increase with 802.11n, the WLAN becomes a viable alternative to the wired network for mission- critical applications. This paper outlines the drawbacks of centralized controller-based approaches and how they will provide unavoidable roadblocks when faced with the increases in bandwidth provided by 802.11n. Read More!

Microsoft mixes Office with social networking
Microsoft has provided a way for Facebook friends to share Office Docs. Read More

News podcast: Network World 360
Telecommunications carrier CenturyTel has agreed to buy Qwest Communications International for around $10.6 billion in stock. Also, the U.S. Commerce Department Wednesday kicked off an initiative to take a close look at how the privacy of individuals is impacted broadly in the Internet economy with the goal of providing advice to the White House on how both the president and government policymakers might regard the topic. (5:16) Read More

HP to overhaul Integrity servers next week
Hewlett-Packard is gearing up for a major refresh of its Integrity server line, an important step for customers using those systems and also for the future of Intel's high-end Itanium processor. Read More

APNIC hands out record IPv4 addresses
The Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) doled out nearly a record 27 million IPv4 addresses during the first three months of 2010. Read More


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Quadruple VMs without Increasing NICs
IDC: As companies roll out blade-based virtualization deployments, many find that they have limited choices for network I/O. Virtual machines not only help bring more applications onto each server but also place additional demand on network I/O. Learn to adress these challenges. Read now.

25 years later: How the 'Net would have prevented New Coke
Let's rewrite history: It was 25 years ago tomorrow, April 23, 1985, that the world's most famous soft drink company committed arguably the world's most famous product development/marketing gaffe: New Coke. Read More

Change We Can Believe In - The White House Develops Open Source Code
The White House as part of their effort to have the whitehouse.gov site on an open platform today announced that they have contributed several modules and code they have developed under an open source license back to the Drupal community. Read More

Verizon net income down on one-time items
Verizon Communications reported net income of US$400 million in the first quarter of 2010, down from $1.6 billion in the first quarter of 2009, but the difference was due to a number of one-time charges. Read More

Is Google the new Rome?
Cloud computing may be leading to an empire or federation-like worldview on how data is managed, but national laws will be a major obstacle. Read More



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