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This Week's Top News Headlines From the E-Commerce Times

Genachowski Locks Horns With Republicans in Net Neutrality Scuffle
(Posted 01-Dec-10)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/71352.html

Level 3 Cries Foul Over Comcast Streaming Fee
(Posted 30-Nov-10)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/71347.html

Google May Be Marching Onto Main Street With Groupon Deal
(Posted 29-Nov-10)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/71333.html

10 Tips for Upping Your Holiday Etail Conversions
(Posted 27-Nov-10)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/71322.html

How Cable Television Can Stop Losing Customers
(Posted 26-Nov-10)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/71331.html

This Week's Top News Headlines From TechNewsWorld

Cloud Gives Wikileaks Elastic DDoS Armor
(Posted 01-Dec-10)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/71353.html

Google Adds a Little Magic to Earth
(Posted 30-Nov-10)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/71345.html

Wikileaks Spill: Catalyst for New, More Open Style of Governing?
(Posted 29-Nov-10)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/71335.html

Staffing Up for IT's New Normal
(Posted 27-Nov-10)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/71327.html

5 Questions to Ask IT Before a Project Kicks Off
(Posted 26-Nov-10)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/71324.html

This Week's Top News Headlines From CRM Buyer

Chatter's Arrival Is 2010's Signal Event
(Posted 01-Dec-10)
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/71340.html

Sustainable Social Media Strategies for Retail and Corporate Banking,
Part 1
(Posted 30-Nov-10)
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/71342.html

Nutshell Takes a Crack at Mid-Market
(Posted 29-Nov-10)
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/71297.html

This Week's Top News Headlines From LinuxInsider

3 Open Source Design Apps: The Pro, the Novice and the Trainee
(Posted 01-Dec-10)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/71336.html

Leveraging Linux for Supercomputing
(Posted 30-Nov-10)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/71341.html

The 233-Line Kernel Patch and the (Even Easier) Alternatives
(Posted 29-Nov-10)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/71328.html

Black Friday in the Linux Blogosphere
(Posted 26-Nov-10)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/71311.html

This Week's Top News Headlines From MacNewsWorld

Apple Pulls Out the Stops, Racks Up the Sales
(Posted 01-Dec-10)
http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/71349.html

Branson's Pet 'Project' Adds Oomph to iPad Publishing
(Posted 30-Nov-10)
http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/71346.html

120 BPM: No Mixmaster Marvel, but It Has a Beat and You Can Dance to It
(Posted 29-Nov-10)
http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/71320.html

'The Daily' - No, You Can Not Wrap a Dead Fish in It
(Posted 26-Nov-10)
http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/71321.html

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[TechRepublic] Gartner predicts destiny of IT over next five years

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TechRepublic Sanity Check

TechRepublic Member | December 01, 2010

Editor's note: See my take on Gartner's IT predictions for the next five years. Lots of other good stories today as well, including Verizon lighting up LTE on Dec. 5, apps for PC-to-iPad converts, Amazon dumping Wikileaks, and big business getting behind Linux. -Jason

Gartner predicts the destiny of IT over next five years

Gartner has released its top prognostications for IT in the next five years, including predictions about tablets, user-owned devices, the cloud, and automating IT work. Read more

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Big Business backs Linux

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Amazon Web Services takes down Wikileaks; It's in the terms of service

Amazon Web Services has stopped hosting Wikileaks, according to various reports. The hosting company retains the rights to terminate accounts. Read more

Wikileaks: How our Government IT Failed Us

It wasn't an insecure SIPRNet that created the "perfect storm" that allowed Private Bradley Manning to dump the State Department cables to Wikileaks. It was the failure of our government to apply standard IT practices in a theater of war. Read more

Long Island University deploys 6,000 iPads, may double that next year

This private regional university has jumped ahead of the Ivy League and fancy Silicon Valley-based universities in its embrace of the iPad. Read more

FCC sets open Internet vote: Framework just enough to annoy everyone

The FCC is planning to vote on draft rules for an open Internet on Dec. 21. Next up: A wide range of reaction and a framework that won't completely satisfy anyone. Read more

Microsoft starts rolling out test builds of promised Azure cloud add-ons

At this year's Professional Developers Conference, the Azure team promised to deliver a slew of new add-ons and services -- in either test or final form -- before the end of calendar 2010. As of this week, test versions of many of those services are available for download. Read more

Cisco acquires LineSider for network provisioning tools

Cisco Systems said it will acquire LineSider Technologies, which specializes on network management software for rapid provisioning. Read more

The road to Office 365: The present

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Gartner's big predictions through 2015: A reality check

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iOS 4.2 supports Network Controlled Fast Dormancy

Interesting the stuff that Apple slips into updates without telling anyone. Read more

Google Chrome makes big usage share grab in November

Google's Chrome browser gained a whopping 0.75% usage share over the month of November, according to data released by web metrics firm NetMarketShare. Read more

Dell Venue Pro now available for purchase, I ordered mine

The Dell Venue Pro is now available for ordering from Dell in the 8GB and 16GB capacities. You can order with or without activation for mid-December shipping. Read more

10 solar-lagging states

We all know the states that rank at the top of the solar heap in terms of projects (refresher: California, here we come). They get held up a lot as example. But did you ever wonder which states are last in terms of solar investments? And why they are there.... Read more

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Verizon sets the bar for future LTE launches

FCC's Genachowski pushes for vote on net neutrality | Cyber Monday was first billion-dollar sales day: ComScore

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Verizon sets the bar for future LTE launches
Verizon Wednesday laid down some important markers that AT&T and T-Mobile will try to match or best when they launch their own LTE networks next year. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Quest Software

Collecting Compliance Evidence: The Role of Event Logs
This Quest Software white paper discusses how to maximize the power of event logs. You'll learn about recent regulation changes, how your company can best prepare for an audit and the solution you need to address these issues. Read More

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WHITE PAPER: Sprint

"Business-class" Service for the Global Customer
Can global customers that are not part of the world's largest global companies get the "business-class" service they deserve? Do these smaller globals have to lower their service expectations? Are there tactics to adopt that ensure you will get business-class service regardless of your size? Read More

FCC's Genachowski pushes for vote on net neutrality
The FCC's chairman outlines a proposal on net neutrality and pushes for a vote Dec. 21. Read More

Cyber Monday was first billion-dollar sales day: ComScore
Did anyone out there really get any work done Monday? I ask in light of figures being reported by ComScore this morning that contend Nov. 29 -- a.k.a. Cyber Monday -- was the busiest online shopping day ever and for the first time generated single-day sales that topped one billion dollars. Read More

Feds draw a bead on Russian behind Mega-D botnet
An Internet ring hawking counterfeit male-enhancement remedies, phony Rolexes and generic pills with false FDA approval has led the FBI to a Russian believed to be behind the Mega-D botnet. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Dell

Smart Virtualization Planning for SMBs
The list of applications that run in a virtualized environment is growing daily. This paper explains why databases, ERP, Web servers and legacy operating systems are first in line to run on VMs, why it's best to wait on real-time applications and how to determine the difference between core compatibility and configuration issues. Learn more!

Free Software Foundation's software repository hacked
The GNU repository has been compromised by a SQL Injection attack. Read More

Free vs. Fee: Free, Paid Antivirus Programs
Depending on whom you ask, paying for antivirus software is either a good investment or a total ripoff. In reality, neither viewpoint is accurate. You can find plenty of good reasons to choose a paid antivirus product, and plenty of good reasons to go with a freebie. Read More

Cisco to acquire LineSider for cloud tech
Cisco plans to acquire Linesider for its engineers, rapid provisioning tools. Read More

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Combating Security and Compliance Challenges
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The Linux Desktop Revolution is Dead
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Editor's Pick: Genachowski Locks Horns With Republicans in Net Neutrality Scuffle

Genachowski Locks Horns With Republicans in Net Neutrality Scuffle

Mike Martin
12/01/10 11:50 AM PT

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski set off fireworks with his call for a vote on a new Net neutrality proposal in three weeks. "The fundamental political dynamics will change shortly after the new, more-Republican Congress is seated in January," noted Frost & Sullivan's Michael Jude. "Chairman Genachowski may be trying to get all this resolved before the new Congress makes these regulations harder to enact."
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Identity services are key to new applications

Privacy minister: Collaboration key to privacy in cloud | AT&T goes after copper wire thieves

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Identity services are key to new applications
IT needs to talk about the importance of identity services (represented by the directory in our discussions 10 years ago) to make those new apps viable, efficient and secure. Read More

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Total Economic Impact of Oracle Identity Manager
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Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0
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