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	US government sides against Microsoft in Supreme Court patent case The U.S. government itself has come out against Microsoft in a Supreme Court case that may decide the way patents are protected. The U.S. solicitor general, which represents the federal government in the highest court, on Friday filed an amicus brief in support of i4i. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks Load Balancers Are Dead! Get Gartner's take on: * Which vendors are leading the ADC market * Key recommendations on what you should do today * How to find a feature-rich ADC View the Gartner report, compliments of F5 Networks! Read now! In this Issue Will AT&T's T-Mobile buy lead to a duopoly? 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AT&T's acquisition of T-Mobile this week continued a decade-long trend of consolidation in the wireless industry and raised questions about whether the industry will inevitably turn into a duopoly. Read More Force10 data center switch delivers impressive performance High port density, high throughput, and very low latency are bedrock requirements in the data center, and Force10's new S4810 top-of-rack switch delivers on all counts. Read More The 20 strangest celebrity tech endorsements Celebrities and technology don't always go hand in hand. Just look to these 20 odd endorsements for the proof. Read More Wi-Fi group plans to simplify hotspot access The Wi-Fi Alliance plans to make getting onto a public hotspot as easy as connecting to a cellular network, a change that mobile operators are likely to welcome as they look to shift more data traffic onto Wi-Fi. Read More WHITE PAPER: PC Mall Server Virtualization: Branching Out of the Data Center A typical lean branch office has a significantly different server infrastructure than a data center, but despite the differences, multisite organizations have much to gain by deploying server virtualization in their branch offices. Read More Adobe patches Flash zero-day bug in Reader Adobe Monday made good on its promise to patch a zero-day bug in Adobe Reader, and promised to ship a fix for Flash later today. Read More Cisco has long history with VPNs In 1999, Network World tested a dozen VPNs, with a product from Altiga Networks coming in tied for second place. Our main complaint was the lack of split-tunneling capability, a feature that was quickly added. Read More The network's role in improving application security, reliability and efficiency Access to data center resources needs to be fast, secure and reliable, a significant challenge for the data center network infrastructure. Read More Strong-arm tactics alleged in Oracle, reseller dispute Oracle explicitly said that it planned to sell products directly to its largest accounts after it acquired Sun Microsystems last year. But reseller Innovative Technology Distributors is claiming Oracle set about doing so in a way that "destroyed" ITD's business through unfair dealings, according to a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. 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 Man who stole Goldman Sachs code gets 8-year sentence A former Goldman Sachs computer programmer has received a stiff prison sentence for stealing source code used in the company's high-frequency trading system. Read More Study: IT shops running way too many applications Nearly two-thirds of enterprises are supporting more or "far more" applications than they actually need to run their operations, according to a survey released Monday by Hewlett-Packard and Capgemini. Read More Apple sues Amazon for trademark infringement over "App Store" There are plenty of places where users can download mobile apps today, but there's only one App Store. Well, that's how Apple sees it at least. Read More Microsoft sues Barnes & Noble over Android Microsoft files a patent lawsuit against Barnes & Noble, alleging its Android-based e-reader infringes Microsoft patents. Read More
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