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	Force10 taking data centers into zettabyte era Force10 Networks this week will unveil data center core and top-of-rack switches that mark the first offering of high-density 40/100G Ethernet among the major switch vendors. 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 Alcatel-Lucent looking to sell enterprise business: report Westminster Abbey made of LEGOs Captain Midnight: 'No regrets' about jamming HBO back in '86 Microsoft comes out looking good in iPhone tracking flap Microsoft seeks expansion of patent rights on 'World Intellectual Property Day' Sony unveils two tablet PCs, to go on sale later this year iPhone, iPad users sue Apple over location tracking database Lawson accepts $2 billion takeover bid by Infor Iran says it was targeted with second worm, Stars WHITE PAPER: Splice Communications The Benefits of Outsourcing Telecom Management Choosing the right network solutions provider (NSP) will help businesses improve network reliability, service quality, operating efficiency, billing accuracy and better allocation of resources – all reducing the total cost of ownership of your network infrastructure. Many companies have realized the benefits of working with an NSP. Read now! Alcatel-Lucent looking to sell enterprise business: report Alcatel-Lucent is reportedly shopping around its enterprise switching, IP telephony and contact center businesses in an effort to boost its financial performance by focusing on core telecom markets. The unit could fetch up to $1.2 billion, and potential buyers include Cisco, HP, Avaya and private equity firms like the Gores Group, according to a story in Reuters. Alcatel-Lucent is meeting with prospective buyers in San Francisco this week, according to Reuters, which cited unnamed sources. Read More Westminster Abbey made of LEGOs Read More Captain Midnight: 'No regrets' about jamming HBO back in '86 John MacDougall, then 25, was the lonely pamphleteer of lore, only instead of paper and ink he was armed with a 30-foot transmission dish, an electronic keyboard, and a burning objection to HBO's decision in 1986 to begin scrambling its satellite signal and charging viewers $12.95 a month.  Read More WEBCAST: Juniper Networks Securing the Next-generation Datacenter For the security teams responsible for safeguarding corporate IT assets, these trends present a host of challenges, necessitating several new capabilities and approaches to ensure ongoing, effective security Learn more! Microsoft comes out looking good in iPhone tracking flap Microsoft says it doesn't store location tracking history on its smartphones. Furthermore, Microsoft details its WP7 privacy policy, not in legalese written in dense 8-point type buried in its Terms of Service, but in a plain English Q&A format on a Windows Phone Web page titled "Location and my privacy." What we have here is a rare case where Microsoft gets to wear the white hat compared to... Read More Microsoft seeks expansion of patent rights on 'World Intellectual Property Day' Microsoft celebrated "World Intellectual Property Day" Tuesday with a new call for protecting IP rights for touch-screen interfaces and Web-based services. World Intellectual Property Day is a 10-year-old event created by the World Intellectual Property Organization, a United Nations agency established in 1967 to promote protection of IP rights worldwide. Microsoft's Jason Albert, associate general counsel for IP policy and strategy in Redmond, called for expansion of "design protection" to cover the design of more "virtual" products. Read More Sony unveils two tablet PCs, to go on sale later this year Sony wil make its long-awaited entry into the tablet PC market later this year with two models based on the latest version of Google's Android operating system. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quest Software It's 9am. Do You Know What Your Directory is Doing? In this new Quest Software white paper, you'll see how to get more information that native logging alone can't provide. See how you can get real time, centralized information, and how doing so maximizes Active Directory performance. Read More iPhone, iPad users sue Apple over location tracking database Two Apple customers are suing the company over its iOS location tracking database, charging the data collection violates the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Read More Lawson accepts $2 billion takeover bid by Infor Lawson Software has agreed to be purchased by an Infor affiliate GGC Software Holdings for roughly $2 billion, the company announced Tuesday. The deal will create one of the industry's largest ERP (enterprise resource planning) software vendors after SAP and Oracle, and is expected to close in the third calendar quarter of this year. Read More Iran says it was targeted with second worm, Stars The general responsible for investigating the Stuxnet attack on Iran's nuclear program says that the country was also hit by a second targeted attack, called Stars. Read More
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