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Today: March 31, 2011 The PATCO Echo An air-traffic tower at Reagan National went silent. Blame the Gipper's ghost. By Timothy Noah READ FULL STORY | More Business and Tech Tina Fey's Tough Girl Feminism The rough humor in Fey's new book Bossypants is exactly what the movement needs. By Katie Roiphe READ FULL STORY | More Double X "If I Ran the Team …" We would win every game: A poem for the opening day of baseball season. By Hart Seely READ FULL STORY | More News and Politics The Troubling Risks of the U.S. Arming the Libyan Rebels Bill James: Why Are We So Good at Developing Athletes and So Lousy at Developing Writers? Britney Spears' New Album Is Brilliantly Avant-Garde. Seriously. How Dangerous Is It When Celebrating Crowds Shoot Guns Into the Air? Advertisement Shafer: Wake Up. Everyone Uses FOIA Requests for Political Purposes. Google's Most Obscure Search-Page "Doodles" Briefing Does it matter that Belgium has no government? Sievert, gray, rem, and rad: Why are there so many different ways to measure radiation exposure? News & Politics Libya: What do the rebels look like? (PHOTOS) The birther primary: Why is Donald Trump pandering to Republicans who think Obama wasn't born in the United States? Arts Grey's Anatomy musical: The best musical episodes on TV. (VIDEO) Woody Allen's movies: What I learned from watching every single one. Life Military hate, trampled dog, charity demands, cheating fiancé: Dear Prudence advises readers at Slate.com. Slate invites you to join us for an all-star conversation about childhood obesity at the Cleveland Clinic on April 21. Business & Tech Online wedding registries: Are they crass, thoughtful, or both? Universal remote: When will we get all of our home-entertainment devices to play nicely together? Science Colchicine price increase: how drug companies are taking advantage of the FDA's Unapproved Drugs Initiative. Earthquake in Japan: How to avoid nuclear meltdowns. Podcasts & Video Tina Fey's Bossypants, Michele Bachmann for president, and Dukes v. Wal-Mart on this week's DoubleX Gabfest. HBO's Mildred Pierce, Elizabeth Taylor, and the New York Times' paywall on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.

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TODAY'S FEATURED RESOURCES March 31, 2011 White Papers: 11 Questions to Ask about Asset Management SOA for Dummies: What You Really Need to Know Research Reports: IBM Smart Analytics Systems vs. Oracle Exadata X2-2 SAN Management Software: The Magic Quadrant Webcasts: Are You Ready to Fulfill & Manage Cloud Services How to Speed AIX Development Sponsored by IBM Discover the Smarter Tech Blog for ideas and information from IT industry experts. Go to the Blog! Get the week's most important IT security information in your inbox each Monday afternoon. Stay on top of trends and what you need to know to be a success. Subscribe to Security Product Update today! eNewsletter Information To avoid any problems with your newsletter delivery, please add newsletters@response.webbuyersguide.com to your addressbook. You are subscribed to this newsletter with the e-mail address dwyld.kwu.wyldside@blogger.com. If you no longer wish to receive Web Buyer's Guide Resource Library Update, unsubscribe here. Copyright © 2011 Ziff Davis Enterprise. All Rights Reserved. Ziff Davis Enterprise, 28 East 28th Street, New York, NY 10016 Privacy Policy

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TODAY'S NETWORKING WHITE PAPERS AND RESOURCES March 31, 2011 Enterprise LAN: The Gartner Magic Quadrant How to Specify Data Center Power Density 5 Business Benefits of Application Delivery Secure Virtual Data Center Testing: A Guide 10 Reasons to Migrate to Windows Server 2008 Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Your Solaris Alternative Sponsored by IBM Discover the Smarter Tech Blog for ideas and information from IT industry experts. Go to the Blog! Get the week's most important IT information your inbox each weekday morning. Stay on top of trends and what you need to know to be a success. Subscribe to Technology Product Update today!

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TOP STORIES - March 31, 2011 • 10 of the Hottest Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Players • Amazon Appstore Emerges as Android Market, iTunes Rival • Salesforce.com Buys Facebook Filter Radian6 for $326M • Cisco Builds Cloud Offerings with newScale Purchase • 10 Reasons Why Firefox 4 Is Better Than IE9 SPOTLIGHT iPad 2 vs. Xoom: Tablet Face-Off We hit the local Best Buy to bring you a quick-and-dirty comparison of the look, feel and performance of the two tablets. READ MORE >> BEST OF eWEEK • 10 Groundbreaking IBM Patents • 10 Women Cracking Tech's Glass Ceiling • Features That Would Polish Apple iOS 5 • Uncertainties, Risks of Solar Generation FEATURED VIDEO Making Cities Smarter Location-based analytics helps cities realize more efficient operations. WATCH NOW >> MOST READ STORIES • Best Tech Companies to Work for • IBM Taps Emerging Markets • Features We Expect to See in iPhone 5 • 10 Apps New Droid X Owners Need IN THIS ISSUE 10 of the Hottest Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Players The idea of deploying processor-less terminals connected to a central enterprise computer system goes way, way back to the dawn of digital IT. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure used to be called thin-client computing. It's returning to prominence as an efficient way to deliver virtualized computing resources. Here's a look at 10 companies that are leading the transition to this rapidly growing technology sector. READ MORE >> Amazon Appstore Emerges as Android Market, iTunes Rival Online retailer and cloud company Amazon.com has launched into the application market with its Amazon Appstore for Android. We take you on a tour of the Amazon Appstore, which includes daily deals, an option to Test Drive an app before installing it, ratings, personalized recommendations and the usual one-click purchasing the e-commerce giant offers. READ MORE >> Sponsored by IBM IBM software for System z Learn how new business rule modernization can help address the challenges of inflexible applications, and how your company can become more agile in adapting rules that govern key business decisions. Join the Webcast ADVERTISEMENT Salesforce.com Buys Facebook Filter Radian6 for $326M Salesforce.com March 30 moved to buy Radian6 for $326 million in cash and stock, a bid to best Jive Software and others in monitoring Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social sites. READ MORE >> Cisco Builds Cloud Offerings with newScale Purchase Cisco will build its cloud services capabilities through the acquisition of newScale, which makes cloud portal software. NewScale, which company officials said has about 2 million users worldwide, sells portals for cloud computing, enabling businesses to more easily and efficiently provision their IT systems, according to Cisco. READ MORE >> 10 Reasons Why Firefox 4 Is Better Than IE9 News Analysis: Firefox 4 is catching on in a big way with Web users. And it's clear why. The updated browser has a number of features that make it better than Internet Explorer 9. READ MORE >> How to Choose Between Public or Private Clouds Cloud computing offers a new network-based delivery model for applications that small, medium and large enterprises can use. This article can help you begin to ask what applications in your infrastructure might benefit from cloud services. DOWNLOAD NOW >> How to Automate Service Delivery with Cloud Solutions Is your organization really ready to leverage the benefits of a cloud solution? Are you prepared to request, fulfill, and manage cloud services? Watch this webcast to learn more about solutions that can help you transform your operational support model from a traditional IT focus to an automated cloud service delivery model. DOWNLOAD NOW >> Cloud Computing & Virtualization: Securely Moving From The Fringes To Mainstream Mar 31, 2011 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern / 10:00 a.m. Pacific (60 minutes) Join eWEEK for this live, interactive eSeminar and hear industry experts discuss how to properly build a cloud computing strategy where data protection is at its core. Attend this online-only event and learn best practices and business process that will help your organization realize the benefits of emerging cloud technology while ensuring your data is secure. REGISTER >> Smart Ways to Incorporate Social Networking Into Your Enterprise Mar 29, 2011 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern / 10:00 a.m. Pacific (60 minutes) Social networking is not a fad - and it is not going away! Millennials entering the workforce have embraced this medium as a way to communicate both personally and professionally. It is time for companies to catch up and properly integrate social networking into their enterprises or risk being left behind. REGISTER >>

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