July 30 News from Around the Web

Corsair Force 120GB SSD Review @ Neoseeker and other reviews from around the web can be found by visiting our forums!

Are your readers looking to make the jump to SSD for their next storage solution? Neoseeker looks to deliver the hard dirt on Corsair’s solid state hard drive, the Force 120GB. Can this beefy drive match its beefy price?

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Google showcases Chrome web store

Google is showcasing its newly-minted Chrome web store at the 2010 I/O conference in San Francisco.

The online shop is expected to offer shoppers access to a wide variety of games, magazines and applications.

“We believe it should be easier for users to discover web apps and for developers to reach a large audience,” explained Google spokesperson Erik Kay.

“Chrome users who find web apps in the store will be able to create convenient shortcuts in Chrome for easy access.

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IE9 Will Change the Web Forever

Will Internet Explorer 9 change the way we surf the web with its use of the GPU? Rob Enderle thinks it will.

IE6 became the dominant browser worldwide early last decade but unfortunately Microsoft took their eyes off the ball resulting in a raft of surprisingly good challengers. IE7 was OK but disappointing and IE8 moved back to challenge for leadership again. Now IE9 is looking like a whole different kind of beast. Although browsers have traditionally leveraged the CPU and system RAM, IE9 supposedly leverages the GPU (graphics processing unit) and promises to provide a significant performance improvement as a result.

This is why, for this cycle, NVIDIA has suddenly become a huge advocate for ie9.

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Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire ScanSafe, Leading SaaS Web Security Provider

Will Broaden Existing On-Premise Web Security Offering and Expand Cloud-Based Service Opportunities

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Oct.

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Cisco Shines a Spotlight on the Dark Web

Real-Time Categorization Significantly Increases Visibility Into Web 2.0 Traffic, Provides More Effective Enforcement of Acceptable Use Policies

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The Dark Web As Explained by Cisco Product Manager Vivek Bhandari

Cisco IronPort S660 Web Security Appliance

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – October 8, 2009 – Cisco today launched Cisco® IronPort® Web Usage Controls, a next-generation acceptable-use product that offers real-time content categorization to accurately identify up to 90 percent of Dark Web sites in the most egregious content categories. Web

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