"Stealing Wi-Fi" isn't about Wi-Fi

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	"Stealing Wi-Fi" isn't about Wi-Fi The New York Times has an Op-Ed "contribution" from Helen Rubenstein, who fondly reminisces about how, for years, she piggybacked on her neighbors unsecured Wi-Fi connection to tackle her first freelance writing assignments, file her taxes, and stream episodes of "Friday Night Lights." Read More WHITE PAPER: Quantum Corporation Native Storage Networking Architecture Quantum's iLayer software has historically provided an advanced SAN connectivity feature set via a Fibre Channel I/O Blade, sold and positioned as storage networking drives. Read More In this Issue Bob Muglia aside, the brain drain at Microsoft is a good thing Here come the open source rookies! A roundup of reaction to news of Jobs's latest leave A mellower Steve Ballmer starts 12th year as CEO Best of CES: 8 new gadgets to make you say "Wow" Maryland man exacts sweet robocall revenge Dear Entrepreneurs: Is Russia The Next China? Microsoft needs to get in front of WP7 glitch, pronto Is there anything the Internet won't believe? WHITE PAPER: CA The Most Important Metric for your VMs The management tools selected to support virtualization is essential to the ability of IT to grow the virtual environment without proportionately increasing the staff to manage all of the new physical host servers and their guest VMs. Learn More Bob Muglia aside, the brain drain at Microsoft is a good thing With the strangely public ousting of Microsoft's Bob Muglia earlier this week, it may seem that there are few software engineers left at the highest levels of Microsoft. I was surprised to discover that this isn't completely true. Read More Here come the open source rookies! In the rapidly changing world of open source, it's interesting to look at popular new projects on the leading edge. Black Duck (my company) just announced its list of open source "Rookies of the Year" for the third year running. Read More A roundup of reaction to news of Jobs's latest leave As the technology and business worlds digest today's revelation that Apple's Steve Jobs is taking another health-related leave of absence, here is a wrap-up of news coverage and opinion. Read More WHITE PAPER: Emerson Network Power Keys to Successful Data Center Resource Management A lack of centralized, meaningful operating data has created a dilemma for data center management: optimize for efficiency or availability, but not both. Learn how real-time visibility into rack-, row- and facility-level operating conditions can help you to determine the real capacity limits of your data center. Read Now. A mellower Steve Ballmer starts 12th year as CEO Today, Steve Ballmer started his 12th year as chief executive officer of Microsoft and there could be no better pair of bookends to his tenure than the following two videos. Read More Best of CES: 8 new gadgets to make you say "Wow" After spending the week at the Consumer Electronics Show, attending press events and wandering the show floor, I had a mighty long list of products that made me say, "Wow." Read More Maryland man exacts sweet robocall revenge Have you ever wanted to get some sort of revenge on those automated robocalls that in some cases continue to interrupt dinner or in this situation, sleep? The Washington Post has a story today about a Maryland man who'd had enough and exacted some revenge of his own. Read More WHITE PAPER: Extreme Networks The High Performance Network for iSCSI IT organizations have been focusing on creating a converged infrastructure to support high-performance iSCSI while allowing other applications to coexist on the network. Read now! Dear Entrepreneurs: Is Russia The Next China? Sometimes I wonder if we're a tad hyper-focused on China. It's difficult, if not impossible, to go a single day without reading an article about China, either as the up-and-coming industrial nation or as the future cure to all of our economic ills. However you swing it, China is the newsmaker of today. But China is just one fish in the pond. Read More Microsoft needs to get in front of WP7 glitch, pronto Microsoft remains frustratingly tight-lipped about a number of reports of users of Windows Phone 7-powered smartphones reporting excessive amounts of data usage that seem to be happening without the users' knowledge. Read More Is there anything the Internet won't believe? A supermarket tabloid that is no longer available in supermarkets publishes a "story" online reporting that Facebook intends to shut down March 15 and this inconceivable rumor gains enough legs Out There that Facebook sees need to issue a denial. Read More
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