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	Network industry veteran pledges to build 'high-speed railway for Big Data' Chris Lynch wants to be Big Data's Big Daddy, with plans to back 20 young companies on the East Coast that deal with data sets characterized by "volume, velocity and variety." Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Microsoft Try Microsoft Office 365, free Collaborate in the cloud with Office, Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync videoconferencing. Access, edit, and share documents. Starting at $8/user/month. Try it free. In this Issue Google I/O sells out in a snap, angering those left out A quick look: The Angry Birds phenomenon Red Hat: What an open cloud really means BlueStacks: Yep, I can now slice virtual fruit ON MY PC!!! Microsoft downs Zeus botnet but can't ID who's behind it How to Migrate from Windows XP to 7, Windows Server 2003 to 2008 R2 Counterterrorism database stores all Americans as potential domestic terrorists Qualcomm goes 'round the world in viral video ploy Angry Aussies cry "Pig's arse!" on iPad 4G claims Study: Intel's market share highest in a decade Cisco boosts telepresence system with new collaboration features Is Application Security the Glaring Hole in Your Defense? RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Rocky Mountain IPv6 Task Force 2012 North American IPv6 Summit Become a certified IPv6 Engineer! Nephos6, in collaboration with the IPv6 Forum is hosting IPv6 certification testing. 2012 NA IPv6 Summit attendees can test for IPv6 certification during the conference. Save $50 off conference registration with this code: SPON700. Register Now Google I/O sells out in a snap, angering those left out Google I/0, the search giant's enormously popular developer conference, sold out this morning in about 20 minutes - only a third the time of last year's rush -- sparking a round of grumbling from those who didn't get tickets ... and the predicable appearance of scalpers on eBay. Read More A quick look: The Angry Birds phenomenon From space to Rio, the Angry Birds game seems to be out to conquer the world Read More Red Hat: What an open cloud really means Open source cloud offerings have specific characteristics that provide benefits above and beyond proprietary offerings, two top officials at Red Hat said during a webinar today. Read More BlueStacks: Yep, I can now slice virtual fruit ON MY PC!!! As though today's office workers don't have enough to distract them from being productive, BlueStacks has now released the Beta version of its Android app emulator for desktop PCs. Read More WHITE PAPER: APC Classification of Data Center Management Software Tools This paper divides the realm of data center management tools into four distinct subsets and compares the primary and secondary functions of key subsystems within these subsets. Learn More Microsoft downs Zeus botnet but can't ID who's behind it Microsoft won court permission to seize servers Friday that took down a deployment of the Zeus botnet, and it even detailed the corporate structure that enabled using the zombie network to steal cash from victims. Read More How to Migrate from Windows XP to 7, Windows Server 2003 to 2008 R2 When it comes to adopting new operating systems and applications, common practice among system administrators is to delay adoption until the release of the first service pack. Admins found plenty of reasons to put off moving from Windows XP to Windows Vista, and then to Windows 7: The new operating systems demanded more capable hardware, the user interface changes required user training, and there were compatibility issues with legacy hardware and applications. Read More Counterterrorism database stores all Americans as potential domestic terrorists Terrorism is not a 4-letter cuss word, but it might be a curse word . . . a five year curse on every American citizen that is. By using terrorism as a justification, the government will collect and store personal information on Americans who have absolutely no ties to terrorism and are suspected of no crime. Your info will be dumped into a database and stored for five years. Why? So U.S. Read More Qualcomm goes 'round the world in viral video ploy Qualcomm is going back to the viral video well, promoting its energy efficient Snapdragon processors for smartphones and tablets in a video that shows a device going 36,000 miles around the world on one charge and being used to film a series of quirky optical illusions on the way. The phone makes stops in Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Shanghai, Moscow, Dubai, Mumbai, Rio De Janeiro and Istanbul,... Read More WHITE PAPER: Meraki iPads use 400% more WiFi data A recent survey of a sample of Meraki's 18,000 customer networks revealed that iPads use 400% more WiFi bandwidth than other mobile devices. Additionally, the study found that mobile clients overtook desktops and laptops, with a marked rise in Android devices. Read now! Angry Aussies cry "Pig's arse!" on iPad 4G claims G'day, Apple! Bet you didn't expect to be hit with a legal challenge from Down Under this mornin'. did ya? Well, that's just what's happened. Here's the complaint filed by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission: Read More Study: Intel's market share highest in a decade Intel's share of the semiconductor market is as high as it's been in 10 years, thanks to strong sales performance and a key acquisition, according to a study from IHS. Read More Cisco boosts telepresence system with new collaboration features Cisco will announce improvements on Tuesday to its Jabber IM, presence and video-conferencing product, as well as to its room-size "immersive" telepresence systems, as the networking giant continues to push its way into the workplace collaboration market. Read More Is Application Security the Glaring Hole in Your Defense? Organizations on average spend one-tenth as much on application security as they do on network security, even though SQL injection attacks are the highest root cause of data breaches. Experts say educating developers in writing secure code is the answer. 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