Friday, March 16, 2012

Video game art: Smithsonian exhibit celebrates 40 years of creativity

New iPad wins rave reviews | IBM battles dire mainframe myths

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Video game art: Smithsonian exhibit celebrates 40 years of creativity
'The Art of Video Games' exhibit opens at the Smithsonian American Art Museum on March 16 Read More


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New iPad wins rave reviews
The first hands-on reviews of the new iPad make it clear not only that Apple keeps the tablet crown but why it continues to do so. Read More

IBM battles dire mainframe myths
The perception of mainframe technology as outmoded or inefficient is wildly inaccurate in a number of important ways, according to IBM's chief architect for cloud computing, Frank DeGilio. Read More

'Insatiable demand' for streaming video puts pressure on providers
Just as enterprise network managers brace for the flood of bandwidth-consuming content stemming from the NCAA men's basketball tournament, content delivery providers put in a significant amount of time preparing to meet the meteoric rise in demand. Read More


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Do you have a favorite enterprise IT product you can't live without? Tell us about it and we'll share your raves with our readers. Please send your submissions to Ann Bednarz at Network World (abednarz@nww.com) by Wednesday, March 21. Please note: Submissions must be received directly from IT professionals, not through a third party. Items to address: Read More

How to attract the military's rapt attention: Sell fake service-related documentation on the Internet
The military has a special place reserved on the tip of their bayonets for the folks who think they can sell phony honorable discharge documents and military awards like the Purple Heart. Today the Department of Justice said that Robert Neener of Smithville, Tennessee, plead guilty to possessing and selling federal agency seals and pretending to be a federal officer or employee while operating an Internet... Read More

Google's latest attempt to bolster Google+: Hire the founder of Digg
Well, this is interesting! All Things D has a scoop that Google is hiring Digg founder Kevin Rose: Digg founder Kevin Rose has been hired by Google, according to sources close to the situation. [...] Rose's first day at Google is to be this Monday, the sources said. Read More


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Cisco's NDS purchase more than TV
Cisco this week made its most strategic acquisition in years when it bought video software titan NDS for $5 billion. The acquisition is in keeping with Cisco's strategy to drive video into as many markets as it can in order to create demand for its routers and switches. Read More

Kaspersky Lab spots malware signed with stolen digital certificate
Security firm Kaspersky Lab Thursday said it's identified a malicious program that appears to make use of a compromised Symantec VeriSign digital certificate issued to Conpavi AG, which is known to work with Swiss government agencies. Kaspersky says it has asked Symantec VeriSign to revoke the compromised certificates. Read More

How to shop for Enterprise Application Store solutions
When selecting a vendor to help build your EAS there are several questions you should ask. Do they support multiple mobile OSs? How strong is their access control and security and does it integrate into your existing security and control solution. Do they have a way to help verify that an app doesn't pose a threat? How good is their user interface? Read More

Despite predictions to the contrary, Exchange holds off Gmail in D.C.
When Washington, D.C., led by its then CTO, the charismatic Vivek Kundra, bought Google Apps seats for its almost 40,000 municipal employees in 2008, many predicted that the city would soon after ditch its more expensive, on-premise Microsoft software for e-mail and productivity applications. Read More

BYOD: Making Sense of the Work-Personal Device Blur
The bring-your-own-device trend intersects the lines of personal and work lives, stirring up a mess of problems for enterprise IT leaders, from dealing with lost devices to keeping corporate data out of consumer cloud services. Read More



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