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	10 Top Windows 8 Peripherals for Tablets and PCs Need a mouse for your Windows 8 laptop or a keyboard for your Windows RT tablet? These devices from Microsoft and Logitech are solid options from proven peripherals vendors. Read More WHITE PAPER: Airwatch Enabling Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) in the Enterprise While AirWatch strives to provide some level of direction for customers in terms of initially implementing a BYOD program, it is up to each organization's legal, human resources, and management teams to create a device management program that is right for your organization. Read Now! In this Issue Extreme joins Cisco, Brocade, Huawei at 100G Highlights of Big Switch's long-awaited SDN announcement Why is Steven Sinofsky really leaving Microsoft? Judge Koh to consider alleged jury misconduct in this Summer's Apple/Samsung case Toyota testing smart cars that talk to each other and to the road App abuses Twitter IDs to produce bogus piracy 'confessions,' including one from magician Teller Cisco relationship was stressed with Nicira buy: EMC Yahoo apologizes for fumbling fantasy football website on Sunday Oracle takes stake in PaaS vendor Engine Yard WHITE PAPER: Oracle Database Consolidation onto Private Clouds Consolidation can be achieved through server, operating system, and database consolidation, and the higher the consolidation density achieved, the greater the return on investment (ROI). This white paper describes how to successfully consolidate your database onto a private cloud through several deployment models. Read More Now! Extreme joins Cisco, Brocade, Huawei at 100G Extreme Networks this week unveiled 100G and 40G Ethernet modules as well as SDN application support for its BlackDiamond X8 core switch. Read More Highlights of Big Switch's long-awaited SDN announcement This morning, SDN startup Big Switch unveiled its strategy to end what might be the worst job of being in stealth mode in the history of networking. I'm not sure that anyone in the networking industry wasn't at least partially aware of what Big Switch was doing. However, there were gaps in my and others' knowledge, so today's announcement clarifies the strategy. It certainly lived up to the hype,... Read More Why is Steven Sinofsky really leaving Microsoft? It's hard to imagine why someone would walk away from one of the most powerful jobs within Microsoft just weeks after launching two products that its CEO says together rank among the top three events in the company's storied history. But that is just what Steven Sinofsky has done, stepping down as president of the Windows and Windows Live division where Windows 8 and Microsoft Surface tablets were... Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Ipswitch Wired & Wireless Networks? WhatsUp Gold can help! As an IT manager, you're busy taking care of the availability, performance & security of your company's IT infrastructure. But things like BYOD, rogue devices, AP over-subscription & bandwidth policy abuse can make that complex. WhatsUp Gold provides ONE dashboard to visualize, isolate & resolve wireless problems before they impact your organization. Stop being the last to know about your wireless issues- Try WhatsUp Gold free for 30 days! Judge Koh to consider alleged jury misconduct in this Summer's Apple/Samsung case The legal saga between Samsung and Apple is seemingly never-ending. Not only do the two tech behemoths have ongoing legal cases pending in jurisdictions across the globe, they also continue to battle it out in jurisdictions where judgements have already been rendered. As you likely remember, a jury this past Summer in the Northern District of California awarded Apple $1.05 billion in damages after... Read More Toyota testing smart cars that talk to each other and to the road At the Intelligent Transport System test site, a Japanese facility that is the size of three football fields, Toyota is testing smart cars that talk to each other and to the roads on the 700 MHz band "with the aim of reducing traffic accidents." Toyota reported, "The site is equipped with a road-to-vehicle communications system consisting of a vehicle detection system, a pedestrian detection system,... Read More App abuses Twitter IDs to produce bogus piracy 'confessions,' including one from magician Teller Here's the apparent thought process of some genius or geniuses at software maker Enfour: We're so fed up with seeing our $55 Apple iOS dictionary app called Oxford Deluxe pirated that we're going to hoodwink people out of their Twitter credentials and then send impersonated tweets from their accounts that read like this one: Read More WHITE PAPER: Quest Protect Unstructured Data on File Servers, SharePoint & NAS Unstructured data is a critical security risk and compliance concern for organizations. Your company's emails, documents and spreadsheets contain readily digestible, business-critical information, and your organization is generating more, much more, of those documents every day. How are you protecting that data? Read Now! Cisco relationship was stressed with Nicira buy: EMC VMware's acquisition of network virtualization start-up Nicira did indeed put some stress on EMC/VMware's relationship with Cisco, EMC CEO Joe Tucci Read More Yahoo apologizes for fumbling fantasy football website on Sunday Yahoo! Sports is in full apology mode after cutting the knees out from underneath thousands of users of its fantasy football website on Sunday right before the early games started. Some problems with the mobile app were still being reported late Monday, though the website was otherwise back in working order. MEA CULPAS: 11 Sorriest Tech Companies of 2012 Read More Oracle takes stake in PaaS vendor Engine Yard Oracle has taken a minority stake in Engine Yard, maker of a PaaS (platform as a service) for Ruby, PHP and Node.js applications, the company announced Tuesday. Financial terms were not disclosed. Read More
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