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Harvard vs. Yale: The Game of network and computing research Harvard University and Yale University's football teams meet in Cambridge, Mass., this Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012, for the 129th time in their history. Blood will be spilled, grass will be torn up, alums will reconnect and memories will be made. It's safe to say that not many in attendance will be thinking about the network and computing research efforts underway at these Ivy League schools, so we're here to give a quick rundown of some recent efforts as a sort of pre-game warmup. Read More 2010's GSA conference scandal hits SC12 GSA excesses at a Las Vegas conference two years ago prompted a cutback in U.S. government travel budgets -- and that means fewer federal researchers at this year's supercomputing conference. Read More Gartner's state of cloud security: Outages are bigger risk than breaches Security remains a chief inhibitor to enterprise adoption of cloud computing resources and one Gartner analyst says the biggest concern should not be that data could be compromised in the cloud, but rather that there may be a cloud outage that could lead to data loss. Read More 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 15 Microsoft alumni: Where are they now? Microsoft didn't become the industry giant it is today by hiring slackers, and that's proven by taking a quick look at some of its alumni and where they have wound up. Some went on to start their own companies, some went into nonprofit work, some became leaders of rival companies and one on our list -- so far at least -- seems to be just taking it easy. Read More Google: Gov't spying spiked & Microsoft leads the pack for copyright complaints The United States is leading the race, but in this case, it's a very bad thing. The race is actually "government requests for disclosure of user data from Google accounts or services." The USA comes in first in government snooping with a total of 7,969 user data requests from January to June 2012, but that was tied into 16,281 user accounts. Google complied fully or at least in some degree with 90%... Read More Google reproduces 100,000 stars in Chrome experiment A new Google Chrome workshop virtually reproduces 100,000 nearby stars in just one tab in your web browse. The term "nearby" in this context being relative, of course. Read More Why SDN will accelerate COTS adoption in the networking industry SDN is a game changer for adoption of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technology in the network industry. Read More The TV is the new tablet: How gesture-based computing is evolving Few people watch television alone today, even when they're by themselves. Most are gravitating toward the multi-screen experience, in which viewers keep a smartphone, tablet or laptop close by so they can access the Web while they watch TV. But as televisions become smarter and gesture-based computing evolves, viewers may be able to mount and control everything they need on the living room wall. 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 12 touch-less computer navigation projects Read More Skype blocks password resets after trivial account hijacking flaw made public Skype has disabled the account password reset option on its website following reports that the feature can be abused to hijack Skype accounts if the attackers know the email addresses associated with them. Read More
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