The Petraeus scandal and computer ethics

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	The Petraeus scandal and computer ethics Last week Gen. David Petraeus, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, resigned in response to what has turned out to be a much bigger scandal than it first appeared. 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! In this Issue BlackBerry 10 to the Rescue? I Think Not A thing the Internet of Things doesn't need U.S. Government Progress on IPv6 Deployment What Cisco and Dell's Cloupia and Gale acquisitions mean to the future of IT Patent wars over wiretapping VoIP & surveillance backdoors into Internet chats WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Steelhead Cloud Accelerator Solution Brief Learn how enterprises must tackle these challenges for SaaS applications to remain a viable option. Read now. BlackBerry 10 to the Rescue? I Think Not Research in Motion's stock has been rallying of late (and is up about 60% off its low for the year), driven in part by rumors of a takeover or similar equity transaction, and partially by a degree of optimism that the upcoming BlackBerry 10 OS, due on 30 January of next year, will actually ignite sales. I don't see how this is possible and remain very pessimistic about RIM's future. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Computerworld Honors program Computerworld Honors Program Call For Entries: Deadline 1/18 Computerworld Honors Program nominations will be accepted until January 18, 2013, with the Awards Ceremony and Gala Evening taking place on June 3rd in Washington, DC. Entries selected will have their case studies published in the Honors Global Archive and receive complimentary admission to the Gala program. Submit your entry now! A thing the Internet of Things doesn't need The concept of the Internet of Things is a powerful one. You take a device that can be monitored and or controlled in the physical world and connect it to the 'Net such that it has a virtual doppelganger online. This not only allows for things in the real world to be controlled by computers, it also allows for optimization of how, where, and when they are used. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Oracle Database Tailored for SMBs In this report, ESG evaluated Oracle Database Appliance – a simple, economical option for small and mid-sized businesses and ISVs. ESG calls this offering a "cluster in a box" with "touch of a button" configuration and implementation options, ease of maintenance, self-managing storage, phone-home support, and pay-as-you-grow pricing. Learn More! U.S. Government Progress on IPv6 Deployment The United States government has been striving to deploy IPv6 for many years. October 1st was the date that the government wanted to have functional IPv6-enabled Internet applications. Some agencies were able to configure some of their systems to use IPv6, but many systems did not achieve the goal. We should check how many of these systems are using IPv6 and what the government will do in the... Read More What Cisco and Dell's Cloupia and Gale acquisitions mean to the future of IT As cloud technologies continue to disrupt the enterprise computing landscape the norms of the old are being swept a way to make room for new norms that will define the way organizations deploy and manage technology in the cloud era … at least until the next epochal shift. With automation and self-service rapidly becoming the norm and with the 'cloudsourcing' trend still growing, it is clear... Read More Patent wars over wiretapping VoIP & surveillance backdoors into Internet chats After Microsoft acquired Skype, we looked at a Microsoft patent called "Legal Intercept" meant for monitoring and recording VoIP communications. At that time, there were questions about if Microsoft would ruin Skype by making a backdoor for easy spy and pry government and law enforcement access. Read More
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