Canadian game developer fired after spoofing call-center workplace

Hot or not: 10 tech trends for 2013 F5 introduces new integrated firewall capability for the data center Network World Daily News PM January 31, 2013 Share this email Canadian game developer fired after spoofing call-center workplace An independent game developer recently got fired from his day job at the Canadian Revenue Agency after releasing a satirical depiction of his apparently aggravating and unfulfilling call-center job. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Hot or not: 10 tech trends for 2013 2. F5 introduces new integrated firewall capability for the data center 3. New IPv6 training video released 4. New York Times computer network breached by Chinese hackers, paper says 5. INSIDER How to manage big data overload 6. What will an H-1B cap hike bring to U.S.? 7. Microsoft to big data programmers: Try F# 8. Ubuntu's rolling release: Pros and cons 9. Whatever happened to the art of software testing? 10. 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BYOD & Mobility Management Attend and learn how to use your organization's appetite for risk as the foundation of your enterprise mobility management policy. BYOD & Mobility Management Tech Seminar. 2/12 - Westin Hotel, Long Beach, CA Click to continue New IPv6 training video released Seeing an uptick in demand for IPv6-trained engineers in Europe, IT video training firm CBT Nuggets is offering a new 21-hour class aimed at teaching the basics of the next-gen Internet protocol. READ MORE RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IDG Research New Survey: Purchase Process of Enterprise Technologies Tell us about the buying process for enterprise technologies in Network World's Technology Influence Survey! This survey should take about 10 minutes of your time. To thank you, you will have the opportunity to enter a sweepstakes to win a $250 cash prize*! Please be assured your responses are confidential. To participate, click on the link below. *Due to regulations, prize sweepstakes is only open to legal U.S. and Canadian (except Puerto Rico and Quebec) residents, age 18 or older. New York Times computer network breached by Chinese hackers, paper says Hackers from China breached the computer network of The New York Times and stole passwords that allowed them to gain access to computers and email accounts for a period of four months, the newspaper reported late Wednesday. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Netscout Systems Inc. Service-Oriented Performance Management Strategy This white paper is to help IT organizations adopt a management methodology that enables them to improve the user experience by focusing on service delivery management. Learn More. INSIDER How to manage big data overload The nuts and bolts of systems designed for storing petabytes (and more) of data that can be easily accessed and analyzed are more complex than the inner workings of your average storage platform. Here's how to handle the data deluge. READ MORE What will an H-1B cap hike bring to U.S.? Ten U.S. senators this week agreed to sponsor a bill that would allow the annual H-1B visa cap to rise to as high as 300,000, leaving opponents and some researchers concerned. READ MORE Microsoft to big data programmers: Try F# Microsoft's F# language geared to parallel programming, data-oriented problem-solving READ MORE Ubuntu's rolling release: Pros and cons According to Canonical's Kernel Team Manager, Leann Ogasawara, it is possible that Ubuntu will get rid of the current "new release every six months" model and move to a rolling release. (You can find more info in this recent video.) So, just what is a "rolling release"? READ MORE Whatever happened to the art of software testing? Over the last year I've had the opportunity to attend a number of extremely interesting and mind-expanding conferences focusing on emerging and somewhat disruptive technologies and companies: APIs, mobile, cloud, big data – the works. Coming from a quality background, it has stricken me how little focus these companies give to testing. They talk plenty about continuous integration, agile methodologies,... READ MORE The 12 techiest Super Bowl ads of all time The Super Bowl is the time for football, and commercials – increasingly geeky ones. READ MORE SLIDESHOWS 13 markets you might not associate with Cisco Cisco's "Internet of Everything" initiative takes it into unchartered territory. JOIN THE NETWORK WORLD COMMUNITIES As network pros you understand that the value of connections increase as the number of connections increase, the so called network effect, and no where is this more evident than in professional relationships. 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