Sunday, February 10, 2013

10 to read, including: Bush hack, Cisco v Juniper, a big WiFi problem

Cisco vs. Juniper: How different are their SDN strategies?

iPhoneys: The iPhone 6 and iPhone 5S edition

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February 10, 2013
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What Bush email hacker faces: The Palin Precedent

A year behind bars: That's what David Kernell received for guessing his way into the private email account of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin in 2008. So that would certainly be the starting point for penalties due the perpetrator of this latest invasion of privacy against the politically powerful.

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Issue highlights

1. Cisco vs. Juniper: How different are their SDN strategies?

2. iPhoneys: The iPhone 6 and iPhone 5S edition

3. 2013's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries

4. Lotus position: IBM kills the name, but software and founders live on

5. VMware is laying off employees, exiting business units, and its CTO & CEO have left. Should customers worry?

6. A giant radio telescope, a small school and a Wi-Fi problem

7. Researchers devise new attack techniques against SSL

8. Chrome 24 vs. Firefox 18 - head to head

9. In-depth first look: Microsoft's Surface for Windows 8 Pro

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Cisco vs. Juniper: How different are their SDN strategies?

On the surface, Cisco and Juniper's SDN strategies seem to have sharp contrasts if recent announcements are any indication. For example: READ MORE

iPhoneys: The iPhone 6 and iPhone 5S edition

Can't wait for the next Apple iPhone, whatever it's called? Neither can these designers, marketers and iPhone addicts READ MORE

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2013's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries

A look back at the most memorable tech-related happenings of 1988 READ MORE

WEBCAST: HP

Determine Your Cloud Storage Readiness

Cloud will impact your storage environment. Hear what a HP Storage expert has to say. View Now!

Lotus position: IBM kills the name, but software and founders live on

Thirty-one years ago, Massachusetts-based software developers Mitch Kapor and Jonathan Sachs created a program — an electronic spreadsheet — that would change the world. A year later, on Jan. 26, 1983, Lotus Development Corp. released Lotus 1-2-3 for the IBM PC and grossed $53 million in sales. The following year, sales tripled to more than $150 million. READ MORE

WEBCAST: Meraki

How MIT faced the challenges of campus wireless

After struggling to support a flood of mobile devices in a complex physical structure, MIT used Meraki to increase wireless coverage and reliability while maintaining the same rigorous security policies in place on the wired network. Read Now!

VMware is laying off employees, exiting business units, and its CTO & CEO have left. Should customers worry?

In the last week of January, the company revealed through a financial filing its plans to lay off 900 employees and exit some business units. The same day, the company's revenues missed forecasts pontificated by financial analysts, causing the company's stock to plummeted 22%. To top it all off, the tech company's chief technology officer announced he's leaving VMware to pursue a venture capitalist career, less than six months after the company had a shakeup in the CEO role. READ MORE

A giant radio telescope, a small school and a Wi-Fi problem

Students at a tiny Appalachian public school can't use Wi-Fi because any such network can throw the radio equivalent of a monkey wrench into a gigantic super-sensitive radio telescope just up the road. READ MORE

Researchers devise new attack techniques against SSL

The developers of many SSL libraries are releasing patches for a vulnerability that could potentially be exploited to recover plaintext information, such as browser authentication cookies, from encrypted communications. READ MORE

Chrome 24 vs. Firefox 18 - head to head

With major new releases of both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox happening within days of each other, it's been a big week for the browser market. Chrome 24 began to be rolled out to stable channel users via Google's automatic background updater on Thursday, while Mozilla announced the release version of Firefox 18 on Tuesday. READ MORE

In-depth first look: Microsoft's Surface for Windows 8 Pro

Microsoft's home-built ultrabook called Surface for Windows 8 Pro goes on sale Saturday and may be the Windows 8 device that best meets a wide range of corporate needs from tablet to desktop. READ MORE

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2013's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries

A look back at the most memorable tech-related happenings of 1988.

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