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SIP pioneer Rosenberg returns to Cisco | Cisco adds app performance to branch routers

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A visual history of Linux
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Unified Infrastructure Management Examined
AccelOps' Unified Infrastructure Management Examined: How network and security administrators can monitor performance, availability and events with just one application. Managing a More Dynamic and Complex World. Read More>>

SIP pioneer Rosenberg returns to Cisco
Jonathan Rosenberg has left Skype as chief technology strategist and returned to Cisco to help the company better compete against video and collaboration start-ups and consumer-oriented businesses that threaten its opportunities in those markets. Rosenberg, a pioneer is the development of the SIP protocol, left Cisco in 2009 as a Cisco Fellow in the Voice Technology Group. Read More

Cisco adds app performance to branch routers
Cisco this week extended the software capabilities of its ISR branch routers with previously separate security and application performance features, including WAN optimization. Read More

4 Internet privacy laws you should know about
Last year after an outpouring of opposition, Internet advocates logged a victory when they defeated the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Read More

Apple's Steve Jobs: Stanford commencement speech transcript
I'm on the hunt for 2013's techiest college commencement address speakers, with Dropbox CEO Drew Houston and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak being among the first to show up on my radar. Melinda Gates and Alex Kipman, both with Microsoft backgrounds, are two others on the list this year (here's what Bill Gates had to say at Harvard back in 2007). Are you aware of others? If so, please let me know at... Read More

Microsoft's TEALS program: Facilitating computer science education, coding at a younger age
A couple of weeks ago, I stumbled across a video posted to YouTube by the Microsoft Citizenship group titled "Woolly worms to worlds of opportunities: Jeremy's story." The video tells a story of a high school student from Beaytyville, Kentucky, named Jeremy who wants to be a software engineer, or more specifically, a game designer. Unfortunately for Jeremy, his school didn't have much of a computer... Read More

How to tell when a WSJ writer is embarrassed
Here's a little inside secret about the journalism business: When a byline on a story says "By (Whatever Publication) Staff" instead of an actual name of an actual writer, it more often than not means that the writer would be embarrassed to see his or her name associated with that particular piece of work. Here's an example. You'd be embarrassed, too, if you worked for the Wall Street Journal and... Read More

NASA: Mars rock sample shows Red Planet could have supported life
One of the chief goals of NASA's Mars Science Lab and its Curiosity rover was to determine if the Red Planet could have supported life in some fashion and now comes news that apparently it could have. Read More

Smartphone usage driving up greenhouse gas emissions: report
Exponential growth in the use of computers, smartphones and other networked devices could cause the environmental impact of the ICT sector to increase dramatically between now and 2020, according to a new report. Read More

Cross-platform malware that hit tech giants had specific targets
Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter acknowledge finding the Trojan in employee computers, but provide little information to security firms Read More

HP's Autonomy acquisition under investigation in the UK
Hewlett-Packard's purchase of Autonomy is under investigation by the U.K. Serious Fraud Office, the company said in a regulatory filing ahead of its annual meeting where there are expected to be challenges to the re-election of Chairman Ray Lane and two board members. Read More

Cisco-funded startup unveils breakthrough router, targets SDNs
A Cisco-funded router startup has unveiled its first product, which the company says implements breakthrough silicon-to-photonics circuitry for scaling service provider networks and enabling them for software-defined networking (SDN). Read More

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