Friday, March 29, 2013

Cloud prices: How low can they go?

10 Geeky and Foolish Ways to Celebrate April Fools' Day

Madeleine Albright: 'There's a special place in hell reserved for women who refuse to help one another' in the workforce

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March 29, 2013
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Cloud prices: How low can they go?

Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud providers are battling in a price war that has seen 29 price reductions by the four major providers during the past 14 months, a trend industry analysts expect to continue.

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Issue highlights

1. 10 Geeky and Foolish Ways to Celebrate April Fools' Day

2. Madeleine Albright: 'There's a special place in hell reserved for women who refuse to help one another' in the workforce

3. Shrinking idle capacity: Corporate SIP trunks could equal T-1 links by 2015

4. Forrester Research calls mobile-device management 'heavy-handed approach'

5. DDoS attack against Spamhaus overhyped, says website watcher Keynote

6. Report: Samsung grabs about one-third of market with 70M-plus Q1 smartphone sales

7. Cisco lays off 500 of workforce

8. Even more secretive Windows Blue features revealed

9. INSIDER How to tell if your Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn efforts are paying off

10. More Apple iPhoneys: The iOS 7 edition

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10 Geeky and Foolish Ways to Celebrate April Fools' Day

The Web is the epicenter of foolishness these days, but there are also ways to celebrate April 1 offline READ MORE

Madeleine Albright: 'There's a special place in hell reserved for women who refuse to help one another' in the workforce

Speaking at the CIA Women's History Month Celebration this week former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright offered a number of career advancing suggestions for women in the workforce. Albright said her storied career -- which really began at age 39 after raising three children and obtaining her Ph.D. -- owes its success to making the most of opportunities presented. "I never imagined that I would one day become secretary of state," she said. "It's not that I lacked ambition. It is just that I had never seen a secretary of state in a skirt." READ MORE

Shrinking idle capacity: Corporate SIP trunks could equal T-1 links by 2015

The percentage of North American companies using SIP or Session Initiation Protocol trunking and traditional T-1s will just about equalize in two years, marking a dramatic shift in technology used for external corporate communications. READ MORE

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Forrester Research calls mobile-device management 'heavy-handed approach'

Forrester Research predicts that with the "bring your own device" (BYOD) trend expected to increasingly include laptops in addition to smartphones and tablets, the approach to managing those devices is in for some big changes. READ MORE

DDoS attack against Spamhaus overhyped, says website watcher Keynote

Much of the news reporting about the massive denial-of-service attack against anti-spam service Spamhaus over the past week or so went way too far in describing it as creating a slowdown on the Internet itself, says one company monitoring website performance. READ MORE

Report: Samsung grabs about one-third of market with 70M-plus Q1 smartphone sales

Samsung's total worldwide smartphone sales have likely totaled more than 70 million units in the first quarter of 2013, or roughly a third of the overall market, according to a new report from Counterpoint Research. READ MORE

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Cisco lays off 500 of workforce

Cisco this week reduced its workforce by about 500 people as the company realigns to face the advent of software-defined networking, cloud computing and its impact on routing and switching. READ MORE

Even more secretive Windows Blue features revealed

The leaked development version of Windows Blue, an upcoming version of Windows 8 expected later this year, has shed light on even more improvements coming to the operating system. Windows Blue--whose leak prompted Microsoft to admit its existence--won't be a whole new OS, but rather an update or service pack to Windows 8, packed with incremental updates and features while maintaining the same overall user experience. READ MORE

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How to tell if your Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn efforts are paying off

As businesses make more use of social networks, the number of engagement, analysis and monitoring tools has exploded. Enterprises are trying to understand their return on social media investments, to find out if their Twitter and Facebook marketing campaigns are actually delivering customers. They want to track social mentions across multiple networks and be responsive to both kudos and complaints. READ MORE

More Apple iPhoneys: The iOS 7 edition

As Apple WWDC approaches, juices flow among would-be iOS designers READ MORE

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