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Google Reader being killed along with 7 other services

10 awesome ways to celebrate Pi Day 2013

Tech Debate: Is the cloud ready for mission-critical apps?

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March 14, 2013
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Google Reader being killed along with 7 other services

Google is shutting down its Google Reader and seven other products and services, taking the total number of features or services shut since its "spring cleaning" began in 2011 to 70.

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Issue highlights

1. 10 awesome ways to celebrate Pi Day 2013

2. Tech Debate: Is the cloud ready for mission-critical apps?

3. Lawyer registered PopeFrancis.com … 3 years ago

4. Researchers resurrect and improve CRIME attack against SSL

5. INSIDER Fave-Reads: 6 must-read books to ignite your IT career

6. 20 historic tech sounds you may have forgotten

7. Users flock to Japan student's firewall-busting thesis project

8. IDC: Big data hype still here, but maturity beckons

9. Review: TelyHD Business Edition

10. Four tools for checking bandwidth

 

10 awesome ways to celebrate Pi Day 2013

Math geeks celebrate 'Pi Day' each March 14 -- here are 10 ways to get in on the fun READ MORE

Tech Debate: Is the cloud ready for mission-critical apps?

Organizations are gaining confidence in cloud computing, although questions still swirl around everything from basic security and compliance controls to issues regarding supplier viability, ROI and, given the prominent outages of late, simple availability. READ MORE

Lawyer registered PopeFrancis.com … 3 years ago

Nothing sparks an Internet land grab quite like the selection of a new pope, according to Go Daddy, which reports registering almost 500 papal-themed domain names in the first hour of the new papacy. On the other hand, the most interesting such registration happened in 2010 when someone - Go Daddy didn't say who - registered the name PopeFrancis.com. READ MORE

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Researchers resurrect and improve CRIME attack against SSL

Two researchers from security firm Imperva have devised new techniques that could allow attackers to extract sensitive information from users' encrypted Web traffic. READ MORE

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Fave-Reads: 6 must-read books to ignite your IT career

With companies running lean and mean, professional development has increasingly become an individual sport. IT workers have learned to fend for themselves to develop needed skills and gain new mindsets for managing more effectively and adding more value to the workplace. READ MORE

20 historic tech sounds you may have forgotten

Boy, does technology evolve fast. How many of these iconic sounds do you remember? READ MORE

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Users flock to Japan student's firewall-busting thesis project

If you're not sure about the purpose behind Daiyuu Nobori's online thesis project, perhaps the large picture of the collapse of the Berlin Wall will help. READ MORE

IDC: Big data hype still here, but maturity beckons

Few tech industry buzzwords have gotten as vigorous a workout as "big data," but while the hype remains plentiful, it is starting to give way to real-life successes as well as formal ways companies can develop big data strategies, according to a number of IDC analysts. READ MORE

Review: TelyHD Business Edition

A group of my colleagues from different offices recently attempted a multi-party videoconference, brutally showing the continued need for a better method of video communication. READ MORE

Four tools for checking bandwidth

The question of whether you're getting the bandwidth you pay for is one that just doesn't go away. Twice in the last few months I've suspected my ADSL connection of running slow and, sure enough, despite the modem telling me I had 3Mbps down and 500Kbps up, for whatever reason, restarting the modem fixed the problem. READ MORE

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