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Tablet Wars: Microsoft Surface RT v. Apple iPad

11 fun facts about Apple

Top tech companies plug into renewable power

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March 04, 2013
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Tablet Wars: Microsoft Surface RT v. Apple iPad

The Microsoft Surface running Windows RT is just about everything you'd want in a tablet, but how does it stack up against the market leader, the Apple iPad?

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Issue highlights

1. 11 fun facts about Apple

2. Top tech companies plug into renewable power

3. CloudFlare briefly drops off Internet deflecting DDOS attack

4. Microsoft starts sending cut-off notices to Office 365 preview users

5. Recent signals point to escalating jitters for IPv4 market

6. Securing the network beyond passwords

7. Can BES 10 save BlackBerry?

8. Evernote hack forces 50 million to reset passwords & yet another new Java zero-day

9. Credit Suisse lowers its 2013 and 2014 earnings estimates for Apple

10. Managing a Mobile Workforce

11. The best of Modern Seinfeld (Technology Edition)

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11 fun facts about Apple

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Top tech companies plug into renewable power

Leading tech companies like Microsoft, Google and Apple are making huge inroads in the use of renewable energy for corporate facilities and data centers, but cost and delivery challenges remain. READ MORE

CloudFlare briefly drops off Internet deflecting DDOS attack

CloudFlare's Juniper routers choked on a slight programming change designed to deflect a distributed denial-of-service attack, knocking the company's services off the Internet for about an hour early Sunday morning. READ MORE

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Microsoft starts sending cut-off notices to Office 365 preview users

Microsoft has started to warn customers who signed up for Office 365 subscription previews that their free ride is about to end. READ MORE

Recent signals point to escalating jitters for IPv4 market

Publications discussing the transition to the IPv6 addressing system have revealed mounting anxiety regarding the economics and service impact of the global shortage of IPv4 addresses. Common concerns have implications for the top and bottom lines of ISPs, clouds, hosting services and other service providers for interconnected pathways. Taken together, the following perceptions suggest a growing appetite for transfers of increasingly scarce IPv4 addresses: READ MORE

Securing the network beyond passwords

Passwords have been a weakness of network security since the development of computer networks. Through guessing weak passwords, exploiting weak passwords, acquiring passwords through social engineering, or more recently using malicious software like Advanced Persistent Threats (APT), attackers have focused on compromising passwords to gain access to the network. READ MORE

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Can BES 10 save BlackBerry?

Research in Motion (RIM) is now BlackBerry, and the renamed company recently launched the BlackBerry 10 OS. While much attention was focused on phones running the new OS, we decided to take a closer look at the company's new management platform called BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 (BES 10), which unites mobile device management (MDM), security, unified communications, and application management. READ MORE

Evernote hack forces 50 million to reset passwords & yet another new Java zero-day

The cloud-based note-syncing and productivity software service Evernote announced that attackers gained access to accounts' usernames, email addresses and passwords, so 50 million Evernote customers are required to change their passwords. READ MORE

Credit Suisse lowers its 2013 and 2014 earnings estimates for Apple

Kulbinder Garcha of Credit Suisse this past week joined a growing number of analysts who are lowering their iPhone sales estimates for Apple in 2013. Specifically, Garcha adjusted his second quarter iPhone sales estimate to 30.6 million, down from an initial estimate of 38.2 million. Consequently, Garcha's lowered his 2013 EPS estimate for Apple from $47.90 a share down to $44.92 a share. Looking ahead... READ MORE

Managing a Mobile Workforce

My last posting on Yahoo's byzantine attitude towards mobility pretty much reflects my disgust with 1950's management strategies in general. But perhaps what I should have done was to address the right way, IMHO, to mange a mobile workforce. So, what follows are the techniques I have used, with great success, over the years, in running both my own highly-distributed business as well as large, distributed... READ MORE

The best of Modern Seinfeld (Technology Edition)

Back on Dec. 10 I urged you to check out Modern Seinfeld, a novelty Twitter account that asks: "What if Seinfeld were still on the air?" At the time, it was less than 24 hours old and had already been followed by 28,000 fans. That's now up to almost half a million ... and the funny it just keeps on flowing. READ MORE

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