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Improv group comes to rescue of texting pedestrians with Seeing-eye People
The scene-making Improv Everywhere troupe has released a pair of videos in which it pokes fun at people who can't take their eyes off their texting devices even while navigating busy streets in New York City. Improv Everywhere's solution for safeguarding oblivious walking/texting zombies: Seeing-eye People. Read More


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Top 10 Programming Skills That Will Get You Hired
Have you been considering adding some new programming skills to your toolbox, but you're not sure where to start? When it comes to what's hot for developers, CIO.com has you covered with which programming languages are in demand and where the development and programming jobs are. Read More

Carnegie Mellon develops wee QWERTY texting technology for impossibly tiny devices
If smartwatches and other ultra-small devices are to become the text generators of the future, their diminutive keyboards are going to have to be way more useful for, um, big fingered typists. Carnegie Mellon researchers may have the answer to that problem. Called ZoomBoard, the text entry technique is based on the iconic QWERTY keyboard layout. Read More

White House program targets IT jobs for service members
The Obama administration this week teamed with Cisco, Microsoft, HP and others to roll out what it called an "IT Training and Certification Partnership" designed to get thousands of service members into the information technology world. Read More

HP refreshes data center core and aggregation with SDN switches
HP this week refreshed its switch line and fortified its SDN portfolio with three new systems and a router, along with management and provisioning software extensions. Read More

Universities Closing Big Data Talent Gap But Need Real Data
Any discussion about the challenges of big data will eventually come to the talent gap--the demand for people with big data analytics skills is expected to dramatically outpace supply over the next several years. Read More

Microsoft links Skype voice, video calling to Outlook.com
Microsoft is rolling Skype in with its free Outlook.com email service, giving customers the ability to fire up VoIP calls directly from their mail inbox. Read More

Apache servers ambushed by sophisticated backdoor attacks
Apache servers are being ambushed by a particularly pernicious malware program called Linux/Cdorked.A that's infecting visitors to the sick machines with the Blackhole malware kit. Read More

11 Profiles in Bad Leadership Behavior
Recognizing where you fall short in your management style and then developing a plan to strengthen those areas can mean the difference between being a boss and being a leader. It can also make a difference in how far you advance in your IT management career. Read More

CIO Takes the Less-Traveled Path to IT Career Success
This divisional CIO got his promotion after a stint in the IT infrastructure group -- a stint that some would view as career suicide, but he viewed as valuable experience Read More

Twitter's 'Who to follow' feature sometimes gets lost
This post is for serious Twitter users, so others should feel free to check their Facebook pages. Read More

Interop: The quiz
From strange titles of talks to the use of exotic broadcast media, Interop has been drawing attention for more than two decades Read More

 
 
 

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HP Networking finally rolls out a data center switch

White House program targets IT jobs for service members

Developer divide: 19 generations of computer programmers

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HP Networking finally rolls out a data center switch

The data center is where all the action has been in networking over the past few years. We saw the introduction of the network fabric, the rise of software defined networks (SDN), a number of startups emerge, and we've seen a fair bit of M&A activity as well. Because of the rapid evolution, we've seen almost every major network vendor – Cisco, Brocade, Juniper, Extreme, Avaya, Alcatel-Lucent...

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1. White House program targets IT jobs for service members

2. Developer divide: 19 generations of computer programmers

3. Enterasys boosts productivity with Microsoft SharePoint alternative

4. Brocade unleashes a data center barrage

5. Living Social shows how not to handle a password leak

6. DARPA wants huge Holy Grail of mobile ad hoc networks

7. Microsoft turns room into video game with IllumiRoom project

8. How to build a bulletproof cloud backup system without spending a dime

9. Trend Micro seeks to make Amazon Web Services more secure

10. INSIDER Cisco edges F5 in VPN shootout

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Meritrust Sees Results with FlexPod and VMware

Faced with an aging physical IT infrastructure, Meritrust Credit Union sought a more stable foundation for its business critical applications and for its Oracle database, which is central to its operations. Read Now!

White House program targets IT jobs for service members

The Obama administration this week teamed with Cisco, Microsoft, HP and others to roll out what it called an "IT Training and Certification Partnership" designed to get thousands of service members into the information technology world. READ MORE

Developer divide: 19 generations of computer programmers

From punch cards to JavaScript, computing history owes everything to those who've programmed the machines READ MORE

Enterasys boosts productivity with Microsoft SharePoint alternative

Enterasys Networks, the Salem, N.H., maker of networking and security products, found coordinating collaboration among staff, suppliers and partners was cumbersome using Microsoft's SharePoint so went looking for a simpler way that wound up saving money by boosting efficiency. READ MORE

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Incorporating Social Media Into Your Customer Service

In order to satisfy today's customer, a case must be made to incorporate social media into your customer service strategy. Read Now!

Brocade unleashes a data center barrage

Brocade this week extended its data center networking portfolio with hardware and software enhancements designed to better integrate and align physical and virtual resources. READ MORE

Living Social shows how not to handle a password leak

Like many of you reading this, I recently received the following email from Living Social CEO Tim O'Shaughnessy, IMPORTANT INFORMATION LivingSocial recently experienced a cyber-attack on our computer systems that resulted in unauthorized access to some customer data from our servers. We are actively working with law enforcement to investigate this issue. READ MORE

DARPA wants huge Holy Grail of mobile ad hoc networks

Even the often far-reaching researchers at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) seems to think this one is a stretch: Develop what's known as mobile ad-hoc wireless technology that lets 1000- 5000 nodes connect simultaneously and securely connect in the field. READ MORE

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So Much Data, So Little Control

It used to be that all you had to do to protect your company's intellectual property and customer information was lock the file drawers and, later, put layers of defenses around the data center. Learn More

Microsoft turns room into video game with IllumiRoom project

The IllumiRoom project from Microsoft Research turns a living room into a video game with projected images that extend and complement the main television screen. The realistic effect, if commercialized, could propel Microsoft's gaming business far beyond its competition. READ MORE

How to build a bulletproof cloud backup system without spending a dime

There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who have lost critical data, and those who will. In other words, if you use technology long enough and neglect to back up your data, you're guaranteed to have at least one extremely bad day. Whether it's theft, loss, fire, flood, corruption, or some form of malware, a single incident can destroy the lion's share of your family photos, personal documents, address books, years-in-the-making music library, and more. READ MORE

Trend Micro seeks to make Amazon Web Services more secure

Trend Micro today announced a slate of cloud-based security services that it says protect servers for Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers. READ MORE

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Cisco edges F5 in VPN shootout

Connecting remotely to network servers is a fact of life for millions of end users. Whether working from a PC or a mobile device, users rely on secure, reliable remote connections to maintain their productivity. READ MORE

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HP reference configuration for Premium OLTP

This paper describes a hardware and software reference architecture for using HP hardware to deploy very large and highly transactional Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 R2 OLTP database systems in tier 1 enterprise application environments. Learn More!

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1. IBM launches an appliance for the 'Internet of Things'

2. FAQ: Phishing tactics and how attackers get away with it

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9. Interop: The quiz

6. iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending April 26

5. 25 must-have technologies for SMBs

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

7. Windows 8 update: Transition from Android to Windows Phone made easier

8. How big is cloud's impact? Depends on who's asking

 

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