Issue highlights 1. Boston bombings show two sides of social media 2. IDG News Service live camera feed at Boston Marathon finish line captures smoke from explosions 3. Taiwan's FTC investigating Samsung for defaming HTC on local online forums 4. Android founder: We aimed to make a camera OS 5. Google search manipulation starves some websites of traffic 6. Symantec report finds small businesses battered by cybercrime 7. Report: Verizon wants to buy Clearwire spectrum 8. INSIDER Emergency! EN systems alert employees when disaster strikes 9. Red Hat releases community OpenStack distribution 10. US House to vote on CISPA cyberthreat bill this week 11. Facebook affirms its privacy commitment with national campaign |
| WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Why does unification matter for today's enterprise? The answer can be found by looking to today's defining trends. The consumerization of IT, BYOD, mobility-based business models--they're all transforming how employees work and customers engage. Read Now |
| Twitter users reacted fast to the explosions that ripped through the Boston Marathon Monday, but the incident also revealed how social media can only be so reliable in such situations. READ MORE |
| The IDG News Service, which supplies stories and multimedia content to Network World and its sister publications, is located at 1 Exeter Plaza and overlooks the Boston Marathon finish line. While the office was closed today, a live camera feed was set up and captures smoke emanating from the deadly explosions that took place Monday. READ MORE |
| Fabricated Internet posts praising Samsung at the expense of HTC products has landed the South Korean company in hot water with Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission. READ MORE |
| WHITE PAPER: Latisys Cloud includes a variety of different delivery options as well as a lot of terms for those options. But, which is best for you? Learn More |
| The creators of Android originally dreamed it would be used to create a world of "smart cameras" that connected to PCs, a founder said, but it was reworked for mobile handsets as the smartphone market began to explode. READ MORE |
| Google's placement of its own flight-finding service in search results is resulting in lower click-through rates for companies that have not bought advertising, according to a study by Harvard University academics. READ MORE |
| Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting small businesses due to their less sophisticated defenses, according to a new report from Symantec. READ MORE |
| WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies When it comes to critical applications and capabilities that impact end users and influence business results, the need for visibility into and across IT systems is critical. APM essentially creates a best-practice model that helps organizations focus on end-to-end monitoring, measuring and resolution of end-user problems. Learn More |
| Verizon Wireless reportedly has offered US$1 billion to $1.5 billion for some of Clearwire's spectrum leases, possibly complicating Sprint Nextel's attempt to buy out the company in conjunction with its acquisition by Softbank. READ MORE |
| Today's emergency notification technology allows enterprises to send out, and employees to receive, real-time situational advisories. READ MORE |
| Red Hat has launched a community version of its still-in-development OpenStack distribution, and it also released a preview of the enterprise edition of this distribution for those who sign up for an early adopter program. READ MORE |
| The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), a controversial cyberthreat information-sharing bill, will be debated on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives this week, despite continued opposition from some privacy and digital rights advocates. READ MORE |
| Facebook is teaming up with the nation's attorneys general to launch a public awareness campaign aimed at keeping young people safer on the site. READ MORE |
| WHITE PAPER: Riverbed IT departments are under pressure to deliver higher-performance services worldwide. To achieve this, they must transform their datacenters using a combination of consolidation, virtualization, and automation in order extend the datacenter's virtual edge to branch offices where services are delivered locally from centrally managed infrastructure. Read now |
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