Friday, April 12, 2013

Google Death: Inactive account manager helps you plan digital last will and testament

Startup aims SDN technology at Cisco WANs

13 hot new open source projects

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April 12, 2013
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Google Death: Inactive account manager helps you plan digital last will and testament

Google provided a somewhat morbid reminder of the increasing primacy of digital data in our lives with the release today of the euphemistically named Inactive Account Manager feature.

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1. Startup aims SDN technology at Cisco WANs

2. 13 hot new open source projects

3. Comcast to IPv6-enable commercial broadband service

4. Researchers find vulnerabilities in online poker applications

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

6. IBM to invest $1B in flash memory development

7. Apple's rumored iRadio service inching closer towards reality

8. Fly-by-brain with the mind-controlled helicopter

9. iPad 5 rumor rollup for the week ending April 10

10. The worst data breaches (so far)

WHITE PAPER: McAfee

Low Hanging Fruit: Quick Wins with Data Loss Prevention

How to get immediate benefits from a DLP solution as detailed in this report by Rich Mogull from Securosis. Read Now

Startup aims SDN technology at Cisco WANs

Startup Glue Networks is targeting Cisco's installed base of WAN routers as a sweet spot for its SDN WAN offerings. READ MORE

13 hot new open source projects

Browser-based toolkits, add-ons to old favorites, tools programmers will love -- here are the most promising projects emerging from the open source community today READ MORE

Comcast to IPv6-enable commercial broadband service

Comcast plans to expand its IPv6-based offerings for business customers with the launch of commercial broadband and Metro Ethernet services that support the next-gen Internet Protocol later this year. READ MORE

WHITE PAPER: HP, Microsoft & Intel

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!

Researchers find vulnerabilities in online poker applications

A review of poker applications shows that many suffer security flaws, putting players at risk of attack, according to a Malta-based security company. 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

IBM to invest $1B in flash memory development

After its buyout of Texas Memory Systems, IBM is now the latest on the vendor bandwagon to push flash into the data centers, saying it will invest a whopping $1 billion into flash research. READ MORE

WHITE PAPER: F5

Scale Your DNS Infrastructure to Protect Your Business

DNS continues to be a tempting target for attackers, and when they succeed in disrupting DNS, all external data center services are affected. This paper helps organizations confronting these growth and security challenges understand how a new, full-proxy architecture for DNS provides a complete solution for global, local, and cloud load balancing. Learn More.

Apple's rumored iRadio service inching closer towards reality

Rumors of Apple's efforts to take on Pandora with a streaming music service of its own (unofficially dubbed iRadio) have been making the rounds for quite some time now. Most recently, it was reported that Apple and various record labels were in high level negotiations and that the rumored service would launch as early as this Summer, perhaps in time for WWDC. A reported sticking point in the negotiations... READ MORE

Fly-by-brain with the mind-controlled helicopter

Fly-by-brain with the mind-controlled helicopter Forget the buttons and joysticks. A company has developed a mind-controlled robo-copter tha takes to the skies with just a little thought. From: networkworld Views: 40 7 ratings Time: 01:32 More in Science & Technology READ MORE

iPad 5 rumor rollup for the week ending April 10

The Third Law of Rumors says that the less you know, the more you can say. And the iOSphere this week swelled with iPad rumors that relied heavily on what people don't know. READ MORE

The worst data breaches (so far)

It's early but it has been a bad year for personal data exposure already READ MORE

WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems

Economic Benefits of Cisco's Cloud Strategy

Private, public, hybrid--Cisco enables a world of many clouds with new levels of agility and security. This report from ACG Research looks how Cisco's cloud strategy improves economics beyond simple data center virtualization. Read Now

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