iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending April 5

How to hack your own Wi-Fi network Nonstop cloud computing price war: Amazon, Google both drop rates again Network World Daily News PM April 05, 2013 Share this email iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending April 5 The iOSphere quivered with anticipation as it welcomed a rumor that the Next iPhone, whatever it will be like, draws nigh, as worker bees in Chinese factories prepare their assembly lines. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. How to hack your own Wi-Fi network 2. Nonstop cloud computing price war: Amazon, Google both drop rates again 3. Japan lab claims its software can read dreams 4. Why the Facebook Phone will be a flop 5. Googlers turn Sergey Brin's Tesla into a pink batmobile with wings and eyelashes 6. I ditched Windows 8 and went Ubuntu by mistake 7. Making sense of the myriad SDN offerings 8. Globalgig Hotspot: Taking the pain out of data roaming 9. 8 things you might not know about Android RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Network World Technical Seminar New Launch - Open Flow, SDN & Network Virtualization Event Join Network World and key players across the networking industry at The Westin Galleria Dallas on April 11th for a new seminar entitled, "Open Network Exchange: Understanding Software Defined Networking (SDN), Openflow and Network Virtualization." Your seminar registration fee is waived. Register now! How to hack your own Wi-Fi network Attempting to "hack" into your own wireless network can help you spot potential Wi-Fi security vulnerabilities and figure out ways to protect against them. READ MORE Nonstop cloud computing price war: Amazon, Google both drop rates again Just as industry watchers have predicted, the race to the bottom for cloud computing prices continues. READ MORE Japan lab claims its software can read dreams A Japanese research institute says it can tell what people are dreaming about by analyzing their brain waves. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors Top 10 Benefits of Virtualization In this eGuide, Network World sister publications InfoWorld, and PC World examine some of the current uses of blade servers in today's data center, as well as how trends such as server virtualization are reshaping enterprise computing. Read Now! Why the Facebook Phone will be a flop So the Facebook Phone is officially out of the bag and there's a lot to dissect. Of course, it's not so much a phone as it is a slickly designed layer that sits atop of Android. Nevertheless, Facebook is increasingly showing off its design chops, but I'd like to tackle a more practical topic - just who, exactly, will be interested in an over the top Facebook-centric phone to begin with? READ MORE Googlers turn Sergey Brin's Tesla into a pink batmobile with wings and eyelashes Who's that fella driving that snazzy pink Tesla with the Batman decal? Why it's none other than Google co-founder Sergey Brin. You might also notice that his Tesla is sporting wings along with the Chrome logo on his wheels. So what in the world is going on here? This is a pretty strange car choice for someone who claimed that regular smartphone usage was emasculating. READ MORE I ditched Windows 8 and went Ubuntu by mistake This post is coming to you courtesy of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. While I could tell you I thought it would be cool to use Ubuntu Linux as my primary desktop OS for a while, I would be lying. The fact is I don't have a choice because I messed up the Windows 8 boot partition on my laptop last night while trying to install Ubuntu in a dual boot situaion. I wasn't going to keep Ubuntu on for long. I have booted... READ MORE WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel® Accelerate Performance with High Performance Computing In this eGuide, articles from Computerworld and InfoWorld offer case studies, examples and opinions of how HPC can be applied to real-world problems today, and what the future of the technology is likely to hold. Read Now! Making sense of the myriad SDN offerings With the range of software-defined networking (SDN) announcements coming from vendors large and small it is hard to figure out which SDN approach is best for what. READ MORE Globalgig Hotspot: Taking the pain out of data roaming Business travel is, under the best of circumstances, a royal pain in the butt, and when you're roaming internationally with a smartphone and need to make some calls and keep up with email, you face a zonking great bill when you get home. 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