Friday, May 17, 2013

The devious art of cell tower camouflage

Forrester: Windows 8 faces uphill battle as corporate desktop

Researchers uncover new global cyberespionage operation dubbed SafeNet

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May 17, 2013
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The devious art of cell tower camouflage

Disguising cellphone towers in the U.S. and other locations around the world has become sort of an art form. The unsightly towers have been hidden in church steeples, flagpoles, silos and other large edifices. Here, Reuters recently took a look at the use of different types of trees used to hide the masts.

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Issue highlights

1. Forrester: Windows 8 faces uphill battle as corporate desktop

2. Researchers uncover new global cyberespionage operation dubbed SafeNet

3. Google, NASA step into quantum computing

4. Newvem expands to monitor Azure and Amazon clouds

5. Former Amazon cloud engineer spills to Reddit audience

6. Google I/O After Hours: Robot bartenders, augmented reality and Billy Idol

7. New Mac spyware found on Angolan activist's computer

8. Why the IT Industry Is Desperate for H-1B Reform Legislation

9. Cisco to SDN: Bring It On

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Five Tips to Get IT Auditors Off Your Back

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Forrester: Windows 8 faces uphill battle as corporate desktop

Windows 8 faces an uphill battle to become a standard corporate operating system because many businesses are in the midst of or have recently completed the move from Windows XP to Windows 7 and don't have the stomach for another transition anytime soon. READ MORE

Researchers uncover new global cyberespionage operation dubbed SafeNet

Security researchers from Trend Micro have uncovered an active cyberespionage operation that so far has compromised computers belonging to government ministries, technology companies, media outlets, academic research institutions and nongovernmental organizations from over 100 countries. READ MORE

Google, NASA step into quantum computing

Google, NASA and Universities Space Research Association this week invested roughly $15 million in a 512-qubit quantum computer their researchers will use to develop myriad applications from machine learning, web search and speech recognition to searching for exoplanets. The machine known as D-Wave Two and built by D-Wave Systems will be installed at the new Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab, a collaboration... READ MORE

WEBCAST: Cisco, Dell/Sonic Wall, HP, McAfee, Sophos, Stonesoft

How to stop the Bad Guy

Industry analyst Robin Layland, Mike Nielsen from Cisco and Darren Suprina of Stonesoft explore how Next Generation Firewalls can handle the new generation of advanced evasion techniques, hackers and threats. View Now

Newvem expands to monitor Azure and Amazon clouds

Newvem, which sells a tool that allows users to track and optimize their use of cloud computing resources, has expanded its software's functionality to monitor not just Amazon Web Services, but now Microsoft Azure now as well. READ MORE

Former Amazon cloud engineer spills to Reddit audience

Usually Amazon Web Services, which many consider to be the leader in the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud computing market, is pretty hush-hush about the internal workings of its massive cloud. READ MORE

Google I/O After Hours: Robot bartenders, augmented reality and Billy Idol

Despite being generally great people with scintillating social skills and lots of interesting things to say, technology reporters unaccountably don't get invited to a lot of parties. I can't understand why. READ MORE

WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems

The Cisco Unified Workspace

The Apple iPad started something. While revolutionary in itself, it was also a tipping point for many industry trends that had been emerging over the last few years. Trends such as mobility, virtualization, video, collaboration, knowledge management, and cloud have come to the forefront Learn More

New Mac spyware found on Angolan activist's computer

Previously unknown Mac OS X spyware, signed with a valid Apple Developer ID, has turned up on the laptop of an activist from Angola at a human rights conference in Norway. READ MORE

Why the IT Industry Is Desperate for H-1B Reform Legislation

Amid broad agreement that more skilled workers would boost the tech economy, industry experts suggest that comprehensive immigration bill coming up for debate doesn't go far enough to help fill IT, engineering and manufacturing jobs. READ MORE

Cisco to SDN: Bring It On

Never one to back down from a challenge, Cisco CEO John Chambers expressed unbridled confidence in the company's position as it faces down its next test: the advent of SDNs. 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!

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