Monday, June 03, 2013

Government curbs onerous carrier contracts (in Canada)

Targeting cloud, Microsoft set to revamp major enterprise software platforms

Knocking down MPLS myths, concluded

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June 03, 2013
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Government curbs onerous carrier contracts (in Canada)

While we here in the United States continue to curse the shackles applied by carrier contracts and cast a wary eye toward politicians who promise relief, Canadians today are learning that suitably motivated government regulators can indeed make life fairer for wireless users.

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Targeting cloud, Microsoft set to revamp major enterprise software platforms

Microsoft today is showing off improvements to most of its enterprise infrastructure software designed to make it simpler for businesses to deploy hybrid cloud services that can allocate resources as needed. READ MORE

WHITE PAPER: IBM

Next-Generation Customer Experience Management

This Aberdeen Analyst Insight provides an overview of the top factors driving 2013 customer experience management (CEM / CXM) programs. Learn More.

Knocking down MPLS myths, concluded

We've now spent a number of columns covering the issues surrounding the myths of why enterprises "need" MPLS. We'll conclude this topic by addressing the issue of having a single place to point the finger when something goes wrong with the WAN. READ MORE

Your favorite tech companies/products get sassy new slogans courtesy of Reddit thread

A red-hot Reddit thread on "If companies had realistic slogans what would they be?" generated more than 16,000 comments over the weekend, including some very appropriate and inappropriate (as in, NSFW) suggestions for some of the best known technology companies. READ MORE

iOS 7 under Jony Ive's direction to sport a completely new look

In just about a week, Apple's WWDC will kick off and, per usual, all eyes will be on Apple's upcoming iteration of iOS. What makes iOS 7 particularly interesting is that this will be the first iteration of iOS that wasn't spearheaded by Scott Forstall, who you may remember was fired abruptly last October. With Forstall gone, Apple industrial design guru Jony Ive has reportedly played an instrumental... READ MORE

WHITE PAPER: IBM

Gaining and Executing a Smarter Understanding of Customers

This article discusses the urgent need for firms to successfully engage with customers, including handling issues such as social media and mobility, and at accomplishing this goal with smarter IBM collaboration and CRM solutions. Learn More.

10 surprising things from my 20 years with Network World

Yep, I've been writing for Network World for 20 years and a lot has happened in that time ... here are 10 of the most surprising READ MORE

Schools scan students' irises, then notify parents of opt out choice afterward

If you sent a letter to parents, stating that you were planning to scan the irises of their children, of students who are also minors, and not one single parent called for more information about the "Eye Swipe Nano" program, and not one single parent chose to opt their child out, wouldn't that strike you are exceedingly strange? READ MORE

Open source luminary Atul Chitnis dies of cancer at age 51

Atul Chitnis, a pioneering technologist and former contributing editor to the landmark Indian IT publication PCQuest, died Monday at the age of 51, following a battle with intestinal cancer. 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!

What Google, Facebook and Twitter are doing right with website security

The popular services of Google, Facebook and Twitter are improving in terms of security, says Scott Behrens, head of Neohapsis Labs, which took a security snapshot of them on May 28 through an analysis that included looking at server headers sent during responses to the websites. READ MORE

Google nixes Glass facial recognition due to privacy concerns

Google will not be adding facial recognition software to its futuristic-looking computerized eyeglasses at this point because privacy protections aren't strong enough yet. READ MORE

Wacky low- and high-tech wheels of the world

From cars made of firewood and bamboo to camouflaged vehicles, these are some cool cars READ MORE

WHITE PAPER: Tripwire

Five Tips for Outsmarting the Information Age Adversary

Today's attackers vigilantly wait for you to slip up before they strike your information systems and compromise your data. Learn five actions you can take to improve your information risk management and security strategy and stay one step ahead of the information age adversary. Read More

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The 20 best iPhone/iPad games of 2013 so far

Fish turn into money, sorcerers rule and things get creepy in these iPhone and iPad games.

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