Issue highlights 1. Kinder, gentler Torvalds: Don't make me curse at you again 2. How to opt out of PRISM, the NSA's spying program 3. Gauging Windows Phone's chances against the iPhone 4. How will IT react to annual Server 2012 updates? 5. NSA whistleblower: Even innocent Americans are 'being watched and recorded' 6. The cloud is enabling the Next-generation Enterprise WAN, and vice versa 7. Apple to livestream WWDC 2013 keynote 8. INSIDER IT on the edge: CIOs who (literally) keep the lights on 9. Social Sites Beat Retailers and Banks for Consumer Protection and Privacy 10. How to protect your PC from PRISM surveillance 11. Google Apps deal disallowed by Swedish data regulator |
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| There seem to be three possibilities here: Either Linus Torvalds has been kidnapped by aliens and replaced by a doppelganger; someone is simply impersonating him on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML); or - and I know this sounds crazy -- the famously profane fellow is finally mellowing out. READ MORE |
| Nine leading U.S. companies have been scrutinized since a Washington Post report published last week claimed they were collaborating with the NSA's PRISM program. While those companies scramble to recover from these accusations, another website has quickly emerged to inform users of alternatives to these services. READ MORE |
| Canalys predicts that by 2017, the iPhone will have a 14.1% market share, while Windows Phone is right behind it with a 12.7% share. As of last year, the iPhone had a 19.5% market share, and Windows Phone a 2.4% market share. READ MORE |
| WHITE PAPER: IBM 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. |
| The one thing the client and server have in common is that once the IT department gets the working right, the last thing they want to do is change anything. Testing can take between six and nine months or more, depending on the server application load. So, conceivably, people could be upgrading right as a new version comes out. This simply won't fly. READ MORE |
| Edward Snowden has come forward as the NSA PRISM program whistleblower. He's a 29-year-old former CIA technical assistant who says he "had the authorities to wiretap anyone, from you, or your accountant, to a federal judge, to even the President." READ MORE |
| Having spent the last several columns looking in depth into why MPLS is no longer the only answer for building enterprise WANs, this time let's go up a few thousand feet and look at the bigger picture, before any further dives down into the details. READ MORE |
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| It's always a fun time checkout out the various liveblogs that pop up when an Apple special event comes around. This year, however, that favorite pastime may be a thing of the past given that Apple will be streaming today's WWDC 2013 keynote live from its website. Apple's press release reads READ MORE |
| CIOs in emerging economies have to be creative to keep IT up and running -- addressing redundancy, navigating a thicket of sometimes onerous regulations, and in general doing more with less. Insider (registration required) READ MORE |
| For the second year in a row, social media sites (including gaming and dating sites) are leading the way in consumer security and privacy protections, beating out Internet retailers and banks, according to an annual comprehensive audit by the Online Trust Alliance (OTA). READ MORE |
| Thursday afternoon, a bombshell dropped: Two leading reports claimed that the U.S. government has been spying on emails, searches, Skype calls, and other electronic communications used by Americans for the last several years, via a program known as PRISM. READ MORE |
| The Swedish Data Inspection Board has for a second time disallowed an agreement that a local municipality wants to sign with Google regarding the use of its hosted Apps package. READ MORE |
| WHITE PAPER: HP, Microsoft & Intel 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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