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First look: Google’s new Nexus 7

CEO leaves Juniper on an upswing

Amazon Web Services files complaint in court over CIA contract

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July 25, 2013
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First look: Google's new Nexus 7

Google's update to last year's well-received Nexus 7 a step forward, though asking price slightly higher.

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Issue highlights

1. CEO leaves Juniper on an upswing

2. Amazon Web Services files complaint in court over CIA contract

3. Friday to mark 14th annual SysAdmin Day

4. Digg founder Kevin Rose tosses attacking Racoon down a flight of stairs

5. 10 tech blockbusters (just waiting to be made)

6. U.S. Army foresees robots becoming squad members

7. Polycom CEO resigns after expense-report scandal

8. Goal line technology helps referees make the right call

9. INSIDER Chambers: Cisco will become the number 1 IT company

10. Safeguard your code: 17 security tips for developers

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CEO leaves Juniper on an upswing

Kevin Johnson wants to spend more time with family. That's the reason he gave for his sudden retirement as Juniper CEO during the company's second quarter conference call. READ MORE

Amazon Web Services files complaint in court over CIA contract

Amazon Web Services has filed a complaint in a U.S. court after the Government Accountability Office sustained in part a protest by IBM against the award of a contract by the CIA for a cloud computing project. READ MORE

Friday to mark 14th annual SysAdmin Day

Contests, cake and appropriately heartfelt thanks are central to the celebration of the 14th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day this Friday. So exactly how are sysadmins and sysadmin admirers marking the occasion? What follows is a sampling of ways gleaned from Twitter and the hashtag #sysadminday: READ MORE

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Digg founder Kevin Rose tosses attacking Racoon down a flight of stairs

Digg founder and current Google Ventures partner Kevin Rose recently got himself into a little bit of hot water following the release of video footage depecting Rose tossing a racoon down a flight of stairs. Now before you become indignant and look up the number for PETA, there's a context to the story worth mentioning before showing the video. The story is that a racoon was violently attacking Rose's... READ MORE

10 tech blockbusters (just waiting to be made)

Listen up, Hollywood: The decade's biggest technology stories pitched as surefire runaway box-office hits READ MORE

U.S. Army foresees robots becoming squad members

The U.S. Army wants to move from using robots as tools to creating a human-robot cooperative that will make machines trusted members of the military. READ MORE

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Polycom CEO resigns after expense-report scandal

Videoconferencing is advertised as a tool to reduce travel expenses, but for the CEO of one of the biggest companies in the business, apparently that wasn't enough. READ MORE

Goal line technology helps referees make the right call

Goal line technology helps referees make the right call Using an array of high speed cameras pointed at the goal, referees will be able to get a notification of a scoring kick to a wrist watch. Follow reporter Nic... From: networkworld Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 01:38 More in Science & Technology READ MORE

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Chambers: Cisco will become the number 1 IT company

Think software-defined networking will change the industry? You're thinking way too small, according to Cisco CEO John Chambers. In Cisco's strategy, SDN is just a single element in a holistic architecture that brings intelligence, programmability and application awareness to every facet of your infrastructure and spans the data center to the cloud. In this installment of the IDG Enterprise CEO Interview Series, Chambers spoke with Chief Content Officer John Gallant about the power of Cisco's Unified Framework and how delivering on that vision could make Cisco the number one IT company overall. No small ambition there. READ MORE

Safeguard your code: 17 security tips for developers

Rigorous input testing, passwords, encryption -- security is a feature no programmer can afford to overlook READ MORE

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