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	US court renews permission to NSA to collect phone metadata The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has renewed permission to the U.S. government for a controversial program to collect telephone metadata in bulk. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology How WAN Optimization Can Drive Top-Line Revenue A convergence of trends is creating a perfect storm for IT professionals tasked with providing secure, reliable access to applications and other critical corporate information. These potentially conflicting trends are putting a strain on corporate networks as more users attempt to access desktop infrastructures. View Now In this Issue Geek-themed Meme of the Week (SpongeBob Edition) Oracle and ARM to tweak Java F5 data center firewall aces performance test Does F5's ScaleN foreshadow the end of SDN controllers? Products of the week 7.22.13 PR pitch misses the mark by a country mile Canonical to crowdfund first batch of Ubuntu Edge phones Google buys speech recognition patents USA PRISM Plus, the perfect NSA photo-sharing app for those who have nothing to hide WHITE PAPER: Hitachi and SAP Maximize IT for Real Business Advantage Find out how Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Select for SAP HANA™ helps businesses profit from immediate, actionable decisions before the opportunity slips away. Learn more Geek-themed Meme of the Week (SpongeBob Edition) Buzzblog's "Geek-themed Meme of the Week" No. 5 may appeal to fans of SpongeBob SquarePants and those who cannot imagine going on vacation without their laptop. Read More Oracle and ARM to tweak Java Oracle and ARM are working together to make the Java programming language more suitable for ARM processors, in order to encourage its use for embedded systems and enterprise software. Read More F5 data center firewall aces performance test Huge data center, check. Multiple 10G Ethernet pipes, check. Load balancer, check. Firewall? Really? Do network architects need to buy yet another box, and likely take a performance hit? Not according to F5 Networks, which says its BIG-IP 10200v with Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) can handle traffic at 80-Gbps rates while screening and protecting tens of millions of connections, and simultaneously load-balancing server traffic. Read More Does F5's ScaleN foreshadow the end of SDN controllers? Earlier this month, F5 announced its ScaleN architecture designed to make it easier for companies to deploy a software defined network and extend virtual networks to the cloud. ScaleN can be thought of as a unified set of virtual and physical infrastructure that has been configured to optimize SDN environments. ScaleN also provides a new feature called iCall, which is an extension of its popular iRules... Read More Products of the week 7.22.13 Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as SolarWinds and Embrane Read More PR pitch misses the mark by a country mile A public relations professional sends an email and I ponder: "Hi Paul: Our company handles PR for Katie Armiger." That's nice. I have never heard of Katie Armiger. Perhaps she is an entrepreneur, a high-tech exec, the next Marissa Mayer. "Katie will be in town performing at the WKLB Block Party on Sunday, July 28th in Boston." Read More Canonical to crowdfund first batch of Ubuntu Edge phones Canonical is taking its innovative smartphone design directly to potential customers. The company has launched a crowdfunding campaign to build the original batch of its planned Ubuntu Edge devices. Read More Google buys speech recognition patents Google has acquired from the SR Tech Group a portfolio of U.S. patents and patent applications that includes several speech related patents. Read More USA PRISM Plus, the perfect NSA photo-sharing app for those who have nothing to hide I don't watch much TV, but it just so happens that I did and it included one of my pet peeve phrases "nothing to hide." During a HGTV show in which a couple was moving overseas and house hunting, when shown a house with virtually no privacy, the man said it was a good thing they had "nothing to hide." I' Read More
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