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	5 Things You Need to Know About Geofencing This location-based mobile service lets marketers send messages to smartphone users when they enter a defined geographic area, such as a shopping mall. Read More   WHITE PAPER: CDW Can You Benefit from Social CRM? Social tools and strategies are now crucial to building a successful CRM strategy. Learn how to take advantage of social CRM to improve business processes and enhance customer loyalty without a complete "rip-and-replace" of traditional CRM tools. 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Read Now 10 overhyped tech products that crashed and burned   The demos blew everyone away. Then reality hit. Read More   VMware CTO Casado on network virtualization, security and competition with Cisco   How do you bring the virtualization operations model to networking? That will be the job of Martin Casado, CTO of networking and security at VMware which this week launched NSX, the company's over-arching network virtualization package. Casado was one of the creators of OpenFlow, the protocol that spawned the software defined networking (SDN) movement. Read More   Apple's iPhone: The untold story From the NW archives: Apple is one of the most secretive companies on the planet, so the Apple-Samsung trial was fascinating in that it lifted the veil of secrecy that typically shrouds Apple's operations. From marketing budgets to photos of never-before-seen iPhone prototypes, the evidence introduced at trial gave the world an unprecedented glimpse into the inner workings of Apple. Read More   Why Microsoft's Next CEO Will Fail Steve Ballmer isn't necessarily a bad CEO. After all, Microsoft's on strong financial footing. But Ballmer made enough bad product decisions--Zune, Kin, Vista and perhaps Surface--to suggest that Microsoft employees, swayed by a forced-ranking employee rating system, told him what he wanted to hear, not what he needed to hear. If that culture doesn't change, Ballmer's replacement will fare even worse than he did. Read More   Federal CIOs Face BYOD, Mobile App Security Challenges With BYOD policies beginning to take shape to allow new devices into government agency networks, federal CIOs now face a set of security challenges associated with mobile applications. Read More   Three types of DNS attacks and how to deal with them The Syrian Electronic Army, a pro-Assad hacking group, altered the DNS records used by the New York Times, Twitter, and the Huffington Post. The changes forced one site offline and caused problems for the others. Here are three ways such attacks happen, and how they can be mitigated Read More   Social engineering: Study finds Americans willingly open malicious emails In a study conducted by TNS Global for Halon, an email security service, 30 percent of those surveyed admitted they would open an email, even if they were aware that it contained a virus or was otherwise suspicious. To be fair, the study only included 1,000 adults within the U.S., so this isn't a national index by any means. Read More   Durkheim Project Leverages Big Data to Prevent Veteran Suicides In partnership with social media networks and the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, a nonprofit research project is seeking to show that predictive analytics can identify U.S. veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan who are suicidal and need help. Read More   12 terrific new updates in VMware vSphere 5.5 VMware boosts performance, scalability, and usability with enhancements that stretch from the hypervisor to the management stack Read More   NASA mission to capture near-Earth asteroid for study NASA mission to capture near-Earth asteroid for study NASA released an animation of an ambitious project that includes capturing a near-Earth Asteroid and sending astronauts into space to study it. From: networkworld Views: 259 5 ratings Time: 01:33 More in Science & Technology Read More   PC, tablet makers get Windows 8.1, developers cry foul Microsoft has started sending Windows 8.1 to its hardware manufacturers, hitting the so-called RTM milestone for the much-awaited update to Windows 8. Read More   Is the rumored 64-bit Apple chip for iPhone 5S just wishful thinking? Unconnected rumors about Apple's mobile processor plans have bloggers speculating that Apple's expected A7 chip will have a 64-bit architecture. 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