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	Fearless IT guy tries flying across Atlantic on helium balloons If you've ever wondered if you could fly just by holding a bunch of helium balloons over your head, well then you might understand where Accenture IT Technical Projects Manager Jonathan Trappe is coming from. Trappe today set out today from Caribou, Maine to cross 2,500 miles of Atlantic Ocean using 370 helium balloons slung under a small gondola. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Cloud Computing for CIOs No longer is moving to the cloud only spearheaded by small IT groups - increasingly, CIOs and CFOs are getting involved in the process. This white paper discusses how CIOs that establish a combined approach with CFOs on cloud IT investments are seeing more real business value for their organization. Learn more. In this Issue 14 geeky ways to celebrate Friday the 13th Gartner: Be wary of nascent managed mobility services Reddit AMA featuring Microsoft Outlook.com team tackles NSA, IMAP, Gmail NASA: Voyager spacecraft has crossed over into interstellar space-0 Cisco can't shield customers from patent suits, court affirms Extreme Networks acquires Enterasys for some long-overdue industry consolidation First hands-on impressions of new iPhones Conan O'Brien snags exclusive interview with Apple's VP of Gold iPhone 5S Poor design fosters hacker attacks of websites running PHP How to close the cloud chasm between executives and IT Walmart discounts new iPhone 5C by 20% The Android naming quiz WHITE PAPER: Crittercism Getting Agnostic about Mobile Devices The need for flawless, high-performing mobile apps is critical, yet many organizations struggle. This paper explains how to accurately analyze performance of mobile apps, calculate the cost of app failure, and how to develop, deploy and test mobile apps so that malfunctions don't happen. Read more! 14 geeky ways to celebrate Friday the 13th Don't be scared, there's plenty to do on Friday, Sept. 13 Read More Gartner: Be wary of nascent managed mobility services Managed mobility services (MMS) are still fairly young and providers vary considerably, with few having the type of global reach to potentially support the enterprise with any worldwide deployments of smartphones or tablets, Gartner warns in a recent "Magic Quadrant" report on the topic. Read More Reddit AMA featuring Microsoft Outlook.com team tackles NSA, IMAP, Gmail Microsoft messaging team uses Reddit Q&A session to announce IMAP support Read More NASA: Voyager spacecraft has crossed over into interstellar space-0 Read More Cisco can't shield customers from patent suits, court affirms A federal appeals court in California has upheld a lower court ruling that Cisco lacks standing to seek dismissal of patent infringement lawsuits against a number of its biggest customers - wireless network providers and enterprises - being brought by TR Labs, a Canadian research consortium. The court passed no judgment on the patents themselves or on the infringement claims leveled by TR Labs against... Read More Extreme Networks acquires Enterasys for some long-overdue industry consolidation This morning, Extreme Networks announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Enterasys Networks for $180 million in cash. Extreme is funding the purchase by pulling $105 million from its $205 million of cash on hand and then borrowing $75 million from a new credit line established. Extreme will buy Enterasys from the Gore Group, which acquired the company back in 2006 for $386 million. Around... Read More First hands-on impressions of new iPhones Attendees at Apple's Tuesday announcement of the iPhone 5S and 5C crowded into a hall to get their hands on the new phones for a few minutes and try them out. Here's a roundup of some of those first impressions, almost universally favorable for both handsets. Read More Conan O'Brien snags exclusive interview with Apple's VP of Gold iPhone 5S Somehow Conan O'Brien's team got exclusive access to Apple's VP of Gold, who explains the real story behind the new gold iPhone 5S smartphone: Read More Poor design fosters hacker attacks of websites running PHP App language contains open door for Black Hat mischief Read More How to close the cloud chasm between executives and IT Cloud computing discussions abound these days, but there is a growing gap between executives and IT when it comes to assessing cloud's potential. Read More Walmart discounts new iPhone 5C by 20% Walmart today confirmed that it will take in-store pre-orders for Apple's new iPhone 5C Friday morning, and will discount the smartphone to $79 with a two-year carrier contract. Read More The Android naming quiz The upcoming version of Android is called KitKat, but how well do you know the earlier release names? Read More
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