Networking World: Oracle OpenWorld attendees fume over Ellison keynote

Quick look: The interesting rise and quick fall of Blackberry

Citrix aims for VMware, Amazon with new cloud strategy

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September 25, 2013

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Oracle OpenWorld attendees fume over Ellison keynote

Oracle customers pay handsome fees to attend its OpenWorld conference each year, and many of them felt short-changed Tuesday when Larry Ellison skipped his final keynote to watch an America's Cup sailing race.

Issue highlights

1. Quick look: The interesting rise and quick fall of Blackberry

2. Citrix aims for VMware, Amazon with new cloud strategy

3. With LTE, AT&T isn't done evolving its network yet

4. Apple quietly refreshes iMac all-in-one desktop

5. Skimbox, Qbaka: Cleaning up at Webinno39 startup meeting

6. Planning for SDN

7. Microsoft's most loyal users ask for Surface trade-in program

8. Goodbye US Internet, hello world Internet

9. Dropbox joins bid to publish spy data requests

10. Virginia Tech breach exposes data on 145K job applicants

11. INSIDER How to protect corporate data from angry ex-employees

12. 10 ways to beat fingerprint biometrics

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Quick look: The interesting rise and quick fall of Blackberry

It's hard to say what will ultimately become of Blackberry now that it likely will be bought by Canadian consortium Fairfax Financial Holdings for $4.7 billion. Without a doubt BlackBerry transformed business with smartphones that melded email with a keyboard. Then the iPhone happened and the company never really evolved much further. IDC says BlackBerry has fallen behind Microsoft's Windows Phone to into fourth place and the company's savior device, the Z10 remains largely unsold -- $1 billion worth sitting in warehouses. Here we take a quick look at the long, strange trip from the top to the bottom of the smartphone heap. READ MORE

Citrix aims for VMware, Amazon with new cloud strategy

Citrix Tuesday updated its cloud computing strategy, saying that its platform – which is based off the Apache CloudStack project - can span both private on-premises deployments and public clouds and is the only one in the market that takes an application-centric approach to architecting clouds. READ MORE

With LTE, AT&T isn't done evolving its network yet

Several network initiatives that AT&T is unveiling this week show the carrier is far from finished advancing its network even as it achieves a broad footprint with LTE. READ MORE

Apple quietly refreshes iMac all-in-one desktop

Apple quietly refreshed its iMac desktop computer line with Intel's newest quad-core "Haswell" processor, faster solid-state storage options and support for the 802.11ac wireless standard. READ MORE

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Skimbox, Qbaka: Cleaning up at Webinno39 startup meeting

Finding an enterprise IT company at a startup gathering these days can be like searching for an obscure email in a crowded inbox. But in prepping to attend Tuesday night's Web Innovators Group (Webinno) event in Cambridge, Mass., I did find one, and maybe two enterprise-focused newcomers: Skimbox and Qbaka. READ MORE

Planning for SDN

In our first Network World Spotlight, "Understanding SDN" we spelled out the basics. Here we catch you up on the status of the movement and begin to lay out how you get there from here, examining basic planning, what to look for in an SDN controller, and discussing what the Open Networking Foundation hopes to achieve with its new Migration Group. READ MORE

Microsoft's most loyal users ask for Surface trade-in program

One of the most common questions posed to Microsoft's Surface team Monday was whether the company would buy back used tablets so that customers could upgrade to the newest models set to ship in a month. READ MORE

Goodbye US Internet, hello world Internet

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Dropbox joins bid to publish spy data requests

Cloud storage locker Dropbox has joined Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, LinkedIn and Facebook in their quest for permission to publish the number of data requests they have received from the U.S. government, and the number of users affected by those requests. READ MORE

Virginia Tech breach exposes data on 145K job applicants

A Virginia Tech official Tuesday blamed human error for a data breach that may have exposed sensitive data on about 145,000 people who applied online for jobs at the school over the past 10 years. READ MORE

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How to protect corporate data from angry ex-employees

The vast majority of employees who leave a company are honest, upstanding corporate citizens. But you never know when someone might leave on bad terms and then attempt to hack back into your corporate systems. READ MORE

10 ways to beat fingerprint biometrics

Apple's embrace of finger scanning technology in the iPhone could be a breakthrough moment for biometrics. But finger scanners are no panacea. Here are 10 ways hackers have figured out to fool them. READ MORE

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