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	Samsung Galaxy S4 may be the worst phone I have ever owned I have been a cellular phone user for probably close to 20 years now. My present cell number is still from NY and I have lived in Florida for 12 years. it wasn't new when I moved here. I was an original AT&T customer. Read More WEBCAST: Juniper Networks Converged Access for a More Agile Enterprise A new convergence trend is making its way through the enterprise: converged user access across wired and wireless networks. Driving this trend is the need to accommodate a dizzying array of devices and data, communicating wirelessly from a variety of locations across and outside of the enterprise. View now >> In this Issue How to compete in a tough software testing job market Cisco can't shield customers from patent suits, court affirms Apple's iPhone strategy focuses on competing with Android Fearless IT guy trying to fly across the Atlantic on helium balloons Extreme Networks acquires Enterasys for some long-overdue industry consolidation Obvious? Not so much: TSA reminds you not to travel with hand grenades How Microsoft can fix the Surface tablet the second time around Cisco's storage alliances safe... for now Patch Tuesday: Fixes 4 critical flaws, 8 remote code execution vulnerabilities Let the Windows 9 and 10 rumors begin WHITE PAPER: Motorola Solutions Inc. What You Need to Know About 802.11AC The first standard wireless LANs emerged at 1Mbps and 2Mbps to serve niche applications such as warehouse picking, inventory scanning and, in office buildings where mobility wasn't a requirement, cordless PC connections aimed at lowering cabling costs. Fast forward through several WLAN generations to today, and the story has completely changed. Learn more. How to compete in a tough software testing job market By Lorinda Brandon, Technical Evangelist at Smartbear Software 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 Apple's iPhone strategy focuses on competing with Android During the iPhone 5C and 5S announcement earlier this week, Apple all but came out and admitted that competing with Android was its top priority. The iPhone 5C is really a colorful, cost-reduced iPhone 5. The specifications are very similar, but it is designed to sell for $99 with a two-year contract. This will give many upgrading Android consumers pause to consider Apple's marketing mystique and... Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Unleash the full potential of BYOD with confidence Growing numbers of smartphones and tablets are pushing enterprise networks to the limit and creating security and management challenges for IT organizations. This white paper reviews BYOD administration, performance, and security implications, and describes how the HP BYOD solution lets you realize all the benefits of BYOD, with confidence. Learn more. Fearless IT guy trying to fly across the Atlantic on helium balloons If you've ever wondered if you could fly just by holding onto 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 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 Obvious? Not so much: TSA reminds you not to travel with hand grenades Some of the travel recommendations posted on the Transportation Security Administration's blog seem stupefying obvious. This week's entitled: "Leave Your Grenades at Home" seemed like a no brainer, but alas. The TSA wrote about grenades in particular: Year to date, the agency's officers have discovered: Read More WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks 10 Steps to Improving the Mobile User Experience This paper will outline the essential network infrastructure and support best practices necessary to deliver an optimized mobile end-user experience, and offer 10 recommended steps that lead to higher end-user satisfaction. Learn more. How Microsoft can fix the Surface tablet the second time around With the announcement of the second version of Microsoft's Surface tablet coming up later this month in New York City, this might be a good time to ask a pertinent question: What's really important in a hybrid tablet? Read More Cisco's storage alliances safe... for now Will Cisco's acquisition of flash memory company WHIPTAIL strain relations with storage partners EMC and NetApp - anymore than they are already strained? Perhaps so, but only when those companies ramp up their own flash storage products, Read More Patch Tuesday: Fixes 4 critical flaws, 8 remote code execution vulnerabilities Microsoft released 13 security bulletins, four rated critical, with the suggested deployment priority starting with MS13-068 for Outlook, Read More Let the Windows 9 and 10 rumors begin Windows 8.1 isn't on the market yet but there is already talk of Windows 9 and 10. Actually, that should not come as a surprise; Microsoft always has to be thinking several versions ahead, but the fact that details have leaked is notable. An anonymous Russian user named WZOR, who has a pretty long track record of Windows leaks that are more on the money than off, said Windows 9 will be released next... Read More
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