Issue highlights 1. Shutdown affects government sites, but Weather.gov remains up as storm looms 2. 10 tidbits from Twitter's IPO filing 3. U.S. ranks fourth in Internet freedom as surveillance grows worldwide 4. The one thing Verizon's spiffy new cloud is missing 5. Microsoft dings Ballmer's bonus over Windows 8, Surface RT struggles 6. Amazon working on a 'Smith' phone with 3D eye tracking 7. EFF chides NSA for stamping watchdog's doc Top Secret 8. It Takes a Village: The Splunk User Conference 2013 9. Spotify's artful digs |
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| As a tropical storm and possible hurricane bears down on the Gulf Coast of the U.S., the National Weather Service's website was churning out weather alerts Friday, despite a partial U.S. government shutdown that has affected citizens' access to other online resources. READ MORE |
| Twitter made its IPO documents public Thursday and in the process revealed some juicy information about the company, like how much money it makes (or loses) and how much its executives get paid. Here are a few of the details we learned about Twitter today. READ MORE |
| Internet freedom has declined in the United States over the past year as a result of its surveillance policies, reflecting a trend that appears to have caught on worldwide, according to a recently released study. READ MORE |
| WHITE PAPER: Xirrus Driven by the rapid evolution of mobile devices, the move to cloud-based applications and data, and the continued development of new wireless technologies, Wi-Fi has become the network of choice for connectivity. Most new devices no longer have wired connectivity. IT managers now count Wi-Fi as an essential business facility. Learn more. |
| This week Verizon announced plans to roll out a completely new cloud computing platform, which has been welcomed to the market with awe regarding the technical nature of it and numerous questions about just how it will play in the market. READ MORE |
| Microsoft's board of directors reduced outgoing CEO Steve Ballmer's bonus for the 2013 fiscal year, citing poor performance of Windows 8 and the $900 million Surface RT write-off, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. READ MORE |
| Amazon is reportedly building a smartphone with 3D eye-tracking ability. READ MORE |
| WHITE PAPER: Juniper Networks Wireless access is mission-critical for most organizations. BYOD has accelerated the need or wireless capacity, and WLANs must deliver a robust wired-like experience in today's dense environments. High-scale, third-party testing has validated Juniper's ability to support the densest BYOD environments while delivering reliable wireless access. Learn more. |
| One would imagine that lunch menus are stamped "Top Secret" at the NSA, but that didn't stop the Electronic Frontier Foundation from tweeting its indignation at seeing one of its documents getting swept up into the agency's web of secrecy. READ MORE |
| When IBM distributed its operating system in the 1950's, it actually sent the source code to its customer base. Many IT shops then actually modified the operating system with their own customized code. READ MORE |
| Spotify hopes the art inspires their employees READ MORE |
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