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	On Ada Lovelace Day: The unsung women of tech Sure, you've heard of Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper. But how about Frances Allen, Deborah Estrin or Radia Perlman? Read More   RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: DameWare®, part of the SolarWinds® Family Affordable Remote Support Software for Mixed-OS Environments DameWare Remote Support Software allows you to control Mac OS X, Linux and Windows machines - without leaving your desk! Manage multiple Active Directory sites, export Windows configs, and troubleshoot computers from the same software console. DRS also includes DameWare Mobile for iOS® and Android® devices. Easy to afford. Simple to use. It's so affordable – why not just try it? Download a fully functional, free 14-day trial today and discover why thousands of system administrators use DameWare to remotely support all of the computers on their networks! In this Issue A lot of data could be stored here one day Is Twitter's top engineer worth $10.3 million? Apple sends out invites for October 22 special event; New iPads and OS X Mavericks likely to take center stag Juniper seeks edge router advantage over Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent Five things you must do to prepare for the end of BlackBerry Having fun with super-fast storage drives Yes, indeed, Yahoo has that Y3K problem under control Washington Post: NSA collects address books to map human relationships Apple hires CEO of Burberry to run retail operations IT Skills Gap Is Really an Education Gap WHITE PAPER: Exablox Storage Switzerland: Unstructured Data Storage Unstructured data (data that's outside of databases), is growing at an out-of-control pace in organizations of all sizes. Read now! A lot of data could be stored here one day Northern Colorado is a good spot to build a data center, according to Craig Harrison, who has spent the last three years planning the construction of the Niobrara Data Center Energy Park. Read More   Is Twitter's top engineer worth $10.3 million? Twitter revealed its biggest earners as it prepares for its IPO. CEO Dick Costolo netted $11.5 million last year, and Christopher Fry, SVP of engineering, raked in $10.3 million. Read More   Apple sends out invites for October 22 special event; New iPads and OS X Mavericks likely to take center stag Apple today sent out invitations to a special event scheduled to take palce on October 22 at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco. Per usual, the event will kick off at 10 a.m Pacific TIme. So what's on the docket? Read More   Juniper seeks edge router advantage over Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent Juniper Networks this week upgraded its MX service provider edge routers with expanded system capacity to enhance subscriber bandwidth and service performance. Read More   Five things you must do to prepare for the end of BlackBerry With BlackBerry onlifesupport,A it's time to accept the likelihood that there won't be a BlackBerry a year from now. Your business be in for a rude awakening if it relies on the once-mighty smartphone for mobile communication and productivity. Read More   Having fun with super-fast storage drives In my role as multimedia content editor for IDG Enterprise, I find myself with lots of video footage, which takes up a ton of storage capacity. Backing up that footage to external storage drives can take a long time, especially if you're using older transfer technologies, such as USB 2.0. Fortunately, there are some faster devices and transfer connections now available, here are two recent drives (and a docking station) that can help speed up your personal file storage transfer dilemmas: Read More   Yes, indeed, Yahoo has that Y3K problem under control As a regular user of Yahoo! Fantasy Sports, I would like to thank the company's developers for their diligence and foresight as displayed in their most recent software release, version 5.3.1. Oh, sure, they could have procrastinated until the very last minute, which - according to this handy countdown clock - won't be for a spell yet. Read More   Washington Post: NSA collects address books to map human relationships The U.S. National Security Agency is collecting online address books from Yahoo, Hotmail, Facebook, Gmail and other providers in order to map human relationships, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. Read More   Apple hires CEO of Burberry to run retail operations Apple is hiring Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts to lead its retail business, choosing someone from a fashion brand rather than from a consumer electronics retail chain. Read More   IT Skills Gap Is Really an Education Gap In Part 2 of CIO.com's three-part series on the technology skills gap in America, Gary Beach suggests that the issue is really an education gap. When it comes to math and science education, is the United States a nation at risk? Read More
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