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	Biggest Tech Industry Layoffs of 2013 HP, IBM, Cisco and Juniper among those slimming down this year Read More   WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Preparing Your Infrastructure for the Hyperconvergence Era From cloud computing and virtualization to mobility and unified communications, an array of innovative technologies is transforming today's data centers. And along the way, they're also flooding corporate networks with enormous new torrents of traffic. Read Now In this Issue How helium will yield higher-capacity hard drives Why You Need an IT Career Coach Employees easily tricked on social media prime phishing attacks Networking and the World Series: 10 lessons baseball teaches us about networking 6 Things You Need to Know to Switch Your Business From PC to Mac Earthshaking news! Milky Way may hold billions of Earth-like planets Chinese professor builds Li-Fi system with retail parts INSIDER 5 ways that BYOD is shaking up tech support As IPO nears: Do Twitter's active user claims add up? FBI adds five lawbreakers to Cyber Most Wanted list WEBCAST: HP Intel VMware   HP VirtualSystem VS1 for VMware Virtualizing the data center no longer means using tailor-made systems that can lead to IT complexity. A pre-tested, pre-configured, HP factory integrated solution simplifies virtualization. Learn how HP VS1 for VMware delivers a fast and easy path to virtualization and to greater IT agility. View Now How helium will yield higher-capacity hard drives As hard drive makers struggle to stay relevant, one solution is very high-capacity drives, and the way they get there is interesting. Read More   Why You Need an IT Career Coach Consistently moving forward in your career is a challenge and the IT field is particularly daunting. Because it includes so many facets, you must be constantly learning and growing -- and doesn't leave much time for professional development. Read More   Employees easily tricked on social media prime phishing attacks   Spear phishing is one of the most effective ways to break into a corporate network, and recent studies show that employees can be easily tricked on social media to provide the information needed to launch attacks. Read More   Networking and the World Series: 10 lessons baseball teaches us about networking As a baseball fan based in Boston, I spent a lot of time watching baseball the last few weeks as the playoffs and, ultimately, the World Series progressed. (And yes, as a life-long Red Sox fan, I was very happy with the final outcome last week!) I've always enjoyed the thinking aspect of baseball. The up-front analysis, the in-game adjustments, the on-the-fly reactions, even the post-game second guessing... Read More   6 Things You Need to Know to Switch Your Business From PC to Mac Making the switch from a PC to a Mac for your work machine? The following recommendations will help make the transition a painless one. Read More   Earthshaking news! Milky Way may hold billions of Earth-like planets Thanks to NASA's now-crippled Kepler space telescope, astronomers say they now know there are tens of billions of potentially habitable, Earth-size planets in the Milky Way galaxy. Read More   Chinese professor builds Li-Fi system with retail parts   The equipment is big and expensive, with the research costs at almost US$500,000. But by just using retail components, Chinese professor Chi Nan has built her own Li-Fi wireless system that can use LED lights to send and receive Internet data. Read More     INSIDER 5 ways that BYOD is shaking up tech support Amid the clamor of "bring your own device" (BYOD), a question lurks in the background: "What happens to technical service and support?" Concerns for the tech support function encompass the extremes, from agents being overwhelmed with calls, to their becoming inhabitants of a help desk ghost town. Read More   As IPO nears: Do Twitter's active user claims add up?   With one of the most highly hyped Internet IPOs only days away, an independent developer who is intimately familiar with the makeup and behavior of Twitter users says his analysis of 1 million random accounts does not support the company's claims of 215 million active monthly users and 100 million active daily users. Read More   FBI adds five lawbreakers to Cyber Most Wanted list The FBI said today it had added five people wanted for a variety of cyber crimes - ranging from domestic and international hacking to fraud - to its Cyber Most Wanted list. Rewards of up to $100,000 are offered for information leading to their arrests, the FBI says. The criminals are responsible for hurting hundreds of thousands of victims and incurring tens of millions of dollars in losses, the FBI... Read More
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