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	Recent iOS app updates people hate iOS app buyers are expressive, especially when they're angry. We looked at the top 100 iPhone and iPad apps in the Business category, free or paid, that were last updated in September or October 2013 to find the ones users HATE – where the total of one/two star ratings surpassed four/five star ratings. Caveats: We used AppStore information from Nov. 1-6; there are relatively few users for many recent updates; and rating profiles could change as more people try out an app. But for now, here are the bad, the ugly, and the craptastic. Read More   WHITE PAPER: CDW 8 Steps to an effective Mobile Device Policy It's no secret that mobile devices and applications are flooding into organizations of all types and sizes. Technology research firm Gartner predicts that by 2016, 40 percent of the global workforce will be mobile, with 67 percent of workers using smartphones. Read Now In this Issue Researchers dare AI experts to crack new GOTCHA password scheme VDI: Has the time arrived? Rightscale launches analytics on top of multi-cloud management tool Bizarre six-tailed asteroid dumbfounds scientists Internet Archive seeking donations after fire Report: CIA pays AT&T for international call data Cisco competitors say Nexus 9000 brings closed hardware to an open software game Twitter goes public, rings opening bell at NYSE Apple brings 'warrant canary' into Patriot Act info request coal mine Microsoft ships IE11 for Windows 7 Google dumps Windows Vista support from Google Apps NASA: Eight amazing facts about Russia's exploding meteorite Georgia Tech takes direct approach to boosting WiFi on campus The hidden fangs of Windows 8.1 -- and how to avoid them WHITE PAPER: CDW Upwardly Mobile Read how Teamwork, a clear vision and the cloud helped CDW develop a strategy for reaping the rewards and mitigating the risks of a diverse mobile environment. Read Now Researchers dare AI experts to crack new GOTCHA password scheme Like CAPTCHA, GOTCHA's inkblot password system relies on humans' visual skills Read More   VDI: Has the time arrived? Tech Debate VDI: Has the time arrived? Is it time to virtualize and centralize the resources so users can access "the desktop" from anywhere using anything, or does the venerable old workhorse still have a place in the modern organization? Moderator JOHN DIX, Network World Editor in Chief, sets up the debates and recruits the experts. Contact him with thoughts and ideas, jdix@nww.com. The experts JOE SNIADO, CIO, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services argues that the time for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is now because the technology can help companies deal with BYOD and also contend with natural disasters. ROB DAVIS, Vice President of Information Technology, Atlantic Aviation says not so fast. While the success of server virtualization makes VDI tempting, the latter will effect a much larger group that will challenge your organizational and IT readiness. Read More   Rightscale launches analytics on top of multi-cloud management tool RightScale today came out with new functionality for its cloud management portfolio that helps customers not only control resources from multiple public clouds but also provide analytical insight about how those resources are being used. Read More   Bizarre six-tailed asteroid dumbfounds scientists Many images from deep space are so cool, weird and unusual it is hard to believe they are real sometimes. This is one of them. Astronomers looking deep into the asteroid belt through NASA's Hubble Space Telescope say they have spotted an asteroid, designated P/2013 P5, with six comet-like tails of dust radiating from it like spokes on a wheel or a spinning garden sprinkler. Read More   Internet Archive seeking donations after fire A fire early yesterday morning did $600,000 damage to digitization equipment at the Internet Archive's scanning center in San Francisco ... and the organization is seeking donations to help it replace what was lost. The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit founded in 1996 to build an Internet library and is perhaps most famous for the Wayback Machine. Read More   Report: CIA pays AT&T for international call data The carrier turns over information about international calls on its network under a voluntary contract, The New York Times says Read More   Cisco competitors say Nexus 9000 brings closed hardware to an open software game   Cisco's network competitors VMware, Arista and HP predictably found holes in this week's launch of the Insieme Networks product line and strategy. Read More   Twitter goes public, rings opening bell at NYSE Twitter goes public, rings opening bell at NYSE Twitter went public Thursday as it rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. It priced its IPO at $26 per share and it plans to sell 70 million shares. It will trade under the symbol TWTR. From: Network World Videos Views: 6 0 ratings Time: 01:00 More in Science & Technology Read More   Apple brings 'warrant canary' into Patriot Act info request coal mine Apple received kudos yesterday for inserting a 'warrant canary' in its first transparency report on government information requests. Read More   Microsoft ships IE11 for Windows 7 Microsoft today released Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) for Windows 7, and announced it would soon start pushing it to customers as an automatic update. Read More   Google dumps Windows Vista support from Google Apps Google's policy of discontinuing support for aging versions of Internet Explorer will nearly cut out businesses and consumers who run Google Apps on Windows Vista. Read More   NASA: Eight amazing facts about Russia's exploding meteorite NASA scientists and a team of 59 international experts today detailed some of their findings about the meteoroid that exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk on Feb. 15, 2013. And what they have discovered so far is pretty amazing. Read More   Georgia Tech takes direct approach to boosting WiFi on campus A crush of WiFi devices on campus forced Georgia Tech's IT team to take a different approach to delivering wireless service to students, faculty and staff: a very direct approach at that. The school has augmented its thousands of omnidirectional Cisco WiFi access points with high-gain directional antennas from Tessco's Ventev division that better focus wireless signals. Read More   The hidden fangs of Windows 8.1 -- and how to avoid them Before you install Windows 8.1, make sure you understand the gotchas and how not to get bit Read More
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