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	Router start-up gets boost from Cisco Compass-EOS, a start-up shipping a silicon photonics-based router, this week closed a $42 million round of funding with the help of existing investor Cisco. Other existing vendors participating in the latest round include Comcast Ventures, Pitango Venture Capital, Benchmark Capital, Northbridge Venture Partners and Marker LLC. Read More   RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap 2013 NEW: IT Roadmap Washington, D.C. is all new for 2013! The content-rich agenda has been redesigned and reenergized to include increased IDG content from editors you know and trust and FIVE FOCUSED PILLARS OF TECHNOLOGY learning that are the most critical for the year ahead. Register now. Attend on December 12th. It's free! In this Issue Raspberry Pi is running a bar in England Network World's 2013 Holiday Gift Guide - Something for Everyone Hammerhead, a better way to navigate while cycling SDDCs doubling every year Oh no: Now even computers have more common sense than me Large Organizations Needs Open Security Intelligence Standards and Technologies South Park: A dead Bill Gates engineers the murder of Steve Ballmer over Xbox competition How open data can keep us safe FTC jams mobile phone crammers 4 Reasons email will never die Smartwatches are basically useless Upcoming Webinar: 802.11ac Security and Assurance Retailer demands $3,500 from author of bad review How Healthcare.gov changed the conversation about software testing Dropbox is winning the storage wars - get used to it Google's Vint Cerf defines Internet of Things challenges Salesforce, Amazon and others (kind of) offer private clouds - is it enough? Universities diving into Big Data The rush is on to bury Windows and the PC The security industry remains strong with computer science, but weak on IT From Here to Unleashed WEBCAST: IBM Webinar: IBM IIM for Fraud, Abuse and Waste in Government View this IBM webinar to learn about the challenges and opportunities in fraud reduction, waste, and abuse in government programs and agencies. You will learn how IBM Intelligent Investigation Manager (IIM) can help your organization. Learn More. Raspberry Pi is running a bar in England A Swedish student at the University of Oxford has hacked a Raspberry Pi to improve the management of a student-run bar on the campus, Wired reports. Johan Paulsson is pursuing a PhD in theoretical physics at Oxford's Wolfson College, so naturally a well-run bar is important to him. The service at Wolfson College bar, being run entirely by student volunteers, was "completely and utterly inappropriate,"... Read More   Network World's 2013 Holiday Gift Guide - Something for Everyone We've completed work on the 2013 edition of the annual Network World Holiday Gift Guide with one of the most diverse sets of great gifts ever. I'm pleased once again to have been part of Keith Shaw's team in testing and evaluating an astonishingly broad array of gift possibilities, for home and even for work. Read More   Hammerhead, a better way to navigate while cycling Read More   SDDCs doubling every year The global software defined data center market is now expected to grow at a compounded annual rate of 97.48% from 2014-2018, according to Dublin's Research and Markets, up from the 68.7% CAGR published by the firm just a few months ago. Read More   Oh no: Now even computers have more common sense than me Carnegie Mellon University has been running a computer cluster since July that scans the web for images in order to make sense out of them. The project, dubbed Never Ending Image Learner, could pave the way for computers that better understand the visual world in ways that humans often take for granted. Read More   Large Organizations Needs Open Security Intelligence Standards and Technologies A few years ago, Trend Micro announced that it would enhance its on-site AV products with cloud-based intelligence it called the "Smart Protection Network" (SPN). I'm not sure if Trend was the first, but it certainly wasn't the last vendor to embrace this type of architecture. In fact, just about everyone now has a toe in the cloud-based security intelligence pool. For example, Blue Coat... Read More   South Park: A dead Bill Gates engineers the murder of Steve Ballmer over Xbox competition The only thing more brutal than Microsoft-Sony gamebox competition is South Park's depiction of how brutal that competition is. In the most recent episode, the folks producing the show have created a scene in which Bill Gates lectures a mortally wounded Steve Ballmer about the cutthroat nature of that rivalry. (If you click on that link, beware it's pretty NSFW. The scene in question is at 7:47)... Read More   WHITE PAPER: IBM Powerful Application Solutions for CRM & ERP This white paper examines how you can get the most from CRM and ERP, find the best system for your business and how IBM can help. Learn More. How open data can keep us safe By now most of you have probably heard about the case in Florida of two convicted murderers who hacked up their release papers and were released from prison, even though they were both serving life sentences. They were fugitives on the loose for a few weeks and then recaptured without incident luckily. But the fact that they were able to hack up their release documents and fooled the prison officials... Read More   FTC jams mobile phone crammers The Federal Trade Commission today said it settled allegations that a mobile operator had put charges on phone bills without user consent - an illegal practice known as cramming or "cramouflage"- to the tune of $10 million. Read More   4 Reasons email will never die Forward-looking social media enthusiasts like to predict the end of email as we know it. Indeed, there are plenty of signs that millennials, in particular, prefer other methods of electronic communication, using email primarily to communicate with their clueless parents and various other Luddite institutions. In fact, I know of one teenager who lost his place at University because he didn't check his... Read More   Smartwatches are basically useless A new smartwatch project called the Neptune Pine is on its way to becoming the most successful Kickstarter campaign of all time, according to Quartz. In just three days, the Neptune Pine has surpassed $192,000 in funding against its $100,000 goal. Read More   Upcoming Webinar: 802.11ac Security and Assurance   The deployment of 802.11ac, I'm sure we can all agree, is more a question of when than if. Read More   Retailer demands $3,500 from author of bad review It's difficult to fathom how a legitimate business could act this way: A Utah woman, Jen Palmer, several years ago wrote a negative online review about trinket retailer KlearGear and the company responded by attempting to enforce against her what just might be the most despicable terms of service ever imagined. From an Electronic Frontier Foundation blog post: Read More   How Healthcare.gov changed the conversation about software testing By Lorinda Brandon, Quality Evangelist Read More   WEBCAST: PC Connection ESG on Consolidated Backup and Archive Watch Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) Senior Analyst Steve Duplessie discuss the importance of backup and archiving as part of an overall IT strategy for data protection and recovery. Learn why a "one-size-fits-all" backup and recovery system is no longer effective as data continues to grow rapidly and become more varied each year. View Now Dropbox is winning the storage wars - get used to it If you needed more proof that the future of storage lies in cloud-based online services like Dropbox and its competitors, the financial markets have 8 billion reasons for you to consider. At least, $8 billion is the reported valuation of the company in a $250 million funding round it's now putting together. Read More   Google's Vint Cerf defines Internet of Things challenges We are going to have to live through a period of mistakes and challenges before we can make any strong regulations about the privacy issues and other challenges the Internet of Things present. That was Vint Cerf, vice president and chief internet evangelist for Google's response to a regulation question at his keynote before today's Federal Trade Commission's workshop on the Internet of Things trend.... Read More   Salesforce, Amazon and others (kind of) offer private clouds - is it enough? Today we have two nuggets of news from the cloud world that both aim to alleviate concerns that customers may have with using a multi-tenant public cloud. Read More   Universities diving into Big Data Educational institutions are increasingly on the case of making sense of growing piles of big data, and the latest data science effort involves UC Berkeley, the University of Washington and Read More   The rush is on to bury Windows and the PC Welcome to the era of web publishing, where hit counters are everything and honesty and veracity take a back seat. This has resulted in an explosion in blogging that's pretty much troll bait, either designed to give someone bragging rights for having called it first or simply a desperate attempt to get Slashdotted. Many fellow journalists have jumped over to the analyst side, and I suspect there are... Read More   The security industry remains strong with computer science, but weak on IT Last week, I was in Silicon Valley meeting with a parade of CISOs and security vendors. Business travel is no "day at the beach," but these trips really help me keep up with the latest enterprise security challenges and potential technology solutions. It was also nice to spend time in the Valley and re-charge my batteries toward the security industry. There was a lot of excitement out there as... Read More   From Here to Unleashed If you're interested in what personally drives me, you may want to read my recently published article on Amazon. http://tech-book-store.amazon.com/post/Tx2J90AZO8RB7P1/From-Here-To-Unle... talks about my early idealism and being a woman in a technical field. Co-author John Joyner tweeted it as "speaking from the heart." A female colleague told me it brought tears to her eyes. I didn't intend for it... Read More
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