Networking World: BlackBerry open letter to customers is long on cliches

Wisconsin man sentenced for participating in Anonymous DDoS

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December 03, 2013

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BlackBerry open letter to customers is long on cliches

An "open letter" from BlackBerry's interim CEO, John Chen, to "enterprise customers and partners" is filled with wishful thinking, unfounded promises and a wealth of clichés. But without actions, the reassuring words -- if anything -- underline BlackBerry's precarious future.

Issue highlights

1. Cisco has this SDN thing covered

2. Wisconsin man sentenced for participating in Anonymous DDoS

3. CIOs Opting for IT Contractors Over Hiring Full-Time Staff

4. Google Cloud Compute goes live

5. Targeted attacks spotted in the wild exploiting Windows XP zero-day

6. Geek-themed Meme of the Week: iPhone Fingerprint Edition

7. Geek-Themed Meme of the Week Archive

8. Containers: The new Hypervisors

9. Supreme Court leaves online sales tax question to Congress

10. Boston sight-seeing guide for IT pros

11. Apple seeks to bar key Samsung executives from licensing negotiations

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Cisco has this SDN thing covered

Who says SDNs threaten Cisco? It may be another market transition that Cisco embraces as an opportunity and growth engine. READ MORE

Wisconsin man sentenced for participating in Anonymous DDoS

A man from Wisconsin was sentenced for participating in a DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack by hacker group Anonymous on a Kansas company. READ MORE

CIOs Opting for IT Contractors Over Hiring Full-Time Staff

The Bureau of Labor Statistics paints a dark picture of the IT job market, but theres a bright spot -- CIOs are hiring more skilled IT contractors. READ MORE

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Google Cloud Compute goes live

After running the service in preview mode for over a year, Google is making its IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) Google Compute Engine (GCE) available as a full-fledged commercial service. READ MORE

Targeted attacks spotted in the wild exploiting Windows XP zero-day

Microsoft can preach about the evils of clinging to Windows XP all that the company wants, but the desktop operating system market share for November 2013 still shows Windows XP at over 31%, according to NetMarketShare. Windows 7 is the most popular OS offering at 46.6%. READ MORE

Geek-themed Meme of the Week: iPhone Fingerprint Edition

No. 24 in our Geek-Themed Meme of the Week series features Overly Attached Girlfriend openly acknowledging her intention to circumvent the fingerprint scanner on her boyfriend's new iPhone 5s. As the owner of a new iPhone 5s myself, I am less concerned about such unlikely shenanigans than I am the fact that the scanner fails to recognize my real print roughly half the time. READ MORE

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Managing Mobile Access to the Cloud

Use of mobile personal cloud services is proliferating on personal and enterprise-owned mobile devices. Organizations are considering controls that appear to conflict with the spirit of BYOD and wonder if their approach is correct. Learn More

Geek-Themed Meme of the Week Archive

They are inescapable on the Internet. Most are awful. A few are not, so we have started publishing a selection of memes that amuse me. One every week. Here's the archive. READ MORE

Containers: The new Hypervisors

Much of the growth in IT over the last 10 or so years can be attributed in some way or another to virtualization. They key to virtualization is the hypervisor. Whether open source such as Xen or VMware or even Microsoft's HyperV, the hypervisor has ushered in a revolution in IT. There would be no cloud and certainly no Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) without the hypervisor. Now some are saying... READ MORE

Supreme Court leaves online sales tax question to Congress

The U.S. Supreme Court will leave it to Congress to settle the contentious question of online sales tax collection that brick-and-mortar retailers contend puts them at a disadvantage to giants such as Amazon.com. READ MORE

Boston sight-seeing guide for IT pros

Geek's guide to Boston and surrounding area READ MORE

Apple seeks to bar key Samsung executives from licensing negotiations

Apple is seeking to bar Samsung Electronics executives with knowledge of leaked confidential information from negotiating any mobile device licenses for the South Korean company for the next two years. READ MORE

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