Phone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending Dec. 12

Bitcoin: 8 funny money videos City of Munich psyched it switched to Linux Network World Daily News AM December 15, 2013 Share this email iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending Dec. 12 The iOSphere quivered with the knowledge that we are just months away from being able to caress Apple's first curved display, which will appear in the iPhone 6. This sure and certain knowledge is due to the fact that Apple just received a patent for a curved display. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Bitcoin: 8 funny money videos 2. City of Munich psyched it switched to Linux 3. 2013 Equipment and Infrastructure UC Trends 4. Security Chalk Talk: History of Computer Viruses (Part 2) 5. Detecting Neo-Nazi Rock with "Nazi Shazam" 6. Windows RT and Windows Phone 8 for free? 7. Dell and Red Hat: Two OpenStack heavy hitters team up to take on the cloud 8. The Mother of All Demos: The 1968 presentation that sparked a tech revolution 9. Cisco cuts long-term revenue forecast 10. Catching fire: 10 hottest videos of smartphones burning up WEBCAST: IBM Business Value of Creating Exceptional Digital Experiences Watch this on-demand webcast to review the findings of IDC's recent analytical report titled: "The Business Value of IBM's Exceptional Digital Experience Solutions." Learn More Bitcoin: 8 funny money videos Videos take shots at the crypto-currency that seemingly no one understands READ MORE City of Munich psyched it switched to Linux Munich's switch to open-source software has been successfully completed, with the vast majority of the public administration's users now running its own version of Linux, city officials said Thursday. READ MORE 2013 Equipment and Infrastructure UC Trends READ MORE WEBCAST: Novell Putting Mobile Employees to Work Mobile Employees in the workplace. Watch this webcast. Click Here>> Learn More>> Security Chalk Talk: History of Computer Viruses (Part 2) In part 2 of this chalk talk, we explore the evolution of computer viruses from early 1990s weaponized viruses to the computer worms that dominated into the late 1990s. READ MORE Detecting Neo-Nazi Rock with "Nazi Shazam" READ MORE Windows RT and Windows Phone 8 for free? Rumors about the future of Microsoft's operating systems – Windows, Windows RT, Windows Phone and the XBox OS – indicate possible moves toward consolidation and perhaps even making some of them available for free. The latest as reported by The Verge says is considering making Windows RT and Windows Phone free. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: AT&T Four Keys to Choosing a Holistic Mobile Management Solution Getting peak value from mobile technologies takes a wide range of applications and services. Here are four capabilities every end-to-end mobile management solution must include. Learn More Dell and Red Hat: Two OpenStack heavy hitters team up to take on the cloud Dell has its big conference this week in Texas and while perhaps the audience was wowed by Elon Musk rolling into Dell World in a Telsa Model S (yup, that's him in the passenger seat making his grand entrance courtesy of @stu) the bigger news from the show, from a cloud perspective, was the announcement of a partnership between Dell and Red Hat. These are two heavy hitters in the OpenStack world and... READ MORE The Mother of All Demos: The 1968 presentation that sparked a tech revolution On December 9, 1968, Dr. Douglas Engelbart addressed a packed theater at the Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco, demonstrating a new computing platform that heralded advancements from the computer mouse to videoconferencing. Forty-five years later, we're still reaping the benefits of his vision. READ MORE Cisco cuts long-term revenue forecast Cisco Systems forecast slower long-term revenue growth Thursday, citing conservative spending by its customers and uncertainty about the economy in some parts of the world. READ MORE Catching fire: 10 hottest videos of smartphones burning up Hottest iPhones, Android phones…literally. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Cisco and Netapp Total Economic Impact Of FlexPod Data Center Platform FlexPod is a data center platform jointly developed by NetApp and Cisco that delivers networking, computing and storage. This Forrester report offers key findings from Forrester's interviews with FlexPod customers. View Now SLIDESHOWS 8 tricks to optimize Windows 8.1 Here are eight things we recommend doing to make Windows 8.1 more efficient. 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