Boycotting RSA Conference is a misplaced endeavor

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	Boycotting RSA Conference is a misplaced endeavor I have watched on silently from the sidelines as the "boycott RSA Conference" story has played out. Now that we are a month or so away from the conference "where the world talks security" I just can't hold it in any longer. I really think the few outliers who have announced they are boycotting and not speaking or attending this year's RSA Conference have gotten more than their 15 minutes worth. ... Read More   In this Issue Why VMware bought AirWatch Did Microsoft reach into your PC to stomp a botnet? Testing the effectiveness of booth babes How Microsoft can save itself in the mobile world The Net Neutrality explanation you've been waiting for, courtesy of The Colbert Report Switching highlights Juniper's Q4 Gigamon's Netflow Generation app should prove useful Tools for when Linux goes mainstream Google announces contact lens that can measure glucose levels in tears How Apple and Pepsi fumbled their 2004 Super Bowl ad play When will everyone be wearing their cameras? iPhone 6 to feature 4.7-inch display; 5.7-inch model also in the works says analyst The Cybersecurity skills gap is worse than you think Does Cellular Replace Wi-Fi? Analysts peg Apple's iPhone sales to range from 50 million to 59 million units Who got the payoff for reclassifying cable data services as information services? It's getting easier to steal your neighbors' unused bandwidth over Wi-Fi WEBCAST: SAP Big Data and Big Insights with Dell, SAP and Hadoop Big Data is already a trend that companies are jumping to. The possibility of exploiting massive amounts of data from multiple sources to make sound business decisions seemed like nirvana a couple of years ago; however now this is a reality. View more. Learn more Why VMware bought AirWatch It's still early but 2014 is shaping up to be highlighted by M&A activity. The VMware/AirWatch marriage is the latest example. So why was VMware willing to spend $1.5+ billion for an MDM leader? The easy answer is that the world is going mobile – new application development is focused on mobile or web applications alone while PCs are moving closer to mainframe status. AirWatch immediately bolsters... Read More   Did Microsoft reach into your PC to stomp a botnet? Microsoft took down yet another botnet, but its method for doing so many not sit well with a lot of people, as the company removed software from their computers without their knowledge. Read More   Testing the effectiveness of booth babes     Read More   How Microsoft can save itself in the mobile world Microsoft continues to pursue its fatal attraction to proprietary mobile devices, much like Michael Douglas pursued Glen Close in the 1987 movie Fatal Attraction. Read More   The Net Neutrality explanation you've been waiting for, courtesy of The Colbert Report Is Net Neutrality dead or not? Who knows after all the conflicting reports over the past week or so on the recent DC Court of Appeals ruling regarding the FCC's Net Neutrality rules. But leave it to The Colbert Report's Stephen Colbert to get to the heart of the matter (the video of which is sponsored by Verizon Wireless...). Read More   WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel®   Storage Insight: Debunk the Data Storage Myths Of all the obstacles standing in the way of building a better IT infrastructure, misinformation may be the most daunting. This informative eBook is designed to provide the immediate insight you need to make the right decisions about some of the most important IT issues your enterprise will ever face. Read Now>> Switching highlights Juniper's Q4 Juniper might want to think twice about fiddling with its switching business, as one activist investor advises. Switching was a highlight in Juniper's fourth quarter, 2013, results, having jumped 36% from last year and 35% from last quarter to $199 million, based on strong demand for both the EX and QFabric lines. Read More   Gigamon's Netflow Generation app should prove useful Big data and analytics are hot topics of conversation for almost anyone in IT today, including network operations. This is one of the reasons Gigamon has been on a tear over the past couple of years, especially since its IPO last year. Last week, Gigamon announced an upcoming application to generate and export NetFlow records from its visibility fabric. The NetFlow Generation application will create... Read More   Tools for when Linux goes mainstream Read More   Google announces contact lens that can measure glucose levels in tears Read More   How Apple and Pepsi fumbled their 2004 Super Bowl ad play Ten years ago, at the height of the music download legal wars, Apple and Pepsi marketers figured this was a can't-miss Super Bowl commercial: Take 16 teenagers whose parents had been strong-armed by the recording industry into paying thousands of dollars in legal settlements and have them announce to the world that Apple and Pepsi would be giving away 100 million iTunes songs for free. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology How WAN Optimization Can Drive Top-Line Revenue A convergence of trends is creating a perfect storm for IT professionals tasked with providing secure, reliable access to applications and other critical corporate information. These potentially conflicting trends are putting a strain on corporate networks as more users attempt to access desktop infrastructures. View Now When will everyone be wearing their cameras? I realized today I had forgotten to post at least one more video from CES 2014 - it was this interview with Steve Ward of VIEVU, which was showing off its new VIEVU2 (pronounced "Vee View Squared") wearable video camera. The company makes body-worn video cameras for police officers, and the VIEVU2 is aimed at the prosumer market, but this includes professionals such as "private security, insurance,... Read More   iPhone 6 to feature 4.7-inch display; 5.7-inch model also in the works says analyst Joining a growing number of analysts, if not the public sentiment at large, Chinese analyst Sun Changxu recently said that she anticipates the iPhone 6 will feature a 4.7-inch display. What's more, Changxu also anticipates that Apple will release an even larger screened device with a 5.7 inch display. That, of course, would take Apple into phablet country. Read More   The Cybersecurity skills gap is worse than you think Read More   Does Cellular Replace Wi-Fi? So I had a very interesting conversation recently with a senior executive of a mobility products company who just happened to mention that he thought cellular would eventually replace Wi-Fi. While I obviously don't agree with that thesis, he did make some pretty good points: Read More   Analysts peg Apple's iPhone sales to range from 50 million to 59 million units When Apple unveiled the new iPad Air this fall, Tim Cook said that it was going to be an iPad Christmas. With reportedly strong iPad Air and iPad Mini sales, that may have well been the case. But from a broader perspective, it looks more like an iPhone quarter. Read More   Who got the payoff for reclassifying cable data services as information services? Read More   It's getting easier to steal your neighbors' unused bandwidth over Wi-Fi A new project from Telefonica called BeWifi enables internet users to snag unused bandwidth from Wi-Fi networks running nearby. So, if you have a family of five trying to stream five different movies at the same time, and your neighbors happen to be out for the night, you and your family could borrow their unused bandwidth until the neighbors come home and log on again. Read More
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