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	Get a gander at the curviest new tech devices Shape of things to come: Phones, TVs and more are starting to throw us curves Read More   WHITE PAPER: APC by Schneider Electric Specification of Modular Data Center Architecture There is a growing consensus that conventional legacy data center design will be superseded by modular scalable data center designs. This paper creates a framework for modular data center architecture and describes the various ways that modularity can be implemented for data center power, cooling, and space infrastructure. View now In this Issue Ubuntu takes aim at Microsoft, Google, Apple Stuff from CES you might actually use Facebook acquires Branch, Potluck Privacy researchers: Cell phone surveillance costs as little as 4 pennies an hour Google to revamp its flight search engine, Ryanair's CEO says Riverbed suitor takes stake in Juniper NameTag could make Google Glass's reputation even worse Syrian Electronic Army shanghais Microsoft's Twitter account, blog How to rescue your PC from ransomware Geek-themed Meme of the Week: Ruined Proposal Edition Geek-Themed Meme of the Week Archive WHITE PAPER: APC by Schneider Electric Data Center Projects: Project Management In data center design/build projects, flaws in project management and coordination are a common – but unnecessary – cause of delays, expense, and frustration. This paper presents a framework for project management roles and relationships that is understandable, comprehensive, and adaptable to any size project. View more Ubuntu takes aim at Microsoft, Google, Apple Ubuntu 13.10 is going big -- taking aim at Microsoft, Google and Apple as it competes on every platform from the cloud to the smartphone. Read More   Stuff from CES you might actually use Last week's International CES brought about another slew of hyped products, ranging from curved television sets (I'm still not clear on why that's supposed to be so cool) to virtual-reality goggles meant to compete with the still-in-beta Google Glass product. While my main job was to shoot video segments for IDG Enterprise (you can see some of the results in this post, as well as in our video section),... Read More   Facebook acquires Branch, Potluck Facebook has acquired Branch Media, makers of the Branch and Potluck online conversation-sharing software packages, a founder of Branch announced. Read More   Privacy researchers: Cell phone surveillance costs as little as 4 pennies an hour Would you be upset to learn that it costs mere pennies per hour for law enforcement to violate your expectation of privacy with cell phone surveillance? If the cops wanted to spy on you for 28 days, Sprint, for example, only charges $.04 cents an hour. 28 days is important because of U.S. v. Read More   Google to revamp its flight search engine, Ryanair's CEO says Google will add prices for Ryanair to its flight search engine, the CEO of the discount airline said in an interview published Sunday. Read More   Riverbed suitor takes stake in Juniper Activist investor Elliott Management, which last week made an unsolicited bid to buy Riverbed Technology, this week took a 6.2% stake in Juniper Networks. Read More   NameTag could make Google Glass's reputation even worse   In late December, a YouTube video surfaced showing demos of the "world's first real-time Google Glass facial recognition app," which used Glass to identify not only celebrities by the photos posted around the room, but the everyday people who participated in the demo. Read More   Syrian Electronic Army shanghais Microsoft's Twitter account, blog A group that bills itself as the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) claimed credit for grabbing control of a pair of Microsoft company Twitter accounts and the firm's primary blog for a short time Saturday. Read More   How to rescue your PC from ransomware With the nasty CryptoLocker malware making the rounds--encrypting its victims' files, and then refusing to provide the unlock key unless a payment of $300 is made via Bitcoin or a prepaid cash voucher--ransomware is back in the spotlight. Read More   Geek-themed Meme of the Week: Ruined Proposal Edition No. 28 in our Geek-Themed Meme of the Week series, gleaned from the Internet, demonstrates both the risks associated with target advertising and those of sharing a computer. The good news is that she said yes. Read 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
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