Wednesday, February 05, 2014

So you think you know networking? Quiz II

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So you think you know networking? Quiz II
There's a lot to know from Ethernet to Wi-Fi. How much do you know? Read More
 


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Communications in the Cloud
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7 highlights from Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe's Reddit AMA
  Professor Metcalfe tackles SDN, NSA and automotive networks during interactive Reddit session Read More
 

OpenDaylight: Where's the love?
Almost a year after OpenDaylight's introduction was deluged with skepticism, the open source SDN consortium is still struggling to improve industry perception despite meeting many of its initial goals. Read More
 

Dell commercial accidentally features XPS laptop running OS X
If you don't work at Dell, and even if you do, this is pretty amusing. A marketing video for the Dell XPS 15 laptop went up on Dell's YouTube page recently. Sounds innocent enough, but if you play close attention to the video, you'll note that the XPS 15 is actually running OS X. Guess the marketing folks forgot just who they were working for. Here's a shot of the laptop. Read More
 

 

INSIDER
Westmont College jumps to Gigabit Wi-Fi for three reasons: "Speed, speed and speed"
Westmont College in Santa Barbara, Calif., was the first school in the country to deploy an all-802.11n network when, four years ago, it rolled out 290 Meraki access points to bring nearly complete coverage to dorms, classrooms and campus buildings. Read More

 

NASA pondering two public contests to build small space exploration satellites
NASA today said it was looking into developing two new Centennial Challenge competitions that would let the public design, build and deliver small satellites known as Cubesats capable of operations and experiments near the moon and beyond. Read More
 

More 'Snowden effect': Defense contractors tighten access for IT, security staff
  IT and security managers at U.S. defense contractors say the impact of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden as the symbol of the insider threat has led to tighter security in their organizations — and it's often meant they have less access privileges. Read More
 

US Secret Service: Stronger laws could help fight sophisticated cybercrime
In the face of the recent Target and Neiman Marcus data breaches the US Secret Service says new laws could help bolster the country's cybersecurity shield. Read More
 

How to Use Agile Development to Avoid Project Failures
The rocky rollout of Healthcare.gov is a very public example of a larger issue of software product failures. Can an agile development framework allow software companies to avoid such project management headaches themselves. Read More
 

PCI Council says government should stay out of payment card standards
Despite several high-profile security breaches at major retailers, the government should let the private sector continue to set the rules for protecting credit- and debit-card data, a standards body says. Read More
 

Osaka train station set for large face-recognition study
Japan's Osaka Station could become another focal point in the global battle over personal privacy protection as a Japanese research center prepares for a long-term face-recognition study there. Read More
 

Verizon denies throttling Amazon's cloud, Netflix services
Verizon is denying a charge leveled by a security expert – and seemingly acknowledged by its own customer service department – that it is "limiting bandwidth" to Amazon Web Services, and by extension Netflix, in response to a recent court decision. Read More
 

FIRST LOOK: Firefox 27
SPDY, social integration and more improved in the latest Firefox version. Read More
 

 

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