Networking World: Touring Boston Through Google Glass

iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending January 31 | Former NSA employee looks to make email more secure

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Touring Boston Through Google Glass
CIO.com's Al Sacco spotlights some of Boston's most unique neighborhoods and landmarks in this first-person, PoV video tour of the city as seen through Google Glass. Read More

WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors

Data Protection Using Intelligent Backup and Deduplication
In today's world of explosive data volumes, midmarket companies face a growing number of challenges when it comes to safeguarding data, and today's approaches to backup and data protection are falling short. The Brief outlines HP solutions to meet IT needs for backup appliances that tightly integrate deduplication, data protection and recovery. Learn More

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WHITE PAPER: BlackBerry

Secure, Centralized, Simple: Multi-platform EMM
BYOD, corporate-issued, or a mix. Manage all the mobile platforms and devices in your enterprise through a single pane of glass. Learn More

iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending January 31
There's nothing like a document, with quotable information, to get the iOSphere's juices and rumors flowing. One document that surfaced this week fueled anew rumors that the iPhone 6 will have the almost scratch-proof synthetic sapphire screen. Read More

Former NSA employee looks to make email more secure
Email, perhaps still the most widely used Internet application, has about the same level of security as a postcard. But unlike postcards, it's widely depended on by businesses. Read More

Prominent cryptographer victim of malware attack related to Belgacom breach
Belgian cryptographer Jean-Jacques Quisquater had his personal computer infected with malware as the result of a targeted attack that's believed to be related to a security breach discovered last year at Belgian telecommunications group Belgacom. According to him, other cryptographers have also been targeted by the same attackers. Read More

Yahoo attack places spotlight on identity management
The attack on Yahoo that started with the theft of user credentials from a third-party database highlights the risk of sharing usernames and passwords across multiple websites. Read More

Top 5 ways that IT wastes money
The role of the CIO has changed more in the past five years than any other position in the business world. Success for the CIO used to be based on bits and bytes, and is now measured by business metrics. Today's CIO needs to think of IT more strategically and focus on projects that lower cost, improve productivity, or both, ideally. However, many IT projects seem to be a waste of time and money.... Read More

INSIDER

Case Study: Santa Clara U. graduates to Gigabit Wi-Fi
In 2006, Santa Clara University began rolling out a Wi-Fi network as a way to supplement the school's existing production network. The initial deployment consisted of about 800 Cisco Aironet 1131 a/b/g/ access points and Cisco WiSM controllers. As expansion or renovation projects occurred, the school added some 802.11n access points, but until recently 90% of the roughly 70 buildings on campus were equipped with the older, slower technology. Read More

Nvidia startles Linux world with driver contribution
Nvidia, one of the biggest GPU manufacturers in the world, made a series of code contributions to the open-source project Nouveau late last week, signaling a possible thawing of relations with the Linux community. Read More

VMware gives some partners the cold shoulder
VMware has asked at least two companies who planned to setup booth displays at its Partner Exchange conference next week not to attend the show. Read More

Geek-themed Meme of the Week: Siri.cat Edition
No. 31 in our Geek-Themed Meme of the Week series, collected from the better addresses on the Internet, features our first appearance from "Tech Savvy Cat" and Siri. Want more? Check out the "Geek-themed Meme of the Week Archive": 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

New products of the week 2.3.14
Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as Dell and Linksys Read More

SLIDESHOWS

Best tools for keeping end users happy

ExtraHop wins Application Performance Monitoring (APM) shootout.

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