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	Fascinating 50: Meet the most interesting people in the world of technology Get to know 50 of the most interesting people in the world of technology Read More   WHITE PAPER: Plantronics   Unleash your UC Potential By Putting Users First What's holding back Unified Communications (UC) adoption? Too often, today's solutions are simply too hard to use. Now, survey results show high-quality audio and a simple and intuitive user experience can turbo-charge acceptance. Read this exclusive report from Plantronics and IDG to learn how you can start making the most of UC. Read now! In this Issue iPhone Air: Latest iPhone 6 concept video has fanboys fired up Juniper Networks not giving up firewall patent fight vs. Palo Alto Networks Cisco shows embattled Toronto mayor Rob Ford no respect INSIDER Red Hat CEO: PaaS is the new application server Computer science enrollments rocketed last year, up 22% March 2014 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft closes critical holes in IE & Windows US Energy Dept. deals $10M to ride ocean wave energy Google launches referral program for Apps suite Apple hands stock worth $12.1M to top execs in retention deal Use of H-1B alternative skyrockets US-CERT urges XP users to dump IE Twitter's down Kevin Bacon works to raise '80s awareness Review + videos: 3 convertible Windows laptops try to be all devices to all people Hungry? IBM's Watson can help cook WHITE PAPER: HP 1:1 and Common Core Online Testing Learn how to properly implement standardized electronic testing which will help your district avoid common pitfalls in implementing Common Core online assessments. Download the whitepaper now. Learn More>> iPhone Air: Latest iPhone 6 concept video has fanboys fired up With rumors heating up that Apple will announce an iPhone 6 by year-end, concept designers are working their fingers to the bone and YouTube is lighting up with their videos. Read More   Juniper Networks not giving up firewall patent fight vs. Palo Alto Networks Juniper Networks' legal battle against Palo Alto Networks claiming infringement of application-firewall patents ended in a mistrial being declared in a Delaware court, but Juniper says it intends to haul Palo Alto back into court again. Read More   Cisco shows embattled Toronto mayor Rob Ford no respect Embattled Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is feeling slighted by Cisco. His crack smoking honor wasn't invited to the Cisco announcement that it's investing $100 million in the city as one of its four global innovation hubs. Read More     INSIDER Red Hat CEO: PaaS is the new application server In an interview with InfoWorld, CEO Jim Whitehurst discusses Red Hat's ambitions with the cloud and OpenShift Read More   Computer science enrollments rocketed last year, up 22% A sneak peek at the annual Computing Research Association's (CRA) report on computer science enrollments at colleges shows that strong demand for technically-savvy workers is luring students in a big way. Read More   March 2014 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft closes critical holes in IE & Windows Today Microsoft released five security updates, two rated Critical and three rated Important. The March security bulletins address 23 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) in Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer and Silverlight. Read More   US Energy Dept. deals $10M to ride ocean wave energy The Energy Department said it would spend $10 million to help kick-start unique energy technology that converts ocean waves and currents into electricity. Read More   Google launches referral program for Apps suite People can now earn a finder's fee when they refer customers to Google for its Apps email and collaboration suite. Read More   Apple hands stock worth $12.1M to top execs in retention deal   Apple last week gave six top executives $12.1 million each in stock grants that will vest over the next four years, according to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Read More   Use of H-1B alternative skyrockets In 2008, the U.S. government changed the rules on student visas and allowed foreign STEM students to work in the U.S. for up to to 29 months without an H-1B visa. The program quickly grew in popularity. Read More   US-CERT urges XP users to dump IE People who plan to run Windows XP after Microsoft pulls the patch plug should dump Internet Explorer (IE) and replace it with a different browser, the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) said Monday. Read More   Twitter's down Twitter is down, the company acknowledged 26 seconds ago, according to this screen capture from its status blog. (Hey, I could have been first to tweet it. Fail.) Read More   Kevin Bacon works to raise '80s awareness Actor Kevin Bacon and I may be separated by more than six degrees, but our "mid-50s" ages are significantly closer. In this video, Bacon recounts the challenges of having been a twentysomething in the technologically backward 1980s. ) Relate? More than I care to admit. Read More   Review + videos: 3 convertible Windows laptops try to be all devices to all people We look at three Windows 8.1 convertibles that can transform into laptops, tablets or presentation devices, and try to discover how useful they really are. Read More   Hungry? IBM's Watson can help cook IBM's supercomputer nicknamed Watson is at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas this week, but it's not competing on a TV quiz show, rather it's helping chefs come up with unique, personalized recipes. Read More
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