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	10 tools for more productive telecommuting Keep in touch with co-workers, track your time, and block distractions with these apps and services. Read More   WHITE PAPER: VMware Ebook: A Guide to Hybrid Cloud Hybrid cloud allows you to augment your internal data center resources, providing a flexible and cost-effective solution for a variety of use cases. This eBook presents an inside-out approach for extending your data center to the cloud. Learn more! In this Issue Microsoft to axe Nokia feature phones amid massive layoffs What's missing from Apple's big enterprise deal with IBM? Surface survives Microsoft cuts, but tablet strategy remains muddled Layoffs raise questions about Nadella's commitment to Nokia deal MIT may have just solved all your data center network lag issues Facebook tests 'buy' button to let users make purchases from their feeds New York's proposed Bitcoin rules include consumer protections How a '70s technology is stopping smartphone progress…and why that might change soon Microsoft trots out tired euphemisms for '18,000 people are losing their jobs' Don't Give Your Job Search a Summer Vacation WHITE PAPER: Netscout Systems Inc. Real-Time Application-Centric Operations Visibility This EMA whitepaper examines the move towards application/service performance visibility within IT operations, and in particular the network-based delivery of those applications and services and the role that network-based visibility can and should play. Learn More Microsoft to axe Nokia feature phones amid massive layoffs In the wake of Microsoft axing 18,000 employees (12,000 of them coming from the Nokia acquisition), Redmond will also be discontinuing Nokia's feature phone lineup. Read More   What's missing from Apple's big enterprise deal with IBM? Apple and IBM get together to boost iOS in the enterprise. But there's one huge omission in the deal. Read More   Surface survives Microsoft cuts, but tablet strategy remains muddled What part, if any, will Nokia have in tablets, analysts ask Read More   Layoffs raise questions about Nadella's commitment to Nokia deal Microsoft's 14 percent staff reduction, the largest in its history and focused heavily on employees acquired from Nokia's devices and services business, has some observers thinking Satya Nadella got a bad case of Lumia-induced indigestion.Where his predecessor Steve Ballmer saw in the US$7.2 billion deal a cure for Microsoft's mobile ills, it's possible Nadella has come to view the acquisition as bad medicine.When Ballmer and then-Nokia CEO Stephen Elop brokered the deal last year, the vision was that, to improve Microsoft's pitiful mobile market participation, it had to emulate Apple by being in tight control of both the OS and hardware of devices.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   MIT may have just solved all your data center network lag issues A group of MIT researchers say they've invented a new technology that should all but eliminate queue length in data center networking. The technology will be fully described in a paper presented at the annual conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication. According to MIT, the paper will detail a system – dubbed Fastpass – that uses a centralized arbiter to analyze network traffic holistically and make routing decisions based on that analysis, in contrast to the more decentralized protocols common today. + ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD: Emergency vBulletin patch fixes dangerous SQL injection vulnerability | Mapping broadband everywhere +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   Facebook tests 'buy' button to let users make purchases from their feeds Facebook is testing a "buy" button that lets users make purchases directly from their news feeds.A limited number of small and medium-sized businesses in the U.S. are involved in the test, with the e-commerce feature available to users in Facebook's desktop and mobile versions. A participating businesses' ads include a "buy" button to purchase the item being advertised, without leaving Facebook's site.Facebook is showing an ad for Modify Watches, with a button to buy one of its mix-and-match watches, in a blog post providing information on the test.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   New York's proposed Bitcoin rules include consumer protections Companies trading in Bitcoin and other virtual currencies would be required to hold enough of the currencies to cover their debts to customers and would have to verify the identities of account holders as a protection against money laundering, under new regulations proposed by the New York State Department of Financial Services [DFS].The proposed rules, announced Thursday, would also require virtual currency traders to develop customer complaint procedures, to adopt cybersecurity policies and to submit to examinations by the DFS in exchange for a so-called BitLicense to trade in virtual currencies.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   How a '70s technology is stopping smartphone progress…and why that might change soon Battery-life is what we're after, according to a survey on smartphones recently conducted by researcher GMI, published in the Guardian.GMI found 29% of 18 to 24-year-olds run out of power daily, and 40% of us turn down screen brightness to conserve power.Couple those appalling statistics with whining from pundits who reckon smartphone design has stalled, then add warnings from phone makers about creeping sales, and you might have stumbled on one reason for our love/hate relationship with phones - battery life sucks, and it hinders our entire existence.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   Microsoft trots out tired euphemisms for '18,000 people are losing their jobs' When weighed against the fact that 18,000 human beings are going to lose their Microsoft paychecks – two-thirds of them from Nokia -- the gobbledygook of euphemisms used by CEO Satya Nadella to describe the carnage is of little significance.And it might have bobbled on by unnoticed were it not for Nadella's use of use of a single word, "synergy," which immediately made me recall this 2008 post about a different layoff of 3,000 people headlined: 'Synergy-related headcount restructuring' and other euphemisms for 'you're fired'To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   Don't Give Your Job Search a Summer Vacation For most people, summer's the perfect time to relax, take a vacation and operate at a more leisurely pace than during the rest of the year. But if you're a job-seeker, you can't afford to put your search on the back burner. Instead, use the slower pace and longer days to your advantage.First and foremost, do your research, says Piera Palazzolo, senior vice president of marketing at Dale Carnegie Training. "Candidates can never do too much research on prospective job opportunities and companies they may be interested in working for," says Palazzolo.+ ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD Tech companies pick up tab for pricey CEO perks +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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