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	Travel records tell government your IP, email, credit card, call center notes Have you ever been curious as to what information the government has stored about you and your travel records? A Passenger Name Record (PNR) is a computerized travel record created by airlines or travel agencies for both domestic and international flights, as well as hotel bookings, car rentals, cruises, and train trips. Your PNR, which is given to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) if you travel internationally, can include details like your unredacted credit card number or IP addresses. As Ars Technica’s Cyrus Farivar found out, your PNR is just another example of the government’s “collect it all” mentality.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Achieve Deeper Network Security and Application Control Next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) have emerged to revolutionize network security as we once knew it. Yet to safeguard an organization from today's ever-evolving threats, NGFWs must be able to deliver an even deeper level of network security. View Now In this Issue A guide to the confusing Internet of Things standards world INSIDER Whatever happened to Green IT? (free reg) US court says warrant for access to all content of email account is justified Indix, the Google of products INSIDER BYOD morphs from lockdown to true mobility (free reg) New products of the week 07.21.14 5 smartphones running alternative versions of Android The Cisco ASA 1000V EFF releases Chrome, Firefox plugin to block third-party tracking Verizon amps FiOS upload speeds for all residential customers Google takes a tiny step toward fixing Glass's reputation 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 A guide to the confusing Internet of Things standards world Google recently announced a new networking protocol called Thread that aims to create a standard for communication between connected household devices.If that description sounds familiar, that’s because it is. Thread joins similar collaborative efforts led by the likes of Intel, Qualcomm, GE and others in the race to establish standards for the Internet of Things, which is widely considered the next technology frontier.The complexity of these standardization efforts has evoked comparisons to the VHS and Betamax competition in the 1980s. Re/Code’s Ina Fried wrote, “there’s no way all of these devices will actually be able to all talk to each other until all this gets settled with either a victory or a truce.” In the meantime, we’re likely to see some debate among the competing factions.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More INSIDER Whatever happened to Green IT? (free reg) Remember when “green computing” was all the rage? Companies competed for green awards, virtualized their data centers, set up e-waste committees, launched double-sided printing initiatives and activated power management features on PCs.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More US court says warrant for access to all content of email account is justified A New York judge defended a controversial order that gave the government access to all content of the Gmail account of a target in a money laundering investigation, holding that courts have long recognized the practical need for law enforcement to seize documents if only to determine whether they fall within the warrant.The opinion, which will likely fuel the privacy debate in the country, is at odds with decisions by judges in several courts including courts in the Districts of Columbia and Kansas, Magistrate Judge Gabriel W. Gorenstein of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York noted in an opinion Friday.The District of Columbia judge had refused disclosure of the contents of an entire email account because that would allow the government to actually seize large quantities of emails “for which it has not established probable cause.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Indix, the Google of products Competitive intelligence can be hard to come by particularly in complex markets crowded with products from many manufacturers. Consider a pharmacy or supermarket chain, businesses in which pricing of many product lines is ultra competitive. If they don’t know for a week or more that a competitor has reduced the price of some common consumer product they stand to lose more than the revenues from being undersold on that one item; they risk the total loss of consumers who go to the competition and buy that and other products while they’re there so a small pricing edge can translate into a significant revenue hit.To solve this kind of problem Indix is building what they plan to be the “world’s largest product database”; as the company explained to me, they want to be the Google of products and they’re off to a good start with something like 400 million products currently indexed. They plan to reach more than 1 billion in the near future.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More INSIDER BYOD morphs from lockdown to true mobility (free reg) Many companies that have had BYOD policies for a while have matured their thinking. They've grown from looking at employees' personal devices as something to lock down to allowing them in a limited fashion to fully embracing them.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More New products of the week 07.21.14 Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as IBM and HP. Read More 5 smartphones running alternative versions of Android Read More The Cisco ASA 1000V Many have heard about Cisco's virtual switch for VMware environments - the 1000V - fewer have heard about the virtual firewall possible with the ASA 1000V. This article provides a nice overview of this exciting technology. Read More EFF releases Chrome, Firefox plugin to block third-party tracking One feature aims to stop tracking tied to clicking the Facebook 'like' on outside sites Read More Verizon amps FiOS upload speeds for all residential customers Residential consumers of Verizon's FiOS Internet service will see their upload speeds boosted to match their download speeds, the telecom company announced today. Read More Google takes a tiny step toward fixing Glass's reputation Google Glass "Basecamps" are a small but useful step toward eliminating the Glassholes stereotype. Read More
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