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	Yes, there's a tech bubble: Facebook's mobile ad success proves it Despite gaudy numbers for Facebook's mobile business, spending on mobile ads may not be sustainable. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting for Dummies The Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting for Dummies Book introduces you to common network performance management (NPM) issues and give you a new way of looking at solving them. This perspective allows you to see your network from your users' point of view, namely, the services and applications they use and their experience with them. Learn More In this Issue A review of Swing Copters: Under no circumstances should you play this game Silver Peak looks to the clouds and redefines WAN Optimization Why Microsoft needs to reveal Windows 9 sooner than later: The end of Windows 7 The Linux desktop-a-week review: Ubuntu Unity Hacking traffic lights with a laptop is easy Apple iWatch release may be pushed back to 2015 New BYOD trouble ahead via Android for Work The 6 best tablets for getting work done in 2014 Is Wi-Fi killing us...slowly? Twitter tells tale of LinkedIn outage The Samsung Z is dead: Is Tizen next? Virtual Security Remains Anathema to Many Organizations Ahead of VMWorld, VMware promotes Casado to lead NSX Windows Phone isn't dead, but it needs a new reason to live WHITE PAPER: Equinix How Network Connections Drive Web Application Performance Users around the globe, on all sorts of devices, expect Web applications to function as seamlessly as desktop applications. This paper discusses the challenges and solutions for effectively delivering applications in today's global marketplace. View now A review of Swing Copters: Under no circumstances should you play this game It's like Flappy Bird, but even worse. Read More Silver Peak looks to the clouds and redefines WAN Optimization Last week, Silver Peak announced a new product called Unity that can be thought of as an intelligent WAN optimization "fabric" that enables network managers to track the location of cloud services and have a real-time "weather map" of Internet traffic to help find the optimum path for traffic flows. Read More Why Microsoft needs to reveal Windows 9 sooner than later: The end of Windows 7 After October, there will be no way to buy a Windows 7 PC and nothing but Live Tiles on the horizon. Unless Microsoft, as widely anticipated, announces Windows 9. Read More The Linux desktop-a-week review: Ubuntu Unity I set out to use Ubuntu Unity for one full week, even if it killed me. Read More WEBCAST: CA Technologies Business-driven data protection Setting up data protection infrastructures with your organizations' core mission or business in mind is key. In this webinar, the Arcserve team will offer insights and solutions to make data protection a strategic component of your business. Learn more! Hacking traffic lights with a laptop is easy Armed with a laptop, University of Michigan security researchers hacked nearly 100 wirelessly networked traffic lights and were able to change the state of the lights on command. Read More Apple iWatch release may be pushed back to 2015 As any Apple critic will be quick to tell you, it's been a while since Apple has released a game-changing product. And despite mountains of cash that would make most other companies on the planet green with envy, some of these same critics are quick to proclaim that Apple's influence as a tech innovator is waning. Read More New BYOD trouble ahead via Android for Work The future should be looking more favorable for workplace Bring-Your-Own-Device, or BYOD, with Android's upcoming embrace. But is it really? Someone's forgotten something. Read More The 6 best tablets for getting work done in 2014 Can you be productive with a tablet? You betcha, provided you buy the right one. Read More WEBCAST: Bit9, Inc Developing a Continuous Response Architecture Compromise is inevitable and detection can be bypassed at will. This is largely because many enterprises fail to proactively prepare the battlefield for a data breach by only leveraging outdated techniques that focus on the perimeter or use scans or signatures to detect, respond or prevent advanced threats in your environment. Learn More Is Wi-Fi killing us...slowly? What would it take to get you to stop using cellphones and WiFi completely? How about your kids getting cancer? Read More Twitter tells tale of LinkedIn outage Cause of weekend outage still a mystery. Read More The Samsung Z is dead: Is Tizen next? Just days after postponing the launch of its high-end Tizen phone, Samsung has scuttled the device all together, which begs the question of how long the Tizen OS itself has. Read More Virtual Security Remains Anathema to Many Organizations VMworld hype masks the fact that many enterprises remain wedded to security appliances and are only "toe-dipping" with virtual security appliances Read More Ahead of VMWorld, VMware promotes Casado to lead NSX Casado is now VMware's top SDN guru Read More Windows Phone isn't dead, but it needs a new reason to live As Microsoft chases the low-end phone market where Android already dominates, it could be neglecting one of its own core strengths: productivity. Read More
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