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	Comcast's latest comments on TWC merger show near-total divorce from reality The public statement accompanying Comcast's official response to the FCC, after the latest comment period on the proposed merger with TWC, is a classic piece of corporate doublespeak. Read More WHITE PAPER: Ixia Overcoming Visibility Deficits in Virtualized Environments With up to 80% of data center traffic traveling between virtualized servers, end-to-end visibility is a major concern. This paper provides an overview of virtualized data center blind spots and offers a solution to overcome them. 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This course will help you: Understand sophisticated, multitier networks within virtualized environments and stand out from your peers by becoming an expert within your IT organization Sign up today and get a promo code for the free Brocade Network Functions Virtualization Certification program (a $650 value), and a free 60-day trial of the Brocade Vyatta vRouter. No, Apple's iPhone 6 Plus isn't too big The people insisting that Apple's iPhablet is too big are on the wrong side of history. Read More Chambers again dashes EMC speculation Recurring rumor is the only reliable component of this deal Read More iOS 8 tips and tricks you need to know Some advice on how to make iOS 8 work for you. Read More IDG Contributor Network: More coffin nails in cable's aging multi-channel model One cable TV provider has a new, unique take on cord-cutting: give them Internet-driven TV on-demand. Read More Why Amazon is rebooting 10% of its cloud servers Amazon Web Services issued a blog post on Thursday providing some more details of why the company needs to reboot some of its cloud servers in the coming days. Read More End of an era: Microsoft shuts down research lab, Trustworthy Computing group Satya Nadella continues to shake things up and surprise at the same time. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology 3 Key Ways WAN Optimization Saves If you wanted to break down innovation into a tidy equation, it might go something like this: Technology + Connectivity = Productivity. Productivity comes in two forms: user experience and infrastructure efficiency. Read Now FAA lets movie and TV groups operate drones in national airspace, what could go wrong? FAA grants exemptions to six companies in TV and movie industry Read More What is Ello? A social network with a terrible business plan This is why you've been hearing so much about Ello, and why you might not hear much of it in the future. Read More Google withdraws from conservative lobbyist service ALEC, citing climate change Weeks after more than 50 activist groups publicly called upon Google to end its affiliation with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a controversial nonprofit that helps representatives from corporations meet privately with legislators, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt announced on an NPR program this week that the company has withdrawn its support. Read More Web developer has a dirty little secret I could say that a co-worker pointed me to this one – and in this case that would be true – but the fact is that I quite often read Dear Prudence on Slate. Not very often, however, does the advice column have an IT angle. Read More iPhone 6: The phone for people who can't do math How you can get a smartphone, a tablet, and a smartwatch all for the price of Apple's iPhone 6 Plus. Read More Microsoft adds bug bounty program for its online services Eligible vulnerabilities are worth at least $500. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Taming the Big Data Beast As IT publications and business magazines constantly remind us these days, we live in an era of big data. Considering just how big today's burgeoning repositories of insight-laden analytical data are, it's only natural to assume that governing them poses a whole new kind of challenge. Learn more! Apple Pay got mobile payments right, but its reach is limited Apple executed admirably in aligning mobile payment partners, but its relatively low market share limit it to a smaller share of the wallets. Read More Why Cisco lost two key officials in data center, cloud Company too slow to respond or not committed enough to newer networking trends Read More Microsoft rolls out free Office 365 for Students self-service but hits activation snag Microsoft rolled out a self-serve model for students to grab a free Office 365 account, including 1 terabyte of storage, so students don't have to wait on school IT department delays. But U.S. students still met a delay as activating Office 365 Education for Students failed. By the time the free service rolls out to students worldwide, the signup process should be smoother. Read More IDG Contributor Network: How new radio tech will solve the upcoming spectrum crunch A new kind of twisted radio wave can send 10 HD movies in one second. If this and other new radio technologies work in the real world, we could solve our upcoming 5G spectrum crunch. Read More Brocade's investor day highlighted by something old, something new At Brocade's annual investor conference in New York City, CEO Lloyd Carney and the rest of the executives did a nice job of highlighting the opportunities for the company moving forward. Read More With iPhone 6 VoLTE, Apple leads by following Android once again Call quality took a dive when consumers shifted from land lines to mobile. Android has had VoLTE HD quality calling for a couple of years. Read More
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