Ig Nobels 2014: Bacon-stuffed nostrils, polar bear costumes & the science of dog doo

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	Ig Nobels 2014: Bacon-stuffed nostrils, polar bear costumes & the science of dog doo The Ig Nobels are the bizzaro counterpart to the prestigious Nobel prizes, rewarding the most offbeat, weird, gross or otherwise strange contributions to science and human culture every year, with a ceremony that contains light opera, paper airplanes and plenty of other schtick spread in between the actual presentation of the awards. The 2014 ceremony didn't disappoint. 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. View now In this Issue Larry Ellison's distractions Amazon to use a neighbor's data center to heat its new Seattle high-rise How to make money waiting in line for Apple's iPhone 6 Home Depot, Target breaches exploited Windows XP flaw, report says Yes, Twitter should do text How Will iPhone 6's Wi-Fi Calling, VoLTE Affect Enterprise Networks? Even if the iPhone steals Android users, Google still wins Life as an IT contractor: What's it really like? What is Metacloud and why did Cisco buy it? Cisco gives OpenStack a kick in the 'aas' IDG Contributor Network: Cloud phone platform Twilio gets MMS Hubspot adds CRM, but it isn't changing course Apple Watch development involved hundreds of engineers, designers Cisco's improves its memory by acquiring Memoir Systems WHITE PAPER: Guidance Software How 3 Cyber Threats Transform the Role of Incident Response While we still use many of the same old names- trojans etc.- today's malware enables potent multistage attacks called advanced persistent threats. This paper describes how malware enables these advanced persistent threats and how enterprise information security and incident response (IR) teams can employ cyberforensics tools to minimize the damage Learn more Larry Ellison's distractions Ellison's love of sailing is no secret, but this year his Oracle Team USA racing team reached new heights of glory with an unprecedented come-from-behind victory over New Zealand, taking home the America's Cup. The CEO was so eager to see his team's climactic races that he ended up skipping a keynote he was supposed to deliver at Oracle's OpenWorld conference, to the irritation of many customers. Read More Amazon to use a neighbor's data center to heat its new Seattle high-rise If waste heat could be considered the lemon of data center output then Amazon and a Seattle partner have come up with a way to make lemonade. Read More How to make money waiting in line for Apple's iPhone 6 Some people are getting paid to wait in line for the iPhone 6. Read More Home Depot, Target breaches exploited Windows XP flaw, report says What do the massive security breaches and theft of credit card information at The Home Depot and Target have in common? Both were allowed by a decade-old exploit in Windows XP Embedded, used in their point of sale systems. Read More WEBCAST: Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Integrating Mobility with Unified Access Meeting mobility demands of 4500 students, faculty and staff at a university is no small task. Join this Webcast to hear the Director of Enterprise Infrastructure explain the steps Abilene Christian University took to deliver a new level of student-faculty interaction. Learn More Yes, Twitter should do text Dave Winer, he of RSS fame and a blogger since the beginning of time, has issued a plea to Twitter this morning that makes so much sense it should be reality by this afternoon. Read More How Will iPhone 6's Wi-Fi Calling, VoLTE Affect Enterprise Networks? Wi-Fi calling and VoLTE might eventually change the way voice calls are handled in the enterprise. Read More Even if the iPhone steals Android users, Google still wins Why users who migrate from Android to iOS are likely to continue using the same Google apps, just on a new device. Read More Life as an IT contractor: What's it really like? What's the best/worst part of being a contract IT employee? Read More WEBCAST: Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Integrating Mobility with Unified Access Meeting mobility demands of 4500 students, faculty and staff at a university is no small task. Join this Webcast to hear the Director of Enterprise Infrastructure explain the steps Abilene Christian University took to deliver a new level of student-faculty interaction. Learn More What is Metacloud and why did Cisco buy it? With it's purchase of OpenStack cloud builder Metacloud, now if customers want an OpenStack private cloud, Cisco's got a nice hardware and software combination to sell them. Read More Cisco gives OpenStack a kick in the 'aas' To help its customers implement a private cloud, Cisco this week announced the acquisition of Metacloud, a company that literally offers OpenStack-based private clouds "as a service" to simplify deployments. Read More IDG Contributor Network: Cloud phone platform Twilio gets MMS All U.S. Twilio phone numbers can now send-and-receive multimedia. Read More Hubspot adds CRM, but it isn't changing course Long-term foe of interrupting cold calls, Hubspot adds CRM because it makes sense. Read More Apple Watch development involved hundreds of engineers, designers Now that Apple's next new product category is no longer a secret held under lock and key, we're slowly starting to learn a bit more about how the product was conceived and how it was developed. Read More Cisco's improves its memory by acquiring Memoir Systems Cisco's latest acquisition, Memoir Systems, addresses the network gap challenge. Read More
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