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• Instagram Gains User Momentum, Passing Twitter

  10-12-2014 23:58
  
  Photo-sharing site Instagram said Wednesday that its active monthly user base reached 300 million, a dramatic 50% increase in the past nine months.
  Instagram, which launched in 2010, edged past 8-year-old Twitter and its reported 284 million monthly active users.
  Facebook, which bought Instagram in 2012 for $1 billion, has nothing to worry about. In September, the social network reported that its own active monthly user base had hit 1.35 billion.
  "Over the past four years, what began as tw
  
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• TU/e en BOM bundelen krachten

  10-12-2014 23:38
  De TU/e en de Brabantse Ontwikkelings Maatschappij (BOM) gaan samenwerken om het TU/e Science Park versneld te ontwikkelen tot een broedplaats voor innovatieve bedrijvigheid. De samenwerking moet leiden tot verbeterde overlevings- en groeikansen voor startende ondernemingen.
  
  De TU/e en de BOM tekenen op woensdag 10... lees meer
  
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• Informatiebijeenkomst over NEN-ISO 37500 ‘Richtlijn bij outsourcing’

  10-12-2014 23:38
  Op 9 februari 2015 organiseert NEN een informatiebijeenkomst over de nieuwe ISO-norm voor outsourcing. NEN-ISO 37500 behandelt de belangrijkste fasen, processen en ‘governance’-aspecten van outsourcing. Tijdens de bijeenkomst wordt de norm uitvoerig besproken en is er ruimte voor vragen en... lees meer
  
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• Grote meerderheid Europese bedrijven hecht waarde aan data-analyse

  10-12-2014 23:38
  Senior managers en zakelijke beslissers in Europa noemen data-analyse belangrijk voor hun bedrijfsplannen in een breed scala aan activiteiten; van het beter inspelen op klantbehoeften, het creëren van nieuwe producten en diensten en het vinden van nieuwe kansen voor uitbreiding naar nieuwe markten tot het... lees meer
  
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• Bank beboet voor slechte outsourcing

  10-12-2014 23:38
  Door: Alex van den Bergh – Een opvallend berichtje trok mijn aandacht: een Europese bank die een boete krijgt omdat de regie van de IT-outsourcing niet op orde was. Het gebeurt dus wel degelijk in de praktijk. Wat het wellicht minder sensationeel maakt, is dat het hier niet om een systeembank gaat maar... lees meer
  
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• New CIO announcements to round out 2014

  10-12-2014 23:19
  
  2014 was a year of record market highs, widespread job gains, major technology innovation, and of course, new changes in IT leadership. Here are the latest announcements. LinkedIn
  Dell recently appointed Paul J. Walsh as Chief Information Officer. Previously, Paul led the company's commerce services as the Vice President, Commerce Services and in this new position, will report directly to Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Michael Dell. Prior to joining Dell in 2013, Paul was with Sears
  
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• BrandPost: Agile Mavericks Can Be An Essential Part Of Your IT

  10-12-2014 23:18
  
  I recently sat down with Jon Sanchez and Jason Puig from Symantec. It was a truly eye-opening conversation.
  According to the org-chart, they’re IT guys: Sanchez’ business card says he’s the director of IT data center services, and Puig’s says senior manager of cloud services. But although they’re in Symantec’s IT department, the huge project they started—and are still responsible for—didn’t originate within IT.
  In fact, in many ways, it started as a maverick, “shadow IT�
  
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• API management made easier (and free) with new 3scale service

  10-12-2014 23:05
  
  Businesses curious about exposing system services and data to the outside world can now test the idea with a free offer from 3scale for managing publicly exposed APIs.“We’re trying to enable as many people as possible to use APIs,” said 3scale CEO Steven Willmott. “Its not completely altruistic. Hopefully, some will find the API is really useful and they will start using our paid services. But we very much have the realization that not everyone will pay, and that is a good thing.”Th
  
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• VCs Bet $33M You’ll Want to Use Avi Networks’ White Box Hardware for App Delivery

  10-12-2014 23:00
  
  Avi Networks, a network startup formed by ex-Cisco executives and backed by $33 million in venture capital, came out of stealth Wednesday with the announcement of a system designed to boost the performance of enterprise applications accessed via the cloud and mobile devices.
  Unlike traditionally structured application delivery controllers (ADC), which are proprietary, specialized pieces of hardware, Avi’s Cloud Application Delivery Platform is essentially an ADC that runs on commodity sili
  
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• Microsoft's Minecraft Finally Arrives on Windows Phone

  10-12-2014 22:40
  
  Microsoft has finally added Mojang's Minecraft to its repertoire of Windows Phone games, two months after buying the company.
  Minecraft: Pocket Edition appears to be the same version that's available for Android and iOS, and costs the same, too: $6.99. It requires Windows Phone 8.1. Given that its download size is just 12 megabytes, it seems realistic that the game will run on even low-end phones with just 1 Gbyte of RAM.
  Minecraft: Pocket Edition can be played in either the traditional Sur
  
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• FTC will target patent trolls, commissioner says

  10-12-2014 22:35
  The U.S. Federal Trade Commission can take action against patent trolls when the patent-holding firms engage in unfair business practices, even as the agency works to complete a study on their business model, a commissioner said.The FTC plans to complete its ongoing study of patent licensing firms—often called patent assertion entities (PAEs) or patent trolls—within the next year, FTC Commissioner Julie Brill said Wednesday. In the meantime, the agency should target its enforcement power
  
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• Microsoft Takes Slow, Cautious Path to Protecting IE Against POODLE

  10-12-2014 22:14
  
  Microsoft yesterday added an optional anti-POODLE defense to Internet Explorer 11 (IE11), and promised that additional protection would be switched on by default in two months.
  The 15-year-old flaw in SSL 3.0 -- an aged standard used to encrypt traffic between browsers and Web servers -- was disclosed two months ago by a team of Google security researchers. Criminals could exploit the vulnerability using "man-in-the-middle" attacks to make off with session cookies. Those stolen cookies would
  
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• Twitter Sees 2014 as Year of the Celebrity Selfie

  10-12-2014 22:01
  
  In 2014, people around the world were celebrating, mourning, protesting and connecting. And thanks to the approximately 500 million tweets being posted every day this year, they were largely doing it on Twitter.
  "Many millions of you contributed to the moments and conversations that all unfolded on Twitter," wrote Gabriel Stricker, Twitter's chief communications officer, in a blog post today. "Each [tweet] contributes something special to Twitter.... To look back on the best global moments f
  
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• Top 10 Tech Stories of 2014

  10-12-2014 21:14
  
  Backlash! Disrupting the disruptorsImage by ShutterstockBlowing up entrenched business models and picking up the profits that spill onto the floor is a time-honored tradition in tech, these days known by the cliche of the moment, "disruption." This year everyone was trying to push back against those upstarts, whether by buying them like Facebook did, reorganizing to compete with them like HP and Microsoft have done, or just plain going out against them guns blazing, as it seemed that every city
  
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• Sprint Pleased By Early Response to its Half-off Deal

  10-12-2014 21:12
  
  Six days into its new "Cut Your Bill in Half" offer, Sprint was enthusiastic about the offer's early reaction from new customers, but didn't offer any details.
  "We are pleased with initial results ..." spokesman Mark Elliott said in an email. "It's a great deal and demonstrates our commitment to offering consumers the best value in wireless."
  Meanwhile, T-Mobile countered with a new unlimited 4G LTE family plan called Simple Choice that started today, marking another sign of the unrelenting
  
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• Cisco buying Neohapsis for security brainpower

  10-12-2014 20:45
  Cisco Systems plans to expand its security consulting services by acquiring Neohapsis, a small Chicago firm that tells enterprises how to secure their applications.The Neohapsis acquisition, for an undisclosed sum, is a classic “aqui-hire” intended to bring an experienced team at Neohapsis into the Cisco fold. Neohapsis President and CEO James Mobley and other key players in the 57-employee company came from @stake, a security firm acquired by Symantec in 2004. They will help to run the C
  
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• Rochester Civic Theatre gearing up for busy holiday schedule - KIMT 3

  10-12-2014 20:32
  
  Rochester Civic Theatre gearing up for busy holiday schedule
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  “We've taken the time honored classic “Miracle on 34th Street”, reshaped it a little bit and added some popular Christmas tunes to it,” Executive Director, Gregory Stavrou says. The program runs from now until December 21st, and tickets are selling fast.
  
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• FoundationDB gears up for the Internet of Things

  10-12-2014 20:25
  
  When the anticipated tsunami of data from the Internet of Things hits the enterprise, FoundationDB’s flagship NoSQL database should be ready to handle to deluge.The company has re-architectured its FoundationDB Key-Value Store to handle a significantly larger amount of data, which IoT sensors will no doubt soon generate and send to data centers.“If there is one thing machines are good at is creating data,” said CEO Dave Rosenthal, explaining why a significant increase in data ingestion
  
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• Google and Avaya to bring Chromebooks and WebRTC to call centers

  10-12-2014 20:10
  
  Google and Avaya are chasing companies seeking to install or upgrade call center systems, promising them easier and more affordable deployments via Chromebooks and a WebRTC interface to the Avaya customer support software.The integrated systems would let customer-support reps access the Avaya call center software—hosted in the cloud or in a local network—via the Chrome browser. Tapping the Chrome browser’s native support of WebRTC, users will be able to communicate with audio and video
  
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• Ghana's import tax removal on smartphones expected to boost local Africa production

  10-12-2014 18:05
  
  Ghana’s plan to remove import duties on smartphones, a move other African nations have contemplated, will help indigenous companies that are “playing by the rules,” according to a top executive for RLG, which makes laptops, desktops and mobile phones.RLG, which has its global headquarters in Dubai, runs phone assembly operations for West Africa from Ghana.“We believe it is a very positive move for the industry in general as it would make smartphones more affordable to all and help inc
  
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• Jolla sells 7,200 Sailfish OS tablets, promises to ship in the second quarter

  10-12-2014 18:00
  
  Finnish company Jolla is following through on a promise to add more features to its Linux-based Sailfish OS, with plans to offer more personalization and a feature called “Events” that will show messages, calendar events and other information on the screen at once.Since its inception in 2011, Jolla has bet on the Sailfish OS to differentiate it from the competition on smartphones and now tablets. Android and iOS may dominate the tablet space, but the success of a campaign by Jolla in whic
  
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• Swan upset by speculation about Orchestra London - London Community News

  10-12-2014 17:50
  
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  Swan upset by speculation about Orchestra London
  London Community News
  The loss of a $350,000 donation has put the future of Orchestra London in doubt. But it's executive director says predictions of closure are premature. next play/pause pre 1/1. London Community News. By Sean Meyer. The loss of an anticipated $350,000 ...
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Better Flights and Light Bulbs: 2 Case Studies from the Front Lines of Innovation

  10-12-2014 17:45
  
  What comes to mind when you think about innovation? For me, two images come to mind. I think of consumer electronics such as Apple's iPhone or a scientist creating a new medical treatment. Such examples of innovation tend to grab all the media attention. In fact, these examples are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to innovation.
  Innovation takes many different shapes and forms. For example, innovation in services can reduce waiting times and increase customer loyalty – valuable re
  
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• The Workplace Will Never Be a Democracy

  10-12-2014 16:51
  
  One of the most persistent ideas I’ve heard in my decades in IT is that we geeks want democracy at work. Surprisingly, I’ve heard it from managers and executives as often as I have from front-line geeks.
  But when you scratch the surface, you see that we don’t really want democracy at all. We want a lot of other things related to what we value and how we’d like our workplaces to operate. Somehow this gets shorthanded to “We want democracy,” but what we really want are much more sp
  
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• Senate's Torture Report Will Provoke Hacktivist Reprisals

  10-12-2014 16:51
  
  The release Tuesday of the U.S. Senate's report that excoriated the Central Intelligence Agency for torturing suspected terrorists will result in retaliation by cyber-hacktivist groups, a security expert predicted today.
  "I expect there will be some sort of retribution," said Tom Chapman, director of cyber operations at Edgewave, a San Diego-based security firm. A former U.S. Navy cyber-warfare commander, Chapman joined Edgewave in September and leads the company's threat intelligence unit.
  
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• T-Mobile Escalates Promotional Price Wars With Cheap Unlimited Family Plans

  10-12-2014 16:49
  
  T-Mobile is rolling out yet another limited-time offer on wireless service, this time bringing the cost of unlimited data way down for families.
  The carrier is now charging $100 per month for two lines with unlimited 4G LTE data, down from a regular price of $140 per month. Additional lines cost $40 per month—same as before—and subscribers can have up to 10 total lines at this price.
  There is just one catch: To get the $100 per month base price, everyone on the plan must have unlimited d
  
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• Skyfence Secures Access to Cloud Apps for Mobile Device Users - eWeek

  10-12-2014 16:21
  Skyfence Secures Access to Cloud Apps for Mobile Device Users
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  To enable streamlined risk management, Skyfence has added an IT executive level reporting dashboard that provides global visibility into trends and changes in an organization's cloud usage and security posture. "The ability to profile and learn user ...
  
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• Anti-graft squad targets corruption in Ukraine's army - Digital Journal

  10-12-2014 16:14
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  Anti-graft squad targets corruption in Ukraine's army
  Digital Journal
  The first challenge for Arakhamia -- a Georgian IT executive whose family fled to Ukraine during civil war in the 1990s -- was how to select an unimpeachable team. Arakhamia subjected candidates to a four-and-a-half hour polygraph exam designed to test ...
  
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• Apple, IBM partnership yields first results: 10 mobile apps

  10-12-2014 16:10
  
  IBM and Apple have unveiled the first results of their enterprise IT partnership: 10 mobile applications aimed at businesses in six industries as well as government users.The apps bring IBM’s strength in big data and analysis to Apple’s iPad and iPhone mobile devices, the companies said Wednesday.The apps target users in the banking, retail, insurance, financial services, telecommunications and airline industries. One of the apps, for example, allows a flight crew to personalize a passeng
  
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• Lenovo Recalls More Than 500,000 Power Cords Due to Spark, Burn Risk

  10-12-2014 15:56
  
  Lenovo is issuing a recall for more than 500,000 computer AC power cords in the U.S. after receiving reports of the cord overheating, sparking, melting, and burning. All problematic cords were reported by users outside the U.S. The current recall also affects 44,000 devices sold in Canada, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
  The recall could apply to anyone who purchased an IdeaPad laptop from the B-, G-, S-, U-, V- or Z-series between February 2011 and June 2012. Plain
  
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• 5 Information Security Trends That Will Dominate 2015

  10-12-2014 15:55
  
  In information security circles, 2014 has been a year of what seems like a never-ending stream of cyberthreats and data breaches, affecting retailers, banks, gaming networks, governments and more.The calendar year may be drawing to a close, but we can expect that the size, severity and complexity of cyber threats to continue increasing, says Steve Durbin, managing director of the Information Security Forum (ISF), a nonprofit association that assesses security and risk management issues on beh
  
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• IBM, Apple Release 10 New iOS Apps for Enterprise

  10-12-2014 15:53
  
  This morning, IBM and Apple announced the availability of the first set of 10 IBM Mobile First for iOS apps for iPhones and iPads. The partnership between enterprise heavy IBM and consumer king Apple was announced in July. Their first set of apps is designed for use in industries including telecommunications, transportation, financial services, retail and airlines and government.
  The news is notable because the apps are the first real fruit of pact. It's also further evidence that Apple is f
  
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• Daum Kakao CEO accused of allowing sharing of child porn on company's messenger app

  10-12-2014 15:50
  
  The CEO of Daum Kakao answered police questions Wednesday about accusations that the South Korean mobile messaging service provider failed to take action against child pornography content distributed via its app.Under South Korean law, child pornography covers anything from abusive imagery of prepubescent children to images simply showing the naked body of someone under 18, if the images were made without consent or in return for reward. Internet service providers are obliged to take appropri
  
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• 7 Resolutions Online Businesses Should Make for 2015

  10-12-2014 15:41
  
  It's that time of year when people start thinking about what they are going to do differently or change in the new year. So what should ecommerce businesses resolve to do, in terms of improving their website's design and content, in 2015? A number of online business owners, Web designers and digital marketers share what they think are the top seven design and content resolutions every ecommerce business should think about -- or resolve to do -- this coming year.[ Related: 11 Common Ecommerce
  
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• 7 Resolutions Ecommerce Businesses Should Make for 2015

  10-12-2014 15:41
  
  It's that time of year when people start thinking about what they are going to do differently or change in the new year. So what should
  
  ecommerce businesses resolve to do, in terms of improving their website's design and content, in 2015? A number of online business owners,
  
  Web designers and digital marketers share what they think are the top seven design and content resolutions every ecommerce business
  
  should think about -- or resolve to do -- this coming year.[ Related: 11 Common
  
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• BrandPost: Microsoft Azure

  10-12-2014 15:18
  Want an open and flexible Cloud platform that helps you move faster, do more, and save money? Sound too good to be true? Let me introduce you to Microsoft Azure. It’s a growing collection of integrated services—compute, storage, data, networking, and app—that lets you develop enterprise-ready APIs fast using a wide range of operating systems, frameworks, and languages to ensure great performance for your customers. Intrigued?To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please cli
  
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• Skype implicated in EU corporate income tax scandal

  10-12-2014 15:15
  
  Skype used two Luxembourg companies and an Irish subsidiary to avoid paying corporate income tax during a five year period, according to documents detailing deals with Luxembourg tax authorities.On Tuesday, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) published a new batch of documents in its ongoing investigation into secret tax agreements approved by Luxembourg authorities.The documents included some showing that Skype used complicated corporate structures to avoid payin
  
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• Google Employees Say it's the Best Big Company to Work For

  10-12-2014 15:15
  
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  Google employees love their jobs more so than workers at any other big company in the United States, according to the 2014 Glassdoor Employees' Choice Awards rankings.
  Google's #1 position returns tech to the top of the rankings, which last year were led by financial firm Bain. Facebook was #1 in 2012.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• Fitbit Surge Fitness Watch Early Hands-On Review

  10-12-2014 14:58
  
  On Dec. 4, I received an "exclusive limited release" email offer from Fitbit to become "one of the first" people to buy its new, $250 Surge fitness watch. Surge isn't supposed to be released until early 2015, so I jumped at the chance to try Fitbit's top-of-the-line activity/sleep tracker.My Surge arrived on Dec. 8. I'm already benefiting from it and recommend it. However, I wonder how I'll feel about it when the Apple Watch finally arrives. (Apple says its Watch will ship "in early 2015,"
  
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• Mentoring at the Top - Human Resource Executive Online

  10-12-2014 14:40
  Mentoring at the Top
  Human Resource Executive Online
  Up to now, mentoring senior leaders has mostly been informal -- a CEO discusses a systems upgrade with an IT executive over lunch. But more organizations are now recognizing the value such conversations bring to the table -- the opportunity to learn ...
  
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• Microsoft's Unified Government Cloud Targets Public Sector

  10-12-2014 14:40
  
  Microsoft is advancing its suite of cloud computing products for the government sector, rolling out versions of the Azure platform and Dynamics CRM specifically for the public sector to join Office 365 Government in the firm's cloud portfolio.On Tuesday, the software giant announced the general availability of Azure Government, and is signaling that public-sector clients in short order will be able to obtain a version of its cloud-based CRM product geared exclusively for government environmen
  
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• Why the Board of Directors Will Go Off on Security in 2015

  10-12-2014 14:14
  
  Imagine it’s the end of 2015 and you’re about to read an expose from a fly on the wall at top closed-room board meetings across the enterprise discussing the state of information security. You’re excited, right?
  Well, why wait? Here’s your seat at the table for 2015’s most heated board room discussions about information security.The backdrop: Events to come
  
  Certain characteristic types of painful breaches will drive heated security debates in the board room in 2015. First, there w
  
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• Google Tops Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work; F5 Outranks Facebook, Qualcomm, Apple

  10-12-2014 14:01
  
  Google is No. 1 among employees, according to Glassdoor’s seventh annual Employees’ Choice Awards.
  Google landed in first place in Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work in 2015, followed by Bain & Company, Nestle Purina PetCare, F5 Networks, and Boston Consulting Group.
  In addition to Google and F5, several other tech companies made it into the top 50 on Glassdoor’s list, including Facebook (#13), Qualcomm (#14), Adobe (#18), Apple (#22), LinkedIn (#23), Gartner (#24), Nvidia (#36), an
  
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• Apple Fights News Orgs to Keep Jobs Video Off the Internet

  10-12-2014 13:43
  
  Not surprisingly, Apple yesterday fought a move by several news organizations to make public a two-hour video deposition recorded by former co-founder Steve Jobs in 2011.
  In its rebuttal to a motion filed earlier in the week by the Associated Press, Bloomberg and CNN, Apple's lawyers argued that releasing the video could discourage others from testifying if they knew that the resulting images would end up broadcast or used on the Internet.
  "If Movants are correct that the 'substantial public
  
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• Cisco Lawsuits Aside, Arista Forges Ahead with EOS

  10-12-2014 13:03
  
  As it faces down a litigious assault from rival Cisco, Arista Networks is enhancing its switch operating system to expedite DevOps deployments.
  Arista this week unveiled EOS+, a version of the operating system with deeper programmability and pre-integrated applications for customizing the network and tightening its alignment with the workloads it supports. EOS is at the heart of at least three lawsuits – two from Cisco last week and another from a company founder – filed against Arista t
  
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• Catchy Nicknames Prompt More Patching of Vulnerabilities

  10-12-2014 13:00
  
  Vulnerabilities with catchy nicknames get more attention from media, customers, and vendors and so get patched more thoroughly than similar vulnerabilities without clever names.
  According to a report released Tuesday by security researcher Secunia ApS, based in Copenhagen, Denmark, names such as Heartbleed, Shellshock and Poodle make it easier for users to learn about vulnerabilities and to ask their vendors for patches.
  More than 100 vendors issued patches for 600 products within 40 days of
  
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• AT&T's Thaddeus Arroyo: Tech Will Transform Customer Engagement

  10-12-2014 12:30
  
  Thaddeus Arroyo, president of technology development at AT&T, believes IT leaders must show their organizations how technology will transform both how they do business and how they engage with customers. AT&T
  
  "Today's technology thought leaders," he says, "are guiding and informing business strategy, not just enabling it." That kind of thinking, along with his leadership skills and strategic vision, earned Arroyo the 2014 MIT Sloan CIO Leadership Award. Arroyo, who oversees about 1
  
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• Skyfence Secures Access to Cloud Apps for Mobile Device Users - MarketWatch

  10-12-2014 12:10
  
  Skyfence Secures Access to Cloud Apps for Mobile Device Users
  MarketWatch
  To enable streamlined risk management, Skyfence has added an IT executive level reporting dashboard that provides global visibility into trends and changes in an organization's cloud usage and security posture. Administrators can immediately access ...
  
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• Orion's Lesson for IT: Test Your Systems, Then Test Again (and Again)

  10-12-2014 12:02
  
  When NASA's new spacecraft, Orion, made its maiden voyage last week, it completed its successful 4.5-hour trip running on a 12-year-old processor and a computer that's far from state-of-the-art.
  So how did NASA's engineers make this old technology work for them in the rigors of space?
  Testing. Testing. Testing.
  "It was a very good flight," Matt Lemke, NASA's deputy manager for Orion's avionics, power and software team, said Tuesday. "It was as good as it could have gone.... The way we achiev
  
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• Review: 6 Business-Class Chromebooks Test Their Mettle

  10-12-2014 12:00
  
  I've spent the last three weeks taking six business-oriented Chromebooks through their paces. I started out as a skeptical Windows-rules-them-all kind of guy: I've been using Windows since the early days, and I've rarely strayed from the ghosts of my Windows masters. By the end of my Chromebook experiment, however, my old biases were shaken.
  There's a definite siren call to a light, fast, portable computer with a solid keyboard that isn't subject to the patching and malware malaise that has
  
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