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	25 techie Valentine's Day gift ideas From subtle geekery to blatantly techie devices, Valentine's Day gifts suit a range of personalities Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Network World Technical Seminar SDN, Openflow and Network Virtualization event comes to NYC Attend and learn how SDN works, its potential in the enterprise, and why leading, bellwether organizations are leveraging it for data center and large-scale networking efficiency- Learn more and register for this free event. February 12, 2013 – Grand Hyatt, NYC Click to continue In this Issue Juniper bolsters security assets with $10M buyout of anti-DDoS firm Another new release date for Galaxy S 4, but is Samsung battening down the hatches? 33 expert tips and tricks for iOS 6 A giant radio telescope, a small school and a Wi-Fi problem Glass smartphones coming this year, says Taiwanese firm Cycle Computing spins up 10,600 instances in Amazon's cloud Alcatel-Lucent CEO to step down amid losses and declining revenue US military needs hackers like Gary McKinnon, says policy analyst Cisco vs. Juniper: How different are their SDN strategies? Top Starting Salaries for College Technology Majors WHITE PAPER: HP, Microsoft & Intel Easing the Online Overload Many transaction processing systems have reached their capacity limits, so the time is right to consider the potential for running tier 1 mission-critical workloads on opens standards. This white paper highlights the key components of a properly structured and highly optmized SQL Server OLTP reference architecture. Read Now! Juniper bolsters security assets with $10M buyout of anti-DDoS firm Juniper Networks has acquired the assets of Webscreen Systems, a developer of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) mitigation products, from Accumuli of the United Kingdom. Read More Another new release date for Galaxy S 4, but is Samsung battening down the hatches? With one notable exception, the Samsung Galaxy S IV rumor mill seems to have been dramatically slowed this week, which could indicate that the anonymous sources that have been only too eager to gab about the device of late are putting the lid on as time ticks down toward many of the rumored release dates. Read More 33 expert tips and tricks for iOS 6 Perhaps you are already an iOS master. Or maybe you consider yourself more of a novice. Either way, we feel confident that at least some of the tips and tricks for iOS 6 that we present below will be new to you. What's more, we hope you love them--and benefit from them--as much as we do. Read More A giant radio telescope, a small school and a Wi-Fi problem Students at a tiny Appalachian public school can't use Wi-Fi because any such network can throw the radio equivalent of a monkey wrench into a gigantic super-sensitive radio telescope just up the road. Read More Glass smartphones coming this year, says Taiwanese firm Sam Yu won't name the handset makers involved. But the executive at Taiwanese firm Polytron Technologies is confident that consumers this year will see the arrival of partially transparent glass smartphones. Read More Cycle Computing spins up 10,600 instances in Amazon's cloud High performance cloud computing company Cycle Computing is no stranger to spinning up massive clusters of servers in Amazon's public cloud, but this week the company says it recently ran one of its largest jobs ever, one that used 10,598 multi-core instances Read More Alcatel-Lucent CEO to step down amid losses and declining revenue Alcatel-Lucent reported a fourth-quarter net loss of a!1.37 billion (US$1.81 billion), and at the same time announced it is hunting for a new CEO. Read More US military needs hackers like Gary McKinnon, says policy analyst The US Government should consider pardoning Gary McKinnon as part of a campaign to woo people with similar much-needed cyber-skills, influential defence analyst John Arquilla has argued in an article that will make tough reading for the men and women who spent a decade trying to extradite the Briton. Read More Cisco vs. Juniper: How different are their SDN strategies? On the surface, Cisco and Juniper's SDN strategies seem to have sharp contrasts if recent announcements are any indication. For example: Read More Top Starting Salaries for College Technology Majors Inside the world of IT and technology the college major you choose will directly relate to what you earn after graduation. Take a look at where the money is in 2013 for new college graduates. Read More
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