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	Security Professionals Want More Government Cybersecurity Action Now that the federal government is working again, I was wondering: What ever happened to cybersecurity legislation? As far as I can tell the Cybersecurity Act of 2013 (S.1353) and CISPA are dead-in-the-water right now. Why? Edward Snowden and NSA programs put the kybosh on public trust (especially International trust) and Congress has other things it would rather fight about. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap 2013 NEW: IT Roadmap Washington, D.C. is all new for 2013! The content-rich agenda has been redesigned and reenergized to include increased IDG content from editors you know and trust and FIVE FOCUSED PILLARS OF TECHNOLOGY learning that are the most critical for the year ahead. Register now. Attend on December 12th. It's free! In this Issue How to cloudify your apps Office 2003 is a bigger threat to Microsoft than Google Docs The public cloud plateau Knight Capital fined a measly $12M for a software bug that cost $460M Researchers tout electricity storage technology that could recharge devices in minutes This is your brain. This is your brain decoded. 802.11ac in the Residence – It's More About the Range Than the Rate Is your identity the next to be stolen ... courtesy of consumer credit reporting agencies? Why you should indulge your power users' lust for a Mac Pro Apple to release 4K TV set in 2014 - Report Review: Ubuntu Touch on a Nexus 7 is almost awesome IBM rolls "Internet of Things" starter kit Revisiting the shadow quality of APIs Restricted by LinkedIn for doing what they wanted me to do And open letter on user account security to Condé Nast, AT&T, and ... well, lotsa of companies WHITE PAPER: Mobiquity Inc. The Five Big Lies Leaders Hear About "Going Mobile" Mobile hasn't been around long, but it has already made a tremendous impact. With such a new technology, it's not surprising that a lot of misinformation is floating around. Don't be taken in. Get the truth by reading this paper. It lays out how to develop an effective mobile initiative, one you need to succeed. Learn More How to cloudify your apps So you're ready to run your custom-built application in the cloud. Congratulations. But there's one question to you may want to consider before launching it in your private cloud, or Amazon's public cloud: Will it work? It's a question that the folks at Cloud Technology Partners, a Boston-based consultancy, get quite a bit. So, today the company launched a new platform named PaaSLane that allows customers... Read More Office 2003 is a bigger threat to Microsoft than Google Docs Market research firm Forrester Research has just published a report that shows Microsoft has little to fear from the free office application suites gunning for Office's dominion, though the company will also have a devil of a time uprooting Office 2003. Forrester surveyed 155 clients about their currently deployed productivity suites in their offices. The survey found Office 2010 is used by nearly... Read More The public cloud plateau CHICAGO - "The enthusiasm for getting everything out of your data center and into the public cloud is starting to wane." That's the assessment from Eric Hanselman (pictured), chief analyst at the 451 Research Group based on his latest study on cloud computing usage trends, which he presented this week at Cloud Connect in Chicago. Read More Knight Capital fined a measly $12M for a software bug that cost $460M How worried you are about bugs in your code is mostly related to how financially exposed a bug could make you. Read More Researchers tout electricity storage technology that could recharge devices in minutes Vanderbilt University researchers say they have come up with a way to store electricity on a silicon-based supercapacitor that would let mobile phones recharge in seconds and let them continue to operate for weeks without recharging. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM The Top 10 Secrets to Using Data Mining to Succeed at CRM This white paper addresses how data mining is used to get more value from CRM systems -- particularly focused on application of predictive analytics to the customer lifecycle (acquire, grow, retain.) Learn More. This is your brain. This is your brain decoded. Read More 802.11ac in the Residence – It's More About the Range Than the Rate The announcement of the Netgear R7000 802.11ac router that I recently mentioned led to an interesting conversation with Netgear staff about what's really going on with 802.11ac in the residence. Read More Is your identity the next to be stolen ... courtesy of consumer credit reporting agencies? Read More Why you should indulge your power users' lust for a Mac Pro Most of the fuss at today's big Apple announcement concerned the company's new iPad tablets (a much bigger improvement than the iPhone 5s, IMHO). But I was more interested in the news regarding Apple only remaining desktop computer -- the super-high-powered and super-expensive Mac Pro. Read More Apple to release 4K TV set in 2014 - Report Well here's a wild rumor for you ahead of Apple's upcoming special media event. Bloomberg late on Monday relayed an analyst report from Advanced Research Japan Co. claiming that Apple in late 2014 has plans to release a 4K HDTV in 55 and 65-inch form factors. These HDTVs will reportedly feature a frameless design, which isn't all that different from some of the higher end Samsung LED models currently... Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology ESG – Economic Value Validation Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), presents an economic value validation study of Riverbed Performance Management solution, Cascade application-aware NPM. ESG interviewed current Riverbed Cascade customers and based on these interviews, developed an economic model that predicts the benefits of deploying a Riverbed Cascade solution. View Now Review: Ubuntu Touch on a Nexus 7 is almost awesome This past week, we saw the release of Ubuntu 13.10. And, with it, we got the first official release of Ubuntu Touch (dubbed "Ubuntu Phone 1.0"). So, of course, I couldn't resist installing the "1.0" version of the operating system that Canonical is pitting against the likes of Android and iOS. I installed Ubuntu Touch "1.0" on my first-generation Nexus 7 tablet and have been using it as my main tablet... Read More IBM rolls "Internet of Things" starter kit IBM today said it teamed up with wireless sensor builder Libelium to offer what it calls an Internet of Things starter kit that would let customers deploy dozens of different sensor applications. Read More Revisiting the shadow quality of APIs I had the happy fortune to be at StarWEST a number of weeks ago, which together with StarEAST is one of the major quality and testing conferences to take place in the U.S. every year. As always, it was a fantastic opportunity to take the pulse of the testing community – beginners, practitioners and gurus gathering to share their new and old knowledge about testing methods, technologies and challenges.... Read More Restricted by LinkedIn for doing what they wanted me to do Read More And open letter on user account security to Condé Nast, AT&T, and ... well, lotsa of companies Dear Condé Nast and AT&T and ... well, it's a long list of misguided Web sites and services ... Read More
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