GOTO 50: 7 ways to celebrate BASIC’s golden anniversary

'Rogue' employees want IT to lighten up already Canonical bug report suggests audacious Ubuntu for Android project may be dead ITworld Today May 01, 2014 Share this email GOTO 50: 7 ways to celebrate BASIC's golden anniversary The language that helped make programming accessible to everyone is turning 50. Here are 7 ways to mark this historic occasion. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. 'Rogue' employees want IT to lighten up already 2. Canonical bug report suggests audacious Ubuntu for Android project may be dead 3. Containers bring a skinny new world of virtualization to Linux 4. How Adobe is moving on from Flash to embrace HTML5 5. Dark Wallet promises anonymity for bitcoin transactions 6. Worm-like Android malware spreads using text messages 7. Facebook woos developers with new tools for growth 8. BOOK GIVEAWAY: Penetration Testing: A Hands-On Introduction to Hacking Webcast: Polycom Beyond IM & Presence: When IT Gets it Right Steve Blood, Research Vice President at Gartner, Inc., discusses how Unified Communications (UC) helps employees collaborate in real time and facilitates better decisions, and Polycom CIO Rich Decker outlines the keys for IT teams to "get it right" from the get-go when it comes to Lync deployment. Learn more >> 'Rogue' employees want IT to lighten up already Give up on 'command and control,' learn to ride the BYOD wave. READ MORE Canonical bug report suggests audacious Ubuntu for Android project may be dead The audacious 'One device to rule them all' project may be headed for the bush leagues. READ MORE Containers bring a skinny new world of virtualization to Linux Containers, a different, lightweight take on virtualization, has finally gone mainstream with Linux Containers (LXC) and Docker -- and that spells big changes for server farms, data centers, and the cloud. READ MORE How Adobe is moving on from Flash to embrace HTML5 Adobe has a presence in several of the most important open source HTML5 mobile projects today. READ MORE White Paper: IBM Go from Analysis to Action on your Desktop Learn how IBM Cognos® Insight, a breakthrough personal analytics tool, enables business managers to improve performance within their functional areas. It describes the software's core features and benefits, provides examples of several typical business applications and explains how Cognos Insight provides a growth path to enterprise analytics. Learn more >> Dark Wallet promises anonymity for bitcoin transactions A group of coders has launched a Bitcoin wallet that will make it more difficult to trace transactions using the digital currency. READ MORE Worm-like Android malware spreads using text messages A piece of malware targeting Russian-speaking Android users abuses a person's contact list to try and infect other devices, according to security vendor Eset. READ MORE Facebook woos developers with new tools for growth Facebook, in a push to make its platform more useful for third-party developers, is launching tools to give their apps more exposure, including a mobile "like" button. READ MORE BOOK GIVEAWAY: Penetration Testing: A Hands-On Introduction to Hacking Five will win. Enter the drawing today! READ MORE White Paper: Riverbed Technology Case Study - MTC Australia In moving to a "cloud first" approach for their business-critical apps, they were able to remedy the increased network traffic with Riverbed solutions to ensure a positive user experience. View now>> SURVEY: Take ITworld's mobile survey and you might win an iPad mini Got 10 minutes? Tell us how you use your mobile device to view and share technology-related content and information. As our way of saying thank you, readers who participate will be entered in a drawing for a chance to win an iPad mini. Take the survey now! BOOK GIVEAWAY: Five will win. Enter the drawing today! Penetration Testing: A Hands-On Introduction to Hacking In "Penetration Testing," security researcher Georgia Weidman provides a survey of important skills that any aspiring pentester needs. DON'T MISS... 10 tech products that are built to last 16 terrible computer pranks that could get you fired Your new PC needs these 22 free programs   Pants on fire: 9 lies that programmers tell themselves History's 15 most popular computer scientists Follow ITworld Share this email You are currently subscribed to itworld_today as security.world@gmail.com. Unsubscribe from this newsletter | Manage your subscriptions | Subscribe | Privacy Policy Learn about INSIDER If you are interested in advertising in this newsletter, please contact: sean_weglage@itworld.com Copyright (C) 2014 ITworld, 492 Old Connecticut Path, Framingham, MA 01701 ** Please do not reply to this message. To contact someone directly, send an e-mail to online@itworld.com. **