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	Nadella regime board shuffle continues at Microsoft Microsoft's board of directors continued to morph yesterday as it turned over two members, the latest move in the biggest shuffling of the board since the company went public nearly three decades ago. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Software Future-proof your mobility strategy with Dell EMM Looking for ongoing ways to securely connect your mobile team to the resources they need today and in the future? Read this new white paper to learn how Dell Enterprise Mobility Management can help your IT team adapt as devices, operating systems and work habits constantly evolve. Learn more In this Issue Browser comparison: How the five leaders stack up in speed, ease of use and more Top IT vendors reveal their IoT strategies Reports of another wave of layoffs rekindle bad press for Microsoft Startup backs services with elasticity of AWS, Azure clouds to outlast DDoS attacks The curious histories of 10 common computer messages Zero-day opens the way to hack back against fake Microsoft tech support scammers Leaks show Windows 9 is looking good Jive adds Office 365 connectors for its enterprise social suite Microsoft urges African authorities to combat counterfeit phone imports WHITE PAPER: Binary Tree Merger Integration: Diverse Organizations Collaborate as One Corporate email and related applications are often overlooked during an impending integration of dissimilar environments, or a separation into multiple ones. Several key factors enable an organization to collaborate as one team, quickly and robustly, while maintaining user productivity. Learn More Browser comparison: How the five leaders stack up in speed, ease of use and more The best browser for your desktop could be one you're not using. Whether Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, or Safari is your current choice, our tests found distinct differences in speed and ease of use. We also compared how each browser uses system resources, a near-invisible trait that could be discreetly bogging down your PC. Read More Top IT vendors reveal their IoT strategies Cisco, IBM, HP, Intel, Microsoft argue that the Internet of Things is mainstream today. Read More Reports of another wave of layoffs rekindle bad press for Microsoft Microsoft's massive staff reduction, which shocked many when it was announced in July, is back in the spotlight with a pair of reports that the ax will come down on another group of employees Thursday. It would be the second wave of job cuts in the plan to ultimately eliminate 18,000 positions, or 14 percent of the company's staff, by the end of its fiscal year on June 30, 2015. Read More WHITE PAPER: Netscout Systems Inc. The Role Network Visibility Plays in Application Delivery In this report, EMA examines the value of a network-based application-aware performance management strategy that provides depth and top-down troubleshooting, as well as business-relevant, real-time insights for converged operations monitoring and support. Learn More Startup backs services with elasticity of AWS, Azure clouds to outlast DDoS attacks Security services startup Sentrix mirrors customer Web sites in Amazon Web Services and Azure clouds in order to dynamically expand site resources during distributed denial of service attacks and keep the sites running until attackers exhaust their resources, give up or move on to easier targets. Read More The curious histories of 10 common computer messages Recently we learned that former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was the author of one of Windows' more notorious blue screen messages. It's one of a number of messages that our computers communicate to us so often that they earn permanent spots in our collective consciousness. Read More Zero-day opens the way to hack back against fake Microsoft tech support scammers While most stories about trolling scammers are amusing, it's considerably less so when a creep scams your grandparents and you are their 24/7 free tech support who mops up the mess on their PC. That is exactly what happened to Matt Weeks, aka scriptjunkie, who then developed a zero-day exploit to counter-exploit the scammers. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Defend Web Properties with Citrix NetScaler Today, defending your organization's web properties means more than just protecting a handful of enterprise web applications from advanced malware. Learn more on the complexity and challenges of defending against today's modern threats and discover how Citrix NetScaler application delivery controller (ADC) is an ideal defense solution. Learn more Leaks show Windows 9 is looking good Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has repeatedly said the company wants to empower people so they can do more with their scarce commodity of time. During the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce annual luncheon, Nadella reiterated that Microsoft wants "to enable every individual and every organization to get more out of every moment of their life." Read More Jive adds Office 365 connectors for its enterprise social suite Jive has built links between its enterprise social networking (ESN) suite and Microsoft's Office 365 to let users leverage Jive collaboration features with the cloud versions of Outlook, Office, SharePoint and OneDrive for Business. Read More Microsoft urges African authorities to combat counterfeit phone imports Fake handsets have a significant impact on legitimate manufacturers, official says. Read More
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