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	Steve Jobs: "I hereby resign as CEO of Apple" In a typically terse letter to the Apple board and the "Apple Community" late Wednesday, CEO Steve Jobs sent a shock wave through the computer industry: "I hereby resign as CEO of Apple." Read More WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc. Taming the Cloud This whitepaper explores the components of the cloud computing ecosystem, demonstrates how Akamai is delivering services for cloud optimization, and looks forward into the evolution of this dynamic and growing market. Read now In this Issue What do top CIOs make? MIT researchers craft defense against wireless man-in-middle attacks 'Operations guy' Tim Cook gets chance to shine at Apple Steve Jobs' resignation letter Steve Jobs at Apple: A timeline As Hurricane Irene nears, Americans turn to social networks Technology Review's annual 35 Innovators Under 35: Uncrashable software, secure cloud computing among areas of expertise Windows XP on TSA laptops? TSA Dinged in Wireless Cybersecurity Audit Twitter turns on SSL encryption for some users RIM starts trial of music service, launching later this year Unified communications: Speeding time to acceptance RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: WildPackets Network Visibility and Insight Delivered Isn't it time you saw what your network was doing before analyzing how it is doing it? WildPackets Compass, a free utility, pinpoints the network traffic that requires your attention. See how easy it is to take packet traces from any software, including Wireshark, and visualize exactly what is going on in the network before diving in deeper. Click to continue What do top CIOs make? CIOs and CTOs at major companies including GM, Boeing, Home Depot and FedEx took home multimillion-dollar pay packages in 2010. See what each of these senior IT leaders' pay packages is worth, once the salaries, bonuses, stock options and perks are tallied. Read More MIT researchers craft defense against wireless man-in-middle attacks A new technique crafted by MIT researches can detect the tampering that's essential to man-in-the-middle attacks in wireless networks. Read More 'Operations guy' Tim Cook gets chance to shine at Apple With the resignation of Steve Jobs as CEO on Wednesday, Tim Cook, long seen as "the operations guy" at Apple, must prove he is capable of taking full charge of the company. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Application Delivery 2.0 Handbook This comprehensive handbook offers guidance on ensuring application delivery with a systematic approach. Read More Steve Jobs' resignation letter Apple's board of directors shocked the world today when it announced that Steve Jobs was handing over the CEO reigns to Tim Cook, effectively immediately. Jobs will stay on as Apple's chairman. Here are the most important bits from the press release, issued by Apple late Wednesday. Read More Steve Jobs at Apple: A timeline Steve Jobs stepped down as Apple's CEO on Wednesday and Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook was named as his replacement. Jobs will remain with the company as chairman of the board. Read More As Hurricane Irene nears, Americans turn to social networks After an earthquake rattled the East Coast and now a hurricane is roaring toward land, it's becoming increasingly clear that social networks are a key part of our disaster response. Read More WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc. Akamai Cloud Optimization for Amazon EC2™ The emergence of public cloud platforms and services has IT organizations thinking about which applications they want to keep in-house and which they can build within the cloud. Read more Technology Review's annual 35 Innovators Under 35: Uncrashable software, secure cloud computing among areas of expertise MIT's always interesting Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35 list is out, and several innovators in the networking and computing field made the cut (in addition to others in fields such as biomedicine and energy). Read More Windows XP on TSA laptops? TSA Dinged in Wireless Cybersecurity Audit We've questioned whether or not IT departments are too slow to patch Windows, and then took a survey that basically told us what we know, that patching Windows is a necessary evil and a huge time sink for IT. Well it must be a royal pain for TSA IT as well. Read More Twitter turns on SSL encryption for some users Twitter is slowly turning on automatic encryption on its website, a move following other major providers of web-based services to thwart account hijacking over wireless networks. Read More RIM starts trial of music service, launching later this year Research In Motion is testing a cloud-based music service around its BlackBerry Messenger, that it plans to offer commercially later this year. Read More Unified communications: Speeding time to acceptance Unified communications (UC) requires many components, protocols, back-end processes and pieces of communication equipment to work together seamlessly. But users don't care about the complexities involved. If they experience poor voice quality, frozen screens or inconsistent performance, they won't use any solution, no matter how cutting-edge. Read More
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