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Olympic gold: 15 free iOS and Android apps
Watch live, keep up with the athletes, test your knowledge of the games and more Read More


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5 tips for making your cloud SLA air-tight
It's one of the most important documents you sign when starting a cloud deployment with a public vendor: your service-level agreement (SLA). But a leading tech lawyer says customers can get burnt by their provider if they're not careful. Read More

Card game turns you into White Hat hacker
What's not to like about a card game that tells you right up front it's not educational? Although the new Control-Alt-Hack card game from a team of University of Washington computer scientists does expose you to enough computer security concepts that you probably will pick up a few learnings along the way, and the game makers say it could be used in computer science classes to introduce students to... Read More

Nicira: A classic Silicon Valley story, complete with big payday
VMware's decision to buy the network virtualization company Nicira will likely be cited as a starring example of why Silicon Valley remains the world's engine of innovation. Read More


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Malware defense is a large-scale data analytics problem. If your detection technologies aren't designed to work together to rapidly process and correlate large amounts data, you'll never gain the visibility and control you need to eradicate malicious software. Traditional 'stack-based' frameworks don't work. Learn More

4 Reasons Why IT Matters More Than Ever
The argument that IT no longer matters has resurfaced. In this age of consumerization, BYOD and the cloud, IT departments are, in fact, vital to any business, able to create value and sort the wheat from the chaff as stakeholders eye new investments or money-saving ideas. Read More

Google establishes partner program for cloud services
Following the best marketing practices of traditional IT firms, Google has launched a partner program to help third-party vendors use and sell Google cloud services. Read More

3 ways to add broadband to your mobile devices
Smartphone users have gotten used to having 3G/4G connectivity whenever they're away from a Wi-Fi network. However, if you're using a tablet or a laptop, that's often a different story. Read More


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Tatu Ylonen, father of SSH, says security is 'getting worse'
Tatu Ylonen has garnered fame in technology circles as the inventor of Secure Shell (SSH), the widely used protocol to protect data communications. The CEO of SSH Communications Security -- whose crypto-based technology invented in 1995 continues to be used in hundreds of millions of computers, routers and servers -- recently spoke with Network World on a variety of security topics. (At the Black Hat Conference this week, his company is also announcing CryptoAuditor.) Read More

5 Things OS X Mountain Lion Can Teach Windows 8
Apple's OS X Mountain Lion will launch Wednesday, so it's a good time for Windows users to peer across the border at what features in Mountain Lion might prove useful. Read More

Microsoft beefs up anti-exploit tool with tech from $250K contest finalist
Microsoft today launched a security toolkit preview that includes anti-exploit technologies created by one of the three finalists in the company's $250,000 BlueHat Prize contest. Read More



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