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Wednesday, August 01, 2012

Setting IT User Policies That Work

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Setting IT User Policies That Work
The wave of new age technologies that are invading the enterprise hasspurred the debate on who sets IT user policy and how organizations cancontrol it. Richard H. Thaler, a Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics, in his paper- "Test, Adapt, Learn: Developing Public Policy with Randomised Controlled Trials" cites two principles that help policymakers create good policies that work for normal people: Read More


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Mobile Video: Introducing the Final Frontier
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Optical Fiber Cabling for Data Communication
For this reason, Fluke Networks has created an enterprise-focused fiber troubleshooting guide to assist in ensuring: 1) proper assessment of cable installation quality, and 2) efficient troubleshooting to reduce the time spent identifying the root cause of a problem before taking corrective action to fix it. Learn More!

21 Awesome GPS and Location-Aware Apps for Android
Want basic driving directions? Help finding cheap gas? A cool way to create a digital scrapbook of your latest trip? Android has an app for that, and more Read More

Google cracks down on misleading, intrusive apps in Play store
Android apps that constantly advertise via the system notifications bar and others that provide what Google deems a "poor user experience" through intrusive or misleading marketing will be banned from the Play store, the company announced this week in an email to developers. Read More

'Anonymous' turns in hacker who targeted children's charity
A hacker who disabled the website of a New Zealand company dedicated to helping feed poor children could face legal consequences in his home country of Spain after his attack spurred a Facebook/Twitter posse and incurred the wrath of members of Anonymous, who he may have been trying to impress. Read More

FAQ: Trying Microsoft's new Outlook.com
Microsoft rebooted Hotmail as Outlook.com, serving notice that the former is headed toward retirement and that the latter is the new face of the company's 15-year-old online email effort. Read More


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The 2012 Accelerating the Cloud Challenge
The Cloud is not magic. Enterprises still need to ensure that Service Levels are met and key to this are their Application Delivery solutions. Their WAN Optimization Controllers (WOCs) and Application Delivery Solutions (ADCs) play a key role in making their SaaS implementations and their deployment to the Cloud a success. Learn more.

Rackspace, HP go all in with OpenStack
Rackspace and HP have each brought major portions of their cloud offerings based on the OpenStack code out of beta and into general availability today. Read More

In face of breaches, malware, unscrupulous users, US needs to update online privacy protection
The fast moving world of Internet time has left the federal government behind when it comes to protecting your private information. MORE: The weirdest, wackiest and coolest sci/tech stories of 2012 (so far!) Read More

9 ex-Googlers on the move
Former Google employees continue to make their mark on the tech world Read More

Outlook.com snares 1M sign-ups in first 6 hours
More than 1 million people registered with the new Outlook.com email service on opening day, Microsoft said. Read More


WHITE PAPER: F5

Application Delivery Optimization
Fueled by users who are hyper-sensitive to delays in application delivery, organizations are striving to improve performance by optimizing delivery. Learn how to achieve that goal without sacrificing the agility of modern data center architectures. Learn More!

Dual-Stack Will Increase Operating Expenses
As we start to plan for IPv6 and start to deploy it on our networks we should try to anticipate the operational costs related to running both IPv6 and IPv4. IPv6 provides more addresses and some minor opportunities for cost savings. IPv4 addresses are becoming scarce and IPv4 networks are becoming increasingly costly to maintain. The combination of these operating costs and the long-tail of IPv4... Read More

The Twitter Political Index could revolutionize election coverage, but with a bit of risk
Twitter today launched a new tool to help provide American voters and political figures information on public opinion surrounding electoral candidates that far exceeds that which is possible from traditional polls. It's called the Twitter Political Index, and, for better or worse, it leverages the microblogging site's estimated 400 million daily Tweets to gauge public opinion on the candidates for... Read More

Outlook.com Review: Microsoft turns mail into mini-Facebook
Now that I've had a day to dig into Outlook.com, Microsoft's updated email service that will retire and replace both Hotmail and Live Mail, it seems my initial assessment that Outlook.com will be similar to the basic Facebook service is more accurate than even I imagined. Read More

FAQ: Trying Microsoft's new Outlook.com
Microsoft rebooted Hotmail as Outlook.com, serving notice that the former is headed toward retirement and that the latter is the new face of the company's 15-year-old online email effort. Read More

Your Smartphone is a Spy for the Government
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