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	Google, Apple, Qualcomm shake up patent ranks IBM still dominates the patent ranks, but it's not tech's only prolific patent producer. Qualcomm, Google and Apple have been making strong gains in recent years. See how their patenting efforts compare to those of Microsoft, HP, Cisco and other tech stalwarts. Read More WEBCAST: 8x8, Inc Using Cloud Communications for a Competitive Advantage Watch this Frost & Sullivan webcast to learn why distributed organizations are rejecting the old model of premises-based communications solutions and have turned to cloud communications. Learn more >> In this Issue 30 years of Apple's Mac computer Remembering Quark and AppleTalk, Netware and Gopher Start-up debuts 'shape-shifting' technology to protect web servers Firewall start-up Aorato sniffs out Active Directory anomalies How the Mac made a hacker out of me Location-based services: Controversy at every level Globalstar offers pre-paid satellite telephony with new subscription HP sticks thumb in Microsoft's eye, discounts consumer Windows 7 PCs Two coders closely tied to Target-related malware, security firm says WHITE PAPER: Network Instruments Your Guide to Troubleshooting VoIP Real-time voice communications are sensitive to delay and variation in packet arrival times. This paper guides you through the essentials of VoIP troubleshooting, including common problems as well as the metrics you should employ to fix and prevent them. Learn More 30 years of Apple's Mac computer January 24, 2014 marks the 30th anniversary of the Mac. Largely introduced to the world via a Super Bowl commercial in 1984, the Mac fundamentally changed the way most people interacted with computers. Over the last three decades, the Mac has morphed and evolved into a dizzying array of form factors. Read More Remembering Quark and AppleTalk, Netware and Gopher The Apple Mac has played an important part of my professional journalism career for at least 20 of the years that I have been a writer. One Mac or another has been my main writing machine since 1990, and has been in daily use, traveling around the world several times and my more-or-less constant work companion. It is a tool not a religion, yet I have been quite fond of the various machines that I have used. Read More Start-up debuts 'shape-shifting' technology to protect web servers Backed by a lineup of elite investors, start-up Shape Security comes out of stealth mode today by announcing technology it calls Shapeshifter that is said to prevent cyber-criminals from successfully attacking and compromising websites. Read More WHITE PAPER: Limelight Networks Pitfalls To Avoid In Combining Acceleration Technologies This May 2013 Forrester Research, Inc. report looks at the impact of website performance on customer satisfaction and revenue, and why meeting high expectations is more complex than ever. Learn More Firewall start-up Aorato sniffs out Active Directory anomalies Start-up Aorato comes out of stealth mode today with what it calls a firewall designed to protect Microsoft Active Directory shops. Read More How the Mac made a hacker out of me As long as I can remember, I've had an interest in computer programming. I started tinkering as a kid back in the early 1980s with a TI-99-4A and Atari XL Series (remember those membrane keyboards?), Atari STs and Apple II's. Most of that was just goofy kid stuff, sorting baseball and hockey cards and stuff that was Star Trek related. Read More Location-based services: Controversy at every level Your smartphone can be a beacon telling the world where you are, with increasing precision. Is that good commerce or bad privacy, or maybe a bit of both? Read More WHITE PAPER: 8x8, Inc Hosted VoIP Phone Service for a Distributed Workforce Does your company have multiple locations? What about employees who work from home? If you have separate phone systems for those locations and workers, you could be wasting money and sacrificing employee productivity on a daily basis. See how your current phone systems may be holding you back. Learn more >> Globalstar offers pre-paid satellite telephony with new subscription Globalstar is hoping to open up the satellite telephony market to a wider audience with the introduction of its first pre-paid service. Read More HP sticks thumb in Microsoft's eye, discounts consumer Windows 7 PCs Hewlett-Packard today launched a new online promotion that discounts several consumer PCs by $150 when equipped with Windows 7, saying the four-year-old OS is "back by popular demand." Read More Two coders closely tied to Target-related malware, security firm says A Los Angeles security company has named a second individual living in Eastern Europe whom they suspect coded malicious software that was modified and used against Target. Read More
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