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	Apple Pay vs. CurrentC: Which will retailers choose? Expensive for retailers, Apple Pay, like credit cards, offers little more than customer convenience. Read More WEBCAST: Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise University Surpasses Students' Digital Expectations The explosion of mobile device use is testing the limits of legacy networks everywhere. In this webcast you will learn how Abilene Christian University meets the mobile access demands of 4500 University students, and 250,000 connections per day. Learn More In this Issue What it's like living on a Chromebook, Part 1 Tim Cook: 'I'm proud to be gay' iPhone, Android users unite to boycott anti-Apple Pay retailers Why HP is laughing at Amazon's cloud Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst on the impact of cloud and mobile Nest to build out IoT with acquisition of Revolv's home hub engineering team Stealthy malware uses Gmail drafts as command and control to steal data How Voxis makes stolen credit cards more valuable Lowe's ranked the best, Home Depot the worst in SECTF contest Stealing and forwarding nude photos from females' phones is a 'game,' cop claims An open letter to tech billionaires: Follow Gates, Zuckerberg's lead on Ebola Competition is holding Apple Pay, mobile payments back Why .com is still the domain of choice for businesses Gigamon rolls out active visibility, stays ahead of the commodity curve WHITE PAPER: Aerohive The Network Impact of 802.11ac This paper discuss two approaches for efficient WLAN design. Both let you integrate 802.11ac into your WLAN and help lay the foundation for future, high-speed technologies. View Now>> What it's like living on a Chromebook, Part 1 I did all my work and personal computing on a Chromebook for five days. Here's what I've found so far. Read More Tim Cook: 'I'm proud to be gay' That Apple CEO Tim Cook is gay couldn't even be call called an open secret because it has been so widely understood and on several occasions reported. Yet Cook himself had never publicly acknowledged his sexual orientation. This week that changed. Read More iPhone, Android users unite to boycott anti-Apple Pay retailers By rejecting NFC for mobile payments, CVS and RiteAid have given iOS and Android users a rare chance to agree on something. Read More Why HP is laughing at Amazon's cloud Amazon is a cloud leader, but HP says it's got one big advantage over AWS Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive WLAN Buyer's Guide It is crucial to thoroughly understand the systems management capabilities of any WLAN being considered, since this will be the largest ongoing expense of the overall deployment. Learn how to evaluate properly by reading Aerohive's WLAN Definitive Guide. View Now>> Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst on the impact of cloud and mobile Where the cloud is winning, and where it isn't. Plus, how mobile drives infrastructure demand. Read More Nest to build out IoT with acquisition of Revolv's home hub engineering team The next step for the IoT in the home is enabling the devices to communicate with each other. Read More Stealthy malware uses Gmail drafts as command and control to steal data After a PC is infected in a targeted attack, stealthy malware uses Gmail drafts and 'invisible' Internet Explorer windows to steal data. Read More How Voxis makes stolen credit cards more valuable With a bountiful harvest of credit card data, cybercriminals built Voxis to increase the speed and efficiency of automated credit card fraud Read More WHITE PAPER: NetApp Hybrid Clouds: Deriving the Biggest Business Impact According to a global base of respondents to a 2014 Gigaom research study,1 35 percent cited innovation or competitive advantage as a driver for adopting cloud computing, and 45 percent either want to or already run some applications for their companies in the cloud. View now>> Lowe's ranked the best, Home Depot the worst in SECTF contest The results are out from the fifth annual Social-Engineer Capture the Flag (SECTF) contest, which was held during Def Con 22. This year, social engineers worked in tag teams to trick companies into giving up "flags," or key pieces of information that could be used to penetrate the target company. Unlike bad guys in real life, the contestants did not victimize any companies. Read More Stealing and forwarding nude photos from females' phones is a 'game,' cop claims Creepy cops allegedly have been partaking in sleazy games that involve 'stealing' nude or explicit photos from female DUI suspects' phones and then forwarding the photos in texts to other officers. Read More An open letter to tech billionaires: Follow Gates, Zuckerberg's lead on Ebola Paul Allen, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg have pledged $175 million to help fight Ebola. Where are the rest of the tech billionaires? Read More Competition is holding Apple Pay, mobile payments back As two big drugstore chains decline to support Apple Pay, something is going to have to change for mobile payments to succeed. Read More Why .com is still the domain of choice for businesses Even with so many new options for top-level domains available these days, nothing beats .com for name recognition. Read More Gigamon rolls out active visibility, stays ahead of the commodity curve Is there a market for dedicated visibility fabric infrastructure, or can repurposed Ethernet switches SDN controllers provide "good enough" functionality? Read More
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