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Cisco not looking to kill Microsoft/Skype deal, says Chambers

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Cisco not looking to kill Microsoft/Skype deal, says Chambers

Cisco doesn't want to kill Microsoft's marriage to Skype -- it just wants a dowry.

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1. Your Wi-Fi speed stinks. Here are 10 things you can do about it.

2. WLAN revenues dip as buyers wait for 11ac products

3. Nothing says narcissist like wearing Google Glass on a date

4. FBI: Cyber criminals hitting photo-sharing apps to spread malware, access information

5. Cisco leading 100G Ethernet

6. PayPal's $100,000 Battle Hack competition wants cool social apps

7. Largest ever DDoS attack directed at financial firm, Prolexic reports

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Your Wi-Fi speed stinks. Here are 10 things you can do about it.

Is your 802.11n router not keeping up with your 100Mbps downpipe, dropping HD video streams and copying files at mindboggingly slow speeds? Help is here! READ MORE

WLAN revenues dip as buyers wait for 11ac products

Revenues for wireless LAN products dropped 7% in Q1 2013 compared to the previous quarter. The drop in part is due to buyers delaying purchases as they wait for new WLAN products based on the so-called "Gigabit Wi-Fi" standard, IEEE 802.11ac, according to Infonetics Research. READ MORE

Nothing says narcissist like wearing Google Glass on a date

Rosa Golijan, writing on the Your Gadgets blog at Today.com, poses this question in a headline: "Will Google Glass destroy your love life?" She means can you wear Google Glass on a first date. The obvious answer, of course, is yes, yes you can ... as long as you're not interested in there being a second date. READ MORE

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FBI: Cyber criminals hitting photo-sharing apps to spread malware, access information

The FBI today issued a warning that online criminals are using online photo-sharing programs like Instagram to initiate scams and dump malware on victims' computers. The FBI said offenders typically advertise vehicles online but will not provide pictures in the advertisement, rather they will send photos on request. Sometimes the photo is a single file sent as an e-mail attachment, and sometimes the... READ MORE

Cisco leading 100G Ethernet

The worldwide Ethernet switch market was $4.7 billion in the first quarter of 2013, down 8% from the fourth quarter of 2012 but up 1% annually, according to Infonetics Research. The first quarter is seasonally soft but the market has grown over the past three quarters despite continuing weakness in Europe and the U.S. federal government vertical, the firm notes. READ MORE

PayPal's $100,000 Battle Hack competition wants cool social apps

PayPal this week kicked off a global software-coding competition called Battle Hack, challenging software developers to devise on their own a socially useful application that makes use of PayPal payment processing. The grand prize: $100,000. READ MORE

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Largest ever DDoS attack directed at financial firm, Prolexic reports

DDoS attackers attempted to bring down an unnamed financial services firm earlier this week using one of the largest traffic bombardments ever recorded, mitigation firm Prolexic has reported. READ MORE

Security analytics will be the next big thing in IT security

Most enterprises have enough security technology in place to protect their businesses. They also have plenty of data from SIEMS and logs and other devices that tell them what's going on in their environments. What they need now is an automated method to use the vast amounts of event data. READ MORE

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