Most notable deaths in tech & science, 2013 edition

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New modulation scheme said to be 'breakthrough' in network performance Fortinet sues Sophos over alleged employee poaching Network World Daily News AM December 18, 2013 Share this email Most notable deaths in tech & science, 2013 edition In memoriam: Computing pioneers with roots at Apple and IBM pass, as do brilliant young Internet innovators READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. New modulation scheme said to be 'breakthrough' in network performance 2. Fortinet sues Sophos over alleged employee poaching 3. Former Microsoft exec to head HealthCare.gov effort 4. Blue Coat acquires anti-malware firm Norman Shark 5. University of Florida gets 100Gbps link to Internet2, upgrades campus research net to 200Gbps 6. Most iPhone users have activation lock enabled, survey finds 7. INSIDER CIOs Should Learn the Two Metrics That Matter 8. AppOps could have broken a lot of Android apps 9. Year End 2013: Microsoft Review 10. 10 Cloud Computing Predictions for 2014 11. Mass surveillance prompts IETF work on SSL deployment guidelines 12. HP's Whitman gets one heck of a pay raise 13. 2013 tech news quiz RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Check Point Software Technologies Check Point 2013 Internet Security Report Based on research of nearly 900 companies, the Check Point 2013 Internet Security Report uncovers major security risks organizations are exposed to on a daily basis. Discover how often Bots endanger your enterprise. See how commonly-used Web applications can be high risk. Learn how easy it is to experience unintentional data loss. Read Full Report. New modulation scheme said to be 'breakthrough' in network performance A startup plans to demonstrate next month a new digital modulation scheme that promises to dramatically boost bandwidth, capacity, and range, with less power and less distortion, on both wireless and wired networks. READ MORE Fortinet sues Sophos over alleged employee poaching Fortinet, one of the biggest computer security vendors, is suing rival Sophos alleging it poached senior staff in breach of an agreement signed when a Fortinet executive jumped ship to Sophos earlier this year. READ MORE Former Microsoft exec to head HealthCare.gov effort Kurt DelBene, the retired president of Microsoft's Office Division, will take over the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' insurance shopping site, HealthCare.gov. READ MORE Blue Coat acquires anti-malware firm Norman Shark Blue Coat Systems today announced it has acquired anti-malware firm Norman Shark for an undisclosed price, in order to integrate its technologies, such as sandboxing, into other security products available through Blue Coat. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: AppNeta AppNeta Trace View - Free Trial Download Want to try AppNeta in your own application environment? Install in 5 minutes! Learn More University of Florida gets 100Gbps link to Internet2, upgrades campus research net to 200Gbps The University of Florida is just putting the wraps on a remarkable year of IT upgrades. The school, which has a 2,000-acre campus and more than 900 buildings, installed a new supercomputer in a new data center, installed a 100Gbps link to Inernet2, and upgraded its Campus Research Network from 20G to 200Gbps while adding support for Software Defined Networking (SDN). Network World Editor in Chief John Dix got the lowdown on all of the developments from Erik Deumens, director of research computing. READ MORE Most iPhone users have activation lock enabled, survey finds Four out of five iPhone users have enabled a feature that allows them to locate, lock and wipe their phones if they are lost or stolen, according to the results of a survey by the San Francisco district attorney's office. READ MORE INSIDER CIOs Should Learn the Two Metrics That Matter CIOs need to be prepared to explain how their expensive IT project will improve the numbers every CEO cares most about. READ MORE AppOps could have broken a lot of Android apps Was Google's recent rollback of its experimental code that allowed independent developer Sylvian Galand to build AppOps and give Android users greater personal privacy a violation of social principal? The post, Google Removes Vital Privacy Feature From Android, Claiming Its Release Was Accidental, by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) retracting the accolades it lauded on Google would lead... READ MORE WEBCAST: Egnyte Consider Hybrid Approach to File-Sharing Security. Scalability. Control. These are just some of the many benefits of enterprise cloud file-sharing that you'll discover in this KnowledgeVault, packed with short videos, white papers and demos. View Now! Year End 2013: Microsoft Review Year End 2013: Microsoft Review Microsoft struggled to stay relevant in the world of desktop and mobile computing, but its games division continued to achieve success. In this year in review we'll take a look at the Microsoft... From: Network World Videos Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 05:57 More in Science & Technology READ MORE 10 Cloud Computing Predictions for 2014 Cloud computing is increasingly becoming the rule and not the exception for application deployment. This will make 2014 an interesting and disruptive year for vendors, service providers and IT organizations grappling with this change. READ MORE Mass surveillance prompts IETF work on SSL deployment guidelines A newly created working group within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has set out to develop best practices for deploying SSL encryption for Internet communications. READ MORE HP's Whitman gets one heck of a pay raise After guiding Hewlett-Packard through one crisis after another, CEO Meg Whitman is now earning more than US$1 in annual salary. READ MORE 2013 tech news quiz Snowden, Ballmer, 3D handguns, iPhone 5s – this year had it all READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Fortinet High Performance Data Center Firewall Survey With Data Centers consolidating and virtualizing, the core infrastructure is upgrading to 10G, 40G and even 100G. The Firewall must keep pace with these changes otherwise it becomes a bottleneck. Does your Firewall have the horsepower to keep up? View now >> SLIDESHOWS Avaya builds massive Wi-Fi net for 2014 Winter Olympics BYOD for 30,000 people creates extraordinary demands on the network. JOIN THE NETWORK WORLD COMMUNITIES As network pros you understand that the value of connections increase as the number of connections increase, the so called network effect, and no where is this more evident than in professional relationships. 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