5G Wireless: Reality looks to catch up with hype

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The illustrious history of Cisco's Catalyst LAN switches Predictions gone wrong: Losing bets analysts made for 2013 Network World Daily News AM January 02, 2014 Share this email 5G Wireless: Reality looks to catch up with hype Don't feel bad if you don't really know anything about 5G wireless networking – because, by most standards, it doesn't actually exist yet. The cross-pollination of codified specifications, new products, and technological innovation required hasn't yet brought 5G to fruition. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. The illustrious history of Cisco's Catalyst LAN switches 2. Predictions gone wrong: Losing bets analysts made for 2013 3. SDN in 2014: More of everything 4. INSIDER Big data's biggest challenges 5. Skype's social media accounts targeted by hacker group 6. Hackers claim to expose phone information of 4.6 million Snapchat users 7. Police make murder arrest after cellphone theft goes wrong 8. IT pro's revitalization guide 2014 9. 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READ MORE Skype's social media accounts targeted by hacker group Skype said its social media properties were targeted, with a group styling itself as the Syrian Electronic Army appearing to claim credit for the hacks. READ MORE Hackers claim to expose phone information of 4.6 million Snapchat users Phone numbers paired with user names of over 4.6 million alleged Snapchat users were posted online by hackers, a few days after a security research group claimed a vulnerability in the social sharing service that could allow attackers to match phone numbers to Snapchat accounts. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: AT&T Four Keys to Choosing a Holistic Mobile Management Solution Getting peak value from mobile technologies takes a wide range of applications and services. Here are four capabilities every end-to-end mobile management solution must include. 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READ MORE 2013 tech news quiz Snowden, Ballmer, 3D handguns, iPhone 5s – this year had it all READ MORE Apple, Cisco, Dell unhappy over alleged NSA back doors in their gear Germany's Der Spiegel reports that the NSA has compromised a wide range of hardware for years to enable its spying READ MORE In exascale, Japan stands apart with firm delivery plan Japan intends to deliver an exascale supercomputer in six years. The firm completion date makes Japan novel among the nations in the race to build exascale systems. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Cisco and Netapp Total Economic Impact Of FlexPod Data Center Platform FlexPod is a data center platform jointly developed by NetApp and Cisco that delivers networking, computing and storage. This Forrester report offers key findings from Forrester's interviews with FlexPod customers. 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