Demand for Linux skills going up, up, up!

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How to protect Earth from asteroid destruction With $16B WhatsApp buy, Facebook aims for immediacy Network World Daily News AM February 20, 2014 Share this email Demand for Linux skills going up, up, up! Demand for people with Linux skills is increasing, a trend that appears to follow a shift in server sales. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. How to protect Earth from asteroid destruction 2. With $16B WhatsApp buy, Facebook aims for immediacy 3. How to save your email archive from a service provider 4. INSIDER Gigabit Wi-Fi Case Study: Erickson Living upgrades to 802.11ac 5. Microsoft delivers stopgap defense against active IE10 attacks 6. Asus, Linksys router exploits tell us home networking is the vulnerability story of 2014 7. California fights drought with big data, cloud computing 8. How white spaces wireless network works at West Virginia University 9. KPN strikes deal with Silent Circle to offer encrypted phone calls 10. 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Aren't sure? Well Facebook, craving more real-time usage of its service, hopes to change that. READ MORE How to save your email archive from a service provider READ MORE INSIDER Gigabit Wi-Fi Case Study: Erickson Living upgrades to 802.11ac Erickson Living, a company that manages 16 Continuing Care Retirement Communities in nine states, faces a unique challenge when it comes to installed a wireless network – each retirement community has common areas where residents share available bandwidth, but there are also individual residential units where end users have their personal phone and Internet connections. READ MORE RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CITE Conference + Expo Lead the consumerization culture shift Consumer technologies are changing business in fundamental ways. Learn how to lead the culture shift in your enterprise at the third annual Consumerization of IT in the Enterprise (CITE) April 27–29 in San Francisco. Learn more Microsoft delivers stopgap defense against active IE10 attacks Microsoft on Wednesday issued a stopgap defense that protects IE9 and IE10 against ongoing attacks until the company issues a patch, probably in three weeks. READ MORE Asus, Linksys router exploits tell us home networking is the vulnerability story of 2014 If you're using network-attached storage, video surveillance equipment, or remote router management software, beware of dodgy firmware--it's become ground zero for hacker exploits, as recent debacles withA Asus and Linksys routers emphatically illustrate. The message is clear: In 2014, vulnerable routers, NAS boxes, and other connected devices are leaving our home networks wide open to attack. READ MORE California fights drought with big data, cloud computing California is facing its worst drought in more than 100 years and with no end in sight. Conserving water has never been more important, and the problem this poses may offer Silicon Valley a new opportunity. READ MORE How white spaces wireless network works at West Virginia University Vacant TV spectrum extends, links WiFi hotspots READ MORE WHITE PAPER: IBM Introducing Social Business for the Mid-Market This report provides directional guidance for mid-market companies to appropriately use Social Business to achieve their goals. Learn More. KPN strikes deal with Silent Circle to offer encrypted phone calls Dutch telecom operator KPN has struck a deal with encrypted communications provider Silent Circle to start offering its Dutch, German and Belgian customers encrypted phone calls and text messages. READ MORE WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton was rejected from both Facebook and Twitter before WhatsApp took off Facebook today made waves when it announced a $16 billion deal to acquire the mobile messaging app WhatsApp. Yes, you read that correctly, that's billion with a capital 'B'. READ MORE First Ubuntu phones to launch in 2014 The first smartphones based on a mobile version of Canonical's Ubuntu Linux operating system will be launched this year, the company's CEO said Wednesday. READ MORE A FICO credit score, but for your cloud In the early-1980s Fair, Isaac and Co. created a universal metric named the FICO Credit Score that allowed lending agencies to judge the credit-worthiness of potential debtors. Rajiv Gupta, founder of cloud security startup SkyHigh Networks, says the cloud needs the same thing. And his company's Cloud Security Dashbaord aims to be just that. 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