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DARPA wants to scrub scourge of counterfeit computer gear Investor Icahn blasts eBay board, calls for company to spin off PayPal Network World Daily News PM February 24, 2014 Share this email iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending Feb. 21 Sapphires are the iOSphere's new best friend when it comes to iPhone 6. It used to be quad-core processors and Liquidmetal bodies. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. DARPA wants to scrub scourge of counterfeit computer gear 2. Investor Icahn blasts eBay board, calls for company to spin off PayPal 3. IBM buys NoSQL cloud provider Cloudant 4. 6 lessons learned about the scariest security threats 5. Google yanks option to restore Chrome's old-style new tab page, riles users all over again 6. Qualcomm and Cisco join forces to improve wireless coverage at the office 7. Geek-themed Meme of the Week: Task Manager Edition 8. Geek-themed Meme of the Week Archive 9. Verizon: Heavy Web users should pay more 10. Google phone project could transform smartphones 11. Facebook advised to give WhatsApp a security review WEBCAST: SAP SAP IT Transformation Forum On March 6, join us in an exclusive live event featuring Nolan Bushnell, a technology pioneer, entrepreneur, and scientist who’s often cited as the father of the video game industry. This event will feature topics on laying the foundations for mobile, Big Data, and cloud applications that business teams require to stay competitive. Learn more DARPA wants to scrub scourge of counterfeit computer gear Few things can mess up a highly technical system and threaten lives like a counterfeit electronic component, yet the use of such bogus gear is said to be widespread. A new Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program will target these phony products and develop a tool to "verify, without disrupting or harming the system, the trustworthiness of a protected electronic component." READ MORE Investor Icahn blasts eBay board, calls for company to spin off PayPal Investor Carl Icahn has ripped into the eBay board of directors and called for the company to spin off its PayPal unit in a colorful letter to eBay stockholders released Monday. READ MORE IBM buys NoSQL cloud provider Cloudant Adding more muscle to its cloud operations portfolio, IBM is acquiring hosted NoSQL database provider Cloudant. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Dell Software NSA Series Data Sheet Learn how your organization can be both secure and productive without compromising network performance. Dell’s SonicWALL™ NSA Series next-generation firewalls utilize the latest multi-core hardware design and Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection® (RFDPI) technology, to protect your network from internal and external attacks. Read now! 6 lessons learned about the scariest security threats Advanced persistent threats have garnered a lot of attention of late, deservedly so. APTs are arguably the most dangerous security concern for business organizations today, given their targeted nature. READ MORE Google yanks option to restore Chrome's old-style new tab page, riles users all over again Google has removed the option that let Chrome users restore an older version of the new tab page, closing that loophole and showing the oft-criticized scheme to everyone. READ MORE Qualcomm and Cisco join forces to improve wireless coverage at the office Qualcomm and Cisco Systems have started developing small cells customized for enterprises, which will be able to use the products to improve indoor wireless network coverage for their employees. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: IBM The Future of email and application is social This white paper examines the state of collaboration in today's enterprise and provides an IBM point of view on how collaboration will evolve, along with how Notes and Domino software will fit into the new collaboration equation. View Now>> Geek-themed Meme of the Week: Task Manager Edition No. 33 in our Geek-Themed Meme of the Week series comes via a Reddit user who laments, "I really need a new computer." Want more? Check out the "Geek-themed Meme of the Week Archive": READ MORE Geek-themed Meme of the Week Archive They are inescapable on the Internet. Most are awful. A few are not, so we have started publishing a selection of memes that amuse me. One every week. Here’s the archive READ MORE Verizon: Heavy Web users should pay more Heavy broadband users should help shoulder the cost of their traffic, but Verizon Communications does not give preferential treatment to some Web traffic, the company's CEO said Monday. READ MORE Google phone project could transform smartphones A slew of cool new smartphones are expected to debut at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week. But Google has already unveiled what is almost certainly the most interesting phone of the year. READ MORE Facebook advised to give WhatsApp a security review WhatsApp, the mobile messaging service Facebook bought for $19 billion, has several security weaknesses that experts say are worth addressing. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Dell Software SuperMassive Series data sheet Learn how to protect against today’s emerging threats in this SuperMassive NGFW datasheet. Read now! SLIDESHOWS Free tools for Windows Server admins There are endless software tools and utilities out there to help you in managing your network. Here are some of the best free ones. 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. Join Network World’s LinkedIn and Facebook communities to share ideas, post questions, see what your peers are working on and scout out job applicants (or maybe find your next opportunity). 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