Microsoft may boot Gates as chairman, replace Ballmer with Nadella as CEO

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10 apps you’ll need to survive Super Bowl Sunday Obama selects cryptologist to head US NSA Network World Daily News AM January 31, 2014 Share this email Microsoft may boot Gates as chairman, replace Ballmer with Nadella as CEO Nadella oversees cloud and server businesses at Microsoft now READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. 10 apps you’ll need to survive Super Bowl Sunday 2. Obama selects cryptologist to head US NSA 3. Feds grab 163 web sites, snatch $21.6 million in NFL counterfeit gear strike 4. Ex-network engineer faces prison after admitting he sabotaged employer's system 5. Report has IBM looking to exit SDNs 6. Tech ad watch: Toshiba's 'testing' spots fall flat 7. Groundhog day technology style 8. Facebook's Paper app coming to iPhones only, Feb. 3 9. SDN thinking lags behind technology, VMware's Casado says 10. Office 365 turns one, but success is tough to tally 11. Startup Altiscale offers Hadoop hosted service 12. Tip of the Hat: Will smartphone failure slow Google's 'Internet of Things' plans? 13. Payments made via mobile devices surge to about 20% of all transactions, processor says 14. FIRST LOOK: New Cisco Nexus switches WHITE PAPER: IBM Understanding the Complexity of B2B Integration IBM commissioned research by Aberdeen group that recommends the steps that mid-market organizations need to take to become best-in-class in B2B collaboration and integration. Read Now 10 apps you’ll need to survive Super Bowl Sunday Whether you're trying to get into the sport or getting dragged unwillingly to a party by friends and loved ones, here's some guidance on what apps can help non-football fans get through Super Bowl XLVIII READ MORE Obama selects cryptologist to head US NSA U.S. President Barack Obama has nominated an expert cryptologist to head the National Security Agency at a time when the agency is under pressure to reform its surveillance. READ MORE Feds grab 163 web sites, snatch $21.6 million in NFL counterfeit gear strike As they have for the past few years the US Customs department teamed with the National Football League to cut into the lucrative counterfeit sports gear market. In what the feds called “Operation Team Player,” special agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and officers from Customs and Border Protection worked with the National Football League (NFL) and other sports leagues along with law enforcement agencies to identify illegal shipments imported into the U.S., as well as stores and vendors selling counterfeit trademarked items. READ MORE Ex-network engineer faces prison after admitting he sabotaged employer's system A former network engineer at a West Virginia oil and gas company could face up to 10 years in federal prison after pleading guilty this week to sabotaging the company's systems so badly that its operations were affected for a month. READ MORE RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CITE Conference + Expo Trending now: Consumerization of enterprise IT You’ve heard about consumerization...but how can you use it to give your organization a competitive edge? Find out at the third annual Consumerization of IT in the Enterprise (CITE) April 27–29 in San Francisco. Learn how consumer-driven technology can transform your business, your workplace, and your customer relationships. Learn more Report has IBM looking to exit SDNs IBM is reportedly looking to sell its software defined networking business for $1 billion. READ MORE Tech ad watch: Toshiba's 'testing' spots fall flat There's a fine art to the kind of slightly surreal, relentlessly tongue-in-cheek school of humor that seems to appeal to hipster types from a few years ago – think movies like Napoleon Dynamite or comedians like Demetri Martin. Those two things were funny, but they also spawned endless numbers of off-putting, obnoxious imitations, particularly in the advertising industry. READ MORE Groundhog day technology style What is the equivalent in technology to Punxsutawney Phil seeing his shadow? READ MORE Facebook's Paper app coming to iPhones only, Feb. 3 Facebook on Thursday announced a new smartphone app called Paper that aims to deliver status updates, photos and news in a full screen, slick and fluid interface. Follow reporter Nick Barber on Twitter @nickjb. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: ExaGrid How Data Deduplication Impacts Recovery Data deduplication has clear benefits when it comes to efficiently retaining backup data on disk and replicating data offsite for disaster recovery – you save both disk space and bandwidth by employing deduplication. Learn More SDN thinking lags behind technology, VMware's Casado says The last legacy systems to make the shift to software-defined networking may be network engineers' minds, but even those are changing. READ MORE Office 365 turns one, but success is tough to tally A year after the launch of Microsoft's ambitious Office 365, it's almost impossible for outsiders to get a grip on how the software-by-subscription program has done, analysts admitted today. READ MORE Startup Altiscale offers Hadoop hosted service Organizations that want to run Apache Hadoop to analyze their big data without setting up a computer cluster can now procure the data processing framework as a service from a startup co-founded by the former CTO of Yahoo. READ MORE Tip of the Hat: Will smartphone failure slow Google's 'Internet of Things' plans? Google is moving aggressively -- and paying billions of dollars -- on the technology and talent it needs to create successful smart home and robotics businesses even as it acknowledges its failure to run a strong smartphone business. READ MORE Payments made via mobile devices surge to about 20% of all transactions, processor says Payments made with mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets rose 55% over last year, reaching a total of 19.5% of all transactions processed worldwide in December by Amsterdam’s Adyen. READ MORE FIRST LOOK: New Cisco Nexus switches Cisco extends its Nexus data center switching line READ MORE WEBCAST: IBM Unleash Your Data With SDS And IBM Storwize V5000 In this webcast IBM examines software defined storage and how IBM Storwize V5000, the newest member of the IBM Storwize family, delivers virtualized, flexible, easy-to-use storage that enables midsized organizations to gain business advantage from the flood of new data while staying within their budgets. 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