BREAKING: Cisco makes $1B cloud services bet

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20 tortures developers love to hate Quitting time: How to make a graceful exit Network World Daily News AM March 24, 2014 Share this email Cisco to launch $1B cloud service: report Cisco this morning will announce a new $1 billion foray into cloud computing called Cisco Cloud Services, according to the Wall Street Journal. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. 20 tortures developers love to hate 2. INSIDER Quitting time: How to make a graceful exit 3. NSA hacked into servers at Huawei headquarters, reports say 4. 10 Innovation tips for enterprise IT from the land of startups 5. AirMagnet breaks new ground in wireless spectrum analysis 6. Encrypted email service Virtru adds Office 365 compatibility 7. Newest bug bounty touts $10K rewards, appeals for help in finding Flash flaws 8. Google Doodle. Agnes Martin. 9. Cisco CTO Warrior joins Box board 10. Pressure on President Obama to ditch BlackBerry: He's got a high school graduation speech coming up 11. 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Spectral analysis, a longstanding fixture in electronics and manufacturing test, and, more recently as a valuable tool for understanding coverage, interference, and other elements of Wi-Fi, is the art and science of extracting meaning and insight from wireless systems at Layer 1 -- radio waves. READ MORE Encrypted email service Virtru adds Office 365 compatibility Virtru has added Microsoft's Office 365 and Outlook Desktop services to its list of compatible email platforms for its encryption product. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Plantronics Unleash your UC Potential By Putting Users First What's holding back Unified Communications (UC) adoption? Too often, today's solutions are simply too hard to use. Now, survey results show high-quality audio and a simple and intuitive user experience can turbo-charge acceptance. Read this exclusive report from Plantronics and IDG to learn how you can start making the most of UC. Read now! Newest bug bounty touts $10K rewards, appeals for help in finding Flash flaws A new entry in the cash-for-bugs business, the Internet Bug Bounty, recently paid out its first $10,000 rewards. READ MORE Google Doodle. Agnes Martin. Doodle. Who was Agnes Martin? Painter. Minimalist. Wikipedia page. More in Washington Post. READ MORE Cisco CTO Warrior joins Box board Box, a cloud-based storage company that's expected to soon go public, named Cisco CTO and Strategy Officer Padmasree Warrior to its board. Box said Warrior's experience in enterprise technology and global strategy will help Box manage growth and "realize its mission." READ MORE Pressure on President Obama to ditch BlackBerry: He's got a high school graduation speech coming up President Barack Obama, famously a BlackBerry holdout whether he likes it or not, might well be feeling even more pressure to switch to a different smartphone these days. 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