Best and worst celebrity tech moments of 2014

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	Best and worst celebrity tech moments of 2014 The year in good and bad celebrity tech moments got off to its usual screaming start at the International CES conference in Las Vegas and it hasn't let up. For better or worse, big names from movies, TV, sports and more are intertwined with the world of technology today. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Spirent Top 5 Reasons You Need Network Testing NOW The availability, security, and performance of applications and services on the network are among the most important aspects of an IT organization, and must be tested to ensure performance. Download this white paper to learn the top 5 reasons why you should test your network sooner rather than later. Learn More In this Issue Aereo court case: Consumer control over TV vs. broadcaster copyrights Risk and the Android Heartbleed vulnerability IT Departments Not Losing Ground to Managed Service Providers (Yet) Microsoft to close Nokia acquisition Friday 12 ethical dilemmas gnawing at developers today New products of the week 4.21.14 Most but not all sites have fixed Heartbleed flaw INSIDER 3D printing will transform these five industries Even the most secure cloud storage may not be so secure, study finds WHITE PAPER: RES Software   Automation for a Better Tomorrow Check out the five most common annoyances facing enterprise IT service desks today, and how automation can resolve all of them. Download the white paper Learn more Aereo court case: Consumer control over TV vs. broadcaster copyrights The ability of television viewers to control and watch programs may be at stake when the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments Tuesday in a copyright infringement case brought by TV networks against Aereo, a service that streams over-the-air television online. Read More   Risk and the Android Heartbleed vulnerability I haven't written about the Heartbleed vulnerability. Anything I had to say would have just added to the atmosphere of fear, uncertainty, and doubt, or might have caused a 15-year-old who has been coding since he was five to track me down through stackoverflow to reprimand me for some inexcusable oversight. Don't laugh, it happens. But now that the dust has settled, here are a few thoughts about... Read More   IT Departments Not Losing Ground to Managed Service Providers (Yet) Many business users say they're fed up with what they perceive as sluggish IT departments, but cringe at the thought of outsourcing to a managed services provider. However, the rise of BYOD, consumer tech and cloud computing may be clearing a path for change. Read More   Microsoft to close Nokia acquisition Friday Microsoft will be in the smartphone manufacturing business as of this Friday, the day it expects to close the acquisition of the Nokia Devices and Services business. Read More   12 ethical dilemmas gnawing at developers today The tech world has always been long on power and short on thinking about the ramifications of this power. If it can be built, there will always be someone who will build it without contemplating a safer, saner way of doing so, let alone whether the technology should even be built in the first place. The software gets written. Who cares where and how it's used? That's a task for somebody in some corner office. Read More   New products of the week 4.21.14 Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as Riverbed and MongoDB Read More   Most but not all sites have fixed Heartbleed flaw The world's top 1,000 websites have been patched to protect their servers against the "Heartbleed" exploit, but up to 2% of the top million were still vulnerable as of last week. Read More     INSIDER 3D printing will transform these five industries The 3D printing world is currently in limbo – the technology is developed enough to attract some attention in the real world, but not enough to bring about change on a substantial scale. New stories emerge everyday of 3D printing breakthroughs, be it through research or the development of actual products. Read More   Even the most secure cloud storage may not be so secure, study finds Some cloud storage providers who hope to be on the leading edge of cloud security adopt a "zero-knowledge" policy in which vendors say it is impossible for customer data to be snooped on. But a recent study by computer scientists at Johns Hopkins University is questioning just how secure those zero knowledge tactics are. Read More
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