Kill switches coming to iPhones & more in 2015

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Windows 8.1 tablets with 8-inch screens: Which one is right for you? Still deploying 11n Wi-Fi? You might want to think again Network World Daily News PM April 16, 2014 Share this email Kill switches coming to iPhones & more in 2015 Wireless carriers in the U.S., handset makers and the industry's lobbying group have made a significant concession on technology that could remotely disable stolen smartphones and tablets. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Windows 8.1 tablets with 8-inch screens: Which one is right for you? 2. Still deploying 11n Wi-Fi? You might want to think again 3. 10 Hot Hadoop Startups to Watch 4. Linksys WRT1900AC Wi-Fi router: Faster than anything we've tested 5. Can Heartbleed be used in DDoS attacks? 6. Docker becomes de facto Linux standard 7. Oracle identifies products affected by Heartbleed, but work remains on fixes 8. Microsoft slashes Windows XP custom support prices just days before axing public patches 9. How to get a job in manufacturing IT 10. Net neutrality ruling complicates US transition to IP networks 11. Tech shifts that shook up the status quo and left the experts behind WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Data Center Insight: 6 mistakes that have cost others Six Common and Costly Myths that surround Data Center transformation. Learn More>> Windows 8.1 tablets with 8-inch screens: Which one is right for you? Dell, Toshiba, Acer, Lenovo and ASUS battle it out for supremacy in the market for low-cost tablets pre-installed with Microsoft Office READ MORE Still deploying 11n Wi-Fi? You might want to think again In this Network World Digital Spotlight, "Harnessing Gigabit Wi-Fi," we do a deep dive on the latest Wi-Fi developments. READ MORE 10 Hot Hadoop Startups to Watch As data volumes grow, figuring out how to unlock value becomes vastly important. Hadoop enables the processing of large data sets in a distributed environment and has become almost synonymous with big data. Here are 10 startups with solutions for unlocking big data value. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Crittercism Top 10 Internet Applications Most Likely to be Mobilized Effective mobile application performance management optimizes application availability and response time, ensuring the best user experience. Learn the difference the right management tools make and why tools that monitor the network or focus only on performance at the device level are not enough. Read now! Linksys WRT1900AC Wi-Fi router: Faster than anything we've tested When Linksys first showed me a WRT1900AC prototype last year, I thought to myself, wow: I hope its performance lives up to its audacious looks. The good news is that it does--for the most part. In fact, it's the fastest router I've ever tested. The bad news is that its $280 MSRP marks it as the most expensive router I've ever tested (Linksys launched the router with a $250 sale price). READ MORE Can Heartbleed be used in DDoS attacks? With nearly every major threat to information security, it is not long before security experts ask the question, "Can the threat play a role in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks?" When it comes to Heartbleed, some people are screaming that the sky is falling, but it is more complicated than that. READ MORE Docker becomes de facto Linux standard Lots of news coming out of the Red Hat Summit this week. A lot of the buzz is around containerization in general and Docker in particular. Docker is set to ship with the latest version of RHEL (RHEL 7.0). Also Docker will integrate with Red Hat's Open Shift PaaS. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® IDC Analyst Connection - Converged Systems: Key Requirements The following questions were posed by HP to Jed Scaramella, research director for IDC's Enterprise Platforms and Datacenter Trends practice, on behalf of HP's customers. Learn More>> Oracle identifies products affected by Heartbleed, but work remains on fixes Oracle has issued a comprehensive list of its software that may or may not be affected by the OpenSSL (secure sockets layer) vulnerability known as Heartbleed, while warning that no fixes are yet available for some likely affected products. READ MORE Microsoft slashes Windows XP custom support prices just days before axing public patches Just days before Microsoft retired Windows XP from public support, the company drastically reduced the price of custom support agreements that give large companies and government agencies another year of XP patches, experts reported today. READ MORE How to get a job in manufacturing IT To excel in manufacturing, tech workers need to be one part tinkerer and one part visionary, with a bit of analytical acumen thrown in as well. 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