Chambers tells Obama surveillance hurts tech sales

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Why the FCC's net neutrality proposal is fundamentally dishonest Google's YouTube division to buy Twitch.Tv for $1 billion Network World Daily News AM May 19, 2014 Share this email Chambers tells Obama surveillance hurts tech sales Cisco Systems' CEO John Chambers has written to U.S. President Barack Obama, asking for his intervention so that U.S. technology sales are not affected by a loss in trust as a result of reports of surveillance by the U.S. National Security Agency. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Why the FCC's net neutrality proposal is fundamentally dishonest 2. Google's YouTube division to buy Twitch.Tv for $1 billion 3. Rumors confirmed: AT&T plans to buy DirecTV 4. Why Adobe's Creative Cloud is a really, really bad idea for the sheeple 5. FlowHeater, cheap sophisticated file format conversions 6. Walt Mossberg: Apple executives have told that the second half of 2014 will have impressive new products 7. Cisco offers an ACI migration path 8. 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Hot on the heels of news that the rumored AT&T/DirecTV buyout is a-go for $50 billion, comes word of yet another acquisition from Google. READ MORE Rumors confirmed: AT&T plans to buy DirecTV AT&T plans to acquire DirecTV for about US$50 billion, it announced Sunday, laying to rest days of reports based on anonymous sources that such a deal was in the offing. READ MORE Why Adobe's Creative Cloud is a really, really bad idea for the sheeple READ MORE WEBCAST: Network Instruments 5 Best Practices for Optimizing UC Monitoring This webcast discusses five best practices on how to successfully optimize and manage UC, as well as how to gain clear picture of overall performance and quickly troubleshoot when the inevitable issues arise. Learn More FlowHeater, cheap sophisticated file format conversions READ MORE Walt Mossberg: Apple executives have told that the second half of 2014 will have impressive new products For a few months now, we've been hearing word from Tim Cook himself that we should expect not only new products across 2014, but new product categories to boot. It's now mid-May, WWDC is just a few weeks away, and it's largely been an uneventful 2014 for Apple outside of the company's propensity to sell boatloads of iPhones and generate insanely large profits. READ MORE Cisco offers an ACI migration path Cisco this week extended its Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) programmable networking product line with new switches, integration with UCS Director, and migration tools for existing Nexus infrastructure. READ MORE MIT's homemade robots compete in "final exam" MIT's homemade robots compete in "final exam" Mechanical engineering students at MIT created homemade robots to cap off a design an manufacturing course. Follow reporter Nick Barber on Twitter @nickjb. From: Network World Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 01:47 More in Science & Technology READ MORE WEBCAST: Brocade Communications IT Agility: How Do You Stack Up? Are you faced with increasing pressure to deploy technology faster? You're not alone. This year, over half of enterprises will be prioritizing building a private cloud, a concept introduced less than five years ago. View Now>> Can Microsoft's new efforts reverse Windows Phone's struggles? Two new reports put Windows Phone's market share at just 3% worldwide, which begs the question of how much more pain Microsoft can tolerate before it finally throws in the towel in favor of Android. I'm of the line of thought that it will never happen. New CEO Satya Nadella has proven remarkably pragmatic in his first three months on the job and is doing wonders to form partnerships, but this one,... READ MORE Russia 'detains' cigarette-smuggling drone Russian authorities say they have busted a drone-enabled cigarette-smuggling operation in that country's westernmost Kaliningrad region. While not unprecedented, this manner of criminal enterprise can only be expected to become more common. From an ITAR-TASS News Agency report: READ MORE Microsoft's money pit: Surface has lost $1.2B Microsoft has lost more than $1.2 billion so far on its Surface tablet business, an expensive experiment that makes tomorrow's revelations of new hardware an important milestone for the "devices" side of its corporate-refashioning strategy. 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