| Network World Daily News PM | | | | Chromebooks are lightweight, inexpensive and efficient -- in other words, great for business travel. But can these cloud-based laptops operate when you're off Wi-Fi? Sure they can -- here are 15 productivity apps that can work with you when you're offline. | | | Issue highlights 1. Report: Oracle in talks to buy hospitality tech vendor Micros for more than $5 billion 2. Amazon speeds up its cloud with SSD block storage 3. 5.5-inch iPhone may cost $100 more, but consumers are willing to pay 4. IRS computer crash eats email evidence: Conspiracy or 'worst IT department ever'? 5. CA gets into cloud management of IT services 6. Juniper hones product development for cloud, intelligent networks 7. FTC taking robocall death hunt to DEFCON 8. Dear FCC: Please don't let me watch football 9. Cisco buys its way into AT&T SDN 10. Hackers use YouTube to sell stolen credit card numbers, group says | | RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Mobiquity Inc. With near-universal access to mobile & social, user segments are now distinguished by their savvy in knowing how to use these tools and their comfort levels with sharing data. This "Bring Your Own Persona" (BYOP) situation requires a fundamentally different way of thinking about customer interactions. Read Mobiquity's new paper to understand how to reorient your company's efforts around new digital customer segments and behaviors, and how to tap into the full business potential of the new confluence of mobile and social. | | Oracle is reportedly close to buying hospitality and retail technology vendor Micros Systems for more than US$5 billion in a deal that would be its biggest since the purchase of Sun Microsystems several years ago.Micros and Oracle are conducting exclusive negotiations but may not end up inking a deal, Bloomberg reported Tuesday, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter.An Oracle spokeswoman declined comment. Micros didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.The report comes a couple of days before Oracle announces its fourth-quarter and year-end results.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Amazon Web Services has launched a new general purpose Elastic Block Store that runs fully on solid state drives (SSD), which the leading IaaS cloud vendor says will provide dramatically better performance for users compared to previous-generation spinning disk persistent storage. In addition to announcing all SSD General Purpose EBS Volumes today, AWS reduced prices for its EBS services by 35%, which represent the 43rd price drop the company has announced since 2006. Read about the news from AWS here. + MORE AT NETWORK WORLD: The best portable hard drives: Our picks for the fast, light and spacious +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | With Apple largely expected to unveil two new iPhone models this fall -- one with a 4.7-inch screen and the other with a 5.5-inch screen -- an obvious question looms: just how does Apple plan on pricing these devices?Historically, Apple has remained beholden to pricing new iPhone models at a base price of $199 and charging more for more memory. With two different-sized iPhone models on the horizon, it remains to be seen how Apple handles its traditionally simple pricing matrix.Commenting on the matter, analyst Tavis McCourt of Raymond James recently opined that Apple may price the 5.5-inch iPhone model $100 higher than the 4.7-inch model. While only Apple executives at this point are privy to that type of information, survey data amassed by McCourt suggests that consumers would be willing to pay the extra $100 for the larger device.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | WHITE PAPER: VCE Hunter Fan turned to Vblock™ Systems, which enabled them to improve performance of BI applications by 40%, increase storage capacity from 10TB to 70TB, and complete their data analysis in a third of the time. Learn More | | You might think that people participating in illegal or unconstitutional activity would know better than to leave any digital footprint evidence at all; if folks failed to follow how-not-to-be-nailed-as-a-criminal 101, then destroying electronic evidence so it cannot be forensically recovered would likely be the next move. Although a person could blame missing data on a computer "glitch" or crash, getting rid of every digital trace would be a huge undertaking in this world of redundant backups and cloud storage. Considering the data that supposedly went poof is two years' worth of email from the director of a government agency division, it's little wonder that no techies believe it.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | CA Technologies is applying its expertise in service management to the cloud, launching a hosted offering to allow organizations manage and provision IT assets and external cloud services.CA Cloud Service Management is a new hosted offering for managing and provisioning IT services within an enterprise, a field of software known as IT Service Management (ITSM).Jumping into the growing service market for hosted IT management, CA will be competing with the likes of ServiceNow, SAManage, and Hewlett-Packard.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Juniper Networks combined its hardware and software units to better align product development and share technology across products lines for cloud and intelligent networking.By merging its Platform Systems Division and Software Solutions Division into the Juniper Development and Innovation business unit (JDI), Juniper can eliminate unnecessary organizational barriers in the company and build end-to-end systems that "crush operational expense" through automation, optimization and analytics, says Rami Rahim, executive vice president of the JDI. Rahim's discussion with Network World is one of the first a high-ranking Juniper executive has granted since formation of the JDI.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | WHITE PAPER: Spirent Surprisingly, many organizations are not adequately testing their networks. Network testing is crucial for any IT organization that wants to ensure availability, security and performance of applications and services running on their networks. Learn More | | The Federal Trade Commission is taking its fight against robocallers to the upcoming DEFCON by challenging attendees of the conference to build the ultimate "honeypot" that would lure in and identify illegal phone spammers. The FTC said a robocall honeypot is an information system designed to attract robocallers, which can help experts and law enforcement authorities understand and combat illegal calls. The FTC has noted that the vast majority of telephone calls that deliver a prerecorded message trying to sell something to the recipient are illegal. The agency regulates these calls under the Telemarketing Sales Rule. +More on Network World: Daunting photos of a village built to handle electronic waste; Old electronics don't die, they pile up+To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | I can understand why millionaire NFL team owners would lobby the FCC in an effort to dissuade that regulatory body from ditching its so-called "TV blackout rule." After all, the rule requires that 85% of an NFL team's ridiculously priced "non-premium" seats be sold or a game cannot be shown on TV (free or otherwise).Who wouldn't want to protect such a sweet racket?What I don't understand is how these millionaire NFL team owners could envision me – a lifelong fan and former season-ticket holder – getting behind this effort to convince the FCC to continue playing a role in stopping me from watching football.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Cisco this week announced its intent to acquire privately held Tail-f Systems, a developer of multivendor network service orchestration systems for traditional and virtualized networks, and one of the vendors AT&T selected for its Domain 2.0 SDN/NFV project. Under the terms of the agreement, Cisco will pay $175 million in cash and retention-based incentives in exchange for all shares of Tail-f, which is based in Stockholm. + MORE ON NETWORK WORLD: SDN seen slowing spending on routers, switches +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | YouTube has thousands of videos promoting compromised credit card numbers, with the site sometimes running advertisements for legitimate credit cards or retail outlets alongside the hacker videos, according to a new report from an online safety group.YouTube advertisements from credit cards and compromised retailers are, in effect, paying for videos advertising compromised credit card numbers, the Digital Citizens Alliance said in a report released Tuesday."It's troubling to see criminals infest YouTube in this way," said Tom Galvin, executive director of the Digital Citizens Alliance. "It's equally troubling to see [YouTube parent] Google profit from that via ads, because it speaks to whether or not Google has an incentive to take this stuff down."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | WHITE PAPER: Mobiquity Inc. The digital world of mobile + social creates new customer segments and behaviors. Companies need to reorient their customer interactions around these segments to drive business impact. Learn More | | | | | | | | | |
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