Cisco CEO Chambers to retire this fall?

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Cisco CEO Chambers to retire this fall?

Cisco CEO John Chambers may retire this fall amidst a massive reorganization that could lop tens of thousands of employees off its workforce. So says Scott Raynovich, author of the tech/business sheet The Rayno Report.Raynovich cites several sources "familiar with the chatter inside the company" for his prediction, which he touts as a major scoop for his organization. The timing would be consistent with what Chambers said back in 2012: that he planned to retire in two to four years, and a successor would be one of 10 Cisco executives.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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1. INSIDER IT grads get to know GE

2. Malwarebytes aims to stop zero-day exploits on Windows

3. DDoS attacks against Feedly inconvenience millions … and it's partly Google's fault

4. Microsoft developing smartphone batteries that can last a week

5. OnLive taps cloud gaming tech for business use, again

6. Microsoft previews cloud-based Web apps proxy service in Azure

7. 10 'geek dads' share tales and tips from the IT trenches

8. Hackers use pathetic passwords just like everyone else

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IT grads get to know GE

At GE, a global IT recruiting program helps bring new computer science graduates into the company and expose them to different facets of the business.Computer science graduates rotate through four different IT assignments during a two-year program at General Electric. READ MORE

Malwarebytes aims to stop zero-day exploits on Windows

Malwarebytes today said it has begun shipping Windows-based software intended to detect and block unknown zero-day exploits. Malwarebytes says the software, called Anti-Exploit, can work as additional protection alongside traditional anti-malware."It could be used with Symantec Endpoint, for instance," said Pedro Bustamante, director of special projects at Malwarebytes. It works by shielding applications running on the computer. If it's set to guard Adobe Reader, for example, Anti-Exploit will watch what files it might seek to run, and if processes indicate it's a malicious PDF, for example, Anti-Exploit will "stop the process before the exploit can execute," Bustamante says. Anti-Exploit is based on technology acquired when Malwarebytes bought Zero Vulnerability Labs last year.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE

DDoS attacks against Feedly inconvenience millions … and it's partly Google's fault

Bad guys have been attacking Feedly's website for two days now – demanding ransom -- and it's somehow Google's fault?Not exactly, although millions of users did flock to Feedly in the wake of Google's decision to deep-six Google Reader … and those millions – including yours truly – have been denied access to our favorite RSS feeds while Feedly fends off these bad guys.From the Building Feedly blog: 7:26am PST: We are currently being targeted by a second DDoS attack and are working with our service providers to mitigate the issue.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE

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Microsoft developing smartphone batteries that can last a week

If you go back a decade to when mobile phones just made phone calls and sent text messages, it was not uncommon to go a week in between charges. Now, some of us keep cigarette plug chargers in our cars for our phones.That's progress.Actually, battery power has not been slacking. Ranveer Chandra, senior researcher for mobility and networking at Microsoft Research, told the crowd at MIT Technology Review's Digital Summit in San Francisco that battery power storage density has doubled over the last 15 years. The problem is we have large OLED high-definition screens, touchscreens and quad-core processors in these phones. So the pace of component development has exceeded the pace of battery innovation.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE

OnLive taps cloud gaming tech for business use, again

On Thursday, OnLive launched CloudLift Enterprise, the company's second attempt to adapt its cloud gaming services to the business space. Until now, OnLive has been the flag-bearer for cloud gaming, which uses low-latency connections between a thin client app on a PC or mobile device and a back-end server. Its CloudLift technology takes games that users have bought on Valve Software's Steam service, or via OnLive, and accelerates them using its own high-end gaming machines. Now, the company has adapted that technology for business use. Working from the argument that PC games are about the most graphics-intensive application a user can buy, OnLive's CloudLift Enterprise service takes the same approach to "graphics-intensive applications" like CAD programs, medical imaging software, and more.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE

Microsoft previews cloud-based Web apps proxy service in Azure

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10 'geek dads' share tales and tips from the IT trenches

Back in the day, geek dads wore plastic pocket protectors, taught their kids long division on the back of mainframe punch cards, and worked long, long hours. Often, they couldn't be there for baseball games or bedtimes.Today's tech dads are a different breed -- still putting in long hours, but working just as hard to be there for their kids' milestones, large and small.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE

Hackers use pathetic passwords just like everyone else

It turns out that many hackers employ the same weak password techniques as the least technologically savvy among us. READ MORE

HP says 'The Machine' will supercharge Android phones to 100TB

HP says its new computer architecture could massively increase the storage in mobile devices READ MORE

iPhoneys: Apple iPhone 6 concepts

Moving beyond iPhone 5S and 5C, new designs feature bigger screens and more magic READ MORE

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Big Data Security Analytics and Advanced Persistent Threats

This technical white paper demonstrates how to use Big Data security analytics techniques to detect advanced persistent threat (APT) cyber attacks, and it shows how HP ArcSight -- a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution from HP -- applies these techniques to spot and stop attacks. Learn More

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