| Network World Daily News AM | | | | The introduction of Google Glass at the Google I/O developers conference in June 2012 was one of the coolest technology debuts ever. Glass-wearing skydivers jumped out of an airplane high above San Francisco's Moscone Center, floated down to the roof, jumped onto mountain bikes, and pedaled into the conference hall where Sergei Brin was waiting – while the audience soaked up the experience through the first-person perspective of the stunt team. The full house went wild — witnesses to what we thought was an amazing revolution in wearable computing.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here | | | Issue highlights 1. New powerful banking malware called Dyreza emerges 2. Crowdsourcing moving beyond the fringe 3. Office 365 customer: Get the right help when moving email to the cloud 4. Better messaging means security can grow with IoT 5. Apple settles e-book antitrust dispute with U.S. states, consumer group 6. Bing gets a performance boost from reconfigurable chips 7. Unicode update lets you say 'spider,' 'dark glasses' in pictures 8. CopyPaste Pro: A power clipboard for the power OS X user 9. How to Clean Up Your IT Resume 10. Salesforce takes a shot at Zendesk, Freshdesk with Desk.com upgrade 11. Microsoft sneak peaks future IE with dev channel | | 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. | | Security researchers said they've spotted a new type of banking malware that rivals the capabilities of the infamous Zeus malware.The malware, which is being called "Dyreza" or "Dyre," uses a man-in-the-middle attack that lets the hackers intercept unencrypted web traffic while users mistakenly think they have a secure connection with their online banking site.Although Dyreza has similarities with Zeus, "we believe this is a new banker trojan family and not yet another offspring from the Zeus source code," according to a writeup by CSIS, a Danish security company.Dyreza uses a technique called "browser hooking" to view unencrypted web traffic, which involves compromising a computer, capturing unencrypted traffic and then stepping in when a user tries to make a secure SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) connection with a website.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Bob Brown, Network World Bob Brown, Network World Depending up on how you look at it, crowdsourcing is all the rage these days -- think Wikipedia, X Prize and Kickstarter -- or at the other extreme, greatly underused. To the team behind the new "insight network" Yegii, crowdsourcing has not nearly reached its potential despite having its roots as far back as the early 1700s and a famous case of the British Government seeking a solution to "The Longitude Problem" in order to make sailing less life threatening. (I get the impression that mention of this example is obligatory at any crowdsourcing event.)To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Dallas County Community Colleges District was using Novell's GroupWise suite of applications for email but little else, and at $200,000 per year, that just didn't make sense, especially since it was also buying access to Microsoft Office 365 – including Outlook - along with its enterprise campus agreement. Steve Glick of Dallas Community College talks of the pain he went through before the migration to Office 365. So the seven schools that make up the district embarked on a money-saving transition that met its financial goals, but not without some instructive and sometimes costly lessons about migration to the cloud, says Steve Glick, associate district director of IT for infrastructure services at DCCCD. "It was painful," he says.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | WEBCAST: Network Instruments 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 | | The brake pedal in your car probably isn't attached to the brakes. But don't worry, the pedal knows how to tell the brakes that you've pressed it. And now there's a new way to secure the messages they send each other.New software from Real-Time Innovations, which supplies messaging software for embedded systems used in cars, factories and other settings, implements a recently approved specification called DDS Security. With it, critical behind-the-scenes communication among machines can be safer from hacking and still happen as fast as it needs to, according to David Barnett, RTI's vice president of products. A preview release of RTI's software, Connext DDS Secure, is available immediately.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Apple has reached an out-of-court settlement in the ebooks price-fixing lawsuit with U.S. states and a consumer group ahead of a trial for damages scheduled for July 14, according to records in a New York federal court.The iPhone maker will, however, continue its appeal of a verdict in July last year, in which U.S. District Judge Denise Cote of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that Apple and five major U.S. publishers had conspired to raise prices in the ebook market to counter Amazon.com.((Until the appeal is finally disposed, "a bona fide justiciable dispute remains as to the District Court's findings and conclusions on liability and injunctive relief," wrote Steve W. Berman, counsel for the plaintiffs, in a letter on Monday to the judge. Any payment to be made by Apple under the settlement agreement will also depend on the outcome of the appeal, he added.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Microsoft is planning to use programmable chips to boost the performance of the servers for its Bing search engine, by accelerating certain services using these devices.The project, called Catapult, used field-programmable gate arrays, or FPGAs, which as the name suggests can be configured by customers on the field after they are manufactured. FPGAs are now seen as powerful computing devices in their own right, which can be used for accelerating certain programmable tasks, researchers working on the project said.The new approach is likely to be important for compute-intensive services like Bing as Microsoft can now selectively speed up large-scale services, such as its ranking throughput, by adding FPGA compute boards to servers, rather than buy more hardware and CPUs to run the workloads.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | WEBCAST: Brocade Communications 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>> | | Unicode, the character-encoding standard that underpins a vast amount of the Internet and many computing applications, has been updated to include an additional 250 "emoji" and several other updates.The system provides a consistent way for computer software around the world to handle and transmit characters, so for example an "A" is always an "A" and a "$" always a "$" in any supporting application. Since its launch in the early '90s, it has grown to encompass most of the world's languages.The latest version, 7.0, brings hundreds of new "emoji," which are the small pictorial representations of things like a smiling face, a thumbs-up or a shining sun. Originally developed in Japan for use on cellphones, they have become popular worldwide, especially with teens.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | If you're on a Mac and you're happy with the clipboard, read no further. If, on the other hand, you long for a clipboard that's more sophisticated you might want to check out CopyPaste Pro from Plum Amazing LLC. CopyPaste Pro is, as the company, says like Time Machine for your clipboard. But it's also so much more.There are three on-screen components of CopyPaste Pro: the CopyPaste Pro menu available from the OS X menu bar and two floating icons (which can be located anywhere convenient on your screen), one with an "H"for the Clip History and another labelled "A" for the Clip Archive. Clicking on the icons displays the actual items in the History and Archive respectively.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | As spring comes to a close, it's an ideal time to clear the clutter from your resume. It's key to make sure you present only relevant, current information in the most attractive way possible. Here, three experts weigh in on what to toss out and what to keep. READ MORE | | Salesforce.com wants to be the go-to option when small and medium-sized businesses decide they need better customer support software, with a series of updates to its Desk.com application.Desk.com is the result of Salesforce.com's 2011 acquisition of Assistly and is the SMB alternative to its Sales Cloud support software suite, which is aimed at big companies.While Desk.com can stack up feature-for-feature with the likes of Freshdesk and Zendesk, Salesforce.com's real edge lies in the fact that "we can grow with our customers," said Leyla Seka, general manager and senior vice president at Desk.com. "We can take our customers anywhere they want to go. That's something no other point solution on the market can say."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Microsoft on Monday launched a developers' channel of Internet Explorer (IE) that will be regularly updated to give website and Web app designers and developers an early look at what the company plans with its browser.The move was a first for Microsoft, which has never had an ongoing developer edition. Instead, Microsoft has historically handled its browser like it does Windows: A limited number of previews or betas were issued, each building toward a final release, when the process was discarded until the firm restarted it for the next iteration.Al Hilwa, an analyst with IDC, praised the decision. "The market has changed, and IE is now longer setting the browser agenda," Hilwa said Monday in an interview. "So anything that they do to keep the ecosystem going and [keep] the quality of sites and apps that work with IE high, is good for everyone."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | WHITE PAPER: Netscout Systems Inc. This EMA whitepaper examines the move towards application/service performance visibility within IT operations, and in particular the network-based delivery of those applications and services and the role that network-based visibility can and should play. Learn More | | | | | | | | | |
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