Network World Daily News AM | | The current state of iPhone 6 rumors in the iOSphere is like looking at the laundry detergent shelf in your grocery store and being overwhelmed by all the different choices. Until you realize that, at bottom, all the different detergents use pretty much the same ingredients and yield pretty much the same results. | | Issue highlights 1. Meru's new WLAN controller is perfect for SMBs 2. FCC looking into Internet peering complaints from Netflix, consumers 3. Do you have bad RAM? How to find it and how to fix it 4. AT&T backs Microsoft's dispute over warrant for emails held abroad 5. Apple starts exchange program for iPhone adapters that could overheat 6. Robots face off at NASA Sample Return Challenge 7. INSIDER IT grads get to know GE 8. 14 Must-See Social Media Marketing Success Stories 9. How Microsoft envisioned the smart home in 1999 10. Tesla does the unthinkable and open sources patent portfolio | WEBCAST: IBM Live event: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 1 PM ET / 12 PM CT / 10 AM PT What if you could reduce your storage costs by half? Attend this webcast to hear how you can maximize the economics of your data center by modifying your storage footprint and power usage using Flash Storage, and to learn how IBM is accelerating storage efficiency. Register Now | Controllers for wireless LANs are now available in a dizzying array of implementations: the traditional appliance, distributed into access points (often called "controllerless"), running as software in virtual machines, and even completely resident in the cloud. There are pros and cons to each of these strategies, but the traditional appliance-based controller remains a popular choice among those who want every WLAN element required resident in their shop. The controller is also a logical spot for the required management functionality, simplifying the implementation of many – and particularly smaller – networks today. But those IT shops looking for a smaller, everything-in-house solution have frequently had to go with controllers larger (and more expensive) than really required, often amounting to overkill even when considering future growth requirements.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is looking into complaints from Netflix and some Internet backbone providers that several large broadband providers have been refusing for years to upgrade their backbone connections as a way to slow video traffic that competes with their own services.Following a public spat this week between Netflix and Verizon Communications, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said the agency is collecting information about the so-called peering and transit arrangements that allow Web traffic to flow between networks and content providers.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | The RAM in your Mac is in essence the active workspace of your computer, in which your programs run and your content is created. Because of this, healthy RAM is vital for properly running any software on your Mac, be it the system software that comes with OS X or third-party programs. READ MORE | WHITE PAPER: BMC Software Explore enhanced productivity for IT staff, and seamless integration across IT operation management systems. Download now. Learn More | AT&T is backing Microsoft in its challenge of a U.S. search warrant for private email communications located in a facility in Dublin, Ireland.The telecommunications company on Thursday filed in a New York court asking permission to submit an amicus curiae brief in support of Microsoft. Described as a "friend of the court," an amicus curiae is not directly involved in a litigation but believes it may be impacted or has views on the matter before the court.Verizon Communications also filed this week in opposition of the warrant in a dispute that is regarded as having far-reaching implications on the ability of U.S. tech companies to win the trust of customers abroad for their services including cloud computing.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | Apple started an exchange program for iPhone USB power adapters that "may overheat and pose a safety risk."The affected models are the European USB power adapters supplied with the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S, shipped between Oct. 2009 and Sept. 2012 in 37 countries, the company said Friday. They were also sold separately as accessories, it said.Those adapters may overheat in rare cases, Apple said, prompting it to offer to exchange affected power adapters for new, redesigned ones free of charge at Apple retail stores or authorized service providers. An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment on how Apple determined that the adapters posed a safety risk.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | Sharon Gaudin from Computerworld checks in from Worcester, Mass. (on the campus of WPI), where the NASA Sample Return Robot Challenge took place this week. READ MORE | WHITE PAPER: APC by Schneider Electric This paper describes unique management principles and provides a comprehensive, high-level overview of the necessary program elements for operating a mission critical facility efficiently and reliably throughout its life cycle. Learn more! | 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 | How do you break through all the noise on social media sites? Here are 14 creative, timely and, in some cases, crazy, examples of how organizations achieved social media success. READ MORE | Fifteen years ago, Microsoft made a video portraying what it predicted as the future "smart home," which is equal parts brilliant, funny, and creepy. READ MORE | Tesla has announced that it will no longer defend its patents, and in doing so it has effectively converted its very valuable intellectual property into open source. 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