Whatever happened to Green IT? (Free reg)

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Bloodiest tech industry layoffs of 2014, so far US court says warrant for access to all content of email account is justified Network World Daily News AM July 21, 2014 Share this email INSIDER Whatever happened to Green IT? (Free reg) Green initiatives have withered, but IT execs who think green can still make a difference. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Bloodiest tech industry layoffs of 2014, so far 2. US court says warrant for access to all content of email account is justified 3. China's Internet adoption sags to levels not seen since in 8 years 4. Lenovo plans new small-screen Windows tablet for US market 5. Indix, the Google of products 6. Your travel records tell the government your IP, email, credit card, call center notes 7. Flowboard for Mac, even better! 8. Dumping an open source Honeypot on Rachel: FTC reloads on liquidating robocallers 9. iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending July 18 10. INSIDER Quick guide: 25 tips for Google Drive power users (free reg) WHITE PAPER: APC by Schneider Electric Containerized Power and Cooling Modules for Data Centers This white paper compares the cost benefits of both Standardized and Containerized data center cooling infrastructures, presents the advantages and disadvantages of each, and identifies which environments can best leverage the facility module approach. Learn More Bloodiest tech industry layoffs of 2014, so far Microsoft leads the way, but has plenty of company on jobs cut front READ MORE US court says warrant for access to all content of email account is justified A New York judge defended a controversial order that gave the government access to all content of the Gmail account of a target in a money laundering investigation, holding that courts have long recognized the practical need for law enforcement to seize documents if only to determine whether they fall within the warrant.The opinion, which will likely fuel the privacy debate in the country, is at odds with decisions by judges in several courts including courts in the Districts of Columbia and Kansas, Magistrate Judge Gabriel W. Gorenstein of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York noted in an opinion Friday.The District of Columbia judge had refused disclosure of the contents of an entire email account because that would allow the government to actually seize large quantities of emails "for which it has not established probable cause."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE China's Internet adoption sags to levels not seen since in 8 years China's rush to the Internet is slowing, with the country adding only 14.4 million new Internet users in the first half of 2014, the lowest half-year growth in eight years.There were 632 million Internet users in China in June, according to the government-linked China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC).Although China has long reigned as the country with the world's largest Internet population, the services are still struggling to take off in the rural areas, where about 450 million people never go online, said the CNNIC in its bi-annual report.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WHITE PAPER: VCE VCE Lifecycle Assurance Adoption of converged infrastructures is accelerating. This ESG report highlights why VCE is leading the way in enabling IT to remain focused on strategic initiatives, offloading the massive expense and risk associated with integrating home-grown IT solutions and endless patch management and regression testing. Learn More Lenovo plans new small-screen Windows tablet for US market Lenovo has stopped sales of its existing small-screen Windows tablets in the U.S., but plans a new model for release by the end of the year."We will continue to bring new Windows devices to market across different screen sizes, including a new 8-inch tablet and 10-inch tablet coming this holiday," the company said in a statement.Lenovo meanwhile has stopped U.S. sales of its existing small-screen Windows tablets, including the ThinkPad 8 and Miix 2 tablets with 8-inch screens, which was first reported by the IDG News Service. Lenovo cited stronger demand for larger-screen models.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Indix, the Google of products Want to know what products are out there and their attributes and pricing? Indix is on the way to indexing 1 billion of them. READ MORE Your travel records tell the government your IP, email, credit card, call center notes Have you ever been curious as to what information the government has stored about you and your travel records? A Passenger Name Record (PNR) is a computerized travel record created by airlines or travel agencies for both domestic and international flights, as well as hotel bookings, car rentals, cruises, and train trips. Your PNR, which is given to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) if you travel internationally, can include details like your unredacted credit card number or IP addresses. As Ars Technica's Cyrus Farivar found out, your PNR is just another example of the government's "collect it all" mentality.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Gravitant, Inc. A Better Way to Manage and Deliver Cloud Services As more enterprises make the transition to cloud, a new type of management option is emerging: cloud services brokerage. Neovise reviews the Gravitant cloudMatrix offering, outlining the unique value it provides in the right cloud and provider Learn More Flowboard for Mac, even better! A few weeks ago I wrote about Flowboard, a Web- and iPad-based presentation service (you create presentations on an iPad that are uploaded to the Flowboard Web site for display) that I think has a great future. As if to goad me into writing again about the product, the developers of Flowboard have just released an OS X-based editing tool, Flowboard for Mac.The new tool is essentially the same as the iPad version but because you have a mouse and can drag and drop content into your presentations from the filesystem it's faster and easier to use.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Dumping an open source Honeypot on Rachel: FTC reloads on liquidating robocallers FTC The Federal Trade Commission today announced the rules for its second robocall exterminating challenge, known this time as Zapping Rachel Robocall Contest. "Rachel From Cardholder Services," was a large robocall scam the agency took out in 2012. The Zapping Rachel contest will take place at DEF CON 22 in Las Vegas Aug. 7-10, and offers partakers $17,000 in cash prizes for developing open-source packages that could be used to build an advance robocall honeypot, circumvent or trick a honeypot, or analyze data from an existing honeypot, the FTC said.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending July 18 Summer temperatures are boosting the amount of hot air in the iOSphere, or maybe it's the other way round.  In any case, this edition of The Rollup covers some of the rumors for the last two weeks, taking note of the cyclical angst-relief pattern as, first, rumors of iPhone 6 delays swept the iOSphere, followed by rumors that mass production was about to start. A rumored haptic display featuring some kind of sensory feedback was praised as a "secret weapon" even though no one was able to describe how or why it would actually enhance the user experience. And there are numerous contributions to battery confusion. You read it here second.iPhone 6 5.5-inch model will be delayed until 2015 Kuo speaks, and the iOSphere shudders.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE INSIDER Quick guide: 25 tips for Google Drive power users (free reg) Google Drive is an important tool that can deliver even more value with these 25 tips, tools, and tweaks READ MORE WHITE PAPER: VCE Rompetrol Case Study After a successful acquisition and growth phase, Rompetrol turned its energy into improving global operations by consolidating IT operations and launching a series of IT initiatives including an SAP rollout and a move toward private cloud. Learn More SLIDESHOWS Worst data breaches of 2014…So far We identified the worst of these for the first quarter of the year, and now we show you the worst for April though June. 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