Swing Copters review: Under no circumstances should you play this game from Flappy Birds creator

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	Swing Copters review: Under no circumstances should you play this game from Flappy Birds creator Mercifully, Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen pulled his simple, addictive and fiendishly difficult twitch game from the Android and iOS marketplaces after it exploded in popularity earlier this year, but he's back with a new assault on your attention span: Swing Copters. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Software 10 Steps to Reducing Mainframe MLC Costs Monthly license charges (MLC) are rising by 7% or more each year, and account for 30% of total mainframe costs. Yet managing MLC costs is an inexact science. 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SDN has its roots in the early 1990s, when both network managers and service providers began to express frustration with typical network architectures that inhibited innovation and change Learn More The behemoths of the World Tank Biathlon Tank teams from 12 countries competed in speed and shooting competition Read More Microsoft jumps into NoSQL market with new Azure data store Microsoft Azure DocumentDB offers NoSQL data storage as a service on Azure Read More Opera Mini becomes default browser for Microsoft's fading feature phones Users will be 'encouraged' to replace stock Xpress browser with Opera Mini starting this fall Read More Oracle CEO Larry Ellison turns 70 with no retirement in sight Oracle's billionaire CEO isn't going anywhere, but he's also got plenty left to do Read More US lawmaker wants to rebrand net neutrality Anna Eshoo asks Reddit users to come up with a new description as a way to limit confusion of the issue Read More Citrix software aims to solve storage/virtual desktop performance problem Citrix has updated its virtual desktop and appliance software with a goal of alleviating one of the biggest problems that come with a VDI deployment: Storage. It's common for centralized storage pools to hinder the performance of virtual desktops and apps. When potentially dozens of users are all connecting into a shared storage service at once, it puts tremendous strain on the system. Traditionally, the problem has been solved by throwing solid state drives at the storage pool, or even adding additional spindles to the traditional spinning disks. With the release of Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.6, the company has a new approach. + MORE AT NETWORK WORLD: 5 Things to Watch for at VMWorld 2014 +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Silver Peak looks to the clouds and redefines WAN Optimization Last week, Silver Peak announced a new product called Unity that can be thought of as an intelligent WAN optimization "fabric" that enables network managers to track the location of cloud services and have a real-time "weather map" of Internet traffic to help find the optimum path for traffic flows. 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"The way the license is written, if you use any open-source software, you have to make the rest of your software open source," Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's ex-CEO, said erroneously in a Chicago Sun-Times interview back in 2001.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Hot desking in paradise: 11 exotic coworking locations Coworking spaces are popping up all over the world, giving remote workers a chance to get their work done in some unusual places Read More NIST taking input for mobile security guidelines The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is developing a guide for testing third-party apps to ensure that they are secure and don't introduce any vulnerabilities.The government agency has prepared a draft of its recommendations, "Technical Considerations for Vetting 3rd Party Mobile Applications," and is seeking industry feedback by Sept. 18. The aim is to help enterprises make full use of commercial mobile programs."Agencies and organizations need to know what a mobile app really does and to be aware of its potential privacy and security impact so they can mitigate any potential risks," said NIST computer scientist Tom Karygiannis in a statement announcing the release of the draft.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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