| Network World Daily News PM | | | | Big name academic and vendor organizations have unveiled a consortium this week that's pushing Named Data Networking (NDN), an emerging Internet architecture designed to better accommodate data and application access in an increasingly mobile world. | | | Issue highlights 1. 10 Hot Internet of Things Startups 2. Google's plan for Chrome worries certificate authority vendors 3. FCC's Wheeler: US needs more high-speed broadband competition 4. Ahead of iWatch unveiling, Jony Ive says Switzerland is in trouble 5. Here's what free upgrades could do for Windows 9's uptake 6. White House names Google veteran as CTO 7. Report: Police question LG exec for damaging Samsung products 8. FBI: Criminal group melds scams to defraud retailers 9. Huawei aims for large-screen glory with metal-clad Ascend Mate 7 10. Cisco right-sizes UCS servers | | WHITE PAPER: OPSWAT Inc. Securing critical infrastructure is crucial to ensuring that our current way of life is sustained. Our whitepaper provides insight into the development of strong security policies around the use of portable media, and how to effectively mitigate the threat from external sources. Learn more | | As Internet connectivity gets embedded into everything from baby monitors to industrial sensors, investors, entrepreneurs and engineers are rushing to cash in. According to Gartner, Internet of Things (IoT) vendors will earn more than $309 billion by 2020. However, most of those earnings will come from services.Gartner also estimates that by 2020, the IoT will consist of 26 billion devices. All of those devices, Cisco believes will end up dominating the Internet by 2018. You read that right: In less time than it takes to earn a college degree (much less time these days), machines will communicate over the Internet a heck of a lot more than people do.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Google intends to make changes in its Chrome browser later this year that would have Chrome display a warning on websites using certificates based on the secure hash algorithm, SHA-1. Google wants to do this to get websites migrating to the stronger SHA-2 algorithm for certificates, which is not as easy to break through raw computing power. Certificate authority vendors are calling Google's plan overly aggressive in its timeframe, and say it's likely to cause mass confusion right as the holiday shopping season commences. Google's Chrome browser is expected to be changed in the November timeframe so that users will find that when they visit websites that use SHA-1-based certificates, the browser will give them a warning that could surprise them, says Dean Coclin, senior director of business development at Symantec. Coclin is active in two industry groups, the Certificate Authority Browser Forum and the CA Security Forum, which are carefully monitoring Google's plan.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | U.S. residents lack meaningful choices for broadband providers that offer 25Mbps or faster download speeds, and the U.S. Federal Communications Commission will push for more competition, the agency's chairman said Thursday.While more than 93 percent of U.S. residents have access to a broadband provider, fewer than 15 percent can buy service from more than two wired providers that offer "yesterday's broadband" with 4Mbps download speeds, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said during a speech at Washington, D.C., startup incubator 1776."At the low end of throughput ... the majority of Americans have a choice of only two providers," Wheeler said. "That is what economists call a duopoly, a marketplace that is typically characterized by less than vibrant competition."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Application performance monitoring is a key focus of IT operations groups, with growing influence from development, quality assurance and line-of-business application owners. View Now>> | | Apple's chief industrial designer Jony Ive intimated that traditional watchmakers in Switzerland will be blindsided by Apple's foray into the watch market. READ MORE | | By making Windows 9, aka "Threshold," free, Microsoft will be able to push more than half of all Windows 8 users to the upgrade within a matter of months, an analysis of user share data shows.Extending the free upgrade offer to Windows 7 would have a smaller impact, primarily because nearly half of all of Windows PCs are in commercial or government settings, where upgrading is taken seriously and not left to mortals, like employees. But even with Windows 7, Microsoft could expect to convince a sizable minority to make a quick switch to Windows 9.MORE ON NETWORK WORLD: 7 things on Microsoft's 2014 to-do list These calculations were based on the performance of Windows 8.1, the free upgrade Microsoft shipped in October 2013 as the follow-up to the original Windows 8 of 2012.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | U.S. President Barack Obama has named long-time Google executive Megan Smith as the government's new CTO, in charge of improving technology and the use of data across agencies.Smith, formerly vice president of new business development at Google, led the company's acquisition of Google Earth, Maps and Picasa.Smith's focus in the White House will be on the Obama administration's IT policy and initiatives and pushing advanced technology adoption across the U.S. economy, John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, said in a blog post Thursday.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | WHITE PAPER: IBM A new generation of "Intelligent Imaging" solutions has emerged that is helping banks remove the burden of paper in legacy processes, like loan origination and new account openings, while extending the power of document and data capture to achieve new levels of case management and business intelligence. Learn More | | An executive from LG Electronics has been questioned by German police for allegedly vandalizing the doors of Samsung Electronics washing machines at a store in Berlin, according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency.The executive, who wasn't named in the report, was apparently in the German capital to attend this week's IFA consumer electronics show where Samsung and LG compete for attention with new smartphones, smartwatches, televisions and computers.Police were called by staff of the Saturn Berlin Europa Center, a major electronics retailer, after they saw the executive pushing the doors of the machines until they would no longer close properly, reported Yonhap.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | FBI The FBI and Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) today issued a warning about a criminal group using e-mail account spoofing, phishing and a variety of social engineering attacks to defraud retailers of everything from laptops and routers to industrial equipment.The FBI says the scheme usually begins with scamsters posing as school officials approaching retailers with a plan to buy large amounts of merchandise.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Huawei Technologies is hoping to steal market share from Samsung's Galaxy Note family with the Ascend Mate7, which has a metal body, 6-inch full HD screen and a battery that has almost 30 percent more capacity than what the Note 4 offers.Consumer appetite for smartphones with screens larger than 5.5 inches is growing. This year shipments of devices with large screens are expected to increase by 209 percent from last year, compared to a 12.8 percent increase for smartphones with smaller screens, according to IDC.Samsung may have helped popularize large-screen phones but other companies are following suit. The Mate7, Huawei's latest contender, was announced on Thursday.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Company recasts line for large- and small-scale requirements READ MORE | | WHITE PAPER: IBM In April 2012, IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact (TEI) and potential ROI that enterprises might realize by deploying IBM's Datacap Taskmaster Capture solution. Learn More | | SLIDESHOWS The new Microsoft under Satya Nadella The Microsoft CEO has set new goals, taken some decisive actions, moved ahead with works already in progress and made Wall Street happy. 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