First Look: BlackBerry Passport

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10 (mostly) free Exchange admin tools Broadcom unveils 25G Ethernet, SDN optimized chip Network World Daily News PM September 24, 2014 First Look: BlackBerry Passport So BB 10 didn't work out so well, did it? Which helps explain why, with the new Passport smartphone, BlackBerry is ditching the years-late emphasis on competing for consumers and refocusing on the enterprise users on which the company was built. The Passport is uniquely focused on being a device for work first and personal stuff second - take a look at how it's turned out.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. 10 (mostly) free Exchange admin tools 2. Broadcom unveils 25G Ethernet, SDN optimized chip 3. How to tell robot handwriting from the human kind … and how I react to the former 4. Internet Crime Complaint Center warns scam uses IC3 e-mail as way to con victims 5. iOS 8 tips and tricks you need to know 6. IDG Contributor Network: How new radio tech will solve the upcoming spectrum crunch 7. Apple Pay got mobile payments right, but its reach is limited 8. Is BYOD Burning Out Your Workforce? 9. Verizon Rolls Out VoLTE with Advanced Calling 1.0 10. BlackBerry goes for qwerty keyboard, again, with Passport smartphone 11. Microsoft adds bug bounty program for its online services 12. More Alarming Data on the Cybersecurity Skills Shortage 13. 7 Free Online Collaboration and Project Management Tools WHITE PAPER: Equinix How Network Connections Drive Web Application Performance Users around the globe, on all sorts of devices, expect Web applications to function as seamlessly as desktop applications. This paper discusses the challenges and solutions for effectively delivering applications in today's global marketplace. View now 10 (mostly) free Exchange admin tools Troubleshooting does not have to be expensive, nor does daily administration of your mail servers and messaging environment. There are, in fact, a wealth of resources available for Exchange administrators to monitor health, administer users, migrate mailboxes to the cloud and even take care of old data that is stored insecurely and uncatalogued. But it's often difficult to know where to look for these software assists.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Broadcom unveils 25G Ethernet, SDN optimized chip Broadcom this week announced availability of new Ethernet switch silicon optimized for cloud-scale data centers.Broadcom's StrataXGS Tomahawk chipset is built on the company's widely deployed StrataXGS Trident and StrataDNX products. Tomahawk delivers 3.2Tbps switching capacity – 32 100G ports -- and SDN-optimized engines in a single chip, Broadcom says, and features all-25Gbps per-lane interconnect, enabling transformation to 25G and 50G Ethernet networks.Broadcom was one of the founders of the 25 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium, a group of vendors and users looking to promote standardization of the 25/50G Ethernet speeds and product development. The IEEE also recently formed a 25G study group based on industry interest in the Ethernet spec.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE How to tell robot handwriting from the human kind … and how I react to the former Journalist Clive Thompson has published an enlightening piece at Medium.com that shows us how we can tell the difference between a snail-mail letter that has been written by a robot and one that has been written by an actual human being.Here's an example of a robot scribbling away: Like Thompson, I believe that I can easily spot most of these fakes when sifting through my mail. However, also like Thompson, I have been fooled once or twice. I am sure we are not alone.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Internet Crime Complaint Center warns scam uses IC3 e-mail as way to con victims Not that it needed the reminder that scams suck, but the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) warned today that a new e-mail scam is making the rounds that uses the IC3 as the fraud contrivance. According to the IC3: "Victims report that the unsolicited e-mail sender is a representative of the IC3. The e-mails state that a criminal report was filed on the victim's name and Social Security number and legal papers are pending. Scammers impersonate an IC3 employee to increase credibility and use threats of legal action to create a sense of urgency. Victims are informed they have one to two days from the date of the complaint to contact the scammers. Failure to respond to the e-mail will result in an arrest warrant issued to the victim. "To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WHITE PAPER: McAfee SIEM: Five Requirements that Solve Bigger Business Issues McAfee spoke with SIEM users and asked them to tell us about their primary issues with SIEM. This brief lists the top five issues along with corresponding customer case studies and use cases. Learn More>> iOS 8 tips and tricks you need to know Some advice on how to make iOS 8 work for you. READ MORE IDG Contributor Network: How new radio tech will solve the upcoming spectrum crunch A new kind of twisted radio wave can send 10 HD movies in one second. If this and other new radio technologies work in the real world, we could solve our upcoming 5G spectrum crunch. READ MORE Apple Pay got mobile payments right, but its reach is limited Apple executed admirably in aligning mobile payment partners, but its relatively low market share will limit it to a smaller share of the wallets. READ MORE Is BYOD Burning Out Your Workforce? A new study suggests Bring Your Own Device workers may be getting burnt out. Their self-imposed blended work-life lifestyle essentially puts them on call around the clock, over weekends and on vacations, which can lead to copious amounts of stress, according to a TEKsystems survey of more than 300 IT professionals.Half of respondents say the constant mobile connection to work apps, documents and email has increased their stress because they're never able to unplug. More than 60 percent would prefer to go back to the old days working set hours and being inaccessible during personal time.[Related: Have We Reached Gadget Fatigue?]To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WEBCAST: Interactive Intelligence How Moving Your Contact Center to the Cloud Eliminates Risk The total cost of ownership (TCO) debate between a premises and cloud decision continues to wage on. Depending on how you look at it, it seems that you arrive at a different conclusion. However, the missing factor in nearly all cloud contact center and unified communications TCO discussions is the consideration of buyer risk. Learn More Verizon Rolls Out VoLTE with Advanced Calling 1.0 Verizon Wireless recently announced that it has enabled VoLTE (Voice over LTE) for its wireless subscribers with the introduction Advanced Calling 1.0. The VoLTE service is available across its nationwide network on select smartphones.Advanced Calling 1.0 supports both HD Voice and Video Calling, and the two options are integrated with 4G LTE-compatible smartphones. For example, the contact list on the phone also shows a video camera icon next to the name, displaying who can receive a video call, and a tap or two on the phone starts the call so users can speak to friends and family face-to-face. Video calls can also be switched to a voice-only call with a tap on the phone.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE BlackBerry goes for qwerty keyboard, again, with Passport smartphone BlackBerry announced its Passport smartphone today and bet large that there are users who will want a qwerty physical keyboard with a wider, square, 4.5-in. display. READ MORE Microsoft adds bug bounty program for its online services Microsoft launched a new bug bounty program, this time for finding vulnerabilities in its online services. Microsoft said it will pay a minimum of $500 for qualified bug bounty submissions.Microsoft Online Services Bug Bounty covers the following domains: portal.office.com *.outlook.com (Office 365 for business email services applications, excluding any consumer "outlook.com" services) outlook.office365.com login.microsoftonline.com *.sharepoint.com *.lync.com *.officeapps.live.com www.yammer.com api.yammer.com adminwebservice.microsoftonline.com provisioningapi.microsoftonline.com graph.windows.net Before testing, however, Microsoft said to check "WHOIS" records for all resolved IPs to insure the domain is owned by Microsoft. Third parties that host for Microsoft, under subdomains owned by Microsoft, are not part of the online bug bounty program. Office 365 separately announced its participation in the program because it takes "security vulnerabilities very seriously;" customers asked Microsoft for it; it's the "right thing to do."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE More Alarming Data on the Cybersecurity Skills Shortage Network security skills and staffing continues to lag at enterprise organizations. Time to sound the alarm? READ MORE 7 Free Online Collaboration and Project Management Tools Free Collaboration and Project Management SoftwareImage by ThinkstockCasey Stengel, Hall of Fame baseball manager once said, "Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part." The same holds true for today's technology workforce.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Instart Logic A New, Better Approach for Web Experiences across Devices For media and entertainment companies intent on delivering high definition web experiences across all devices, web performance can make or break their engagement levels. Learn more>> SLIDESHOWS The wild world of workplace wearables Here are some examples of wearables coming to a variety of vertical industries. JOIN THE NETWORK WORLD COMMUNITIES As network pros you understand that the value of connections increase as the number of connections increase, the so called network effect, and no where is this more evident than in professional relationships. Join Network World's LinkedIn and Facebook communities to share ideas, post questions, see what your peers are working on and scout out job applicants (or maybe find your next opportunity). 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