| Network World Daily News AM | | | Apple CEO Tim Cook writing today: "While I have never denied my sexuality, I haven't publicly acknowledged it either, until now. So let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me." | | | Issue highlights 1. Microsoft 'almost' wraps up largest layoff 2. Cisco, others pushing 2.5G, 5G Ethernet 3. Internet2 slices network 4. Visualizations may shape smarter city development 5. Facebook gives away homebrewed OS monitoring tool 6. How to figure out if a data breach is a hoax 7. MCX says CurrentC is less about tech, more about relationships 8. Samsung eyes cheaper smartphones as profit slumps 9. China's Xiaomi surges to become world's third largest smartphone vendor 10. Movie industry yells 'Cut!' on wearables in theaters 11. HP's new Sprout PC has 3D scanning, virtual sketchpad 12. US Navy, Energy Dept. team to develop wave energy devices 13. BlackBerry promises a blast from the past with BlackBerry Classic 14. Google gets its 'spagger' on | | WEBCAST: BMC Software Eliminate over-provisioning and capacity shortfalls with pro-active capacity optimization. Join us in the evolution from capacity monitoring to capacity optimization in your data center. In this webinar, discover how to significantly extend the value of your performance monitoring system. Learn More | | Microsoft has handed out pink slips in a third round of job cuts that "almost" concludes its plan to eliminate 18,000 positions.The company announced in July that it would let go about 14 percent of its workforce, the largest set of job cuts in its history, but instead of axing them with one swing, Microsoft said it would carry out the job cuts over the course of its fiscal year, which ends in June of next year.Some critics termed this approach unwise, saying it would prolong uncertainty among employees, drag down staff morale, reignite concern among enterprise customers, give talking points to rivals and generate bad press for the company multiple times.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Cisco and three other vendors have formed an alliance to promote the development of 2.5 and 5 Gigabit Ethernet technology for enterprise networks. The other three participants in the NBASE-T Alliance are silicon, semiconductor and IC companies Aquantia, Freescale and Xilinx.The objective of the nonprofit alliance is to enable multi-gigabit Ethernet speeds on existing Gigabit Ethernet cabling. Alliance members say there's demand for a unified approach to the deployment of faster data rates on Cat5e and Cat6 twisted-pair copper cables matching the bandwidth increase driven by 802.11ac Wave 2 Access Points and other technologies, such as 802.11ad, 802.11ax and LiFi.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | The Internet2 this week said it can now demonstrate a nationwide virtualized multitenant network that operates as multiple discrete, private networks.Virtualization allows Internet2 to be partitioned into isolated "slices" that can accomodate multiple users and their applications, as if they had their own private network. This advancement is enabled by Internet2's use of 100G speeds and software-defined networking, the organization says.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | There's more to making cities smart than the Internet of Things and the collection of big data.The move to address urban problems like pollution and traffic congestion has shone a spotlight on instrumenting things like roads, light poles and mobile devices, and seizing insights from the information they generate. But how that data is presented can affect the impact it has and the types of questions that get asked, panelists at the GreenBiz Verge conference said Tuesday.Just as smaller sensors have expanded data collection and big-data tools have made it possible to better analyze information, visualization software is also evolving. That could help to give ordinary citizens a say in how cities are built and run.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | WEBCAST: Collaborative Consulting Do you know the true cost of offshore outsourcing? Many organizations are measuring hourly rates alone, missing the additional costs, risks and complexities of offshoring. Join Rebecca Wettemann of Nucleus Research as she explains current trends and challenges with offshore outsourcing Live November 12th at 12:00-1:00 pm EST. Learn More | | Facebook has released an open-source tool for monitoring operating system state changes across very large infrastructures, which could help engineers quickly diagnose performance and security issues.The tool, called Osquery, allows administrators to run SQL-based queries on operating system characteristics stored in a high-performance database, collecting data such as running processes, loaded kernel modules and open networking connections, wrote Mike Arpaia, a Facebook software engineer.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | The notoriety that comes with taking credit for a data breach is alluring. Declaring a successful data breach can suddenly bring a lot of attention, which is why posting bogus data is attractive.For companies and organizations, it's a real headache, since an allegation of a breach can immediately pose public relations challenges."The speed of the news cycle is a lot faster than the speed of the incident response process," said Allison Nixon, a threat researcher with consultancy Deloitte.Nixon wrote a paper describing some non-intrusive techniques for figuring out if a data breach is legitimate. The paper, she said in a phone interview on Wednesday, is intended to allow third parties to get a sense whether a leak is real.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | The company behind CurrentC, an in-store mobile payment system backed by some of the biggest retailers in the U.S., attempted on Wednesday to play down a growing controversy over whether its backers could accept Apple Pay.Dekkers Davidson, CEO of Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX), said its members, which include retailers such as Walmart, Shell, 7-Eleven, Dunkin Donuts, Sears, Old Navy, Best Buy, Exxon Mobil and Gap, are free to make their own decisions on payment systems.The comments, which came in a conference call, represented the first time MCX had addressed a sudden flood of online criticism about its technology.Formed in 2012, MCX had existed largely unnoticed until last week when two of its members—drug store chains Rite Aid and CVS—abruptly stopped accepting Apple Pay and Google Wallet, which use a wireless chip payment technology called NFC.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Samsung plans to focus on cheaper smartphones and flexible displays for high-end phones after its third-quarter profit plummeted by nearly 50 percent amid intense competition from Chinese rivals making low-cost handsets.The low-end smartphone market is still growing rapidly, and the company aims to exploit the opportunity by improving cost competitiveness, said Kim Hyun-joon, the head of the company's mobile communications segment said during an earnings conference call on Thursday in Seoul. Samsung also aims to differentiate its high-end products with flexible displays and new materials such as metal frames.The world's largest smartphone maker saw its market share drop to 23.8 percent in the third quarter from 32.5 percent a year ago, while Xiaomi rose to the third place after second-ranked Apple, according to IDC.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | : Curvature The Sisters of Charity Health System faced the challenge of offering the best technology support while keeping operational expenditures in line with budgetary constraints. They sought Curvature to develop a best-of-breed networking solution, leading to cost benefits as well as increased efficiency. Learn more | | Phones from Xiaomi still haven't arrived in the U.S., but the company's booming sales in China have been enough to make it the third largest smartphone vendor in the world.Xiaomi reached the ranking, behind Apple and Samsung, in the third quarter, said research firms IDC and Strategy Analytics on Thursday.The Chinese vendor only began selling phones three years ago but it has quickly risen to become a leading vendor in its home market, by offering feature-packed Android phones at affordable prices.In the third quarter, Xiaomi had a 5.3 percent share of the smartphone market, still far behind second place Apple, which had a 12 percent share, according to IDC. But unlike its rivals, Xiaomi posted triple-digit year-over-year growth in smartphone shipments, of 211 percent, making it the fastest growing among the top vendors.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | The dictum, "Please turn off all cell phones" at your local movie theater may soon be expanded to include Google Glass, smartwatches, GoPros, life-logging cameras, and a cast of thousands of other wearables.The Motion Picture Association of America and the National Association of Theatre Owners, which represents 32,000 screens across the U.S., have issued a zero tolerance policy on wearable devices capable of recording video, due to concerns over piracy.Both groups already had a policy that all phones must be silenced and put away at show time. But all other recording devices, which would include wearables, must also be turned off and put away, the groups said Wednesday in an update to their policy.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | HP is making the virtual world feel a bit more real with its new double touchscreen computer called Sprout. The $1,900 all-in-one PC has powerful imaging and touch technology. READ MORE | | With an eye toward helping jump-start a nascent industry the US Navy and Department of Energy today said they would spend $10 million to test two deep-water wave energy devices. The devices fall under what's known as advance marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) technology which converts the energy of waves, tides, rivers, and ocean currents into clean, renewable electricity that can be used by homes and businesses.[RELATED: 10 hot energy projects that could electrify the world] "A total of $10 million has been made available for these in-water tests to collect important performance, reliability, and cost data from innovative wave energy conversion devices that are in the late stages of technology development," the DOE stated.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | A top row of navigation keys! A trackpad! The BlackBerry is back, baby, with the BlackBerry Classic!Well, that's how BlackBerry hopes you'll react, anyway, with the announcement of the BlackBerry Classic on the company's website on Tuesday. Chief executive John Chen promised the "things you remember about BlackBerry that made you better are better than ever with BlackBerry Classic".+ ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD Quick look: The interesting rise and quick fall of Blackberry +"Innovation is a word that gets used too often and carelessly. Innovation is not about blowing up what works to make something new – it's about taking what works and making it better," Chen wrote in a blog post. "In that sense, BlackBerry Classic represents the kind of innovation BlackBerry – and you – strive toward every day."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | A post yesterday addressed an unusual failure on the part of Google to provide me with a definition for a word – slang, actually -- with which I was thoroughly unfamiliar: spagger.Turns out, no thanks to Google, that it's shorthand for "spaghetti dinner."The post ended with me noting: "Someone needs to tell Google."Someone – or more likely, something – did so. As you can see, yesterday's post is now the No. 2 result delivered for a search on spagger, right below the Urban Dictionary's definition, which was not applicable to my quest.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | : MobileIron This eBook is designed to help your organization anticipate, understand and manage your questions regarding BYOD in the enterprise. 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