Nadella wins over Gartner crowd

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Refreshing honesty about the necessity of lying in job interviews Highfive wants to become the Nest of B2B video conferencing Network World Daily News PM October 07, 2014 Nadella wins over Gartner crowd Microsoft CEO gets positive reaction from Symposium attendees READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Refreshing honesty about the necessity of lying in job interviews 2. Highfive wants to become the Nest of B2B video conferencing 3. Adobe Digital Editions allegedly spying, scanning PCs, uploading logs to servers 4. IDG Contributor Network: Security flaw search engine Shodan adds reports 5. The Linux Desktop-a-week review: Cinnamon 6. Cisco rolls out easy-to-use iWAN 7. Gigabit copper? Sckipio says yes 8. Cisco, EMC consortium debuts new cloud gear 9. Nobel Prize in Physics a Blue LED Special 10. Micron provides a software view into new co-processor 11. Criminals used a malware program to steal millions from ATMs 12. 'Unlawful' WiFi hotspot blocking ruling highlights academic IT headaches WEBCAST: Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Integrating Mobility with Unified Access Meeting mobility demands of 4500 students, faculty and staff at a university is no small task. Join this Webcast to hear the Director of Enterprise Infrastructure explain the steps Abilene Christian University took to deliver a new level of student-faculty interaction. Learn More Refreshing honesty about the necessity of lying in job interviews Assuming no lie detector, of course. There's an interesting essay on LinkedIn this morning headlined: "Why You Must Lie On Job Interviews And What You Must Lie About.The advice comes from Mark Stevens, CEO of the marketing firm MSCO, and offers two classic job interview questions as examples: Do you work well with others? And: Why do you want to work for our company?To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Highfive wants to become the Nest of B2B video conferencing Conference calls are notoriously unproductive, and one company wants to fix that with simple videoconferencing. READ MORE Adobe Digital Editions allegedly spying, scanning PCs, uploading logs to servers Adobe Digital Editions is allegedly 'spying' by scanning PCs for any and all e-books -- even ones that have nothing to do with the app -- before uploading logs to an Adobe server. READ MORE IDG Contributor Network: Security flaw search engine Shodan adds reports Shodan, a search engine, trawls the Internet for connected devices. Newly-added reports, along with mapping, can help identify and visualize security vulnerabilities. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: XO Communications Clearing the Network Hurdle to Cloud Deployment Although enthusiasm is high among IT pros for cloud services, an IDG Research Quick Poll survey found that, in fact, the cloud is at a crossroads. Learn More The Linux Desktop-a-week review: Cinnamon I tried using a desktop I've long considered a waste of time, and I was pleasantly surprised. READ MORE Cisco rolls out easy-to-use iWAN Historically, "difficult to use" and "Cisco" have gone hand in hand. Cisco's new iWAN is an effort to get away from that. READ MORE Gigabit copper? Sckipio says yes The first applied use of a transmission protocol that can theoretically reach gigabit speeds over standard home copper connections debuts today, with the release of Sckipio Technology's G.Fast chipset. The G.Fast standard, approved in 2013 by the International Telecommunications Union, describes a protocol designed to achieve very high speeds over nothing more than the regular paired copper wires used in most U.S. homes. The drawback is that G.Fast only works over comparatively short distances – anything beyond 250 meters or so, delivered speeds drop precipitously, thanks to a noisy signal. Today's announcement includes two chipsets, the DP3000 distribution point unit, presumably designed to operate at the fiber end of the connection, and the CP1000, meant for the end user's modem. Sckipio said that each DP3000 can support up to 16 separate connections and as much as 10Gbps of total backhaul. Initial OEMs include XAVi, Suttle, Zinwell and VTech.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Cisco, EMC consortium debuts new cloud gear VCE, the converged infrastructure consortium of Cisco and EMC, this week unveiled new and enhanced data center IT systems, including an all-flash memory platform for mixed workloads. VCE is a leading vendor of integrated compute, storage, switching and virtualization infrastructure, a market it says, citing data from IDC, is growing 43% per year to $11.2 billion by 2017 from $3.6 billion in 2013. Other converged infrastructure offerings include the FlexPod reference architecture from Cisco and NetApp, "hyper-converged" systems from VMware, SimpliVity and Nutanix, and those from IBM, HP, Hitachi, Dell and Oracle.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Coresite 4 Advantages of Multi-Tenant Data Centers Increasing demands on IT are forcing organizations to rethink their data center options. For many organizations, that means turning to the flexibility afforded them by outsourced cloud solutions, which can provide exponential cost savings. Learn More >> Nobel Prize in Physics a Blue LED Special Three university researchers, two in Japan and one in the United States, have been awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for their invention in the early 1990s of the blue light-emitting diode (LED), an energy efficient breakthrough in producing longer-lasting white light.The Royal Swedish Academy of Science's award goes to Japanese-born Isamu Akasaki (Nagoya University and Meijo University) and Hiroshi Amano (Nagoya) and American-born Shuji Nakamura of the University of California at Santa Barbara (who has also won a nice related patent battle). Formally, the shared $1.1 million prize goes to the men for "for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Micron provides a software view into new co-processor A software kit for programmers should give developers an idea how the co-processor could work READ MORE Criminals used a malware program to steal millions from ATMs Criminals have stolen millions of dollars from ATMs worldwide using a specialized malware program that forces the machines to dispense cash on command.The malicious program, dubbed Backdoor.MSIL.Tyupkin, is designed to work on ATMs running 32-bit versions of Windows from a major manufacturer, Kaspersky Lab researchers said Tuesday.Rather than remotely exploiting software vulnerabilities, the attackers infected the ATMs by gaining physical access to controls that are typically protected by a locked panel.The malware is installed by inserting a bootable CD into the machine, after which "the criminals reboot the system, and the infected ATM is under their control," Vicente Diaz, principal security researcher at Kaspersky Lab said via email. "This operation allows the criminals to play with the ATM software in the way that they need to. So it's a completely different threat level, where software protection doesn't work."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE 'Unlawful' WiFi hotspot blocking ruling highlights academic IT headaches Managing the wireless environment at the average college or university can be a difficult task at the best of times, and when students and staff start using personal hotspots – the sort that provide wireless data access from the same -- it's not the best of times. READ MORE WEBCAST: IBM Accelerate your innovation with IBM Bluemix™ Join us for a webcast introducing the new IBM BluemixTM. IBM Bluemix (www.bluemix.net) is a developer oriented Platform as a Service (PaaS) environment that is based on the Cloud Foundry open source project. It provides you easy access to a rich library of IBM, 3rd party and open source runtimes, services and APIs. 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