Windows 10: A guided tour

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Namifying has gotten out of controlify GlobalFoundries to take over IBM's semiconductor unit in $1.3 billion deal Network World Daily News AM October 20, 2014 Windows 10: A guided tour A guided tourMicrosoft released a technical preview of the next version of Windows for the public to download and try for free. Although a final release with additional features isn't expected until the middle of 2015, there are already a number of changes compared to Windows 8.1. Here are some of the most prominent.Return of the Start MenuClicking the Windows logo Start button, or pressing the Windows logo key on the keyboard, summons the Start Menu, which was last seen in Windows 7, but absent from Windows 8 and 8.1. The left half of this Start Menu lists pinned applications, apps and folders, and recently opened programs and other items. The right half displays the tiles of Windows Apps -- it's like a mini version of the Start Screen from Windows 8/8.1 attached to the Start Menu. Just as on the Start Screen, you can rearrange the placement of these tiles by clicking-holding-and-dragging on each one.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Namifying has gotten out of controlify 2. GlobalFoundries to take over IBM's semiconductor unit in $1.3 billion deal 3. 3D-printed gun maker draws jail term in Japan 4. New products of the week 10.20.2014 5. Is your Ethernet fast enough? Four new speeds are in the works 6. Dropbox used for convincing phishing attack 7. Facebook wants DEA to confirm it stopped using fake profiles impersonating others 8. Obama orders chip-and-PIN in government credit cards 9. Snapchat rolling out non-'creepy' ads that still might get creepy 10. Apple's iPad Air 2 chip paves the way for new devices 11. Neil Young's Pono music store has more than 600K songs 'ingested,' downloads are another matter 12. Yet another Proofpoint for Network and Endpoint Security Integration 13. Suspicions dashed, Dell cozies up to OpenDaylight 14. Air Force's super-secret space drone comes home 15. IDG Contributor Network: Samsung lurking in Millimeter spectrum WEBCAST: Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise University Surpasses Students' Digital Expectations The explosion of mobile device use is testing the limits of legacy networks everywhere. In this webcast you will learn how Abilene Christian University meets the mobile access demands of 4500 University students, and 250,000 connections per day. Learn More Namifying has gotten out of controlify Chris Johnson, a Seattle-based branding consultant operating as The Name Inspector, has been watching a company name trend for several years now that is likely attributable to the success of Spotify: slapping "ify" on the end of otherwise perfectly good words.  Dating back to 2007, Johnson has counted some 337 such company names; 101 last year and 73 so far this year. The chart he fashioned is a bit big to be legible here, so let's just list this year's batch of namified names (prepare for some scrolling):To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE GlobalFoundries to take over IBM's semiconductor unit in $1.3 billion deal IBM will sell the semiconductor technologies unit that makes its Power processors to GlobalFoundries, paying the chip manufacturer about US$1.3 billion to take two factories off its hands in a move to save money.Like many old-school tech companies IBM has struggled to find its feet in a world where mobile devices and cloud services are becoming increasingly important. The company is under pressure to cut costs as well as find ways to halt falling revenues.The deal with GlobalFoundries and the sale of its server business to Lenovo falls into the first category. In a bid a to get a better foothold in the growing mobile enterprise sector, the company announced a partnership with Apple in July. As part of the deal IBM will develop iOS apps that integrate with its big data and analytics services and promote iPhones and iPads.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE 3D-printed gun maker draws jail term in Japan A Japanese court on Monday sentenced a man to two years in prison for making firearms with a 3D printer.The Yokohama District Court handed down the sentence to Yoshitomo Imura, a 28-year-old former employee of Shonan Institute of Technology who made a number of guns with a 3D printer in his home in Kawasaki outside Tokyo last year.Imura was arrested in May on a charge of illegal weapons possession in what media reports described as Japan's first such case involving 3D-printed firearms."This has shown that anyone can illegally manufacture guns with a 3D printer, flaunting their knowledge and skill, and it is an offense to make our country's strict gun controls into a dead letter," public broadcaster NHK quoted judge Koji Inaba as saying in the ruling on Monday.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE New products of the week 10.20.2014 Products of the weekOur roundup of intriguing new products. Read how to submit an entry to Network World's products of the week slideshow.Docker 1.3Key features: Docker 1.3 delivers digital signature verification for Docker official content repos, the ability to inject new "helper" processes into a containerized applications and an ability to tune container lifecycles. More info.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Is your Ethernet fast enough? Four new speeds are in the works ethernet's future is now about much more than the next top speed: The engineers charting a path for the ubiquitous networking protocol are looking at several new versions to serve a variety of applications.At a meeting last Thursday of the ethernet Alliance, an industry group that promotes IEEE ethernet standards, three major new projects were up for discussion.To meet immediate demands in cloud data centers, there's a standard in the works for 25Gbps (bits per second). For the kinds of traffic expected in those clouds a few years from now, experts are already discussing a 50Gbps specification. And for enterprises with new, fast Wi-Fi access points, there may soon be 2.5Gbps ethernet. That's in addition to the next top speed for carrier backbones and moves to adapt the technology for use in cars.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks Architecting the Network of the Future Today, both IT and the business are requiring more of their networks. But networks designed to simply forward packets don't have the capability or the intelligence to understand today's high-level, application-related demands. Networks need to change, as does the way IT thinks about and manages them. Learn more >> Dropbox used for convincing phishing attack Dropbox's file storage service was used for a tricky phishing attack, although the service was quick to shut down it down, according to Symantec.The security vendor said it detected a batch of phishing emails advising recipients that they've been sent a large file and included a link to Dropbox-hosted page."The email claims the document can be viewed by clicking on the link included in the message," wrote Nick Johnston of Symantec in a blog post. "However, the link opens a fake Dropbox login page, hosted on Dropbox itself."By hosting the fake login page on Dropbox, the scammers gain some benefits over hosting it on a random, strange-looking domain name. The phishing page is contained within Dropbox's user content domain, similar to shared photos or files, Johnston wrote.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Facebook wants DEA to confirm it stopped using fake profiles impersonating others Facebook wants to make sure the Drug Enforcement Administration does not create any more fake Facebook accounts and that it has stopped using any it has created. "The DEA's deceptive actions violate the terms and policies that govern the use of the Facebook service and undermine trust in the Facebook community."In a letter to DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart, Facebook chief security officer Joe Sullivan added, "We regard DEA's conduct to be a knowing and serious breach of Facebook's terms and policies."Facebook said it does not dispute Sondra Arquiett's allegations that the DEA setup a fake Facebook account to impersonate her and posted photos of her that were seized from her cellphone. DEA agent Timothy Sinnigen used the fake profile to interact with "dangerous individuals he was investigating." Arquiett is suing DEA agent Sinnigen and the government for "violating her privacy and placing her in danger;" she's seeking $250,000 in damages.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Obama orders chip-and-PIN in government credit cards President Barack Obama issued an executive order on Friday to have secure chip-and-PIN technology embedded into government-issued credit and debit cards as part of a broader move aimed at stemming payment data breaches.Under the order, government-issued cards that transmit federal benefits such as Social Security will have microchips embedded instead of the usual magnetic strips, as well as associated PINs like those typically used for consumer debit cards. A replacement program for the cards is set to begin on Jan. 1 of next year, with the goal to have more than 1 million such cards issued by the end of the year, Obama said at the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, according to a press release.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Snapchat rolling out non-'creepy' ads that still might get creepy Ads are officially coming to Snapchat, in a form the company says is not "targeted," but Snapchat's own terms of service suggest it could do something very much like that.The first ad will appear this weekend in the U.S., in the "recent updates" section of the app. That means it won't be pushed to users like a personal message, and users can choose whether to open it or not. It will disappear after it is viewed or within 24 hours, the same way the "Stories" feature works, the company said Friday in a blog post.The company did not say who the first advertiser would be, and a spokeswoman declined to comment further.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Apple's iPad Air 2 chip paves the way for new devices Apple's iPad Air 2 is faster than its predecessors thanks to the A8X chip, which could pave the way for the company to put its homegrown silicon in large-screen tablets, TVs, cars and even laptops.The A8X, an ARM architecture chip built by Apple, has enough horsepower for the company to bring 4K screens, better cameras and advanced sensors to its tablets, industry observers said. The 64-bit chip was specially designed for the new tablet and is not simply an adaptation of its cousin, the A8, which is in the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus.Apple doesn't share information about future devices, but there have been rumors about a larger iPad and an Apple TV set-top box. The company is also chasing opportunities in the automotive and health markets.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE : BMC Software Case Study: IT Data Analytics - BMC Software BMC Software is not only a provider of IT management software but also a consumer of that software. Learn how BMC IT uses BMC's TrueSight IT Data Analytics to get to the root cause of an issue by automatically searching multiple log files for errors or service disruptions. Learn More>> Neil Young's Pono music store has more than 600K songs 'ingested,' downloads are another matter Neil Young says he is making progress toward filling his online Pono store with millions of high-fidelity music files. He's mum, though, on exactly when people can actually start downloading and listening.There's now more than 600,000 songs in the catalog for the Pono music store, the 68-year-old rocker said Thursday. The store is an online component of the music service Young is trying to get off the ground, with the physical Pono player comprising the hardware.Young, however, stopped short of providing details about when the tracks would be made available to the public. "We're currently ingesting these tracks," he said, speaking at the Salesforce Dreamforce conference in San Francisco.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Yet another Proofpoint for Network and Endpoint Security Integration As I've mentioned many times in my blog, there is a lot of evidence suggesting a trend toward the amalgamation of endpoint and network security. Here's another recent data point that supports this further.  ESG recently published a new research report titled, Network Security Trends in the Era of Cloud and Mobile Computing.  The report is based upon a survey of security professionals working at enterprise organizations (i.e. more than 1,000 employees).  ESG asked them: "Is your organization engaged in any type of project to integrate anti-malware and analytics technologies on networks and endpoints?"  Nearly one-quarter (22%) said, "yes, extensively," while another 39% responded, "yes, somewhat" (Note: I am an ESG employee).To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Suspicions dashed, Dell cozies up to OpenDaylight Dell has upped its participation in the OpenDaylight Project from Silver to Platinum, the highest and most expensive tier in the open source SDN consortium, after initially being suspicious of the effort. Dell, as you'll recall, went off and started its own SDN working committee within the Object Management Group after having misgivings about how open and meritocratic OpenDaylight would be given its gestation within the wombs of Cisco and IBM.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Air Force's super-secret space drone comes home The Air Force's acknowledged one thing about its secretive X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle today—it has returned from a 674-day trip into Earth's orbit – or wherever else it might have snuck off too while it was up there.According to the Air Force, the X-37B landed at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base on Friday (Oct. 17) at 9:24 a.m. local Pacific time (12:24 p.m.) EDT. It was the only update the public was given since the spacecraft took off on Dec. 11, 2012. It was the Orbital Test Vehicle program's third mission.+More on Network World: Mars gets close encounter with a comet+To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE IDG Contributor Network: Samsung lurking in Millimeter spectrum For those frustrated by choppy connections when watching mobile TV on their smartphones, Samsung has news. It's been successfully testing wireless 5G at speeds of 7.5 Gbps. That's 30 times as fast as current LTE technology.That 7.5 Gbps is the fastest-ever 5G transmission rate while stationary, according to Samsung. The company also obtained what it calls an "uninterrupted and stable" connection at 1.2 Gbps while moving. It used a vehicle traveling at over 62 mph.One of the more notable features of these recent tests is that they were conducted outside. Generally, tests like these are conducted in a laboratory setting. An outside environment will proffer interference, not found in the lab.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WEBCAST: CenturyLink Effective collaboration = exceptional customer engagement Live on 10/21. IT leaders are constantly required to do more with less, but even as new digital technologies now play the most vital role in engaging customers, many IT groups spend 75% of their resources on legacy application maintenance. Join us to learn how IT organizations can pivot from maintenance to creation and innovation. View now SLIDESHOWS The Onion's 9 best bits about Microsoft Poking fun at the software giant and founder Bill Gates since 1996. 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. 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