| Network World Daily News PM | | | | A couple of organizations are taking issues with Cisco CEO John Chambers' claims that it's "game over" for SDN and that Cisco has won the SDN battle with its Application Centric Infrastructure. The Open Networking Foundation, which is encouraging standardization of the classical SDN model of decoupled control and data planes facilitated by the OpenFlow protocol, has butt heads with ONF member Cisco before.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here | | | Issue highlights 1. New products of the week 11.17.2014 2. INSIDER How to set up 802.1X client settings in Windows 3. Why I am not deleting my Uber app 4. 8 ways Lollipop 5.0 reinvents Android 5. Black Friday: Microsoft slashing Surface, laptop, Xbox prices 6. Google Internet balloon drops in on farmer 7. NSA director: No changes in telephone record collection coming 8. Florida: Land of the mobile technology store 9. 9 apps to help you find people during disasters 10. Does being first in supercomputing still matter? 11. 4 ways your competitors are stealing your IT talent 12. INSIDER 8 tech buzzwords that you need to know 13. Hot products from AWS: reInvent | | RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: SolarWinds® SolarWinds® Log & Event Manager is a comprehensive SIEM for any security pro. Increase security visibility with 24x7 automated monitoring and real-time analysis. Tackle log management and compliance monitoring with expert developed, pre-packaged templates. Perform rapid root cause analysis with built-in intelligence and strong visualization. Gain the power of SIEM without spending a fortune or hiring an army. Download a free, fully-functional trial and start analyzing your log files within an hour. | | Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as F5 Networks and Dell READ MORE | | Understanding all the 802.1X client settings in Windows can certainly help during deployment and support of an 802.1X network. This is especially true when manual configuration of the settings is required, such as in a domain environment or when fine-tuning wireless roaming for latency-sensitive clients and applications, like VoIP and video.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) READ MORE | | The big trend in tech blogging this week is deleting the Uber mobile app and then blogging about it. Look around and you'll find dozens of bloggers declaring that they've joined the boycott, or finding some other way to capitalize on the company's ongoing PR disaster.If you're not caught up on it yet, the latest controversy with Uber involves its apparent abuse of user data for no legitimate reason. When Buzzfeed News reporter Johana Bhuiyan showed up at Uber's New York headquarters for a meeting, Uber's New York general manager Josh Mohrer reportedly met her outside and told her he had been tracking her Uber ride to the office. This was two months after Mohrer had emailed Bhuiyan records of her previous Uber activity, which Bhuiyan never requested nor authorized him to access.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Android 5.0 Lollipop heralds a new era for the operating system, one aimed at unifying the Android experience across devices and built with business use squarely in mind. While iOS may have enjoyed early darling status in the enterprise, expect business organizations to take Android much more seriously going forward, thanks to a raft of significant improvements, an extensive set of new developer APIs, and clear signals that Google intends to lead the Android ecosystem more intentionally than ever before.Lollipop is in many ways a reimagining of what Android can be, and Google has rebuilt Android Lollipop from the ground up with the future in mind. Injecting new support for faster and more efficient hardware, Google has laid a strong foundation for developers and device makers to take the platform to new heights in powering the next generation of smartphones, tablets, and wearables.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | 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 | | Microsoft Microsoft has revealed a slew of Black Friday deals, including big cuts intended to move its iPad rival, the Surface Pro 3 tablet.Microsoft's 2014 Black Friday deals technically start to phase in on Monday, Nov. 24, with the rest in effect by Thanksgiving Day.MORE: 20+ Eye-Popping Black Friday 2014 Tech DealsTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Buyers of the earthly explanation for whatever fell from the sky in Roswell, N.M. back in 1947 are likely to appreciate the reaction of a South African farmer who recently came across what he assumed to be a crashed weather balloon.In this case, however, the confusion proved only temporary.From a Wall Street Journal account: According to a report Thursday in the Afrikaans-language Beeld newspaper, Urbanus Botha, who farms in the arid landscape of the Karoo south of Bloemfontein and Lesotho in the center of South Africa, came across the crashed balloon and initially thought it a weather balloon from the nearby weather station at De Aar. He called up the station's office but nobody picked up, so he packed it into his pickup truck, thinking that its plastic could come in handy as he planned to repaint his shed.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | The U.S. National Security Agency is planning no major changes in its domestic telephone records collection program after a bill to rein in those efforts failed in the Senate this week, the agency's director said.The NSA will continue to collect U.S. telephone records in bulk, while operating under some restrictions President Barack Obama put on the program back in January, Admiral Michael Rogers, the NSA's director, said during a House of Representatives hearing on cybersecurity Thursday. The NSA would rather wait to see what specific changes to the program Congress will require before making major changes, he told the House Intelligence Committee.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Location technology company Skyhook Wireless this week celebrated the coming of Black Friday this month by releasing one of those fancy multifaceted infographics that most of us have come to ignore. But this one caught my eye, and here's why.Tapping its location database, which advertisers and app developers exploit to optimize their content, Skyhook put together a colorful map of the United States that uses icons to highlight which sort of retailer has the highest presence per capita in each state. (Skyhook says "The goal was to uncover how population density impacts the presence of retailers in each US city and state, as well as how the presence of different types of retailers in an area reflects the lifestyle of that region.")To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | : MoreDirect In this eGuide, Computerworld along with sister publications InfoWorld and CIO look at recent disaster recovery trends and offer expert opinions and advice. Read on to learn how the right disaster recovery efforts can protect your organization's data. Learn More | | Apps to the rescueThere is nothing more nerve wracking than not knowing where someone important to you is during a disaster. The emergence of Twitter has provided an avenue of sorts for people to find out if someone has made it out alive. But if it is ever to the point in which loved ones, or employees in your organization, have not yet been found, these apps could help emergency personnel locate them.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | NEW ORLEANS -- The European forecast of Hurricane Sandy in 2012 was so far ahead of U.S. models in predicting the storm's path that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was called before Congress to explain how it happened.NOAA administrator Kathryn Sullivan told lawmakers at a hearing last year that the Europeans "set a target and a policy of staying very close to the leading edge of computational capacity." That's in contrast to the U.S., which "falls further and further behind the cutting edge" and then follows it with a "big step forward," she said.That's how things work in the U.S. When the Soviets launched Sputnik in 1957, the "big step forward" for the U.S. was the moon landing in 1969. It crushed the competition.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | One of the best places for your competitors to find great talent is within the walls of your company. If your best and brightest have been jumping ship to work for your biggest rival, it's important to know how they're being recruited, why they are being targeted and what you can do to stop it. Here's how your competitors may be poaching your talent.They're Using Professional Search Tactics Savvy companies know that the best talent is often already employed - with their competitors. Hiring a professional search firm -- or if that's not financially feasible, copying their subtle approach -- can lure away even the most content employees. As this Inc. Magazine article points out, targeting successful talent and then making contact via social networks like Facebook or LinkedIn, or at professional networking events, conferences or industry events with the promise of a "great opportunity" can pique their interest and entice them to consider a move.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Buzzwords are a fact of life in the technology profession. Whether you've been in the industry for 30 years (remember WYSIWYG?) or for five (netiquette, anyone?), it's a good bet you've incorporated tech-speak into your everyday conversation, maybe without even knowing it.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) READ MORE | | As the show gets rolling this week, here are some of the products on display READ MORE | | WHITE PAPER: IBM Forrester has released its 2014 Dynamic Case Management Wave, and for the second consecutive time, IBM is a leader. 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