Fastest Internet in US? It's Chattanooga, TN, Thanks to Local and Fed $$$ (Ps. Big Cable Very Angry)

http://m.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/30/1325887/-Fastest-Internet-in-US-It-s-Chattanooga-TN-Thanks-to-Local-and-Fed-Ps-Big-Cable-Very-Angry?detail=email

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• Asian firms face more data privacy scrutiny

Int'l Bytes: Telehouse, Telecity, Pacnet, euNetworks Posted: 28 Aug 2014 04:59 AM PDT With the Labor Day weekend fast approaching in the US, overseas is where to look for the interesting stuff.  Here's a quick rundown of some international items: … [visit site to read more]

European Telecoms Dance Over Brazil's GVT Posted: 28 Aug 2014 04:27 AM PDT The big global M&A news lately has been down in Brazil, but the players are mostly based out of Europe. The target is Global Village Telecom (GVT), the growing broadband operator which is currently owned by the French media company Vivendi, and coveted by both Telefonica and Telecom Italia. … [visit site to read more]

Asian firms face more data privacy scrutiny Posted: 28 Aug 2014 03:40 AM PDT This article was was originally posted on telecomasia.net. Companies across Asia face increased scrutiny on data privacy and cybercrime as governments in the region react to the increased frequency and severity of cyber-attacks. … [visit site to read more]

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Friday Roundup: tw telecom, CenturyLink, SEA-US, Masergy Posted: 29 Aug 2014 04:26 AM PDT Long weekend ahead, and I'll be on the road (probably in traffic). But first, a quick roundup of news to catch up on: … [visit site to read more]

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Dreaming Of Being Tesla...

 

There's a beauty and elegance in the olden days,
A craft of the mind-to-hand,
A curvature of style and function,
Something at once cosmic meditation and genius inspired,
If only we had the old Gods of lightning again,
Miracles would charge forth electric,
Legends walk the land and the dream,
Power arcing in our hands.

AquarianM

By: Daniel A. Stafford
(C) 08/29/2014

 

Hot products at VMworld 2014

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	Red Hat CTO abruptly resigns | What Apple can do to improve the iPhone 6 display
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	Hot products at VMworld 2014 Click through all the products being released at VMworld this week Read More   WEBCAST: IBM ING Transforms DevOps to Reduce Cost and Speed Delivery ING, one of the largest banks in Europe needed to reduce the high cost of isolated, inefficient application development. They chose IBM PureApplication System to move their IT infrastructure to a cloud-based shared service model. In this Webcast, ING executive, Mark Willemse, shares the lessons ING learned from this strategic initiative. Learn more In this Issue Red Hat CTO abruptly resigns What Apple can do to improve the iPhone 6 display Router malware: Fact or fiction? INSIDER IT Resume Makeover: How to Avoid Buzzword Burnout The Linux Desktop-a-week Review: elementary OS's Pantheon Apple confirms September 9 media event White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Is Kind of Right – but Mostly Wrong Key factors to consider when evaluating video conferencing The worst cloud outages of 2014 (so far) WHITE PAPER: Dropbox The Truth About Cloud Security "Security" is the number one issue holding business leaders back from the cloud. But does the reality match the perception? Keeping data close to home, on premises, makes business and IT leaders feel inherently more secure. But the truth is, cloud solutions can offer companies real, tangible security advantages. Learn more! Red Hat CTO abruptly resigns CTO Brian Stevens is out at Red Hat, according to a curt press release issued by the company Wednesday evening. Read More   What Apple can do to improve the iPhone 6 display For over a year, the main obsession about the upcoming 2014 iPhone models (i.e. iPhone 6) has been the size and resolution of the screen. But Apple faces other challenges for its mobile touchscreens, and how, or whether, it deals with those may have a bigger impact on the user experience than simply a bigger screen. Read More   Router malware: Fact or fiction? Malware affecting a computer's operation is not always found in the computer itself. Just recently we encountered a common operational issue on several computers in our home network. Various browsers on different computers running different operating systems were intermittently redirecting webpages. The issue manifests itself by redirecting webpages to an unfamiliar merchant site.[Home routers: Broken windows to the world]The confluence of characteristics of the particular malware, cache history of a user, settings on a particular computer, and how the aberrant browser behavior manifests itself can result in the troubleshooting effort becoming a head-scratcher. Issues relating to webpage redirection are likely attributed to a spurious domain name services (DNS) server.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More     INSIDER IT Resume Makeover: How to Avoid Buzzword Burnout Christopher White's resume was crammed with buzzwords, jargon and what executive resume writer, social media and career strategist Donald Burns calls "techno-gibberish."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More   The Linux Desktop-a-week Review: elementary OS's Pantheon My ongoing quest to live in every Linux Desktop Environment – for one week at a time – has brought me to a relative newcomer -- the elementary OS project's "Pantheon" environment.Read the journey so far: Enlightenment, Awesome, MATE, KDE Plasma, Ubuntu's Unity Last week, I was pretty hard on Unity. Specifically, I knocked Unity's lack of customizability and the fact that you can really only use Unity when running Ubuntu (and, even then, if you want the latest version of the Unity desktop, you need the latest version of Ubuntu itself... which is rather annoying).To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   Apple confirms September 9 media event Apple Thursday mailed formal invitations to a media event on September 9, to be held at the Flint Center, in Cupertino at 10 a.m. Pacific time. The company is widely expected to announce the next iPhone, presumably the iPhone 6, in two models with two different screen sizes Read More   White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Is Kind of Right – but Mostly Wrong   Poor Michael Daniel, the White House cybersecurity coordinator and the man who "leads the interagency development of national cybersecurity strategy and policy" is taking a beating in the press.  In a recent interview with federally-focused media outlet, GovInfoSecurity, Daniel defended his lack of security technology experience with the following statement:  "You don't have to be a coder in order to really do well in this position.  In fact, actually, I think being too down in the weeds at the technical level could actually be a little bit of a distraction.  You can get taken up and enamored with the very detailed aspects of some of the technical solutions and the real issue is looking at the broad strategic picture."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   Key factors to consider when evaluating video conferencing Simplicity, reliability, scalability and security are core considerations, but when it comes to questions about cost, take into account what you'll miss if you decide not to deploy. Read More   The worst cloud outages of 2014 (so far) Which companies have failed the worst when it comes to cloud outages in 2014? Time for the list no one wants to land on Read More
	SLIDESHOWS 12 oddball odes to open-source Hey, I just met you / and this is crazy / but here's my pub key / so msg me maybe. 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). Network World on Facebook Network World on LinkedIn MOST-READ STORIES of 2014 1. Toss routers with hardcoded passwords, expert says 2. One frustrating Linux problem that Windows, Mac users don't deal with 3. Netflix open sources internal threat monitoring tools 4. Internet of Overwhelming Things 5. US warns 'significant number' of major businesses hit by Backoff malware 6. 15 simple, secret Windows tips and tricks designed to save you time 7. Juniper CEO on IoT, co-creation and the IOP 8. The 10 best laptops of 2014 (so far) 9. 11 Internet of Things ideas worth watching 10. How Google Fiber is disrupting the broadband deployment model
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FirstLight Acquires G4, Further Expands in the Northeast Posted: 27 Aug 2014 08:01 AM PDT In some metro and regional fiber consolidation this morning, FirstLight Fiber has announced a deal that will expand their presence in upper New England.  FirstLight has agreed to acquire substantially all the assets of G4 Communications, a service provider that focuses on New Hampshire. … [visit site to read more]

Metro Bytes: DQE, SummitIG, XO Posted: 27 Aug 2014 07:01 AM PDT Here are three network buildouts on the east coast to take a quick look at today. … [visit site to read more]

CenturyLink Points Finger at Comcast's Heavy Hand? Posted: 27 Aug 2014 03:50 AM PDT Another opponent of the Comcast/TW Cable deal posted comments with the FCC before the deadline, but this one had more specific complaints. ArsTechnica has a nice article detailing CenturyLink's claims that Comcast has been throwing up roadblocks to stop them from entering the video business, and that letting them get bigger would just create even more opportunities to do it. … [visit site to read more]

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Time Warner Cable experiencing nationwide outages

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/27/time-warner-cable-experiencing-nationwide-outages/

Will cyborgs turn art into a supersensory futureworld?

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/27/will-cyborgs-turn-art-into-a-supersensory-futureworld/

Report: Russian computer hackers steal sensitive data from JPMorgan Chase

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/27/report-russian-computer-hackers-steal-sensitive-data-from-jpmorgan-chase/

Windows 9: To be free or not to be free, that is the question

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Annoying cubicle behavior Please join us on Facebook Network World Daily News PM August 27, 2014 Windows 9: To be free or not to be free, that is the question Here's a roundup of rumors about the upcoming release of Windows Threshold technical previews for users and enterprise as well as leaked details of what to expect in Windows 9...and varying sources arguing whether it will be "free" or $20 to upgrade. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Annoying cubicle behavior 2. Please join us on Facebook 3. This iPhone 6 leak video is just perfect 4. Pluralsight bags $135M to fortify online coding, tech course offerings 5. Widespread Time Warner Cable disruption affects Internet service subscribers 6. INSIDER Manage infrastructure convergence without losing your grip 7. Microsoft's Windows Store is a disaster area 8. Available spectrum could double with self-interference canceling algorithms 9. It's time for the Internet of Things to get serious 10. Fix found for Microsoft's Surface 3 overheating issues 11. MegaPath introduces new Unified Communications solution 12. Dropbox offers 1TB Pro plan for $9.99 13. Sign up for MORE Network World newsletters 14. 2014's Hottest IT Certification WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting for Dummies The Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting for Dummies Book introduces you to common network performance management (NPM) issues and give you a new way of looking at solving them. This perspective allows you to see your network from your users' point of view, namely, the services and applications they use and their experience with them. Learn More Annoying cubicle behavior In the recent news, there has become a divide among airline passengers over the tilting back of airline seats. Some airlines have banned an invention that prevents seats from being leaned back into you. It got me thinking what kind of annoyances do people have right at work in their cubicles. Read on to find out if you are the culprit of such indiscretions toward your neighbor.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Please join us on Facebook Please Like our Facebook page and share content with peers READ MORE This iPhone 6 leak video is just perfect With an Apple special media event rumored to be held in just about two weeks, the entire tech world will be laser focused on the iPhone 6. Over the past few months, there has been no shortage of photo leaks and video leaks purporting to show iPhone 6 components. READ MORE Pluralsight bags $135M to fortify online coding, tech course offerings Pluralsight, a Salt Lake City e-learning company that offers video-based courses on everything from Windows 8 to WebRTC to Apple iOS, has raised a fresh $135 million in venture funding. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Red Hat Administrators Need Agile Platform for New Era of Storage Read this whitepaper and learn how administrators are keeping up by guiding their enterprises toward new, software-defined storage platforms that simplify and unify storage capacity across the enterprise and into the cloud. Read Now Widespread Time Warner Cable disruption affects Internet service subscribers An issue with Time Warner Cable's Internet backbone disrupted the company's Internet and on demand services on Wednesday morning, the company said.The disruption started at 4.30 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time during routine network maintenance and affected all of the company's Internet service subscribers, said Time Warner Cable spokeswoman Bobby Amirshahi in an email. She couldn't say what exactly caused the disturbance. The company is still investigating the cause of the problem."As of 6 a.m., most customers were back online and as updates continue through the network, the vast majority should be up as of now," she said. It's not clear how long it will take to restore full service to all customers.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE INSIDER Manage infrastructure convergence without losing your grip Michael Heil remembers when network convergence began to make sense to him. A few years ago, the manager of infrastructure engineering for Cone Health, a regional health care provider in central North Carolina, was asked to stand up a large virtualized SQL environment running Microsoft Amalga in 90 days with no additional resources. About the same time, he was also asked to implement a new document management system -- again, with no extra hands on deck.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) READ MORE Microsoft's Windows Store is a disaster area Clones and ripoffs of legit software abound in a store that looks like a poorly maintained Wal-Mart. READ MORE Available spectrum could double with self-interference canceling algorithms Transmitting and receiving on the same frequency, at the same time, is something previously unattainable. However, if one company's new self-interference cancellation algorithm works as intended, full duplex may be just around the corner. READ MORE : IBM IBM Advanced Case Management Knowledge Vault Empower your knowledge workers to deliver better case outcomes. Visit the IBM Advanced Case Management Knowledge Vault to learn more. Learn More It's time for the Internet of Things to get serious The Internet of Things is a really, really big deal; so why do all the demos seem so trivial? READ MORE Fix found for Microsoft's Surface 3 overheating issues Microsoft's third stab at a tablet, the Surface Pro 3, seems to be faring a little better than its predecessors in terms of market embrace. However, problems with overheating and excessive fan noise have come to light in recent weeks. Here's how one user resolved these issues. READ MORE MegaPath introduces new Unified Communications solution MegaPath launched its Unified Communications service this week, integrating its existing IP voice telephony portfolio with enhanced collaboration features, such as screen sharing, presence, instant messaging, SMS text messaging, and videoconferencing.Unified Communications is available as an add-on to MegaPath's Hosted Voice service. The combined offer includes traditional telephony features, plus value added services such as voicemail transcribed as email, call recording, conferencing, and support for mobility -- as well as the new Unified Communications capabilities.Commenting in a statement on the latest upgrade to UC, MegaPath President Dan Foster said, "MegaPath's Unified Communications solution allows employees to easily and instantly connect and collaborate in a variety of ways from any device using their business VoIP number, regardless of whether they're in the office or working remotely."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Dropbox offers 1TB Pro plan for $9.99 Dropbox is consolidating its three Pro account options into a single plan that's priced at US$9.99 per month and includes 1TB of storage and added controls for document sharing and security.The Pro plan is aimed at freelancers, contractors and other workers who want more storage and tools than come with the free Basic plan, which starts at 2GB, but for whom a Business account might be overkill.Previously, Dropbox had three different Pro plans with 100GB, 200GB and 500GB of storage, priced at $9.99, $19.99, and $49.99 per month, respectively.In addition to a terabyte of storage, the new plan includes several features for collaborating with clients. There's "view-only" permissions, which an interior designer could use to let a client see a mockup of a design but not make changes to it, for instance.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Sign up for MORE Network World newsletters Daily News, Mobile & Wireless, Security and more... READ MORE 2014's Hottest IT Certification In the world of technology, the certifications and skills that organizations need to keep pace is constantly shifting. To help you find the most valuable certifications to advance your tech career, CIO.com spoke with David Foote, Chief Analyst and Research Officer with Foote Partners, to find out what certifications are on fire in today's IT market. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Box Five Ways Box Makes SharePoint Better This whitepaper describes the top five ways that businesses are adding mobility and collaboration to SharePoint with Box. 5 ways businesses add mobility and collaboration. 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