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	2014 Holiday Gift Guide: The other NSA also knows what you want | Cisco rounds out collaboration portfolio with Squared
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	Cool Yule Tools: Best techie gifts for 2014 Our motto: "He Sees You When You're Sleeping, He Knows When You're Awake…"Image by Troy GalluzziAfter months of investigations, cups of coffee and several arm-twisting interrogation tactics, the Cool Yule Tools staff of writers and editors has discovered a shocking truth. The government group that has allegedly been spying on us, known as the "NSA", is actually a cover group for a little-known organization with headquarters near the North Pole. Yes, we are speaking of the National Santa Agency. (See full writeups on these products.)To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: Flexera Software Best Practices for Enterprise App Store This paper presents seven best practices that have been identified based on the experiences of early adopters and research from independent research. By applying these best practices, you can ensure success and maximize the value that your enterprise app store delivers. Learn More>> In this Issue 2014 Holiday Gift Guide: The other NSA also knows what you want Cisco rounds out collaboration portfolio with Squared Encrypt everything, urges Internet Architecture Board 10 enterprise Internet of Things deployments with actual results 4K TV programming coming to DirecTV Bandwidth-hungry researchers gain 100G trans-Atlantic network connection Telephone tax hike part of FCC chairman's plan for Internet fund Hitting them where they work Mitel drops ShoreTel bid When Your Boss Won't Listen To You INSIDER 5 steps to more mobile-security-savvy employees : Brother International Corp. Virtual Training Programs for Remote Sales Agents Vehicle Protection Plus can train their sales agents, and get them productive, regardless of location using OmniJoin web conferencing. Find out how. Learn More>> 2014 Holiday Gift Guide: The other NSA also knows what you want Troy Galluzzi Our motto: "He Sees You When You're Sleeping, He Knows When You're Awake…" After months of investigations, cups of coffee and several arm-twisting interrogation tactics, the Cool Yule Tools staff of writers and editors has discovered a shocking truth. The government group that has allegedly been spying on us, known as the "NSA", is actually a cover group for a little-known organization with headquarters near the North Pole. Yes, we are speaking of the National Santa Agency.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Cisco rounds out collaboration portfolio with Squared An entirely new app built from the ground up, Cisco's Squared is a much-needed attempt at simplifying collaboration. Read More Encrypt everything, urges Internet Architecture Board The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) has issued a sweeping directive "for protocol designers, developers, and operators to make encryption the norm for Internet traffic ," even while acknowledging that such an approach will create major obstacles for some network operations.The statement also leaves unaddressed what will be inevitable howls of protest from the law enforcement and national security sectors, whose surveillance activities have long motivated those pushing for ubiquitous encryption.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More 10 enterprise Internet of Things deployments with actual results A look at some real-world IoT deployments that have actually delivered on the technology's massive promise. Read More 4K TV programming coming to DirecTV Is 4K TV the next big thing that the TV industry has been hoping for? Read More Bandwidth-hungry researchers gain 100G trans-Atlantic network connection The pressure is on research networks to jack up bandwidth to support ridiculously fast supercomputers, and this week four of those networks will demo their new 100Gbps trans-Atlantic connection at the SuperComputing conference (SC14) in New Orleans.The redundant ANA-200G ring will support data transfer between North America (Internet2 in the United States and CANARIE in Canada) and Europe (NORDUnet in 5 Nordic countries and SURFnet in The Netherlands) at speeds previously obtainable only within continents.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Telephone tax hike part of FCC chairman's plan for Internet fund A proposed US$0.16 fee increase on your telephone bill would go toward improving Internet access for kids in school and libraries.About two-thirds of U.S. schools don't have the broadband speeds they need to provide digital learning services, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler said Monday. Wheeler's proposal to revamp the 18-year-old E-Rate program, which helps schools and libraries pay for broadband infrastructure and services, would increase the agency's Universal Service Fund tax on each telephone line by up to $0.16 a month, from the current $0.99.With 45 percent of U.S. schools lacking Wi-Fi capacity to deliver service to each student, the U.S. is not meeting its goal of providing adequate broadband to schools, Wheeler said during a press conference. "We must do better," he said. "Investing E-Rate is about our education system, it's about our economy, and it's about our global competitiveness."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Hitting them where they work Marketing battles in the platform as a service market (PaaS) are some of the most entertaining to watch in the cloud business. Two companies in particular, Apprenda and Pivotal, go back and forth at it all the time.The latest entertaining installment involves Apprenda's new billboard-sized advertisement. Where did the company put it? What better place than the headquarters of its chief rival, Pivotal.+MORE AT NETWORK WORLD: re:Cap of re:Invent - 10 cool new features in Amazon's cloud +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Mitel drops ShoreTel bid Customers of ShoreTel phones and unified communications gear can stop worrying that their lives might get complicated by a merger between the company and its rival Mitel. Mitel has taken a $575 million offer for ShoreTel off the table stating the refusal of ShoreTel's board to talk about the offer. + More on Network World: 5 top-paying IT jobs for every stage of tech careers + "The decision to terminate the proposal early was made in light of the repeated refusal of ShoreTel's Board of Directors to engage in discussions of any kind regarding a potential transaction," Mitel says in a press release. The offer represented more than 24% more than what ShoreTel's stock was worth.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More When Your Boss Won't Listen To You There's little that's more frustrating at work than trying to tell your boss something important and realizing that she's not listening. You may have a great idea about how to serve your constituents. You may be telling her that her instructions make no sense. Or you may be warning her that her approach will destroy a project. Regardless of the context, when you see her failing to focus on what you say, you're left feeling dismissed, disrespected and powerless. All too often, I've seen people respond to these frustrations in ways that are perfectly natural, but — unfortunately — self-destructive. These include: Repeating themselves endlessly. Blowing up in anger. Telling everyone who will listen that the boss is an inconsiderate jerk. Fomenting a coup. Following their own path, disregarding instructions. Appealing to the boss's boss. Refusing to do anything. Petulantly and mindlessly following directions, abdicating all responsibility. Quitting in disgust. Many of those responses will bring trouble on your head, and none is likely to help you accomplish your original goal of helpfully advising your supervisor and making your team and yourself a success. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More INSIDER 5 steps to more mobile-security-savvy employees When it comes to mobile device security, we are our own worst enemies. Despite the fact that many people have come to rely on their mobile devices 24/7, most users don't appear to be getting any smarter about security, researchers say. The training module presents statistics about devices lost in airports and follows up with steps people can take to avoid misplacing their gadgets. Then the fun begins. Users assume the role of a Mario-type character in an online game, and they have 90 seconds to find 12 lost or stolen mobile devices in an airport based on the information they just learned. The user-controlled character runs through the airport — complete with check-in counters, a food court, a security conveyor belt and trams between terminals — and there's a rewarding "ding" for every device the user finds. "Nobody ever gets them all the first time, and they want to play it again," Lohrmann says.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More
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