Study: Most CEOs lack vision, leadership on tech

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IT shops share OpenFlow, SDN best practices New chip said to boost thumb drive performance up to 50% Network World Daily News AM October 08, 2013 Share this email Study: Most CEOs lack vision, leadership on tech A majority of CEOs are failing to steer their companies towards effective use of new computer technologies, which precludes their organizations from making major business improvements. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. IT shops share OpenFlow, SDN best practices 2. New chip said to boost thumb drive performance up to 50% 3. Microsoft offers Equinix customers private Azure access 4. iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending Oct. 6 5. Mystery solved: This 'thing' is a … 6. Extreme tech for covert audio surveillance 7. What market share numbers tell us about Apple's future 8. IT grapples with personal cloud storage use 9. Alcatel-Lucent to cut 15,000 jobs to focus on few businesses, reports say 10. Android browser tips and tricks RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: BlackBerry Trade up your licenses for free There is an easy, no-cost way for you to leverage your existing BlackBerry® investment and make the move to BlackBerry® Enterprise Service 10. Trade up your licenses for free to receive new licenses and server software that allows you to secure and manage BlackBerry® 10 smartphones. Learn more about the free license trade up offer. IT shops share OpenFlow, SDN best practices Two users are putting OpenFlow and software-defined networks through their paces in projects of varied urgency. READ MORE New chip said to boost thumb drive performance up to 50% Silicon Motion today announced it is sending samples of a new USB 3.0 controller chip that will boost performance in flash drives by up to 50%. READ MORE Microsoft offers Equinix customers private Azure access Microsoft will soon allow customers of Internet business exchange (IBX) provider Equinix to directly connect servers into the Windows Azure network, which could speed throughput of hybrid cloud applications. READ MORE WEBCAST: Dell Wyse and VMware Creating and Driving Organizational Agility IT is all about driving business agility. But you have to be agile to drive agility. And you calls for dynamic, flexible technology, like virtual desktop infrastructure. Explore how leveraging best practices and trusted partners through pre-configured solutions View Now iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending Oct. 6 The eco-friendly iOSsphere has already begun recycling lapsed iPhone 5S rumors for the iPhone 6. There's a comforting familiarity to it all. READ MORE Mystery solved: This 'thing' is a … Someone who apparently works in IT at a school or university posted this photo to Reddit this morning and asked: "What is this abomination?" Wrote the Redditor: "We found it in a faculty office after they left. It's a blue device with an ethernet port... Connected to an ethernet->serial adapter... Connected to a serial->USB adapter. What the hell is this thing?" READ MORE Extreme tech for covert audio surveillance The "ultimate sound probe" with a "sharp memory" that can hear something once and create a profile is the size of wooden match and capable of covert audio spying. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Novell Mobile Zen: Balancing End-User Productivity and IT Control Mobility is often seen as a zero-sum game: either end users or IT can win, but never both. Learn how users can have the convenience and mobile productivity they need, while IT retains control over enterprise goods. Victory for both sides. Learn More What market share numbers tell us about Apple's future Android is pulling away and Windows Phone is catching up. So where does iOS stand? READ MORE IT grapples with personal cloud storage use The BYOD trend is driving increased use of personal cloud-based storage services such as Box, Copy, Dropbox, Evernote, Mozy and SugarSync. But are enterprises ready for the results? Insider (registration required) READ MORE Alcatel-Lucent to cut 15,000 jobs to focus on few businesses, reports say Alcatel-Lucent will announce Tuesday up to 15,000 job cuts by 2015 as the company tries to focus on a few core businesses, according to reports. READ MORE Android browser tips and tricks READ MORE WEBCAST: HP & Intel® Cloud Knowledge Vault According to market research, more than 60 percent of enterprises will have adopted some form of cloud computing by 2013. 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The 'Bad Boys' of open source

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One Dead 'Droid...

Ok, I give up. My HTC Amaze has bitten the dust. The poor beast died in my hand this past evening. It just went dark right while I was using it. Then the charging indicator LED went dark. It won't boot. It won't do anything. I tried removing and re-installing the battery, but no-go. Nada da nothinga.

This is my requiem for a beloved phone. I really enjoyed the way the Amaze worked, the camera, the removable battery, the 16GB micro-SD slot, the look and feel of the UI, the dual LED flash/flashlight, the great speaker, and more. What I hated was how it got pretty warm when I was using the 4G data, and how it sucked battery like a jet fighter on afterburner. Crash-and-burn, Maverick, but I'll miss ya.

Since the HTC One seems a step backward to me, with its sealed-in battery and 5-MP camera, (The Amaze had an 8-MP for pity's sake!) and no micro-sd slot, I skipped it altogether. As far as I'm concerned, HTC went backward on their new flagship. Nada gonna bite.

I've ordered a pair of Sony Experia Z's from T-Mobile. (purple was the only online option)

Here's Phonescoop.com's take on the phone: http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=4010

I'm not thrilled about the irreplacable battery, or the inability to customize the home-screen clock, and the hatches over all the ports might drive me bats, but otherwise I'm down with what's being described in the reviews.

Still Droid.

Dan