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	Using private clouds for all the right reasons Private clouds are all the buzz these days, so you'd be forgiven for thinking that everybody's doing it. But in fact, fewer companies than you might think have deployed 'true' private clouds. Read More   RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Data+ Conference Final Week to Register: Data+ Conference, Sept 8-10, Arizona Sessions Will Cover: optimizing and building big data strategies, implementing true, advanced analytics, leveraging mobile data and social media, building a secure and accessible data strategy, improving data visualization and reporting, integrating Hadoop and other open source technologies, and more. Register now. In this Issue Most Internet users take steps to avoid surveillance Security Manager's Journal: Thinking about passwords Intel pushes speed, reliability claims with its new MXC cable Computing fossils: Old tech holding on for dear life Privacy groups want FTC to oppose Facebook's policy changes Yahoo freshens its image with a new logo Not quite Heinz: Intel's Avoton server chip comes in 13 varieties Video: IFA 2013: Sony's Z1 smartphone focuses on photography with high end sensors and lenses 'Hash Hunters' Web service cracks password hashes for bitcoins Cache warfare: Azure and AWS get updated caching services Qualcomm to ship Toq smartwatch with Mirasol display in Q4 Topsy wants to become the Google search of Twitter Apple iPhone supplier criticized for labor violations in China Microsoft wins jury trial in patent dispute with Motorola Yorgen Edholm: Get your enterprise content (safely) into the hands of your mobile workers JR Raphael: 5 things to note about the Galaxy Note 3 Michael Horowitz: Tracking the Flash Player in Chrome - none of your business IT Blogwatch: Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch: VERY mixed reviews WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Preparing Your Infrastructure for the Hyperconvergence Era From cloud computing and virtualization to mobility and unified communications, an array of innovative technologies is transforming today's data centers. And along the way, they're also flooding corporate networks with enormous new torrents of traffic. Read Now Most Internet users take steps to avoid surveillance   A majority of U.S. Internet users polled in a recent survey report taking steps to remove or mask their digital footprints online, according to a report from the Pew Research Center's Internet Project and Carnegie Mellon University. Read More   Security Manager's Journal: Thinking about passwords   The passwords most people choose could be stronger, but providers need to make it easier to create really strong passphrases. And when will we be able to leave passwords behind and use alternative authentication methods instead? Read More   Intel pushes speed, reliability claims with its new MXC cable An optical interconnect introduced by Intel on Wednesday may someday slim down cabling throughout data centers if the company can get enough vendors to mass-produce it. Read More   Computing fossils: Old tech holding on for dear life Some ancient technology is still useful -- and some just won't die. Read More   Privacy groups want FTC to oppose Facebook's policy changes Six privacy groups have asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to strike down proposed changes to Facebook's policies, as they violate a 2011 settlement with the agency over user privacy. Read More   Yahoo freshens its image with a new logo Yahoo's logo is now a little bit sleeker, under a redesign unveiled Wednesday in keeping with the company's reinvention efforts. Read More   Not quite Heinz: Intel's Avoton server chip comes in 13 varieties Intel is taking another run at the market for low-power, high-density servers with its new "Avoton" chip, which was launched Wednesday and will do battle with an expected upcoming wave of ARM-based processors. Read More   Video: IFA 2013: Sony's Z1 smartphone focuses on photography with high end sensors and lenses The phone has a 21-megapixel camera with one of the company's high performance G lenses, an Exmor RS image sensor that works well in low light and one of the company's Bionz image processing chips. Follow reporter Nick Barber on Twitter @nickjb Read More   'Hash Hunters' Web service cracks password hashes for bitcoins A search for "Hash Hunters" turns up marijuana-themed t-shirts for sale. It also brings up a password-cracking outsourcing service, payable in bitcoin. Read More   WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation   VMware Horizon View and EMC VSPEX Take the Easy Route to Next Generation Virtual Desktops. Learn how VSPEX with End User Computing Transforms Central Vermont Medical Center IT from Problem Solver to Business Enabler. Learn More. Cache warfare: Azure and AWS get updated caching services The competition between Microsoft's Windows Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) has moved to the caching layer: Both companies updated their caching services this week. Read More   Qualcomm to ship Toq smartwatch with Mirasol display in Q4 Qualcomm Wednesday unveiled a smartwatch it says will have a low-power Mirasol display and be compatible with Android mobile devices. Read More   Topsy wants to become the Google search of Twitter Searching through Twitter's archive of tweets can be frustrating -- they are sorted on the site by Twitter's own algorithms, and older tweets tend to get buried. Google? Forget it. Topsy, an analytics company, wants to do it better. Read More   Apple iPhone supplier criticized for labor violations in China A labor watchdog group is slamming one of Apple's suppliers for allegedly exploiting its Chinese workers to build the upcoming budget iPhone. Read More   Microsoft wins jury trial in patent dispute with Motorola A jury in Seattle, Washington, has ruled in favor of Microsoft in a patent dispute with Motorola Mobility over standards patents, according to court records. Read More   Yorgen Edholm: Get your enterprise content (safely) into the hands of your mobile workers Last week I wrote about finding a better way to use sync technologies so that all employees can access the information they need, on the device they choose. What if instead of sync, you gave everyone direct access from their mobile devices to the latest versions of corporate documents? This is a new frontier in productivity: mobile access to enterprise content management (ECM) systems. Read More   JR Raphael: 5 things to note about the Galaxy Note 3 Large as it may be, there's more to the Galaxy Note 3 than meets the eye. Here are five noteworthy facts about Samsung's new plus-sized smartphone. Read More   Michael Horowitz: Tracking the Flash Player in Chrome - none of your business Neither Google or Adobe have bothered to mention that the embedded version of Flash in the Chrome browser was updated two weeks ago. What changed in this version of Flash? Seems like its none of our business. Read More   IT Blogwatch: Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch: VERY mixed reviews The category has promise, but this isn't the sine qua non. Samsung proudly unveils its smartwatch. The Galaxy Gear is a $300 accessory that does more than tell the time. The watch allows you to keep you oversized phablet in your pocket. But it's full of worrying compromises. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers look to the next smartwatch to fulfil their dreams. Read More
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