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Computerworld Networking Mar 02, 2016 The Internet of Trees With virtually everything becoming sensor-laden and connected, even nature is a source of big data. Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • IoT can be hard, but Red Hat and Eurotech are teaming up to make it easier • IoT users could win with a new bill in the US Senate • Microsoft, Raspberry Pi want you to launch Pi 3-based IoT, smart-home businesses • Smart city tech shows complex connections between data and sensors (+video) • IoT will play a big role in smart city advances • New firmware analysis framework finds serious flaws in Netgear and D-Link devices • Internet2 at 20: Alive and kicking • 64-bit Raspberry Pi 3 is 50% faster, with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth -- yet still only $35 • Router security done wrong • The Internet's routing security needs an urgent fix, but it'll require collaboration • Go inside a security operations center Video/Webcast: WSO2 Inc API Management Platform Technical Evaluation Framework This recording will describe innovative digital business goals, outlines transformative API oriented IT initiatives, and present API management platform requirement categories. Read More ▶ IoT can be hard, but Red Hat and Eurotech are teaming up to make it easier Getting IT to work smoothly is a challenge even when all the parts are in-house, but that's nothing compared with the widely dispersed Internet of Things. Enter Red Hat and Eurotech, which on Tuesday announced a new partnership aimed at simplifying the integration of all those IoT pieces. Read More ▶ IoT users could win with a new bill in the US Senate Four U.S. senators have proposed a bill that would call on the Federal Communications Commission to study the need for more spectrum to connect Internet of Things devices. Read More ▶ Microsoft, Raspberry Pi want you to launch Pi 3-based IoT, smart-home businesses Microsoft and Raspberry Pi want people to build businesses and start Kickstarter campaigns around cool devices making use of the new Raspberry Pi 3 computer. Read More ▶ Smart city tech shows complex connections between data and sensors (+video) At Mobile World Congress, hundreds of companies showed off new smart city technologies, some that are still in the start-up phase while others are being implemented in select cities. Read More ▶ Video IoT will play a big role in smart city advances Smart parking, smart highways and smart bikes -- all linked by low-cost modules and sensors that can be connected wirelessly -- are all part of what's coming. Watch Now ▶ New firmware analysis framework finds serious flaws in Netgear and D-Link devices A team of security researchers found serious vulnerabilities in more than a dozen wireless routers and access points from Netgear and D-Link with the help of an open-source framework that can be used to perform dynamic security analysis on embedded firmware. Read More ▶ Internet2 at 20: Alive and kicking After building 8.8Tbit OpenFlow-based SDN network linking university researchers, Internet 2 pivots to R&D, new apps, cloud services. Read More ▶ 64-bit Raspberry Pi 3 is 50% faster, with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth -- yet still only $35 Raspberry Pi has a new offering, and it's fab'lous, lookyou. The Cymru-built Pi 3 gets a 64-bit chip, with wireless LAN, Bluetooth, and double-clocked GPU, yet it's backwards-compatible with older models, plus they've kept the price at a mere $35—as they say in Wales, anghredadwy! Read More ▶ Router security done wrong Since it sits between all your devices and the Internet, securing a router is important. As with everything else, the Internet is chock full of advice, much of it questionable. Here, I question security advice from the Federal Trade Commission and ZDNet. Read More ▶ The Internet's routing security needs an urgent fix, but it'll require collaboration The Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS), an initiative backed by the Internet Society to fix routing security on the Internet, is gaining traction. But the number of attacks that take advantage of weaknesses in the global routing system are also growing. Read More ▶ Go inside a security operations center A virtual tour of managed security services provider Alert Logic reveals how proactive monitoring detects breaches and accelerates incident response. Read More ▶ Video/Webcast: WSO2 Inc A Pragmatic Approach to Microservice Architecture: The Role of Middleware Microservice architecture (MSA) is fast becoming a popular architecture pattern in today's agile enterprises. Read More ▶ The 2016 Premier 100 Technology Leaders Check out our March Digital Magazine, featuring this year's class of honorees: The 2016 Premier 100 Technology Leaders. 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