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Network World Mobile & Wireless Alert Nov 02, 2016 Keith Ohlfs, man behind macOS pinwheel & much more, passes away at 52 Keith Ohlfs, a talented software UX designer whose claims to fame included working on the operating system at the heart of Steve Jobs' NeXT Computer systems, has died at the age of 52 from a heart attack. Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • New products of the week 10.31.16 • Review: 7 PDF editing tools for iOS and Android • Microsoft introduces mobile scheduling app for Outlook • How sports execs use tech to improve fan engagement • Dell, Amazon, Newegg beat Black Friday 2016 rush • Twitter video app dying on the Vine • CIO security lessons: Dark thinking on IoT & exploding enterprise networks • 11 things Android phone makers should copy from the Pixel • DARPA looking to develop drone destroying, personnel protection system White Paper: IBM Corporation The 2016 State of DBaaS Report The philosophy behind a service-oriented culture - in which software, infrastructure and more are delivered "as-a-Service" - is that it allows companies to focus on their core business. With the introduction of database-as-a-service (DBaaS), the data layer now follows that same model. Read More ▶ New products of the week 10.31.16 Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as Rackspace and Cayuga Networks. Read More ▶ Review: 7 PDF editing tools for iOS and Android When you're on the go, it's often not enough to just read a PDF on your mobile device -- you have to be able to sign it, copy it or edit it. These iOS and Android apps can help. Read More ▶ Microsoft introduces mobile scheduling app for Outlook A new scheduling experience for Microsoft's Outlook for iOS lets you see co-workers' schedules–similar to the feature in the desktop version. Read More ▶ How sports execs use tech to improve fan engagement Winning is great, but sports teams are making major investments in technology off the field to attract fans and keep them engaged. Read More ▶ Dell, Amazon, Newegg beat Black Friday 2016 rush Today, Nov. 1, marks the beginning of the Black Friday 2016 holiday shopping season for Dell, Amazon and New Egg, all of which have formally revealed deals on everything from laptop computers to virtual reality gaming systems to. Read More ▶ Twitter video app dying on the Vine Twitter is killing off its Vine mobile app for 6-second videos Read More ▶ CIO security lessons: Dark thinking on IoT & exploding enterprise networks On the heels of massive IoT-enabled DDoS attack, security experts make their pitches to SIMposium 2016 attendees Read More ▶ 11 things Android phone makers should copy from the Pixel Google is setting the bar high for its Android partners. Here are a few things Samsung, LG, and others can learn from it. Read More ▶ DARPA looking to develop drone destroying, personnel protection system The three-phase program, called Mobile Force Protection will in the next few years potentially develop a prototype system that could sense an attack, identify the attacker and then use a number of techniques, from communications jamming to capturing mid-flight any attacking drones. DARPA says it will offer $3 million for each phase 1 developer. Read More ▶ White Paper: IBM Corporation The Forrester Wave: Big Data NoSQL, Q3 2016 The demand for databases is on the rise as organizations build next-generation business applications. NoSQL offers enterprise architecture (EA) pros new choices to store, process, and access new data formats, deliver extreme web-scale, and lower data management costs. This report details Forrester's about how each vendor fulfills our criteria and where they stand in relation to each other to help EA. Read More ▶ 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 ▶ SLIDESHOWS Check out these 11 new Windows 10 features Microsoft sneakily revealed Microsoft Graveyard: What Microsoft has killed in 2016 Read More ▶ Most-Read Stories 1. Shadow Brokers leaks list of NSA targets and compromised servers 2. If Linux never was: Imagining an alternate reality without Linux 3. Keith Ohlfs, man behind macOS pinwheel & much more, passes away at 52 4. Google clashes with Microsoft over Windows flaw disclosure 5. How AWS has turned into Amazon's crutch 6. 19 free cloud storage options 7. Dell/EMC, SnapRoute reinforce OpenSwitch networking features 8. IBM deploys machine learning to bolster online banking security program 9. 7 free tools every network needs 10. Check out these 11 new Windows 10 features Microsoft sneakily revealed

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