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Rackspace beefs up cloud networking features with Brocade's Vyatta technology

Posted June 3, 2013 - 12:23 pm

Public cloud and managed hosting provider Rackspace has rolled technology from Vyatta into its services, allowing customers to set granulated network segmentation policies that dictate which users and what type of traffic have access to which hosted resources.
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Android finally gets Twitter's video app, Vine

Posted June 3, 2013 - 12:16 pm

A little more than four months after Twitter unveiled its video service, Vine, the company has launched a version for Android.
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Targeting cloud, Microsoft set to revamp major enterprise software platforms

Posted June 3, 2013 - 12:11 pm

Microsoft today is showing off improvements to most of its enterprise infrastructure software designed to make it simpler for businesses to deploy hybrid cloud services that can allocate resources as needed.
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Career Watch: Making the most of social media in your job hunt

Posted June 3, 2013 - 11:50 am

Going Beyond LinkedIn for Jobs
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Gmail tip: Don't forget to check your spam filter

Posted June 3, 2013 - 11:01 am

Gmail's pretty good at filtering out the junk, but it's not perfect. Here's why you should do some routine "filter maintenance."
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Researcher cracks the code on what makes a tweet popular

Posted June 3, 2013 - 10:51 am

It's all about early retweets.
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TechEd: Microsoft preps system software for cloud usage

Posted June 3, 2013 - 9:35 am

Microsoft is updating a number of its IT infrastructure and development tools to work more seamlessly with its Azure hosted cloud services, including Windows Server, System Center, Visual Studio and SQL Server.
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How to build a private cloud

Posted June 3, 2013 - 7:17 am

A private cloud looks and acts like a public cloud, giving your corporation all the speed, agility and cost savings promised by cloud technology, only it's single tenant and that tenant is you, right? Well, that's the goal, but it's not quite the reality yet for most enterprises.
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IE10 steals user share from IE9, jumps 53%

Posted June 3, 2013 - 7:07 am

Microsoft's Internet Explorer boosted its user share last month by 53% as the company's enforced upgrade for Windows 7 continued to take effect.
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Bitcoin Foundation is doubling the size of its staff -- to four

Posted June 3, 2013 - 6:15 am

The Bitcoin Foundation is seeking a QA pro and a project manager as it aims to expand its staff to four full-timers.
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Google CEO pans negativity, extols crazy ideas

Posted June 3, 2013 - 6:15 am

Innovation, negativity, crazy ideas and the future of technology were on Google CEO Larry Page's mind when he spoke at his company's recent I/O developers conference.
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Google Glass not to allow face recognition for now

Posted June 3, 2013 - 12:33 am

Google will not allow face recognition on its Glass wearable computer for now, until there are strong privacy protections.
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Spotlight on moving to IPv6

Posted June 1, 2013 - 5:07 pm

"There are no more excuses. You have to be able to run both IPv4 and IPv6 all the time, anytime, because this is not going to be turned off. For any ISP and any edge provider, if you are not capable of running IPv6, you are not being noticed. Get going. Get IPv6 running." --Vint Cerf
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The social network wars are over. The winner: email!

Posted June 1, 2013 - 7:17 am

With every new social network and social service, with every new instant and not-so-instant way to communicate, email rises in importance. Columnist Mile Elgan explains how innovation has transformed email into the best social network.
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Personal Audio defends its podcasting patent

Posted May 31, 2013 - 3:54 pm

The company that owns a U.S. patent for podcasting is confident the patent will stand up to a challenge initiated this week by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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LinkedIn aims to keep hackers out with two-factor login

Posted May 31, 2013 - 3:50 pm

Add LinkedIn to the list of Internet companies trying to make themselves safer from cyberattacks by adding two-step authentication.
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Government CIOs eye business apps in cloud transition

Posted May 31, 2013 - 3:44 pm

The shift to cloud computing underway across the federal government could eventually move from commodity functions to custom business apps
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Google Sync quietly launches support for Office 2013 -- but it doesn't work

Posted May 31, 2013 - 3:09 pm

Workers who wish to connect their Windows machines to Google's calendar, contacts and email services have some good news and some bad news: Google's Sync now supports Office 2013. But it doesn't really work.
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10 top social media startups -- the final rankings

Posted May 31, 2013 - 2:44 pm

The votes are in. The final rankings also take into account the pedigree of the management team, VC funding, viability of the niche and the uniqueness of the product.
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Don't let Facebook's single sign-on expose your awkward moments

Posted May 31, 2013 - 2:34 pm

Sites and apps are adding the ability to sign in through social media, but people should be wary of sharing their private lives,
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Gmail reinvents the inbox (again) at nine

Posted May 31, 2013 - 2:29 pm

A look at Gmail's new inbox and glance at Gmail innovations of past.
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Block social media spoilers with a free Chrome extension

Posted May 31, 2013 - 2:20 pm

Here's a useful Chrome extension that will mute spoilers for TV shows, sports, music and other things on Facebook and Twitter. You'l love this if you've ever had a show or event ruined by seeing a spoiler on Twitter or Facebook.
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Wall Street Beat: Tech stocks up despite dire PC, server outlook

Posted May 31, 2013 - 2:04 pm

Despite dismal forecasts for PCs and servers, tech stocks have been doing well on optimism about cloud technology and mobile devices.
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Pause YouTube videos automatically when you open a new Firefox tab

Posted May 31, 2013 - 1:28 pm

Here's a free extension for Firefox that will automatically pause YouTube videos when you leave the video page. It will then resume playback when you return to the page.
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How smart developers generate lousy code

Posted May 31, 2013 - 10:03 am

Most experienced developers can think of a time when they worked on a team with other accomplished programmers. Yet the code quality was anywhere from “eh” to “oh god you didn’t actually ship that did you?!” Here’s how this can happen, and what to do to minimize the chances it’ll happen to you.
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