Monday, February 20, 2012

Slashdot Newsletter 2012-02-20

 
 
Evolution of Legacy Network Infrastructure
The promise of the next-generation network is great-the seamless delivery of media-rich content, virtualization, mobility, and cloud computing. Migrating legacy infrastructures to achieve the high-performance you organization requires, takes time and strategic planning. This SlashGuide tracks the evolution of the enterprise network infrastructure to a high-performance next-generation network, from data center to edge.  
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IBM Innovations in Business Analytics Virtual Launch - Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Learn how the IBM portfolio of Business Analytics solutions, including the new IBM Cognos Insight, can empower you and everyone in your organization to assemble and analyze information, align decision-making and drive fact-based action - without asking IT to give up necessary control of technology or data.  
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From the Department of stop-talking
Layzej writes "Bloggers around the world have been commenting on recently leaked Heartland Institute documents that reveal their internal strategies to discredit climate science. These posters are now under threat of legal action. According to...
 
From the Department of in-addition-to-the-tens-of-windows-tablets-out-there
theodp writes "Microsoft is working on a touch-friendly version of Office for Windows 8, writes GeekWire's Todd Bishop. But what about Microsoft Office on the iPad? 'The decision,' Bishop says, 'will say a lot about Microsoft's priorities in this...
 
From the Department of have-your-friends-list-on-my-desk-by-close-of-business
First time accepted submitter rubeon writes "Companies can get a lot of mileage out of social networking services from the likes of Google or Facebook. Chat, document collaboration, and video conferencing using services like Google+ Hangouts or...
 
From the Department of new-and-shiny
Titus Andronicus writes "Years in the making, the major new release of VideoLAN's media player has better support for multicore processors, GPUs, and much, much more. From the announcement: 'Twoflower has a new rendering pipeline for video, with...
 
From the Department of all-in-one
snydeq writes "The Chrome dev team is working toward a vision of Web apps that offers a clean break from traditional websites, writes Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister, in response to Google's new Field Guide for Web Applications. 'When you add it...
 
From the Department of last-chance
First time accepted submitter debiangruven writes "Human rights Groups are making one final plea to save the life of Canadian programmer, Saeed Malekpour, who was sentenced to death for writing a program to upload photos to the Internet. From the...
 
From the Department of a-little-code
mikejuk writes "Is it possible to write a JavaScript program in no more than a tweet's length? A website called 140byt.es says it is and has an implementation of Tetris to prove it. Ok, it only has two types of block — hence its title...
 
From the Department of good-a-reason-as-any
Wowsers writes "In vogue with other countries cracking down on freedom and democracy on the internet as discussed in Slashdot recently, the UK is joining in with plans to track all phone calls, text messages, email traffic and websites visited...
 
From the Department of 123456-letmein-hunter2
Trailrunner7 writes "Google is in the process of developing a tool to help users generate strong passwords for the various and sundry Web sites for which they need to register and authenticate. The password-generator is meant to serve as an...
 
From the Department of watching-you
Saint Aardvark writes "Canada's proposed online surveillance bill looked bad enough when it was introduced, but it gets worse: Section 34 allows access to any telco place or equipment, and to any information contained there — with no...
 
From the Department of at-least-flash-doesn't-do-it-intentionally
Lucas123 writes "New research shows that far more than wireless network or CPUs, the NAND flash memory in cell phones, and in particular smartphones, affects the device's performance when it comes to loading apps, surfing the web and loading and...
 
From the Department of tiny-hardware
stupendou writes "Australian and American physicists have built a working transistor from a single phosphorus atom embedded in a silicon crystal. The group of physicists, based at the University of New South Wales and Purdue University, said they...
 
From the Department of check-it-out
wiredmikey writes "The popular free security tool HijackThis has been open sourced by its owner, Trend Micro. The tool scans systems to find settings that may have been modified by spyware, malware or other programs that have wiggled their way...
 
From the Department of getting-the-band-back-together
Hugh Pickens writes "An era begins to pass as only about 25 percent of today's American population were at least 5 years old when John Glenn climbed into the Friendship 7 Mercury capsule on Feb. 20, 1962 and became the first American to orbit the...
 
From the Department of rises-from-the-dead-and-then-lands-gently-on-the-living
An anonymous reader sends word that Masten Space Systems' Xombie rocket has successfully demonstrated vertical takeoff and landing for NASA's Flight Opportunities Program. It was guided autonomously by the GENIE system from Draper Laboratory. "The...
 
 
 
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