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Network World's Products of the Week: 2/11/13

Galaxy S IV design reportedly finalized, along with pint-sized variant

Career advice that will change your life

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February 15, 2013
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Network World's Products of the Week: 2/11/13

Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as CA and Cloudyn

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Issue highlights

1. Galaxy S IV design reportedly finalized, along with pint-sized variant

2. INSIDER Career advice that will change your life

3. The data shows: Top H-1B users are offshore outsourcers

4. F5's SDN investment puts it in play with Cisco, Juniper

5. Lawmakers, business execs defend privacy in CISPA

6. This company is one of the first to offer business intelligence software by the hour, in the cloud

7. Ditch the PDF headaches: Three safer, speedier Adobe Reader alternatives

8. Sound waves used to increase disk drive capacity

9. Android on Everything

10. 2013's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries

WEBCAST: CDW Corporation

The Best Path to SaaS

Cloud computing is here to stay. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is particularly popular because it can lower cost while enabling business agility. But not all applications are suited to SaaS. In this Webcast you will learn the best applications for SaaS deployment and how to avoid SaaS pitfalls and cost overruns. Learn More.

Galaxy S IV design reportedly finalized, along with pint-sized variant

Time, as it will, continues to tick away on the Samsung Galaxy S IV's upcoming launch, and a report from the South Korean Digital Daily news says that the device's design has been officially finalized, citing an anonymous source. READ MORE

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Career advice that will change your life

These days, free advice can be found everywhere, from your various social networks to your favorite advice column. But truly valuable advice typically comes from your peers or people who've made it to a career or life position that you'd like to get to someday. READ MORE

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How big is your 'phishing attack surface'?

Many email addresses of your organization are exposed, allowing cybercriminals to launch spear-phishing attacks. The bigger the attack footprint, the higher your risk. Fill out the form and we'll email you the list of exposed addresses. Sign up for your FREE EEC now:

The data shows: Top H-1B users are offshore outsourcers

The largest single users of H-1B visas are offshore outsourcers, many of which are based in India, or, if U.S. based, have most employees located overseas, according to government data obtained and analyzed by Computerworld. READ MORE

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Asset and Lifecycle Management that Puts You in Control

In this Webcast you will learn now to gain control by effectively deploying people, processes and tools. And you will learn how to face a software license audit successfully with asset and lifecycle management software that is comprehensive, accurate and easy to use. Learn More.

F5's SDN investment puts it in play with Cisco, Juniper

Network acceleration vendor F5's recent purchase of LineRate Systems, a startup specializing in software-defined networking technology, is both a near-term attempt to associate itself with a hot industry technology and a canny look ahead to the future, according to experts. READ MORE

WHITE PAPER: Cisco

Forrester: Defining the Next-Generation Workspace

How will you meet the needs of a mobile workforce? In this Forrester study, discover approaches to BYOD and desktop virtualization. Learn why Cisco Unified Workspace may be the solution for your mobility, virtualization, and security challenges. Read Now

Lawmakers, business execs defend privacy in CISPA

Privacy and digital rights groups are overstating the privacy concerns in a controversial cyberthreat information bill introduced this week in the U.S. Congress, the bill's sponsors and leaders of some business groups said. READ MORE

This company is one of the first to offer business intelligence software by the hour, in the cloud

Open source business intelligence company Jaspersoft is one of the first to offer its analytics software from the cloud on a pay-by-the-hour rate, according to the company and one independent analyst. READ MORE

Ditch the PDF headaches: Three safer, speedier Adobe Reader alternatives

Another day, another critical security exploit discovered for Adobe Reader. Ho-hum. The PDF software's near-ubiquitous presence has made it a big, fat, juicy target for years now, and by this point, you shouldn't be asking what Adobe's going to do to shore up its perpetually leaky program. Instead, you should ask yourself: Why are you still using Adobe Reader at all? READ MORE

Sound waves used to increase disk drive capacity

Oregon State University researchers have discovered a way to use sound waves to enhance magnetic data storage. READ MORE

Android on Everything

This week is Android week here in Gearhead land, starting with a tool that will let you run pretty much any Android app on your Mac or Windows PC. READ MORE

2013's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries

A look back at the most memorable tech-related happenings of 1988 READ MORE

SLIDESHOWS

12 hybrid cloud security products to watch

Here are 12 security products that you can buy for your hybrid cloud whether they run on premise, in the cloud or a little of both.

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