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11 highlights from Microsoft's BUILD conference

Microsoft: Desperately wooing developers with new app features, gifts

FTC wins monster $7.5 million penalty against "Do Not Call" list violator

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June 28, 2013
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11 highlights from Microsoft's BUILD conference

Microsoft kicked off it's BUILD developers conference Wednesday with a two hour keynote. Here are some of the takeaways.

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Issue highlights

1. Microsoft: Desperately wooing developers with new app features, gifts

2. FTC wins monster $7.5 million penalty against "Do Not Call" list violator

3. Intel's CTO Justin Rattner stepping down

4. NASA launches IRIS solar telescope

5. LTE makes headway on global roaming, speed and voice

6. Now that LTE is here, what's next?

7. Report: US general under investigation for Stuxnet leak

8. Stuart Biggs, first Cisco CCIE, dies at age 53

9. 11 Ways to Make Healthcare IT Easier

10. License-plate readers nab German road-rage shooter, spark privacy debate

11. How will cloud, virtualization and SDN complicate future firewall security?

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Microsoft: Desperately wooing developers with new app features, gifts

San Francisco -- Microsoft is desperately courting developers, holding its second Build developer's conference in less than a year and this time giving attendees not one but two free Windows 8 devices to take home to develop apps for. READ MORE

FTC wins monster $7.5 million penalty against "Do Not Call" list violator

The Federal Trade Commission today said it has won a $7.5 million civil penalty – the largest ever -- against Mortgage Investors Corporation, one of the nation's biggest refinancers of veterans' home loans for allegedly violating "Do Not Call" requirements. READ MORE

Intel's CTO Justin Rattner stepping down

Intel's CTO and director of its labs Justin Rattner is stepping down to meet a requirement under the company's bylaws that employees cannot serve as corporate officers after the age of 65. READ MORE

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NASA launches IRIS solar telescope

NASA launches IRIS solar telescope NASA on Thursday evening launched a new solar telescope. IRIS, the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, promises to provide the most detailed view yet of t... From: networkworld Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 02:57 More in Science & Technology READ MORE

LTE makes headway on global roaming, speed and voice

LTE is simultaneously being pushed forward on several fronts, and the result for users will be faster networks, better coverage and the ability to access networks while travelling abroad. READ MORE

Now that LTE is here, what's next?

In the continuing war between Verizon and AT&T, the battle has come down to LTE network size vs. LTE network speed. But new LTE technology isn't far over the horizon. READ MORE

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Report: US general under investigation for Stuxnet leak

A former high-ranking U.S. military official is reportedly under investigation for leaking classified information related to the use of malicious software to disrupt Iran's uranium refinement program. READ MORE

Stuart Biggs, first Cisco CCIE, dies at age 53

Stuart Biggs, who in 1993 led a team that created the Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert program and was the first to be awarded a CCIE number, has died at age 53. READ MORE

11 Ways to Make Healthcare IT Easier

The phrase 'don't boil the ocean' is often used to describe efforts to introduce IT to healthcare organizations. These 11 tips will help healthcare CIOs make incremental changes that improve business practices without panicking end users. READ MORE

License-plate readers nab German road-rage shooter, spark privacy debate

In a bizarre story out of Germany, authorities recently arrested a truck driver believed to be responsible for more than 700 shootings at other cars on German roads since 2008. The key to the investigation was a high-tech surveillance system equipped with license-plate readers, which one police official said helped them find the "needle in a haystack." READ MORE

How will cloud, virtualization and SDN complicate future firewall security?

The firewall in decades past was mainly the port-based guardian of the Internet. Now vendors are vying to build so-called "next-generation firewalls" that are "application-aware" because they can monitor and control access based on application use. READ MORE

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