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The Android naming quiz IBM bets $1 Billion more on Linux Network World Daily News PM September 17, 2013 Share this email Top 20 colleges for CompSci majors, based on $$$ potential Among computer science grads, alumni from University of California, Berkeley, led the pack with a median mid-career salary of $141,400, PayScale says. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. The Android naming quiz 2. IBM bets $1 Billion more on Linux 3. Navy Yard shooter was IT worker with resume of gun violence 4. Raspberry Pi, WiFi & old iPhones help creative dad give Tooth Fairy a break 5. Cisco, EMC coalition supports Oracle, VDI 6. Windows 8 Update: Microsoft exec says for many their first PC will be a phone 7. KVM vendor creating open source hypervisor specifically for cloud workloads 8. INSIDER 5 bad signs for Apple's iPhone 5s fingerprint scanner 9. Glowpoint Releases Reservationless Videoconferencing Service 10. BlackBerry sale might not include smartphones 11. 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READ MORE Navy Yard shooter was IT worker with resume of gun violence The man police suspected of a mass shooting Monday at the Washington Navy Yard, was employed by an IT subcontractor working on a government network project. He got that job despite having an arrest record for gun violence. READ MORE Raspberry Pi, WiFi & old iPhones help creative dad give Tooth Fairy a break This creative dad puts me to shame: I'm one of those parents who had to scramble to stick a quarter or two under our kids' pillows the morning after they put their teeth under the pillow for the Tooth Fairy to grab. This gent whips up a newfangled pneumatic transport system for his two kids that combines a Raspberry Pi-powered vaccum system and Wi-Fi apps controlled on old iPhones. READ MORE WEBCAST: HP HP Mobile App Development Survey Join John Jeremiah, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, HP and John Jackson, Research Vice President, Mobile & Connected Platforms, IDC for an interactive discussion on the results of the HP Mobile Application Development Maturity Peer Assessment Tool. Date: September 18 @ 1:00pm EDT Register Now Cisco, EMC coalition supports Oracle, VDI VCE, the data center-focused joint venture formed by Cisco and EMC/VMware, this week rolled out converged infrastructure systems designed to support the latest technology from the founding companies as well as specialized offerings for Oracle and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments. READ MORE Windows 8 Update: Microsoft exec says for many their first PC will be a phone Since introducing its own Surface tablets Microsoft has been redefining the PC to include devices that haven't been considered PCs before, and it's taken that trend one step further. READ MORE KVM vendor creating open source hypervisor specifically for cloud workloads Dor Laor and Avi Kivity know a thing or two about virtualization, hypervisors and operating systems. And Laor says there are big problems with all three. READ MORE INSIDER 5 bad signs for Apple's iPhone 5s fingerprint scanner When Apple announced its new iPhone 5s last week, the fingerprint scanning technology, called Touch ID, stood out as one of the most notable additions. The benefits are easy enough to identify – iPhone users will no longer need to repeatedly type in an annoying security PIN code to unlock their phones or download apps or media from iTunes. READ MORE WEBCAST: Egnyte The Benefits of Hybrid Cloud Sharing Security. Scalability. Control. These are just some of the many benefits of enterprise cloud file-sharing that you'll discover in this KnowledgeVault, packed with short videos, white papers and demos. View Now! 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