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Today's Top Stories // May 7, 2013

AWS Offers General Availability For Node.js, The Popular Development Platform

Node.js is the everyman's platform for developing apps. It's JavaScript on the sever. It's relatively easy to learn and it's immensely popular. Now Amazon Web... read more

Tumblr's Teenaged, Double-Edged Sword

"im ddeleting the internet [sic]": A telling re-blog from a teenaged girl on the blogging platform turned social networking site Tumblr, in a chain of... read more

Now 200M Users Strong, Viber Launches Desktop App With Video Calling In Version 3.0

Viber has made quite a name for itself as a global mobile first company, but today that all changes as the company breaks ground in the desktop space. That... read more

Rocket Internet-Backed FoodPanda Raises $20M+ As It Prepares For The Next Course In Its Food Delivery Ambitions

The food delivery wars continue to heat up: today foodpanda, the Rocket Internet-incubated startup that offers a one-stop service to order food from a selection... read more

Kim Dotcom Makes Another Plea For Legal Relief As U.S., UK, Canada Attorneys General Converge Down Under

Kim Dotcom and his legal team are seizing the moment of a meeting of attorneys general from the U.S., UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand in Auckland to bring... read more

RunKeeper For Pebble Arrives, Bringing Run, Walk And Bike Ride Progress Tracking To The Smart Watch

So far, the Pebble smart watch has done little besides offer up watch faces for users to tinker with, but the apps are starting to come in, and today marks the... read more

Microsoft Says It Has Sold More Than 100M Windows 8 Licenses, 250M App Downloads In Last 6 Months, Blue Coming "Later This Year"

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Nokia Appoints A New Lead In China As It Seeks To Reverse Its Declining Sales In That Country

Nokia's newly-appointed general manager of China, Erik Bertman, has plenty of experience in emerging markets, but it's unclear if he'll be able to reverse the... read more

iPad Mini With Retina Display Screen Production To Start In June Or July, NPD DisplaySearch Says

The iPad mini is quickly becoming a key component of Apple's product lineup, and according to some sources, might even be the best-selling tablet Apple makes at... read more

Monday In Tech And Hip-Hop: Sheryl Sandberg Joins RapGenius, Everyone's Obsessed With Snoop's New App

Mondays aren't always smile-inducing, but today two news stories cropped up that were pretty fun -- and showed the increasing crossover between the worlds of... read more

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Who Supplies CyberBunker?
Perhaps the only way to pressure those responsible for the attacks is to put pressure on the upstream providers.
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InteropNet Tests Network Fabric Design and More
InteropNet, the production network for Interop Las Vegas, is testing and showcasing a variety of technologies, including a network fabric from Avaya and network configuration software from Tail-f Systems.
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Compromising employee endpoints with malware has become the preferred method of cybercriminals. Enterprises need to implement technologies that effectively prevent malware, the root cause of cybercrime.



NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE

SDN Buyer's Guide
SDN products are finally hitting the enterprise market. Do you have a strategy? This report, the companion to our online comparison, explains key factors to consider in four areas: software-defined -networking controllers, applications, physical or virtual switches, and other compatible hardware.

5 SDN Business Benefits Sponsored by NEC
Have your engineers caught software-defined networking fever yet? While SDN is currently most appropriate for test labs or tech-savvy cloud operators like Google and Facebook, that's poised to change. As the technology matures and products proliferate, enterprise IT executives need a grasp of the potential benefits.

CLOUD COMPUTING

Research: 2013 State Of Cloud Computing
Our latest survey shows slow adoption, with 40% now using cloud services. Despite cloud's massive potential to revolutionize IT, 51% are being held back by the fear of security flaws, and few of our 446 respondents are fundamentally changing the way they do IT as a result of the cloud. Ultimately, this reactive approach will render some shops obsolete.

SECURITY

Managing Mobile Security in SMBs Sponsored by Symantec
When it comes to mobile security, some concerns are common across all organizations. One of the biggest is the surge in the use of personal devices for business purposes — otherwise known as BYOD. However, the challenges for SMBs are heightened because these organizations often lack resources and expertise. In this Dark Reading report, we examine mobile security risks that are unique to SMBs and provide recommendations for tackling the problems.

Offensive Cybersecurity Sponsored by Vormetric
Offense is the new defense for private-sector security professionals, some pundits would have you believe. Whether you call it "hacking back" or old-fashioned eye-for-an-eye retaliation, offensive security calls for profiling and, if possible, individually identifying an attacker and taking countermeasures to harm the attacker's systems. Governments have experimented with offensive security and have their own reasons and hesitations around pursuing it. For the private sector, though, it's a controversial approach that IT and business leaders should understand.

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