Month: August 2013

iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending August 30

A muted rainbow, Labor Day madness, plastic, The Cook Legacy The iOSphere was brightened by a gray beam of light this week: new photos showing a new color. Though a better name, a more Appleish name, is “graphite.” That’s a fourth color for the soon-expected iPhone 5S or 6, along with the jazzy champagne and […]

Juniper kills MobileNext mobile packet product line

Juniper MobileNext was a high-profile competitor to Cisco’s Starent gateway that was designed to enable non-interrupted delivery of high-definition voice and video over 2G/3G and LTE mobile networks Juniper has killed a high-profile product for the core of mobile operator networks after combining business units to focus on potential growth opportunities. Juniper has exterminated or […]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s retirement announcement letter

Has held Microsoft’s top job since 2000 Text of an internal email from Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer to employees regarding his plan to retire: I am writing to let you know that I will retire as CEO of Microsoft within the next 12 months, after a successor is chosen. There is never a […]

Closures in the Task Parallel Library, what are they? …beware of race conditions.

Closures in the Task Parallel Library, what are they? …beware of race conditions. Up to .NET 3.5 multi-threading programming had it challenges. Multi-threading is a way to improve application performance and responsiveness by running long operations in a different thread from the main application thread. Up to .NET 3.5 the parallel threads created by an […]

10 hottest IT jobs: Developers, developers, developers

IT opportunities span multiple industries and skill levels, staffing firm says It’s a job seeker’s market, if you’ve got the right tech skills. Modis this week called out the 10 hottest IT jobs. The IT staffing specialist based its ranking on the skills and roles that its clients across the U.S. are eager to find […]

Microsoft to ship Windows 8.1 in mid-October

The OS update will show up on the Windows Store on Oct. 17 and in retail stores the next day The much-anticipated update for Windows 8 will begin shipping on Oct. 17, delivering a set of changes that Microsoft hopes will calm critics and improve sales of the tablet-optimized OS. Windows 8.1, previously known as […]

70-450: PRO: Designing, Optimizing and Maintaining a Database Administrative Solution Using Microsoft SQL Server 2008

QUESTION 1 You work as a database administrator at ABC.com. You are in the process of preparing the deployment of a new database that will have 45 gigabytes storage space for the transaction log file, and 280 gigabytes storage space for the database data file. There are approximately six 120 GB disk drives available for […]

Dangerous Linux Trojan could be sign of things to come

RSA expert details “Hand of Thief” banking Trojan Desktop Linux users accustomed to a relatively malware-free lifestyle should get more vigilant in the near future – a researcher at RSA has detailed the existence of the “Hand of Thief” Trojan, which specifically targets Linux. According to cyber intelligence expert Limor Kessem, Hand of Thief operates […]

Google Android roundup: Why did JBQ leave AOSP?

Android news/rumors: The end of an era, plus giant robots annoyed as LG removes “optimus” title from latest release, Android’s continued domination and why people think it’s doomed, and a Moto X engineer hates back on critics The Android realm is not a physical place, else we would have seen flags flying at half-mast and […]

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