Fallout from Snowden leaks could hinder next NSA chief

Jokes aside, some IT managers say there's no option other than BlackBerry for security Programmers at Juniper -- not Google or Facebook -- rake in the most dough IT News Daily October 18, 2013 Share this email Fallout from Snowden leaks could hinder next NSA chief Whoever succeeds Gen. Keith Alexander as the next director of the National Security Agency will be stuck weathering the fallout from the Edward Snowden media leaks for the conceivable future. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Jokes aside, some IT managers say there's no option other than BlackBerry for security 2. Programmers at Juniper -- not Google or Facebook -- rake in the most dough 3. Samsung's California designers shaping next year's products 4. Carried by consoles, AMD returns to profitability 5. Apple iMessage research sparks corporate security debate 6. More than 40 percent of YouTube traffic is now from mobile WHITE PAPER: Citrix Securing Enterprise Info : Android, iOS & Windows Devices Android, iOS and Windows tablets and smartphones play an increasing role in enterprise computing, providing new flexibility and mobility for workers and IT—but creating new challenges around security. This paper describes these issues and explains how they can be addressed effectively with Citrix BYOD solutions View Now Jokes aside, some IT managers say there's no option other than BlackBerry for security BlackBerry's financial troubles may be funny to some, but not to the iT shops at thousands of government and enterprise organizations that rely on BlackBerry's highly touted security to keep their data safe. READ MORE Programmers at Juniper -- not Google or Facebook -- rake in the most dough What a lucrative profession coding can be -- the best paid software engineers have an average base salary of nearly US$160,000, and they work at Juniper Networks, according to a recent survey. READ MORE Samsung's California designers shaping next year's products Most of the work under way at Samsung Design America is slated to appear in products in 2014 as the electronics giant's year-old design shop in San Francisco influences product development across the company. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: CDW Protect Your Business & Simplify IT Restore entire virtual guests and critical virtualized Microsoft applications across VMware and Hyper-V. Learn about the features in Backup Exec V-Ray that deliver disk and tape backup and recovery across both your physical and virtual infrastructure with a single solution. Read Now Carried by consoles, AMD returns to profitability As CEO Rory Read promised, AMD returned to profitability in the third quarter, driven by its success in the game console market. READ MORE Apple iMessage research sparks corporate security debate Researchers at the Hack in the Box conference in Kuala Lumpur Thursday showed that Apple on its own or per orders by the U.S. government could harvest messages sent over its proprietary service, which lets people using Apple mobile devices send text messages for free. READ MORE More than 40 percent of YouTube traffic is now from mobile YouTube's presence on mobile devices has exploded in the past couple of years, Google said on Thursday. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Starview Inc. Editorial Report: Where Does the SDN movement stand today? In this exclusive digital report, industry experts catch you up on the status of the Software Defined Networking (SDN) movement and begin to lay out how you get there from here, examining basic planning, what to look for in an SDN controller, and discussing what the Open Networking Foundation hopes to achieve with its new migration group. View now Follow IT News Share this email You are currently subscribed to itnews_daily as garn14.tech@blogger.com. Unsubscribe from this newsletter | Manage your subscriptions | Subscribe | Privacy Policy If you are interested in advertising in this newsletter, please contact: sean_weglage@itworld.com To contact IT News, please send an e-mail to online@itworld.com Copyright (C) 2013 IT News, 492 Old Connecticut Path, Framingham, MA 01701 ** Please do not reply to this message. To contact someone directly, send an e-mail to online@itworld.com. **