Schooled! How 7 forward-thinking countries are teaching kids to code

Cisco slashing up to 6,000 jobs Apple bans two chemicals from product assembly after protests ITworld Today August 14, 2014 Share this email How 7 forward-thinking countries are teaching kids to code Most American students will continue to focus on the traditional three Rs (reading, writing and arithmetic), while their counterparts in some other countries will also be learning a fourth R: refactoring, as in programming code. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Cisco slashing up to 6,000 jobs 2. Apple bans two chemicals from product assembly after protests 3. 4 small business security lessons from real-life hacks 4. The biggest iPhone security risk could be connecting one to a computer 5. When to use Hadoop (and when not to) 6. Forrester downgrades 2014 global IT spending forecast, citing weak first half 7. Internet outages expected to abate as routers are modified, rebooted 8. PaaS shoot-out: Cloud Foundry vs. OpenShift White Paper: Netscout Systems Inc. The Role Network Visibility Plays in Application Delivery In this report, EMA examines the value of a network-based application-aware performance management strategy that provides depth and top-down troubleshooting, as well as business-relevant, real-time insights for converged operations monitoring and support. Learn More Cisco slashing up to 6,000 jobs Cisco Systems will cut as many as 6,000 jobs over the next 12 months, saying it needs to shift resources to growing businesses such as cloud, software and security. READ MORE Apple bans two chemicals from product assembly after protests Apple is banning the use of two toxic chemicals from final assembly processes for its products, after watchdog groups demanded the company replace the substances with safer alternatives. READ MORE 4 small business security lessons from real-life hacks Here are four tips for preventing social engineering and DDoS hacks from ruining your business. READ MORE The biggest iPhone security risk could be connecting one to a computer Apple has done well to insulate its iOS mobile operating system from many security issues, but a forthcoming demonstration shows it's far from perfect. READ MORE White Paper: Polycom Video is the New Document: Four Things You Can't Miss Download this research summary to find out the 4 reasons why video is quickly replacing print media and see how this can fit in with your organizations content strategy plan for 2014. Learn more >> When to use Hadoop (and when not to) When enterprises interested in leveraging big data and analytics ask how to get started, they often are advised to begin with Hadoop, Apache Software's open source data storage and processing framework. READ MORE Forrester downgrades 2014 global IT spending forecast, citing weak first half Forrester has cut its worldwide IT spending forecast for this year, saying growth will be 3.3 percent in U.S. dollars, rather than 6.2 percent. Total spending will be $2.2 trillion. READ MORE Internet outages expected to abate as routers are modified, rebooted A flood of updates to databases inside Internet routers caused intermittent outages on Wednesday and connectivity issues for companies, but experts expect the long-forecasted hiccup to be resolved soon. READ MORE PaaS shoot-out: Cloud Foundry vs. OpenShift Cloud Foundry shines with broad application support and stellar ease of use, but OpenShift has the edge in management and automation READ MORE White Paper: Network Instruments Is Your Credit Card Data Safe from Hacks? The 12 Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) requirements along with the right Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solution can help keep you one step ahead of the hackers. Learn More BOOK GIVEAWAYS: We've got 5 copies of each of these new books to give away to some lucky ITworld readers. Enter now for your chance to win! The Official Ubuntu Book, 8th Ed. Essential Mobile Interaction Design DON'T MISS... Why many programmers don't bother joining the ACM Top 25 free tools for every Windows desktop 10 amazing (and bizarre) drone discoveries Just their type: 10 keyboards beloved by programmers 11 colorful characters seen at Comic-Con International 2014 Follow ITworld Share this email You are currently subscribed to itworld_today as garn14.tech@blogger.com. Unsubscribe from this newsletter | Manage your subscriptions | Subscribe | Privacy Policy Learn about INSIDER When accessing content promoted in this email, you are providing consent for your information to be shared with the sponsors of the content. Please see our Privacy Policy for more information. If you are interested in advertising in this newsletter, please contact: sean_weglage@itworld.com Copyright (C) 2014 ITworld, 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. **