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	Thousands of Tumblr users migrate to WordPress in wake of Yahoo acquisition As investors and observers debate the merits of Yahoo's $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr, tens of thousands of Tumblr users have already cast a vote of no-confidence in the deal by migrating to WordPress, according to WordPress CEO Matt Mullenweg. Evidently Yahoo's pledge not to "screw up" Tumblr wasn't sufficiently soothing for users of the popular blogging site. Read More WHITE PAPER: ServiceNow 3 IT Imperatives CIOs Use To Drive Change CIOs who have been successful in bridging the divide between IT operations and business did it by accelerating the transformation of IT. Read now! In this Issue Lawmakers seek Google Glass privacy plan At Google I/O, developer services hogged the spotlight U.S. Defense Department approves Apple's iOS devices for its networks 40 years ago, Ethernet's fathers were the startup kids WHITE PAPER: Falconstor Software RecoverTrac™: Automated Service-oriented Disaster Recovery Protecting data means nothing if you can't recover it. FalconStor® RecoverTrac™ automates complex disaster recovery tasks, bringing service-oriented recovery to physical and virtual server infrastructures. Read this technical white paper to learn how RecoverTrac technology addresses DR challenges. Learn More Lawmakers seek Google Glass privacy plan Eight members of Congress have written an open letter to Google CEO Larry Page that outlines privacy concerns about the Internet vendor's computerized eyeglasses, Google Glass. In the letter, the Congressional Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus ask Page to disclose Google's plan to incorporate privacy protections into Glass by June 14. The group asked that Page answer eight questions listed in the letter. Read More At Google I/O, developer services hogged the spotlight Forget Glass, self-driving cars or a smartwatch. Developers, not physical consumer products, were Google's darlings at the company's annual I/O conference last week. Google brands I/O as a conference for developers, and this year, with a range of new tools unveiled to attract more outside developers -- and boost the revenue from their services -- the company sought to deliver the goods to I/O's intended audience. Read More U.S. Defense Department approves Apple's iOS devices for its networks Devices built around Apple's iOS operating system have been approved by the U.S. Department of Defense for use on its networks, as the department moves to support multivendor mobile devices and operating systems. The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), which certifies commercial technology for defense use, said Friday it had approved the Apple iOS 6 Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG). Read More 40 years ago, Ethernet's fathers were the startup kids Bob Metcalfe, Dave Boggs, and the rest of the scientists at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in 1973 were a lot like young developers at a Silicon Valley startup today. The proto-Silicon Valley geeks even had the Internet, once Metcalfe had set up the connection soon after arriving at PARC in June 1972. At that time it was in an early form called Arpanet, over which researchers at PARC and other institutions could log on to other computers over long distances. Read More
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