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	Dropbox chants: Developers! Developers! At its first-ever developers conference, DBX, Dropbox officially unveiled the Dropbox Platform, a suite of tools for building apps capable of seamlessly accessing files and data from the Dropbox cloud, regardless of location or device. The platform fits in with the company's vision of a computing world where users sync their files among devices via the cloud, rather than relying on stodgy old hard drives. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell KACE Enabling Safe and Secure BYOD Organizations are moving from being PC-centric to a user-centric model, where employees bring their own devices (BYOD) and choose those devices that best suit their specific needs. Learn how the KACE Appliances can help your organization say "Yes!" to BYOD. Read Now! In this Issue Why I hate programming tests Microsoft to pull apps with critical vulnerabilities Bug bounty programs provide strong value for Google, Mozilla EMC integrates backup, archiving within storage system India to overtake U.S. on number of software developers by 2017 WHITE PAPER: Network Instruments Getting Ahead Managing VoIP and Videoconferencing Can the move to UC be just another simple technology transition? End users expect these technologies to look, act and behave just as their non-IP predecessors. But for IT teams it brings very real, new requirements. Learn VoIP and video success strategies from Jim Frey, an Enterprise Management Associates analyst. Learn more. Why I hate programming tests It's official: I hate programming tests. Don't get me wrong, I understand their use and the reasons why potential employers give them out. There's enough programmers in the world who aren't really skilled enough for the job (whatever that job may be) that it becomes necessary to offer some kind of litmus test that a potential job-seeker must pass. I get that. Read More Microsoft to pull apps with critical vulnerabilities In a bid to purge insecure software from the Windows Store, Microsoft Tuesday announced that it would remove apps that it deems to have critical vulnerabilities. Within 180 days, Microsoft said, those apps must either be patched or they will be removed.  And if an insecure app is being exploited in the wild, it risks getting pulled even sooner, executives said. The policy will also be extended to apps found in the Windows Phone Store, Office Store, and Azure Marketplace. Read More Bug bounty programs provide strong value for Google, Mozilla Paying rewards to independent security researchers for finding software problems is a vastly better investment than hiring employees to do the same work, according to researchers from the University of California Berkeley. Their study looked at vulnerability reward programs (VRPs) run by Google and Mozilla for the Chrome and Firefox Web browsers. Read More EMC integrates backup, archiving within storage system With a new set of hardware and software releases, EMC is promising to simplify its customers' storage infrastructure by combining different types of operation into a single EMC system. "We see this convergence of storage with modern systems, where you can think about backup, archiving, and disaster recovery as an integrated process, rather than three separate processes," said David Goulden, president and chief operating officer of EMC. Read More India to overtake U.S. on number of software developers by 2017 The U.S. may be the global center of the IT universe, but India will exceed the U.S. in the number of software developers by 2017, a new report notes. There are about 18.2 million software developers worldwide, a number that is due to rise to 26.4 million by 2019, a 45 percent increase, says Evans Data Corp. in its latest Global Developer Population and Demographic Study. Read More
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