SoftBank said to acquire ARM for about $32 billion

Japan’s SoftBank is set to acquire UK chip design company, ARM, to cash in on growing demand for processors and other technologies for the internet of things and mobile markets, according to news reports.Softbank is paying  up to US$32 billion for the chip design company that licenses its designs to a large number of chip suppliers to smartphone makers and to the emerging IoT market, according to the reports.SoftBank has invested in a number of media and technology companies, including Internet retailer Snapdeal in India and ride-hailing app company Didi Chuxing in China. It also acquired Sprint Nextel in 2013.But the acquisition of ARM would place the company in a market where it would be an upstream supplier to some of the biggest names in the tech industry as licensees of ARM’s designs like Qualcomm gear up to supply chips to the the connected devices market.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

SoftBank will acquire ARM for $32 billion

Japan’s SoftBank will acquire UK chip design company, ARM Holdings, to cash in on growing demand for processors and other technologies for the internet of things and mobile markets.SoftBank is paying £24.3 billion (US$32 billion) in cash for the chip company that licenses its designs to a large number of chip suppliers to smartphone makers and to the emerging IoT market.The Japanese company will retain ARM's headquarters in Cambridge and plans to double the number of employees in the U.K. over the next five years, when it will also increase the company's headcount outside the U.K.ARM, with 4,064 employees,  will be an independent business within SoftBank, which will pay for the acquisition from existing cash resources and a loan facility.  SoftBank said it intends to retain the current ARM organization including the existing senior management team, brand, and partnership-based business model and culture.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

NSF and GR on Nexus 5000

NSF and GR are two features in Layer 3 network elements (NEs) that allows two adjacent elements to work together when one of them undergoes a control plane switchover or control plane restart.

The benefit is that when a control plane switchover/restart occurs, the impact to network traffic is kept to a minimum and in most cases, to zero.

85% off HDR Projects 4 Professional for PC – Deal Alert

Love capturing the world around you on (digital) film? Check out HDR Projects 4 Professional for PC. It enhances photos using HDR (high-dynamic-range) technology, so that captured images better resemble what the eye actually sees. At $29, the software is currently available for an impressive 85% off MSRP.Not only does it provide more luminance to your images, but it also stores nearly 100 versions of each of your photos, and never loses one. Utilize this picture-perfecting software so that you never again have to say that real life is beautiful than your photos. Learn more by clicking here for details.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

GNS3 + Docker: Internet modem container

Goal: Deploy internet modem for GNS3 topology using Docker container. The container uses iptables to perform NAT (masquerading) and dnsmasq as DHCP server for LAN interfaces. Used Docker images: ajnouri/internet for the Internet container gns3/endhost for the end host container. gns3/webterm for firefox container. gns3/openvswitch for openvswitch container GNS3 host preparation : This is performed […]

Hackers claim to have launched DDoS attack that crashed Pokémon Go servers

Shortly after Pokémon launched in 26 new countries, the servers crashed. While sluggish and/or unresponsive servers shouldn’t surprise anyone, given the app’s popularity even before the added audience from countries across the globe, a hacking collective took credit for the attack. A group of hackers going by “PoodleCorp,” a collective that took credit for hacking popular YouTube channels last month, took to Twitter to claim responsibility for DDoS-ing the Pokémon Go servers.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Hackers claim to have launched DDoS attack that crashed Pokémon Go servers

Shortly after Pokémon launched in 26 new countries, the servers crashed. While sluggish and/or unresponsive servers shouldn’t surprise anyone, given the app’s popularity even before the added audience from countries across the globe, a hacking collective took credit for the attack.A group of hackers going by “PoodleCorp,” a collective that took credit for hacking popular YouTube channels last month, took to Twitter to claim responsibility for DDoS-ing the Pokémon Go servers.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Hackers claim to launched DDoS attack that crashed Pokemon Go servers

Shortly after Pokemon Go launched in 26 new countries, the servers crashed; while sluggish and/or unresponsive servers shouldn’t surprise anyone, given the app’s popularity even before the added audience from countries across the globe, a hacking collective took credit for the attack.A group of hackers going by “PoodleCorp,” a collective which took credit for hacking popular YouTube channels last month, took to Twitter to claim responsibility for DDoSing the Pokemon Go servers.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Hackers claim to launched DDoS attack that crashed Pokemon Go servers

Shortly after Pokemon Go launched in 26 new countries, the servers crashed; while sluggish and/or unresponsive servers shouldn’t surprise anyone, given the app’s popularity even before the added audience from countries across the globe, a hacking collective took credit for the attack.A group of hackers going by “PoodleCorp,” a collective which took credit for hacking popular YouTube channels last month, took to Twitter to claim responsibility for DDoSing the Pokemon Go servers.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

ChefSteps’ Joule: Food meets tech. Result? Delicious!

When I’m not writing about technology or playing wi-, er, testing software or hardware, I cook. Food and cooking are two of my passions and one of the worst things about being in the tech world is that cooking usually has to take second place. Today, however, I have the pleasure of combining tech with my culinary pursuits as I recently got my hands on a really cool cooking device that’s Bluetooth and Wi-Fi enabled and controlled by a smartphone app. The device is an immersion circulator called Joule that was developed by one of my favorite foodie resources, ChefSteps. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

AT&T wants to keep order in drone-filled skies

When it comes to drones, AT&T wants to be in the driver’s seat.The massive U.S. carrier is already using drones to inspect its cell towers and may someday put cells on drones to boost service at big events. But it’s also eyeing a major role in the way others use drones.At the heart of it all is AT&T’s network, technology executives from the company said Friday at AT&T’s Shape conference in San Francisco. They see the network as a future backbone for command and control of drones or even a drone traffic management system.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

AT&T wants to keep order in drone-filled skies

When it comes to drones, AT&T wants to be in the driver’s seat.The massive U.S. carrier is already using drones to inspect its cell towers and may someday put cells on drones to boost service at big events. But it’s also eyeing a major role in the way others use drones.At the heart of it all is AT&T’s network, technology executives from the company said Friday at AT&T’s Shape conference in San Francisco. They see the network as a future backbone for command and control of drones or even a drone traffic management system.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

During coup attempt, Turkish president appears via Facetime on live TV

In what may be another first for our connected world, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan placed what appeared to be a Facetime call to a national news broadcast early on Saturday while the world tried to figure out if a military coup against him had succeeded. Erdogan appeared on a journalist's iPhone, held up to the camera so viewers could see and hear what he had to say. He claimed that he remained in control and urged the public to take to the streets to oppose the coup attempt. Erdogan's use of modern technology to speak to the nation comes with a heap of irony. He has been keen to shut off access to the Internet during sensitive times and go after those who try to get around such bans and those who insult him. Reporters Without Borders says Erdogan has "systematically" censored the Internet.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Worth Reading: What we lose when we photograph life instead of experiencing it

Increasingly, images have become a crucial part of communicating with others, receiving affirmation and documenting new experiences. And though it may seem that a barrage of colors and pixels and faces and scenery could only enrich our imaginations and enhance our engagement with the world, the opposite seems to be taking place. —Intellectual Takeout

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Democratizing Capacity (or How to Interpret Cisco math)

Mid-December, Cisco held its Financial Analysts Conference. Shortly thereafter, I was fielding questions that summed up to “What is this all about? Cisco is cheaper than bare-metal? Really?”; check out slide 4 in this presentation.

Let me begin by clarifying that Cisco is not more affordable. Period. We’ll get to that analysis a bit later… the bigger point is that bare-metal networking is more than being affordable; it’s about giving customers degrees of freedom, transparency, and choice that they deserve in a mature industry.

In the dark ages of computing (aka 1983), a customer running IBM DB2 had to buy an IBM mainframe (complete with cables, disks, power distribution, memory, and IO) to go with the application. The compute industry has matured to a point where DB2 runs on hardware ranging from mainframes through p-series down into non-IBM x86 platforms hosted on operating systems including z/OS, Unix, Linux, and Windows. Application independent from OS independent from hardware; degrees of freedom and choice.

Circling back to networking, a significant number of products today, including Cisco’s Nexus 3000 and Nexus 9000 platforms, are based on industry prevalent networking silicon from companies like Broadcom. Optics and cables branded by networking incumbents are Continue reading

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