Eccentric 21st Century LED lighting with Bluetooth and smartphone apps

You’re sitting in your office (or cube) and it’s kinda drab. You need something to brighten it up and I have just what you might want: Lamps. But these are no ordinary lamps, these are LED lamps called Notti and Dotti produced by Witti Design which you can program from your smartphone and they are kind of eccentric. The Notti is a white truncated prism (100mm high by 75mm wide by 60mm deep) with rechargeable batteries. It can be programmed via an iOS or Android app and connects via Bluetooth BLE. The Notti can continuously change color, change color according to the music being played on your smartphone, stay on a fixed color, gradually brighten in alarm mode to wake you up, or light up when your smartphone receives a message or you get an incoming call. The battery lasts 720+ hours in notification mode (off until a notification event occurs) or 5+ hours in continuous mode.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Your Docker Agenda in May

April was quite an eventful month for the Docker Community. By the end of April, over 1,200 people attended the 24 birthday events organized by the Docker community in 11 countries. With the overwhelming number of contributions we received, we … Continued

Some Flickr users facing browser support woes

Some Flickr users are reporting problems with the photo sharing site that may be related to what browser they’re using—even if the browser’s up to date.Since late last month, some users have reported problems after seeing a message telling them their browser was unsupported. Some say they’ve lost the ability to do things on Flickr, like comment on or download photos, while others say their photos now appear in lower resolution.On April 21, Flickr began notifying users they would need the latest browser versions. The service supports Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer and Opera, but its help page now says Flickr may not work properly on older versions of those browsers.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

The five coolest projects at AT&T Labs

These days, researchers at AT&T Labs are focusing on cars, smart homes, wearables and health apps, judging by projects showcased at the company’s Research Day. This year’s exhibit, held Friday in New York, was more practical than previous ones, with many projects being close to release.Here are five interesting projects shown at the event:Connected carsAs your car gets close to home, the garage door automatically opens and the living room lights and air-conditioning system switch on. Convenient, no? AT&T wants to make that a reality with its Drive initiative, which will track a car’s location, and when it’s within a certain distance of the house, trigger certain pre-configured actions. Alternatively, users could manually issue commands through a console in the car. AT&T already offers smart home and security services, and it’ll be up to car makers to implement this vehicle-based home automation service.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

The five coolest projects at AT&T Labs

These days, researchers at AT&T Labs are focusing on cars, smart homes, wearables and health apps, judging by projects showcased at the company’s Research Day. This year’s exhibit, held Friday in New York, was more practical than previous ones, with many projects being close to release. Here are five interesting projects shown at the event: Connected cars As your car gets close to home, the garage door automatically opens and the living room lights and air-conditioning system switch on. Convenient, no? AT&T wants to make that a reality with its Drive initiative, which will track a car’s location, and when it’s within a certain distance of the house, trigger certain pre-configured actions. Alternatively, users could manually issue commands through a console in the car. AT&T already offers smart home and security services, and it’ll be up to car makers to implement this vehicle-based home automation service.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Show 236 – Talari and the Software-Defined WAN – Sponsored

With more companies jumping on the SD-WAN bandwagon every day, it’s getting harder than ever to figure out how to differentiate solutions. Luckily, Ethan Banks and Greg Ferro help shed some light on what an SD-WAN is, what you should look for and what to be concerned about in this interview with John Dickey, co-founder and CTO at Talari.

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Greg Ferro is a Network Engineer/Architect, mostly focussed on Data Centre, Security Infrastructure, and recently Virtualization. He has over 20 years in IT, in wide range of employers working as a freelance consultant including Finance, Service Providers and Online Companies. He is CCIE#6920 and has a few ideas about the world, but not enough to really count.

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Racist stunt gets BBQ joint knocked offline

Edgar Antillon, owner of a Colorado barbecue joint called Rubbin’ Buttz, had a dumb idea that he says started as a “joke:” Let’s declare June 11 “White Appreciation Day,” complete with a 10% discount for white customers. A scribbled sign was posted on the door.And then, since not everyone finds racism funny, some took it out on the Rubbin’ Buttz website. It’s difficult to tell from a small sample size whether Antillon is as racist as his “joke” would indicate or merely a dunderhead without an ounce of common sense. Despite a wave of criticism, the eatery’s Facebook page indicates that he’s sticking to his guns, so the answer may be both.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

US man pleads no contest to operating revenge porn site

The operator of a so-called revenge porn website has pleaded no contest to criminal charges, including extortion, in a California court.Casey Meyering, operator of WinByState.com, pleaded no contest Friday in Napa County Superior Court to one count of extortion, three counts of attempted extortion, and one count of conspiracy, California Attorney General Kamala Harris announced.WinByState.com encouraged users to post and trade nude photographs of women, including their ex-girlfriends and current girlfriends. WinByState.com asked uploaders to identify their “wins” by city and state, sometimes using the victim’s complete or partial name. At one point, the website claimed to have more than 60,000 members and more than 30,000 pictures posted.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

The 5 stages of venture capital denial

I attended the recent EMC World, which is one of the best events for press and analysts because it tailors its program for us and our specific needs. There was a nice balance of group sessions and one-on-ones. One of the sessions I found fascinating was given by Scott Darling from EMC Ventures about EMC’s venture funding efforts.Not long ago I attended an event in San Jose where Intel’s investment group leader gave a similar talk, so it was interesting to contrast the two groups. Intel is focused on investing in young companies that consume Intel’s products, EMC is interested in investing in young companies that could grow up to replace all or part of them. These are two very different strategies.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Intelligent WAN (“IWAN”) Here I Come!

As many of you know I work in Cisco’s Customer Proof of Concept (CPOC) lab and have for many years (since February of 2001).  What this has meant is that for the past 14 years I’m never in one specific lab environment for more than 1 month.  Which, admittedly, works great when one is a “little” A.D.D. :)

But for the next 5 months I will be playing (oh… right “working”) in one specific lab environment. Specifically related to Cisco’s Intelligent WAN (IWAN)

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The above diagram is of the current “CPOC IWAN PreBuilt Static Testbed”.  It was built late last year by CPOC engineers Robert Kintner, Steve Moore, and Gina Cornett.

Guess who will be taking this over for the next few months?  :)   I’m very stoked!  …. and I’m going to take you along for the fun.

Obviously I don’t want to play and mess up the environment that is already set up and built.  So tossing the below environment together for us to play and learn in.   I will NOT be encrypting the DMVPN tunnels so we Continue reading

IDG Contributor Network: Give me my Attribute mapping back for Sponsor Groups

In ISE 1.0 Cisco introduced an integrated Guest solution with a next-generation RADIUS-based policy server. That policy server was game-changing, certainly. Other companies responded to this market changing model by making some very strategic moves with their chess pieces to be similarly positioned.Figure 1 shows an example of the ISE 1.2.x (and below) Sponsor Group Policy. Aaron T. Woland Figure 1 - 1.0 - 1.2.x Sponsor Policy While ISE 1.0 was and is an extremely powerful policy server, it was also viewed as being overly complex and not flexible enough in the areas of Guest life-cycle management. This was especially true when comparing ISE with it's closest competitors in the guest access management space.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Cross Microsoft off the list of potential Salesforce suitors — and maybe everyone

Rumors of a potential Salesforce acquisition have been flying for over a week now, including the recent suggestion that Microsoft was a likely contender. According to a new report, however, it now looks like that’s not the case.Microsoft considers Salesforce’s almost $50 billion market valuation too high and has no plans to make a bid for the cloud-software company in the near term, Reuters reported late on Thursday, citing unnamed sources. It may, however, reconsider the possibility in the future, the sources reportedly said.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

PlexxiPulse—Our Newest Board Member

This week we announced that Clark Masters, Senior Vice President of HANA Cloud Computing at SAP, has been appointed to our Board of Directors—filling the seat vacated when Rich Napolitano was named Plexxi CEO last November. At SAP, Clark is responsible for strategy and advanced architectures relating to in-memory database operation in public and private clouds. With more than 30 years of technology and industry leadership, he brings a wealth of high-technology vision, knowledge and execution to our board. Clark will help to support our ongoing expansion and efforts to drive the networking industry’s transition to an application and data-focused era. Join us in welcoming Clark to the Plexxi team!

Below please find a few of our top picks for our favorite news articles of the week. Have a great weekend!

Enterprise Networking Planet: SDN Gets Some Help with Scalability
By Arthur Cole
Nearly everyone who is contemplating software defined networking (SDN) these days is thinking about scale-out architectures.  Big Data and the Internet of Everything have the enterprise industry spooked that if a solution does not scale, it isn’t likely to be taken seriously. What most IT executives may not realize, however, is that scale is not actually Continue reading

Billions of reasons to listen to these Unicorn startup founders

Bob Brown/NetworkWorld TIE Startup Con "Unicorn" panel (L-R) Moderator Deepak Sindwani of Bain, WeWork co-founder Miguel McKelvey, Actifio CEO Ash Ashutosh Unicorns are all the rage these days, and we’re not talking about the ones in fantasy stories or on your kids’ bedspreads. The unicorns that people at events like last week’s TIE Startup Con (formerly TIEcon East) are agog over are private companies with valuations of $1 billion or more, such as co-working office space provider WeWork and data virtualization company Actifio, whose founders talked shop during the opening panel at the Cambridge, Mass., get-together for entrepreneurs and investors.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Visitors to top porn sites hit by malvertising attack

In the latest attack involving malicious advertisements, hackers managed to launch Flash Player exploits against the visitors of several popular porn websites.It’s not clear how many users were impacted, but the affected websites have over 250 million monthly visits combined, according to researchers from Malwarebytes who spotted and analyzed the attack.The malicious ads were posted through an advertising network called AdXpansion that was abused in similar incidents in the past.The attackers managed to distribute through the network a Flash-based ad that attempted to exploit a vulnerability in Flash Player.The flaw affects Flash Player through version 17.0.0.134, which was released within the last two months, the Malwarebytes researchers said in a blog post Thursday. Affected sites listed in the blog post include Drtuber.com, Nuvid.com, Hardsextube.com and Justporno.tv.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: GPS breakthrough: Low-cost accuracy within centimeters

There's been talk for years of a more accurate Global Positioning System. The current GPS system tells you roughly where you are, but it's only accurate to within a few feet. That vagueness means that although it's fine for mapping, it isn't good enough for narrowly targeted proximity or geo-fencing that can be used in e-commerce.Existing GPS has been used in toll-road billing, and has been fine-tuned for surveying with large, expensive antennas, but it's currently not much good for tracking customers as they choose a concert seat, for example.Galileo The European Space Agency is building a new, highly-accurate system called Galileo that they say will be fully functional by about 2020.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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