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Amazon’s older Kindles will start to lose their internet access in December

The Verge

Amazon’s Kindle e-readers with built-in 3G will begin to lose the ability to connect to the internet on their own in the US in December, according to an email sent to customers on Wednesday. The change is due to mobile carriers transitioning from older 2G and 3G networking technology to newer 4G and 5G networks.

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Update On The Megatrend of the Internet of Things

CTOvision

In this post we dive deeper into the Internet of Things. Today's Internet connects people, governments, academia and business. The already emerging Internet of Things goes far beyond that. The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks. How can we optimize distributed processors when they are idle?

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The network is your office intelligence center

CIO Business Intelligence

You can’t manage what you can’t measure, and y our network is more than a data conduit—it’s your office intelligence center. As an IT decision maker, it’s up to you to transform your network for the future so it can anticipate worker needs, reduce energy usage, reinforce security, and deliver real-time data for a faster path to innovation.

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ICANN’s internet DNS security upgrade apparently goes off without a glitch

Network World

That’s the report from Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) as it rolled out the first-ever changing of the cryptographic key that helps protect the internet’s address book – the Domain Name System (DNS) on Oct. So far, so good. To read this article in full, please click here

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Unplug your WD My Book Live, or you might find your drive’s data wiped

The Verge

If you own a WD My Book Live NAS, you should immediately disconnect it from your network — users have discovered that their data has seemingly been deleted off the device, with no action on their part ( via Ars Technica ).

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Is Elon Musk calculated or crazed? Walter Isaacson discusses his new book on the GeekWire Podcast

GeekWire

” That’s the fundamental question at the heart of the book, and of Musk’s career and life. Structuring the book TB: One of the things that struck me was the way that you structured this book. It was actually very easy for me to follow as a reader, both in the printed book and in the audio book.

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Book excerpt: What makes a great startup idea? Lessons from a veteran entrepreneur

GeekWire

Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from a new book written by Shirish Nadkarni, a Seattle tech veteran who co-founded Livemocha (acquired by RosettaStone) and TeamOn (acquired by BlackBerry). While the trend toward globalization was accelerating, a number of social networks began emerging and capturing end-user attention.