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Juniper ships SDN controller, dismisses OpenDaylight technology The best laptops, convertibles, and Ultrabooks for Windows 8 Network World Daily News PM September 16, 2013 Share this email Hottest new products of the week: 9.16.13 Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as IBM and Varonis READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Juniper ships SDN controller, dismisses OpenDaylight technology 2. INSIDER The best laptops, convertibles, and Ultrabooks for Windows 8 3. Best and worst tech bloopers: September edition 4. Gmail is the preferred email service of terrorists, claims former NSA chief 5. An alternate method of SDN network programmability 6. Security company says Nasdaq waited two weeks to fix XSS flaw 7. Mozilla postpones Metro Firefox release to late January 8. Take note: Box looks beyond cloud storage with note-taking app 9. 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Juniper ships SDN controller, dismisses OpenDaylight technology Juniper Networks is now shipping its SDN controller and has also made it available as open source code, signaling an intention to not develop product around the OpenDaylight SDN consortium's work. READ MORE INSIDER The best laptops, convertibles, and Ultrabooks for Windows 8 From classic clamshell notebooks to next-gen touch hybrids, see how HP, Dell, Samsung, Lenovo, and Acer stack up in InfoWorld's reviews READ MORE Best and worst tech bloopers: September edition While watching a blooper reel at a recent baseball game, I got to thinking about whether we could pull off a regular bloopers collection of technology-related incidents. READ MORE WEBCAST: HP HP Mobile App Development Survey Join John Jeremiah, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, HP and John Jackson, Research Vice President, Mobile & Connected Platforms, IDC for an interactive discussion on the results of the HP Mobile Application Development Maturity Peer Assessment Tool. Date: September 18 @ 1:00pm EDT Register Now Gmail is the preferred email service of terrorists, claims former NSA chief You can learn all sorts of moral lessons if you attend church, but the person behind the pulpit doesn't usually preach about Gmail-loving terrorists. Yet former NSA and CIA director Michael Hayden did exactly that at St. John's Episcopal Church in Washington DC. The Washington Post reported that Hayden stood on the pulpit and claimed: READ MORE An alternate method of SDN network programmability If you haven't been living under a rock for the past few years, your head is probably about to explode from Software Defined Networking overload. Rooted in Stanford academic research, SDN was initially branded as a "science project," which in reality it was. However, rapidly growing market interest quickly propelled it from theory to practice and the era of SDN startups had begun. READ MORE Security company says Nasdaq waited two weeks to fix XSS flaw A Swiss security company said the Nasdaq website had a serious cross-site scripting vulnerability for two weeks before being fixed on Monday, despite earlier warnings. READ MORE RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Apperian Deploy and manage enterprise mobile apps for free Companies recognize the benefits of enterprise mobility efforts, but struggle to achieve the adoption of mobile apps and data needed to drive ROI. With ApperianONE you can distribute and manage a single enterprise app or unlimited public apps at no cost, for up to 100,000 employees. Learn how you can mobilize your workforce and drive app adoption today. Mozilla postpones Metro Firefox release to late January Mozilla said slower-than-expected progress on Firefox for Microsoft's Windows 8 "Modern" user interface means that the touch-based browser likely won't launch until late January. READ MORE Take note: Box looks beyond cloud storage with note-taking app Box, the Silicon Valley darling that has disrupted enterprise cloud storage and file sharing, will broaden its scope into the content-creation space with a new online note-taking application. READ MORE How to protect your PC against devious security traps Securing your PC against the malicious wilds of the Web isn't as simple as just keeping your antivirus software of choice up-to-date. In fact, the pervasiveness of security software has forced the bad guys to turn to increasingly clever tricks in their quest to "pwn" your PC. 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