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IDG Contributor Network: Massive solar storm will ‘kill’ the internet, says space expert

Network World

Not enough is being done to protect networks from solar storms that could wipe out electric power grids and destroy satellites. The end game in a catastrophic solar storm would be the internet’s time synchronization not working anymore. That would stop the internet altogether. “An

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Quantum teleportation over the internet? Northwestern just made it happen

Dataconomy

Northwestern University engineers have achieved the first demonstration of quantum teleportation over fiber optic cables transporting conventional Internet data. Kumar explained that the work demonstrates how quantum networks and classical networks can share the same fiber optic framework.

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Technology News and Hot Topics

CTOvision

Without its ailing handset business, Nokia is now a mobile networks firm that competes with Huawei Technologies Co. … It confirmed that it expects net sales for its main networks unit to grow on a year-on-year basis in the second half … Read more on Wall Street Journal. and Ericsson.

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Researchers claim new internet speed record of 44.2 Tbps

The Verge

Researchers based out of Australia’s Monash, Swinburne, and RMIT universities say they’ve set a new internet speed record of 44.2 Tbps, according to a paper published in the open-access journal Nature Communications. Photo by Michele Doying / The Verge. Tbps connection anytime soon, however.

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What Does The “Internet Of Things” Mean For CIOs?

The Accidental Successful CIO

The Internet of things is coming our way – how will this change things? Right now you and I both use screens to interact with the Internet. As the importance of information technology increases, how we interact with the Internet is one of the things that is going to dramatically change as the Internet of things arrives.

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5 practical tips for emerging IT leaders

CIO Business Intelligence

I like to meditate, have a journal and work with a habit tracker, but my tools may not appeal to you. With the power of social media and the internet, connecting with people virtually anywhere in the world is possible. What brings clarity to one person could be boring or borderline insufferable for another.

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F5 Networks will buy Volterra cloud computing startup for $500M in latest major acquisition

GeekWire

F5 Networks CEO Francois Locoh-Donou at the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce Annual Meeting. F5 Networks announced an agreement to acquire cloud computing startup Volterra Inc. It’s part of a broader transformation of F5 Networks under CEO François Locoh-Donou in recent years. Haiyan Song (F5 Networks Photo).

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