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As third RSA Conference without ‘booth babes’ nears, no one seems to miss them

In March 2015, RSA Conference organizers made news by contractually insisting that vendors pitch their security wares without the help of “booth babes,” a first such ban for the technology industry.

Next week’s RSAC in San Francisco will be the third without the babes, so I checked in with event staff to see if the policy had evolved at all and how it has been accepted by various stake-holders.  

Here’s how the contract language read in 2015:

All Expo staff are expected to dress in business and/or business casual attire. Exhibitors should ensure that the attire of al staff they deploy at their booth (whether the exhibitor’s direct employees or their contractors) be considered appropriate in a professional environment. Attire of an overly revealing or suggestive nature is not permitted. Examples of such attire may include but are not restricted to:

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Network World Paul McNamara

Windows 10 Anniversary Update nears RTM with bugfixes galore

With its August 2 release date growing closer, the Windows 10 Anniversary Update is nearing completion.

A steady stream of new builds for Windows Insiders on the fast track has been released over the past few weeks. The latest build, 14383, came out today and includes a wide range of fixes. As with many of its predecessors, this build has been made available simultaneously for Windows 10 on the desktop and Windows 10 Mobile; Microsoft is intending to ship the Anniversary Update simultaneously for PC, phone, and Xbox One when that release date arrives.

Windows Central is reporting that according to its sources, the build one newer than today’s release, 14384, is the first candidate for what would formerly be known as Release To Manufacturing (RTM). With Windows now being delivered “as a service,” the old RTM terminology isn’t favored by Redmond any more—not least because many people will download the update rather than have it preinstalled by a PC manufacturer—but the concept that RTM represents endures. The “RTM” build will be the one released on August 2 to people in the stable channel, and then after several months of regular Patch Tuesday updates, it will be released as the Current Branch for Business.

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Technology Lab – Ars Technica

Boxee 1.5 nears release, will be final desktop version (Terrence O’Brien/Engadget)

Terrence O’Brien / Engadget:
Boxee 1.5 nears release, will be final desktop version  —  We have some good news and bad news.  The good news is: Boxee 1.5 will be entering public beta soon, with a proper release scheduled for January alongside Live TV.  The update will finally bring the desktop software up-to-date …

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Report: Hewlett-Packard nears deal to buy security software maker ArcSight for $1 … – Hartford Courant

NEW YORK (AP) — Computer maker Hewlett-Packard Co. may be close to another major acquisition. The company is nearing a deal to buy security software provider ArcSight for about $1.5 billion, The Wall …
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