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Illumio goes to the well for $105 million more in venture funding

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Investors in Illumio are tripling down, with existing and new investors tossing another $ 105 million at the data-center/cloud security company that will be used to extend research and development, open new offices and broaden its customer base.

That brings its venture funding to $ 142.5 million, and the company plans to double its employees in 12 months from about 95 today, says the company’s Chief Commercial Office Alan Cohen.

That’s quite a bundle for a two-year-old company in the crowded network security arena where its Adaptive Security Platform (ASP) imposes policies on virtual and hardware servers, workloads and now even processes.

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Network World Tim Greene

‘Free’ Wi-Fi for first born? … Well, about that

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The press is having a field day with a report that a half-dozen Londoners unwittingly agreed to give up their first-born child in exchange for otherwise free Wi-Fi access.

The Washington Post reports:

In an experiment sponsored by security firm F-Secure, an open Wi-Fi network was set up in a busy public area. When people connected, they were presented with lengthy terms and conditions.

But to see just how little attention we pay when checking that agreement box, F-Secure included a “Herod clause” — one that offered up free Wi-Fi in exchange for the company’s permanent ownership of the user’s firstborn child.

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Network World Paul McNamara

20 years ago, AT&T ad campaign ‘predicted’ technology that was well on its way

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A YouTube compilation of a 20-year-old AT&T ad campaign dubbed “You Will” is getting pass-along traffic today (and not for the first time). It’s a fun look at the company’s predictions for a range of technologies that would become the likes of GPS, online books and electronic toll collection.

Don’t get me wrong: I’m not saying that anyone could have seen these things coming back in 1994. It’s remarkable that these innovations would become not only real but commonplace so soon after this ad campaign aired. That they would become a reality at all? That’s less remarkable, because many were already well on their way.

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Network World Paul McNamara

We’ll be liveblogging Microsoft’s Monday morning Surface 2 event

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Microsoft will be unveiling its second-generation Surface hardware in New York City at 10:30am EDT on Monday, September 23, and we’ll be there to give you blow-by-blow coverage of the new devices. Join us as we witness Microsoft taking its second step toward being a devices and services company.

We’re expecting to see a pair of new tablets—an ARM-powered Surface 2 and an x86-powered Surface Pro 2—and perhaps some new accessories to go with them. Rumors of both a battery-equipped Power Cover and some kind of docking station have both been floating around.

Mon Sep 23 2013 10:30:00 GMT-0400 (EDT)

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