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News

• Chicago taxes cloud and streaming services

  The City of Chicago has implemented sweeping new tax regulations that target the use of streaming and cloud computing services, the law firm ReedSmith says.

• Microsoft needs SDN for Azure Cloud

  SANTA CLARA <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/2836373/cloud-computing/microsoft-goes-all-in-on-hybrid-cloud-with-azure-in-a-box.html">Microsoft's Azure</a> couldn't scale without SDN.

• AT&T looking at white boxes as CPE

  SANTA CLARA -- AT&amp;T is considering offering bare metal switches and servers to consumers as customer premises equipment for the carrier's services.

• Dell adds Pluribus, brings Linux-based OS to its data center switches

  Dell has added <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/2872683/sdn/sdn-start-up-says-it-is-best-funded-in-industry.html">Pluribus Networks</a> to its lineup of disaggregation partners.

• Cisco boosts cloud software, lines up ISVs to write Internet of Everything services

  SAN DIEGO -- Cisco this week enhanced its cloud software and lined up a roster of ISVs to create services for <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/2867988/cisco-subnet/ciscos-business-case-for-ioe.html">the company's Internet of Everything initiative</a>.

• Microsoft to add real-time translation to Windows' Skype desktop app by summer's end

  Microsoft today said that it would add its real-time translation technology to the primary Windows desktop app, giving users of Windows 7 and older editions the chance to test the service.

• Yahoo does Spring Cleaning: Shuts down Maps, Pipes & more

  In case you were wondering what it is exactly that Yahoo does these days, the company says its focus is on "search, communications and digital content." The rest must go, and as such, Yahoo today has announced some things it is getting rid of.

• Cisco acquires OpenStack pioneer Piston Cloud

  Cisco this week announced intentions to acquire Piston Cloud Computing, its second OpenStack cloud computing buyout in less than a year.

• Cisco's two presidents resigning

  Cisco's co-presidents plan to resign on the eve of the company's new CEO taking the reins.

• Cellphone use involved in more than 1 in 4 car crashes

  Cellphone-related car crashes were up for the third straight year in the United States and now account for more than one in four crashes, <a href="http://www.nsc.org/DistractedDrivingDocuments/Cell-Phone-Estimate-Summary-2013.pdf">according to the National Safety Council</a>.

• HP buying SDN company for NFV

  HP this week signed a definitive agreement to acquire <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/2184029/data-center/sdn-company-helps-build-clouds.html?nsdr=true">ConteXtream, a provider of OpenDaylight-based SDNs for service providers</a>.

• Offshore captive centers are again a thriving outsourcing model

  Captive centers -- in-house IT and business process delivery arms -- accounted for one quarter of the $150 billion global services market last year, according outsourcing consultancy and research firm Everest Group.

• Coming soon to Firefox: More ads!

  Mozilla today announced an expansion and rebranding of its in-browser advertisements, now dubbed "Suggested Tiles," that will by default show in the new tab page of all Firefox users.

• New protocol from Guardtime hopes to unseat RSA for authentication, digital signatures

  Data integrity vendor Guardtime hopes its newly announced protocol will replace RSA for the purposes of authentication and digital signatures, touting it as easier to manage and less vulnerable to hacking.

• Alcatel-Lucent uses SDN to meld IP, optical services

  Alcatel-Lucent this week extended its carrier SDN product line with an automation and network control system designed to accelerate service provisioning from multivendor IP and optical infrastructure.