#blog (Sean Ferigan): September 2015

Former Sprint exec lands at Mississippi wireless operator

Once Sprint's technology chief, Stephen Bye will soon head up strategy for rural operator C Spire, as the company decides whether to participate in the government's upcoming spectrum auction.

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Make this massive Jabba the Hutt inflatable your lawn slave

Prepare for the new Star Wars movie by installing a fat inflatable Jabba the Hutt in front of your house.

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Twitter reportedly to name Dorsey as permanent CEO

The microblogging service will name co-founder and interim CEO Jack Dorsey as its new chief this week, according to a report. His first job: getting more people to tweet.

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TiVo Bolt lets you skip commercials and speed-watch TV

TiVo hopes you'll pay more for TV with its time-saving tricks. Also, Tesla Model X spreads its wings, and Samsung's Gear S2 smartwatch hits stores Friday.

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New AWS Security Training Classes

Information security is deeply important to our customers and one of today’s most sought after IT specialties. So today we’re launching a new AWS Training curriculum to help customers meet their cloud security objectives under the AWS Shared Responsibility Model. The curriculum’s two new classes are designed to help customers create more secure AWS architectures and solutions and address key compliance requirements.

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Amazon EMR now includes Spark 1.5, Presto, Hue, intelligent resize, and HDFS encryption

You can now deploy new applications on your Amazon EMR cluster and take advantage of intelligent cluster resizing. Amazon EMR release 4.1.0 offers an upgraded version of Apache Spark (1.5.0), Hue 3.7.1 as a GUI for creating and running Hive and Pig workloads, and the Hadoop Key Management Server (KMS) component for transparent encryption in the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). Additionally, you can now easily install and use Presto, Apache Zeppelin, and Apache Oozie on your clusters. We have introduced them as Sandbox Applications in this release, providing early access to applications which are still in development for a full General Availability (GA) release.

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