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In this Issue Weird and wonderful high-tech inventions of the world Why this Linux user is now using Windows 3.1 iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending Jan. 25 Why you need (a lot) more Internet bandwidth on your Enterprise WAN Sex and NSFW clips flood new Vine app from Twitter. Will Apple respond? How do you manage your social networks? 13 useful add-ons for Microsoft Excel and Word 2013 How wireless charging can drive near-field communications growth Acquisition math: Belkin CTO predicts outcome of Linksys deal will be "1+1=3" A trip to Best Buy showed me why Windows 8 will win Can Microsoft ever gain ground in the creative community? WHITE PAPER: Oracle Deriving value from SOA with data grids This white paper demonstrates that a data grid infrastructure, built with clustered cahing, can help you avoid "weak link" vulnerabilities that can sabotage SOA strategies. Learn More Weird and wonderful high-tech inventions of the world From robotic waiters and high-tech bicycles to "privacy visors," we take a look at recent inventions that are strange but beautiful Read More Why this Linux user is now using Windows 3.1 Before we begin, let me just say that what you are about to read is, for lack of a better word, ridiculous. I know it is ridiculous. It is almost boundless in its ridiculousness. But I am going to write these words anyway. This is the story of how a Linux user...switched to Windows 3.1. At least in part. You read that right. Windows 3.1. Yes. That Windows 3.1. The 16-bit one that came out in 1992...over... Read More iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending Jan. 25 The combination of intense cold gripping much of the U.S. and feverish iPhone speculation is creating extreme rumoring conditions, threatening to drive the iOSphere into epistemological collapse. Read More Why you need (a lot) more Internet bandwidth on your Enterprise WAN Last time we covered the reasons I believe the time is now ripe for a Next-generation Enterprise WAN (NEW) architecture. Read More Sex and NSFW clips flood new Vine app from Twitter. Will Apple respond? Just a few days ago, Twitter unveiled a new app called Vine for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The app enables users to record 6 second videos and embed them within tweets. The videos are played in a loop, so you might liken them to modern day animated gifs. Read More How do you manage your social networks? I recently decided, somewhat randomly, to experiment a bit more with social networking. I was on LinkedIn and at some point the service asked me if it could access my Gmail contact list. Read More 13 useful add-ons for Microsoft Excel and Word 2013 Read More How wireless charging can drive near-field communications growth At CES 2013, the Wireless Power Consortium displayed dozens of devices that were designed to the Qi wireless charging standard, suggesting that 2013 may be the year wireless charging becomes a feature consumers expect to come standard in new smartphones. Read More Acquisition math: Belkin CTO predicts outcome of Linksys deal will be "1+1=3" News that Cisco intended to divest its Linksys home-networking business unit broke last December, but Belkin's decision--announced last Thursday--to acquire that division came as a surprise. Belkin's intentions are even more interesting: The company isn't just buying a prestige brand to slap on its existing home-networking product line; it plans to market networking products under both brands. Read More A trip to Best Buy showed me why Windows 8 will win I had to go to Best Buy last night to pick up a printer cartridge for my ink jet printer at home. I don't go to Best Buy a lot, so I have not been there since Windows 8 was released. The printer cartridges were in the computer department and to get to them I had to walk through the cell phone area, then the desktop, laptop, Apple, and finally tablet areas. It proved to be an eye-opening experience. ... Read More Can Microsoft ever gain ground in the creative community? As this reporter has gotten older, trade shows have become less appealing. Not only because it's just tougher on the body, but also this modern era requires running around with a laptop on your back between the floor and the press room to file stories immediately. Back when I started out, my show reports appeared a week after the event. Now, they are forgotten a day after the event. Read More
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