Networking World: Jealous much? 8 techy things that can spark office envy

Kennametal CEO Uses IT to Keep a Laser Focus on Customers

New Role for the CIO: Chief Process Officer?

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September 02, 2013

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Jealous much? 8 techy things that can spark office envy

From telecommuting to extra monitors, technology has given us new reasons to be jealous of our co-workers

Issue highlights

1. Kennametal CEO Uses IT to Keep a Laser Focus on Customers

2. New Role for the CIO: Chief Process Officer?

3. The PC monitor is dead. Meet the new smart monitor

4. INSIDER How Progressive Uses Telematics and Analytics to Price Car Insurance

5. XP Z: Microsoft scares Windows XP users straight with undead bug warning

6. In their own words: Unix pioneers remember the good times

7. For IP surveillance networks, smart PoE switches give an edge

8. Juniper kills MobileNext mobile packet product line

9. Google cuts Nexus 4 price by up to a third in some key markets

10. 10 Free Google Chrome Extensions to Increase Your Productivity

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Kennametal CEO Uses IT to Keep a Laser Focus on Customers

For Carlos Cardoso, CEO of Kennametal, a wealth of data about customers' manufacturing plants allows his company to identify ways to boost efficiency READ MORE

New Role for the CIO: Chief Process Officer?

CIO's Publisher Adam Dennison wonders why all the burdens of IT process-creating and policy-making for new technologies must fall on the CIO's shoulders. Should vendors be stepping up to help? READ MORE

The PC monitor is dead. Meet the new smart monitor

We worry far too much about the desktop PC becoming a relic of a bygone age. Our focus, instead, should be on the monitor that the PC connects to. Indeed, as we use more and more mobile devices with integrated screens--notebooks, tablets, and smartphones--we pay much less attention to the aging, dumb monitors sitting on our desks. READ MORE

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How Progressive Uses Telematics and Analytics to Price Car Insurance

Progressive's Snapshot device monitors customer driving habits, lets insurer fine-tune policy pricing. READ MORE

XP Z: Microsoft scares Windows XP users straight with undead bug warning

Microsoft warned Windows XP customers that they face never-patched, never-dead "zero-day" vulnerabilities if they don't dump the 12-year-old operating system before its April 2014 retirement. READ MORE

In their own words: Unix pioneers remember the good times

We caught up with the pioneers who brought us the Unix operating system and asked them to share some memories of the early days of Unix development. READ MORE

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Learn the key selection criteria required to provide your organization with the capability to address structured data, unstructured data and mobile demands so that employees can view and manipulate data on their own, from virtually any location. Read Now

For IP surveillance networks, smart PoE switches give an edge

An increasing number of businesses, school districts and healthcare facilities are delving into Smart Ethernet switches with Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) technology—and reaping big benefits for their IP Surveillance networks. READ MORE

Juniper kills MobileNext mobile packet product line

Juniper has killed a high-profile product for the core of mobile operator networks after combining business units to focus on potential growth opportunities. READ MORE

Google cuts Nexus 4 price by up to a third in some key markets

Google has cut the price of the Nexus 4 in handful of countries including the U.K. and the U.S., where the smartphone now costs from $199. The aggressive drop signals Google wanting to preempt the arrival of a cheaper iPhone. READ MORE

10 Free Google Chrome Extensions to Increase Your Productivity

These Google Chrome browser extensions will help you manage tabs, avoid Flash, save files to Google Drive and more. READ MORE

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