Issue highlights 1. To Beat IBM, Amazon Web Services Needs to Build the Next Xbox 2. Gift Guide 2013: Phones, tablets and computers 3. Windows 8 buying guide: How to buy the best laptop, desktop, tablet, or hybrid 4. INSIDER CIOs Must Learn the Politics of No 5. HBO Go makes Google's Chromecast a live broadcast platform 6. Carriers say smartphone 'kill switch' attractive to hackers 7. Retailer demands $3,500 from author of bad review 8. Time to order a Tricorder 9. Trojan program steals log-in credentials, other sensitive data from SAP client applications 10. Gift Guide 2013: Kid stuff and geek stuff 11. Only half of large companies have strong mobile strategies 12. Money, money: Box, others bask in hot VC market 13. Cryptolocker: The Musical 14. SC13: Experts debate thorny exascale memory issues 15. Gartner analyst slams OpenStack, again |
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| CIO.com columnist Rob Enderle isn't suggesting that Amazon get into gaming. Rather, AWS needs to approach IBM and the enterprise cloud the same way Microsoft successfully took on Sony. Otherwise, Amazon risks entering the annals of tech history alongside Lisa, Vaio and Zune. READ MORE |
| In the past, we used to separate out categories for cell phones, tablets and computers. In theory, we still could create separate guides just for those products - there are so many options to choose from and not a week goes by where another phone, tablet or computer hits the market. READ MORE |
| Buying a new Windows 8 device isn't as simple as, say, picking up a new Android tablet. The device-spanning nature of the overhauled operating system means Windows works on a vast array of hardware, from laptops to tablets to desktops to genre-straddling hybrids. Saying "I want a Windows 8 device" is just the first step of this particular purchasing journey. READ MORE |
| CIOs may have good reason to reject a proposal or nix a technology request, but an inept or frequent 'no' will get you sidelined. READ MORE |
| HBO GO on Chromecast, just announced today, expands the definition of TV everywhere as a platform. If you were waiting to buy live episodes of "Boardwalk Empire" for a nominal price per episode, you'll still have to wait. A premium cable subscription is still required for HBO GO with Chomecast. READ MORE |
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| Mobile carriers are opposed to the plan for a smartphone 'kill switch' that would render smartphones inoperable after they are stolen, claiming that it could be misused by hackers to block critical services. READ MORE |
| It's difficult to fathom how a legitimate business could act this way: A Utah woman, Jen Palmer, several years ago wrote a negative online review about trinket retailer KlearGear and the company responded by attempting to enforce against her what just might be the most despicable terms of service ever imagined. From an Electronic Frontier Foundation blog post: READ MORE |
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| A recently discovered malicious program steals log-in passwords and other sensitive information from SAP client applications and allows cybercriminals to access SAP servers from infected workstations. READ MORE |
| As a dad of three youngsters, one of my favorite categories in the holiday gift guide is seeing what technology-related fun we can dig up and play with. Here our a bunch of our favorite toys and silly geeky things that will keep your kids (or the kid in you) entertained for weeks, months or even years. READ MORE |
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| More than six years after the first iPhones hit the streets and more than three years after the iPad emerged, less than half of IT operations have implemented comprehensive mobile strategies. READ MORE |
| Recent investments by venture capitalists in cloud, big data and converged infrastructure companies show not only the healthy interest among financiers to back next-generation technologies, but provide a preview of what technologies from startups today could be mainstream in tomorrow's IT world. READ MORE |
| Everyone's looking for a fresh spin on Cryptolocker, the maddening ransomware that has become more prominent in recent days, and Umbrella Security Labs has come up with one: A 3D visualization set to music. READ MORE |
| An expert panel at SC13 Tuesday said that solving the issues posed by modern memory technology will prove key to achieving exascale performance in supercomputing – but there was little agreement on the road map needed. READ MORE |
| Gartner analyst Allessandro Perilli recently attended his first summit for the open source cloud platform OpenStack and he says the project has a long way to go before it's truly an enterprise-grade platform. READ MORE |
| WHITE PAPER: CDW People are interacting with software from the moment they wake up (hearing an alarm on a smartphone) to the time they relax in the evening (reading or shopping online). And in between, software affects virtually every work function in some way, whether in the executive suite or on the shipping dock. Read Now |
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