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2013 Tech Industry Graveyard

10 reasons to take a Chromebook on the road

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November 27, 2013

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iPhoneys: Latest, greatest iPhone 6 concepts

The newfangled iPhone 6 models envisioned by creative designers around the world probably won't find their way into products for the holidays this year, but at least you have the new iPhone 5S and 5C to satisfy you for now.

Issue highlights

1. 2013 Tech Industry Graveyard

2. INSIDER 10 reasons to take a Chromebook on the road

3. Review: Dueling hybrid cloud wizards

4. Google brings automatic voice search to computers running Chrome

5. How to build the ultimate imaginary Linux distro

6. Box acquires technology to let admins keep better track of content

7. 11 tech products we couldn't live without

8. 2013 Tech Turkeys – Patrizio Edition

9. Trojan program 'Neverquest' a new threat to online banking users, researchers say

10. Black Friday: The truth about its dubious deals

11. HP ends tough year on a high note

12. Acer announces first Chromebook with touchscreen for $299.99

13. Cloud Traffic Poised to Quadruple by 2017, Challenge CIOs

14. The most dangerous iPhone case ever

15. FBI: Beware online shopping scams

16. A very strange and special Thanksgiving slideshow

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2013 Tech Industry Graveyard

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INSIDER

10 reasons to take a Chromebook on the road

If you're trying to decide which device to buy for your next trip because your current laptop is too old, too slow, too heavy and just plain too embarrassing; or, conversely, too new and too expensive to risk a mishap on the road, consider a Chromebook. READ MORE

Review: Dueling hybrid cloud wizards

CloudVelocity and Ravello Systems march clones of in-house servers into the cloud for development, testing, and disaster recovery READ MORE

Google brings automatic voice search to computers running Chrome

Laptop and desktop users can now do a Google search without typing just by speaking aloud, with a Chrome extension that Google made available on Tuesday. READ MORE

How to build the ultimate imaginary Linux distro

Roughly a week back, I was at SUSECon, talking with a few fellow Linux nerds about all of the cool services and tools available for those that build their own Linux distributions. And this got me thinking. If I were to sit down, right now, and build a brand-new Linux distro... what tools would I use? What services would I utilize in order to create the best distro out there, and simultaneously make... READ MORE

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Box acquires technology to let admins keep better track of content

Cloud storage vendor Box has acquired the technology behind a company called dLoop, which it will use to add more controls that give enterprises more features for protecting their content. READ MORE

11 tech products we couldn't live without

2013 Tech Turkeys – Patrizio Edition

All around the tech press, this publication and others, people are picking their lists of turkeys for the year, just in time for Thanksgiving. Well, how could I pass up the opportunity to participate in a similar undertaking, with an eye toward Redmond? READ MORE

Trojan program 'Neverquest' a new threat to online banking users, researchers say

A new Trojan program that targets users of online financial services has the potential to spread very quickly over the next few months, security researchers warn. READ MORE

Black Friday: The truth about its dubious deals

In the retail stampede that now marks the holiday shopping season, Black Friday is being trampled right along with the occasional unlucky store employee. We now live in a "Black November" dystopia: a nonstop onslaught of deals that starts the first day of November and lasts the entire month. READ MORE

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HP ends tough year on a high note

Hewlett-Packard reported results for the last quarter of its fiscal year on Tuesday, and although sales were down from a year earlier there were some much-needed signs of improvement. READ MORE

Acer announces first Chromebook with touchscreen for $299.99

Acer announced the first Chromebook laptop with a touchscreen for US$299.99, which is about $100 more than the company's cheapest non-touch model. READ MORE

Cloud Traffic Poised to Quadruple by 2017, Challenge CIOs

A recent report from Cisco Systems suggests that global cloud traffic will reach 5.3 zettabytes in 2017. That's more than four times the traffic seen in 2012. Analysts and vendors say this will have far-reaching implications for enterprise IT. READ MORE

The most dangerous iPhone case ever

FBI: Beware online shopping scams

The FBI this week issued a series of reminders to online shoppers to beware of scams and to use their common sense. READ MORE

A very strange and special Thanksgiving slideshow

Gravy Geeks, Tech Turduckens, and (Scot) Pilgrims Celebrate the Holiday READ MORE

WHITE PAPER: AT&T

How to navigate the ever-changing mobile device landscape

Smartphones, tablets, social networks, and cloud services are all popular, incredibly useful, and a security risk. These days, the security focus is on mobile devices, as they tend to be used a lot to work with corporate information. Learn More

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