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High-gain patch antennas boost Wi-Fi capacity for Georgia Tech | Eye-opening 'Morris worm' turns 25

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Tech spending slows, thanks to Congress
Forrester Research has lowered its projection for tech spending growth this year from 5.7% to 3.9%, and it attributes the slowdown mostly to moves in Congress. Read More

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WEBCAST: Egnyte

Consider Hybrid Approach to File-Sharing
Security. Scalability. Control. These are just some of the many benefits of enterprise cloud file-sharing that you'll discover in this KnowledgeVault, packed with short videos, white papers and demos. View Now!

High-gain patch antennas boost Wi-Fi capacity for Georgia Tech
To boost its Wi-Fi capacity in packed lecture halls, Georgia Institute of Technology gave up trying to cram in more access points, with conventional omni-directional antennas, and juggle power settings and channel plans. Instead, it turned to new high-gain directional antennas, from Tessco's Ventev division. Read More

Eye-opening 'Morris worm' turns 25
On Nov. 2, 1988, mainstream America learned for the first time that computers get viruses, too, as what would become known as the Morris worm - named for its author, Cornell University student Robert Tappan Morris - made front-page headlines after first making life miserable for IT professionals. Read More

Google had opportunity to join group that won Nortel's 6000 patents
You might remember a few years ago, back in 2011 to be specific, that a number of tech companies joined forces to purchase over 6,000 patents from communications giant Nortel. When the dust cleared, the winning bid came from a group of companies that included Apple, Google, RIM and Sony. On the losing end of the battle was Google who stopped its bidding at $4.4 billion. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Ipanema Technologies

Don't Let App Performance Problems Drag You Down
Check out this exclusive IDG-Ipanema survey to learn about the far-reaching impacts of poor application performance, and what you can do about it. Learn More.

Linux 4.0 may have only bug fixes, no new features
Linux operating system creator Linus Torvalds has proposed that Linux 4.0, an upcoming release of the open-source software, should be dedicated to stability and bug fixing. Read More

Windows 8 uptake slows, ditch-XP movement decelerates
Windows 8's user share in October climbed past the 10% milestone for the first time since the launch of the radically-overhauled OS a year ago, an analytics company said Friday. Read More

INSIDER

Five ways IT can prepare for wearable devices at work
Just when IT execs are getting a handle on how to accommodate employees' personal smartphones and tablets in the workplace, the technology industry has thrown up a new challenge -- wearable computers. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Novell

Mobile Zen: Balancing End-User Productivity and IT Control
Mobility is often seen as a zero-sum game: either end users or IT can win, but never both. Learn how users can have the convenience and mobile productivity they need, while IT retains control over enterprise goods. Victory for both sides. Learn More

Big data blues: The dangers of data mining
Companies are taking matters into their own hands with internal controls, open privacy policies, ethical codes and greater candor over how they're collecting and parsing personal data. But many wonder whether it's enough to allay consumers' fears as techniques for manipulating data multiply. Read More

IT hiring goes multimedia
IT job seekers embrace social media, video and graphics to enhance their resumes and set themselves apart from other job applicants. Read More

SecuriSync: cloud storage employees and IT admins will love
You may love Dropbox, but your IT admin likely hates it. Consumer cloud platforms create headaches for the folks who worry about the security of corporate data and what happens to files when a person leaves the company. Read More

Free cloud storage service MegaCloud goes dark
The website for MegaCloud, a provider of free and paid consumer cloud storage, is inaccessible and users of the service are complaining on social media sites that they have not had access to their data for days. Read More

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