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Holiday gift guide 2013: Gadgets for work, play

Gift Guide 2013: Work gadgets

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November 18, 2013

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Why the cloud requires a totally different data center

If there's one mind-blowing statistic about Amazon Web Services, it's the company's scale.

Issue highlights

1. Holiday gift guide 2013: Gadgets for work, play

2. Gift Guide 2013: Work gadgets

3. HP: 90% of Apple iOS mobile apps show security vulnerabilities

4. 10 reasons the browser is becoming the universal OS

5. Geek-themed Meme of the Week: Vertical Video Edition

6. Geek-Themed Meme of the Week Archive

7. Guess how many people will be at Salesforce's Dreamforce show this week

8. The security industry remains strong with computer science, but weak on IT

9. Google to warn users of 13,000 search terms associated with child pornography

10. IBM looks past Watson, taps graphics chips to speed Power servers

11. CIOs and CMOs: Feuding in the C-Suite

12. Products of the week 11.18.13

13. Dell PowerEdge VRTX hits the high notes

RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: SolarWinds

New Video: How to Configure NetFlow v9 on a Cisco Router

Networks can grow fast—really fast. This rapid growth leads to increased network traffic, more endpoints, and new IPs consuming bandwidth. Key to a complete understanding of network behavior at your growing organization is the ability to collect and analyze NetFlow data in your routers. SolarWinds new video shows you how, in less than 5 minutes! Looking to enable Flexible NetFlow on your Cisco routers? In less than 5 minutes, SolarWinds lead Sales Engineer demonstrates how to enable NetFlow v9 on Cisco routers with custom flow records. Watch the short how to video now!

Holiday gift guide 2013: Gadgets for work, play

The holidays are here, and it's time to rock! With more than 140 products to choose from, let us take you on a journey through our favorite personal technology products and gift ideas for the techie on your list. From phones to computers to the hottest video games, we've got a bunch of great gift ideas. Please peruse and share with friends and family! READ MORE

Gift Guide 2013: Work gadgets

The merging world of personal technology and workplace technology is always a fascinating scene to observe, so a lot of devices here can be utilized at home, and vice versa (see our Digital Life article for home-related tech gift ideas). But for the most part, we're confident that your work life will improve with these gadgets - peruse the writeups for gift ideas for your favorite colleague! READ MORE

HP: 90% of Apple iOS mobile apps show security vulnerabilities

HP today said security testing it conducted on more than 2,000 Apple iOS mobile apps developed for commercial use by some 600 large companies in 50 countries showed that nine out of 10 had serious vulnerabilities. READ MORE

10 reasons the browser is becoming the universal OS

A bazillion years ago in Internet time (aka 1995), Brendan Eich, Marc Andreessen, and the rest of Netscape looked at the World Wide Web and saw a sparsely tagged world of static documents -- a computational desert where a programmer's seed could find no purchase. READ MORE

WEBCAST: Silver Peak Systems, Inc.

Combat Disasters And Optimize Business Operations

Offsite data replication is key to ensuring ongoing business operations, but it can be complex and costly, especially when performed over long distances. Join this discussion to discover how you can apply fast, cost effective and reliable remote replication strategies and technologies. View now >>

Geek-themed Meme of the Week: Vertical Video Edition

No. 22 in our Geek-Themed Meme of the Week series addresses a common issue that has plagued many a cell-phone videographer. Want more? Check out the "Geek-themed Meme of the Week Archive": And if you'd like me to consider one that you've found - or created - please feel free to send it to me at buzz@nww.com. READ MORE

Geek-Themed Meme of the Week Archive

They are inescapable on the Internet. Most are awful. A few are not, so we have started publishing a selection of memes that amuse me. One every week. Here's the archive. READ MORE

Guess how many people will be at Salesforce's Dreamforce show this week

Vendor-sponsored tech conferences are becoming big deals, just check out Salesforce.com's Dreamforce event. If Salesforce was expecting to attract 80,000 or 90,000 like it did last year that would be impressive. 100,000 would be a pretty big show and bigger than any show from Salesforce, or anyone else, in recent memory. READ MORE

The security industry remains strong with computer science, but weak on IT

Last week, I was in Silicon Valley meeting with a parade of CISOs and security vendors. Business travel is no "day at the beach," but these trips really help me keep up with the latest enterprise security challenges and potential technology solutions. It was also nice to spend time in the Valley and re-charge my batteries toward the security industry. There was a lot of excitement out there as... READ MORE

WHITE PAPER: CDW

Software Asset Management: Practices for Success

This white paper discusses best practices that can dramatically increase your success rate of a SAM deployment. Make sure and follow these steps and verify that your SAM toolkit has the necessary functionality to keep your organization steps ahead of the competition -it's a long term investment. Read Now

Google to warn users of 13,000 search terms associated with child pornography

Google will display warnings above the search results for 13,000 terms it believes are associated with more explicit child sexual abuse terms, it announced Monday. Microsoft said it will take similar action on its Bing search engine, and on Yahoo searches powered by Bing. READ MORE

IBM looks past Watson, taps graphics chips to speed Power servers

IBM achieved a computing breakthrough when the Watson supercomputer outperformed humans in game show "Jeopardy," but the company now wants to supercharge its high-end Power servers by tapping into graphics processors for the first time. READ MORE

CIOs and CMOs: Feuding in the C-Suite

Survey finds that CIOs and marketing chiefs don't see eye-to-eye on much at all. READ MORE

Products of the week 11.18.13

Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as Extreme and CloudLock READ MORE

Dell PowerEdge VRTX hits the high notes

Dell's four-blade, 32-drive, 'cluster in a box' packs high performance, high availability, and high-end management in a tidy package READ MORE

WEBCAST: IBM

Webinar: IBM IIM for Fraud, Abuse and Waste in Government

View this IBM webinar to learn about the challenges and opportunities in fraud reduction, waste, and abuse in government programs and agencies. You will learn how IBM Intelligent Investigation Manager (IIM) can help your organization. Learn More.

SLIDESHOWS

20 hottest tech toys for the holidays

Cool Yule Tools 2013: Our Tester Elf-approved picks for awesome gadgety goodness.

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