Networking World: Catching fire: 10 hottest videos of smartphones burning up

ITU standardizes 1Gbps over copper, but services won't come until 2015

How Microsoft should go about setting Windows Phone free

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December 12, 2013

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Catching fire: 10 hottest videos of smartphones burning up

Nothing fires up headline writers like a smoking story about an iPhone or other smartphone succumbing to spontaneous combustion or otherwise going up in flames. Here's a sampling of YouTube videos on smartphone-related fires, both accidental and not.

Issue highlights

1. ITU standardizes 1Gbps over copper, but services won't come until 2015

2. How Microsoft should go about setting Windows Phone free

3. INSIDER Five ways IT can prepare for wearable devices at work

4. Switch to open source successfully completed, city of Munich says

5. UC is a mess, and Oracle's trying to clean it up

6. Eucalyptus Systems and Dell tout cloud-in-a-box

7. iCloud backup tricks for the iPhone and iPad

8. Dell establishes $300 million venture fund to invest in emerging tech

9. How to Win the IT Infrastructure and Operations Talent War

10. Microsoft's most monumental hits, misses, and moments of 2013

WHITE PAPER: Limelight Networks

Predictive Performance: Measuring the Digital Experience

As websites get more immersive and more complex, organizations need to rethink what, and how, digital experience performance is measured. Speed (or responsiveness) is only one of several factors to consider. Learn More

ITU standardizes 1Gbps over copper, but services won't come until 2015

The ITU has taken a big step in the standardization of G.fast, a broadband technology capable of achieving download speeds of up to 1Gbps over copper telephone wire. READ MORE

How Microsoft should go about setting Windows Phone free

It's a model that worked for Android, so why not? It wouldn't be the first time Microsoft gave away a product to grow a market. 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: Limelight Networks

7 Principles to Improve Web Site Availability

Users hate to wait so when your web site doesn't respond the way visitors expect, your business suffers. This guide offers strategies for scaling your web infrastructure to meet web availability and performance SLAs, enhancing both speed and performance (there is a difference), and delivering superior user experience on any device, in any location. Learn More

Switch to open source successfully completed, city of Munich says

Munich's switch to open-source software has been successfully completed, with the vast majority of the public administration's users now running its own version of Linux, city officials said Thursday. READ MORE

UC is a mess, and Oracle's trying to clean it up

Very few enterprises can claim to use UC products from just one vendor. READ MORE

Eucalyptus Systems and Dell tout cloud-in-a-box

Looking toward a totally seamless public/private cloud hybrid. READ MORE

WHITE PAPER: Salesforce.com

The Future of Sales Performance Management

Learn how the future of sales performance management is integrated with CRM and social collaboration and how this will help managers provide real-time coaching and motivation in context to drive better sales behaviors and, ultimately, better sales results. Download now. Read now!

iCloud backup tricks for the iPhone and iPad

It's important to back up your iOS device, just as you should your Mac. You can back your iPad or iPhone up to your computer using iTunes, or you can back it up to Apple's iCloud. If you do the latter, the device backs up whenever you're connected to a Wi-Fi network, keeping your data well protected. READ MORE

Dell establishes $300 million venture fund to invest in emerging tech

Dell has established a US$300 million venture fund that will promote the development of technologies important to the company's product portfolio. READ MORE

How to Win the IT Infrastructure and Operations Talent War

The future of your organization rests in the hands of your Infrastructure and Operations talent. Gartner lays out a battle plan to win the war for those tech pros. READ MORE

Microsoft's most monumental hits, misses, and moments of 2013

WHITE PAPER: Exablox

ESG Report: Exablox Re-Imagines File Storage

Exablox emerged from stealth mode with a new platform (OneBlox) designed for midsized enterprises with content-intensive applications. Its scale-out system leverages commodity hardware, and has some interesting data protection features. Read now!

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8 tricks to optimize Windows 8.1

Here are eight things we recommend doing to make Windows 8.1 more efficient.

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