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	How to track Santa's big trip with NORAD, Google As Santa Claus and his elves prepare for their biggest night of the year, NORAD and Google are getting ready to track his big Christmas Eve ride. Read More WHITE PAPER: Limelight Networks Pitfalls To Avoid In Combining Acceleration Technologies This May 2013 Forrester Research, Inc. report looks at the impact of website performance on customer satisfaction and revenue, and why meeting high expectations is more complex than ever. Learn More In this Issue 5 strategies for post-holiday BYOD problems Security researcher cancels talk at RSA conference in protest How to customize Windows 8.1 Start screen and keyboard shortcut tricks Cisco leads cloud infrastructure again Tech's biggest flops, fails, and faux pas of 2013 The year's 13 greatest tech comebacks and epic wins 2013's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries 'The Worm Before Christmas' (1988) NANOG invites high school, college students to apply for fellowships The worst tech predictions of 2013 -- and two that hit the mark Chromebooks charge into business market, capture 20% of commercial notebooks WHITE PAPER: Red Hat The Agility Gap in Today's Private Clouds Is your private cloud truly agile and helping your users overcome their business challenges as quickly and efficiently as possible? Read this whitepaper to find out. View More 5 strategies for post-holiday BYOD problems Christmas is fast approaching. Now, and after the office is back to normal after the first of the year, employees are going to return with several shiny new gadgets, along with the expectation that they'll "just work" in the corporate environment. Security will be a distant afterthought, because it's still viewed as a process that hinders productivity. Read More Security researcher cancels talk at RSA conference in protest Security researcher Mikko Hypponen has canceled his talk at a RSA security conference in San Francisco, reacting to a report that the security division of EMC allegedly received US$10 million from the U.S. National Security Agency to use a flawed random number generator in one of its products. Read More How to customize Windows 8.1 Start screen and keyboard shortcut tricks Since some of you may be new to Windows 8.1 and may not have a touchscreen monitor for your desktop, then here are some handy tips, tricks and shortcut keys that will hopefully make your experience with the new OS somewhat less painful or frustrating. We'll start with the Start button where you can choose to customize your Windows 8.1 experience. Windows 8.1 Start button customizations Read More Cisco leads cloud infrastructure again Cisco has maintained leadership in the $40 billion cloud infrastructure equipment - compute, networking and storage - market for three straight quarters, according to Synergy Research Group. Read More Tech's biggest flops, fails, and faux pas of 2013 Read More The year's 13 greatest tech comebacks and epic wins Read More 2013's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries Network World's 7th annual collection of the year's "25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries" includes the invention of Doppler Radar, the introduction of IBM's AS/400, the scourge of the Morris worm, the publishing of Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time", as well as "America's Finest News Source:" The Onion. Read More 'The Worm Before Christmas' (1988) Last month the tech press helped mark the 25th anniversary of the Morris Worm, the first Internet-driven worm to garner widespread media attention. Read More NANOG invites high school, college students to apply for fellowships From NANOG: Read More The worst tech predictions of 2013 -- and two that hit the mark From the social network in business to the 'success' of the Chromebook to the launch of iTV, the pundits got it wrong, wrong, wrong Read More Chromebooks charge into business market, capture 20% of commercial notebooks Sales of Chromebooks exploded from basically nothing in 2012 to more than 20 percent of the U.S. commercial PC market, analyst firm NPD reported on Monday, while Windows PCs and MacsA remained flat at best. Read More
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