Issue highlights 1. 2013 Robot Invasion - Our Favorites 2. Moving a city to Linux needs political backing, says Munich project leader 3. Microsoft manager charged with insider trading 4. University of Florida gets 100Gbps link to Internet2, upgrades campus research net to 200Gbps 5. Cisco teams with VMware, Citrix to counter Amazon's new cloud-based desktop 6. 10 best Android smartphones of 2013 7. What do John Lennon, Bach, Beethoven, Salvador Dali and Truman Capote have in common? 8. When we were giants: How gadgets started big and got small 9. AmEx, BoA, Discover tweet me reassurances re: Target breach 10. INSIDER CIOs Should Learn the Two Metrics That Matter 11. 2013: The 12 months of Cisco 12. New modulation scheme said to be 'breakthrough' in network performance |
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2013 Robot Invasion - Our Favorites In 2013 robots continued their advance into industry and the home, helping us with mundane and dangerous tasks while also providing us with a bit of entertainment. We'll take a look at some... From: Network World Videos Views: 1 1 ratings Time: 05:20 More in Science & Technology READ MORE |
This year saw the completion of the city of Munich's switch to Linux, a move that began about ten years ago. "One of the biggest lessons learned was that you can't do such a project without continued political backing," said Peter Hofmann, the leader of the LiMux project, summing up the experience. READ MORE |
A Microsoft portfolio manager and his business partner are charged with insider trading that profited them $393,125. READ MORE |
The University of Florida is just putting the wraps on a remarkable year of IT upgrades. The school, which has a 2,000-acre campus and more than 900 buildings, installed a new supercomputer in a new data center, installed a 100Gbps link to Inernet2, and upgraded its Campus Research Network from 20G to 200Gbps while adding support for Software Defined Networking (SDN). Network World Editor in Chief John Dix got the lowdown on all of the developments from Erik Deumens, director of research computing. READ MORE |
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The trio of Cisco, VMware and Citrix are teaming up to provide a new cloud-based desktop as a service (DaaS) offering aimed mostly at service providers. The move comes just weeks after Amazon Web Services announced its foray into the DaaS market, and could signal a wave of new DaaS offerings in the market early next year. READ MORE |
2013 was a big year for the Android smartphone ecosystem. READ MORE |
If those craters could talk, they would have one heck of a hot party on Mercury. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) -- the arbiter of planetary and satellite nomenclature since its inception in 1919 -- recently approved 10 new names for impact craters on the planet Mercury. READ MORE |
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Given the standard definition of a serious data breach -- one that involves a store where I shop regularly - this morning's news about Target had me genuinely concerned about my credit cards and bank accounts. But rather than don my press hat - or, perish the thought, call customer service -- I decided to engage my card issuers on the matter via Twitter. The results were surprisingly satisfying ...... READ MORE |
CIOs need to be prepared to explain how their expensive IT project will improve the numbers every CEO cares most about. READ MORE |
This past year saw several major events and product introductions unfold at Cisco, beginning with an effort to connect cars to the Internet and ending with a solid pipeline in place for its new data center switches and fabric technology. The following is a review of the highlights of the year that was at Cisco, 2013. READ MORE |
A startup plans to demonstrate next month a new digital modulation scheme that promises to dramatically boost bandwidth, capacity, and range, with less power and less distortion, on both wireless and wired networks. READ MORE |
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