Wednesday, December 18, 2013

What Microsoft did right and wrong in 2013

Tech hoaxes, scams, urban legends, and practical jokes

Cisco teams with VMware, Citrix to counter Amazon's new cloud-based desktop

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December 18, 2013
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What Microsoft did right and wrong in 2013

Nobody bats a thousand, and Microsoft is no different. Here's a quick look at five things Microsoft did right in 2013 and five it did wrong.

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Issue highlights

1. Tech hoaxes, scams, urban legends, and practical jokes

2. Cisco teams with VMware, Citrix to counter Amazon's new cloud-based desktop

3. Dark tower Mac Pro goes on sale Thursday

4. Why Gigamon's network big data play is important

5. How LiveAction 3.1 approaches network downtime

6. If Cisco were Star Trek...

7. Sweden's 'worst ever' movie pirate fined $652,000

8. Apple CEO Tim Cook delivers stirring speech of his own

9. New app from Opera aims to help Android smartphones consume less data

10. 5 strategies for post-holiday BYOD problems

WHITE PAPER: Dell

Bloor Research: The Economics of Cloud-Managed Integration

Save time and money with cloud-managed integration Are you concerned about the cost and length of time it takes to integrate applications and data? You shouldn't be – cloud-based integration platforms dramatically speed results, increase productivity and lower costs. Learn more in this new white paper by Bloor Research. View now

Tech hoaxes, scams, urban legends, and practical jokes

You can't believe everything you read on the Internet. Yet so many people do! READ MORE

Cisco teams with VMware, Citrix to counter Amazon's new cloud-based desktop

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

Dark tower Mac Pro goes on sale Thursday

Apple's radically redesigned Mac Pro workstation will go on sale Thursday, the Cupertino, Calif. company announced today. READ MORE

WHITE PAPER: Stratacache

Maximizing the Online Experience with Cache Technology

In this enlightening interview, we explore how retail cache technology reduces latency and diminishes bandwidth requirements for an optimal user experience. Learn More.

Why Gigamon's network big data play is important

This week, traffic visibility solution provider Gigamon announced its Unified Visibility Fabric, which provides Traffic Intelligence to help enterprises and services providers get a better handle on what traffic is flowing across the network. Gigamon has beefed up the application and services layer of its visibility fabric with new applications and features that offer advanced filter capabilities,... READ MORE

How LiveAction 3.1 approaches network downtime

Keeping the company network up and running is, by far, the most important task that a network manager has today. However, the largest cause of downtime is actually self-inflicted. ZK Research recently ran a survey that asked what the primary cause of downtime with networks is today, and the No. 1 response was "human error," with 29% of the 1,320 respondents citing this as the top issue. This is... READ MORE

If Cisco were Star Trek...

Re-casting Star Trek with the high-profile figures from Cisco and the networking industry. READ MORE

WHITE PAPER: AT&T

Transforming Your Organization with Mobility

This whitepaper intends to help organizations understand the critical elements of a mobilization solution, the value and inter-dependencies, and important enablement assessment questions. Learn More

Sweden's 'worst ever' movie pirate fined $652,000

A well-known movie pirate in Sweden was recently fined $652,000 for uploading a movie to a BitTorrent site. READ MORE

Apple CEO Tim Cook delivers stirring speech of his own

Apple CEO Tim Cook delivered a strong speech focused on equal rights earlier this month in New York City while accepting a Lifetime Achievement Award from Auburn University, of which he is a 1982 alumnus of the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering (he also got a dig in at the University of Alabama regarding Auburn's recent last second football win over the Crimson Tide). READ MORE

New app from Opera aims to help Android smartphones consume less data

Norwegian browser company Opera Software is developing an app designed to decrease Android data consumption. READ 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

WHITE PAPER: CDW

Managing Essential tools for greater productivity

People are interacting with software from the moment they wake up (hearing an alarm on a smartphone) to the time they relax in the evening (reading or shopping online). And in between, software affects virtually every work function in some way, whether in the executive suite or on the shipping dock. Read Now

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Avaya builds massive Wi-Fi net for 2014 Winter Olympics

BYOD for 30,000 people creates extraordinary demands on the network.

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