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Best of CES 2014: In Pictures
Here's what's grabbing our attention right now at the sprawling CES 2014 gadget show in Las Vegas Read More


WHITE PAPER: Stratacache

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WEBCAST: SAP

The Path to Big Data
Hear from top IDC analyst, about the path you can start taking now to enable your organization to get the benefits of turning data into actionable insights with exciting x86 technology. Is the data explosion today a liability or a competitive advantage for your business? View now

How I replaced wired internet with 4G LTE
Thinking about making a Verizon Wireless smartphone upgrade? For subscribers with an unlimited data plan, a subsidized upgrade will cap monthly data allowances at 6GB per user. Is it a good deal? It depends. Depending on the user's location, Verizon LTE 4G broadband data service can be better than DSL and as good as some cable internet services. Verizon's LTE 4G could replace wired internet right... Read More

Linksys announces the audacious-looking WRT1900AC Dual Band Wi-Fi router
LAS VEGAS--The engineers at Linksys jumped into the way-back machine to design the new WRT1900AC Dual Band Wi-Fi Router. While the stackable enclosure sports the classic blue/black color scheme of the classic WRT54G 802.11g router, you'll find all-new hardware inside, including a dual-core 1.2GHz ARM processor, 128MB of flash memory, and 256MB of DDR3 RAM. Read More

CES 2014: New gadgets help kids spy on mom and programmable Mom spy on everyone
A plethora of new gadgets will come out of CES 2014; some are delightful and others are disturbing depending upon where you fall off the fence when it comes to privacy and security. In fact, some the descriptions, which were surely meant to be considered as cool, seemed uber creepy. Under "Technology for a Better World honorees" for the 2014 CES Innovations Design and Engineering Awards, there are... Read More

INSIDER
CIOs and CMOs: Power couple or strange bedfellows?
Marketing departments are shifting significant amounts of their own budgets toward IT-related products and services, independent of what the IT department spends, to the extent that Gartner predicts that by 2017 chief marketing officers (CMO) will spend more money on IT than chief information officers (CIO). Read More


WHITE PAPER: Attachmate

Why your existing solution might not be adequate
To meet the demands of today's business landscape, IT staffs must take steps to secure and integrate their information assets, while satisfying compliance mandates and optimizing corporate efficiency. This white paper presents managed file transfer (MFT) as a way to meet corporate information and data management requirements. Read More

Why Microsoft will never catch Google or Apple
Happy New Year to all of my readers here on Network World. I haven't posted since before Christmas as I was on an extended holiday with my family. Actually we loaded the kids in the car and took a long drive up the east coast from Florida to NY. Driving all that way with kids' today demands that you have lots of content on their screens. So we loaded up every device with a screen we owned to... Read More

AT&T lets companies sponsor subscribers' mobile data
AT&T will let media companies and other partners cover the cost of delivering some data over the carrier's mobile network, letting subscribers click on videos and other content without worrying about their monthly data caps. Read More

iPhone graphics chip designer adds more oomph to GPUs
Imagination Technologies, which designs graphics chips used in the iPhone and other top mobile products, is promising "console quality graphics" with an updated GPU lineup announced on Monday. Read More

CES 2014 celebrity watch: Tim Tebow, Janelle Monae & very Motley Crue
Stars of sports, music, movies and TV to get their geek on Read More


WHITE PAPER: Fortinet

High Performance Data Center Firewall Survey
With Data Centers consolidating and virtualizing, the core infrastructure is upgrading to 10G, 40G and even 100G. The Firewall must keep pace with these changes otherwise it becomes a bottleneck. Does your Firewall have the horsepower to keep up? View now >>

BlackBerry sues Ryan Seacrest's Typo over 'iconic' keyboard design
BlackBerry, in an effort to protect one of its key designs, has filed a copyright infringement suit against a company co-founded by Ryan Seacrest that makes a keyboard case for the iPhone. Read More

D-Link and Netgear extend wireless range of 802.11ac networks
D-Link and Netgear have both announced so-called range extenders to improve the coverage of Wi-Fi networks based on the 802.11ac specification. Read More

Intel chief opens CES with parade of wearables
Intel's CEO, battling to keep the company relevant as computing moves beyond the PC, introduced a new line of wearable computers Monday night, including a connected smartwatch and a pair of earbuds with a built-in heart monitor. Read More

The nerdiest and most high-tech business card you've ever seen
There's geeky, and then there's GEEKY. Rest assured, I mean that in the most positive of ways because this may very well be the coolest, most bad-ass, tech-themed business card you've ever seen. Read More

Android vs. iOS War Coming to a Car Near You in 2014
This morning, Google and a handful of automobile manufacturers, including Audi, GM, Honda and Hyundai, announced a partnership designed to bring the Android mobile platform to vehicles. Chip-maker Nvidia is also an Open Automotive Alliance member, and the group says "this announcement is the beginning, not the end. We'll enthusiastically work with any company interested in the compatible use of the Android with cars." The first Android-enabled cars from the new Open Automotive Alliance are expected to be released sometime this year. Read More

2014's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries
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