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T-Mobile's John Legere: Genius, joker or jerk?
Rebel T-Mobile CEO riles rivals, adds much needed life to tech executive ranks Read More

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Fundamental Principles of Generators for IT
Every IT professional who is responsible for the operation of computing equipment needs to ensure their data center or network room is prepared for extended utility power outages. This paper is an introduction to standby generators and subsystems that power a facility's critical electrical loads when the utility cannot. Learn more

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The Network – A Growth Engine for Business
The enterprise network, once the Rodney Dangerfield of IT, has emerged as a key enabler of business agility. Today's employees and customers expect instant access to information, from any location and with any computing device. In this report from Comcast and IDG, learn why investment in network services that provide both scale and flexibility will be critical as a foundation for sustainable growth.

Fix for Windows XP 'complete compromise' coming on Patch Tuesday
Microsoft is patching Windows XP on this month's Patch Tuesday, shoring up a vulnerability that can lead to computers being taken over entirely by attackers. Read More

It's finally, actually time for video to be pervasive
As a mainstream industry, video communications has been around for well over two decades now, and it seems that every year we hear that "this is the year that video becomes pervasive." And then it doesn't happen. However, I'm here to say it again, this time with confidence - 2014 is a year of significant change and one where we finally see video become a mainstream collaboration tool. Read... Read More

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Strategic guide to backup and recovery
Your company is increasingly reliant on IT to drive business, so the need for a sound backup and disaster recovery plan has taken on increased significance. At the same time, technologies such as the cloud are giving IT new options for how to deal with backup and DR. Read More

Guess where Minecraft's latest game is being hosted? Where else, but the cloud
Minecraft is quite a popular game amongst the youngsters: An estimated 33 million copies of the game have been sold, according to Wikipedia. The latest offer from Minecraft is named Realms, which is a paid service that allows users to create a virtual world that they build themselves that is hosted by Minecraft's makers, Mojang. On the back end, Mojang is using Amazon Web Service's cloud to host... Read More

Is 2014 the Year of the 'Big Data Stack'?
Will 2014 see the emergence of a big data equivalent of the LAMP stack? Read More

Microsoft CEO search twists and turns have cost Ballmer, Gates billions
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has watched $1.1 billion evaporate from the value of his company stock as the selection process for a successor has dragged on. Read More

T-Mobile will pay you to break up with your carrier
Following a leaky and occasional drama-filled lead-up , T-Mobile finally unveiled the latest chapter in its Uncarrier initiative. Today the company announced it will pay customers to break their current carrier contracts with their current carriers and switch over to Team Magenta. Read More

Red Hat takes more active role in CentOS, funds developers
Red Hat plans to take a greater role in the community developing CentOS, in the hope of attracting more paying customers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), the distribution on which CentOS is based. Read More

3 Smart Tablets for Business Pros on the Go
Tablets are taking over the enterprise. According to a recent IDC report, PC sales will drop by an all-time year-over-year record of 10.1 percent. That's a nose dive by any standard. Read More

Snapchat says sorry for the hack, with a tweak to its app
Snapchat has incorporated a phone number opt-out feature into its mobile app in response to a recent hacking incident -- the company's latest effort to convince users that their personal information is safe. Read More

BeeWii's Bluetooth toys let you form your own robot fight club
The First Law of Robotics may declare that robots can't injure humans or allow them to come to harm. But Isaac Asimov never said anything about robots harming each other for our amusement. Read More

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

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2014's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries

A look back at the most memorable tech-related happenings of 1989.

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