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7 in 10 office workers barely use Microsoft Office anymore

  Juniper's corporate strategy chief departs | Five U.S. ISPs accused of 'deliberately harming' broadband speeds

 
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7 in 10 office workers barely use Microsoft Office anymore
Microsoft has two cash cows: Windows and Office. They help offset losers like Bing and Windows Phone and provide the big profits that the non-sexy groups, like tools and server apps, don't provide. Read More
 


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Virtualization Infrastructure With IBM and Vmware
Virtualization technology is now expanding beyond the server compute elements to encompass networking and storage aspects as well. Learn More

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The Big Data Zoo—Taming the Beasts
According to Dr. Devlin's white paper "The Big Data Zoo—Taming the Beasts", data is still data, whether big or small. It needs to be managed effectively if organizations want to be gain value from it. Although big data may present special challenges for IT organizations, the principles of data management haven't changed. Learn More

Juniper's corporate strategy chief departs
Juniper Networks has lost another top executive: Luis Avila-Marco is now the former EVP of Strategy & Corporate Development at Juniper, having left the company two weeks ago to spend more time with family in the Atlanta area, according to sources. Avila-Marco's duties will be assumed by EVP, General Counsel and Secretary Mitchell Gaynor until a replacement is named. Juniper PR did not respond to requests... Read More
 

Five U.S. ISPs accused of 'deliberately harming' broadband speeds
Five major ISPs in the U.S. and one in Europe are intentionally allowing broadband performance to degrade for some customers, communications company Level 3 alleged in a recent company blog post. Read More
 

Microsoft hints at Surface Mini announcement on May 20
The long rumored Surface Mini Windows RT 8.1 tablet may finally make an appearance May 20 at a press event in New York City. Read More
 

Spin off Xbox? What else was Gates going to say?
Bill Gates was asked in an interview yesterday if he would be OK with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella spinning off the company's Xbox business. His reply was as unequivocal as it was predictable: Read More
 

7 Crazy computer glitches that made us groan
Computers are certainly part of everyday life or course so it isn't totally surprising how many hiccups they can cause. Some glitches are merely annoying others well, are true head-scratchers. Here we have a small sampling of both. U-2 spy jet plays havoc with LA airport computers Read More
 

Choosing Ivy League over podunk college won't make you happier in life or work
The 2014 Gallup-Purdue Index Report surveyed 29,560 college graduates, with a bachelor's degree or higher, from all 50 states. Read More
 

Google's thank-you to teachers is out of this world
It's Teacher Appreciation Week ("Day," too) and the simple message under Google's search box this morning can't be repeated often enough: "Thank you to all the teachers on Earth." The thank-you link leads to this touching video: From the YouTube description: Read More
 

7 Business Dashboards That Offer Striking Data Visualizations
The more data you analyze, the more complex it gets. To help you find value in all that data, visualize it using one of these seven dashboard apps. Read More
 

Groups muster troops for Day Against DRM combat
The Free Software Foundation declared Tuesday the International Day Against DRM, urging protests across social media and pushing for the end of tough anti-circumvention policies that, they say, take away owner's rights to the content they have already paid for. Read More
 

GitHub challenges Emacs, Vim with new Atom text editor
Online code repository GitHub is taking on the venerable Emacs and Vim text editors by releasing a text editor of its own, called Atom, which it claims is more suited to the Web era of development. Read More
 

Inflight Wi-Fi: Not just a business-class perk anymore
  AT&T recently announced that it will mobilize the skies with a new inflight Wi-Fi service sometime in the second half of 2015. Based on its announcement, the company wants to give traveling consumers more than email, slow web browsing and blocked Netflix and YouTube videos that they experience from today's inflight Wi-Fi. Read More
 

Antivirus Software Is Not Quite Dead Yet
In a Wall Street Journal article published earlier this week, Symantec SVP Brian Dye, is quoted as saying that "antivirus is dead." Dye goes on to proclaim that, "we (Symantec) don't think of antivirus as a moneymaker in any way." Read More
 

 

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