8 Most Interesting Tech Gadgets of 2013
There may be some mind-blowing new gadgets that come out in time for the holiday gift buying season, but here's a list of the eight coolest to date.
Silicon Valley Stays Quiet as D.C. Implodes
The current mess in D.C. has tech lobbyists trying to figure out what happens after the shutdown and default issues are resolved. Here are predictions.
News
- Startup Wants to Give You a Better Night's Sleep
- Ethernet's 400-Gigabit Challenge is a Good Problem to have
- Intel Delays Broadwell Chips for PCs and Hybrids
- Twitter's Take on TV: 'We Make it Better'
- Microsoft Revamps Yammer's Ipad App
- Intel's Bay Trail Chips to Hit 10 Tablets, Hybrids Next Month
- Twitter picks New York Stock Exchange for IPO
- Yahoo Reports Another Sales Drop As Ad Clicks Yield Less
- Intel's Q3 earnings, revenue flat, but company hopes for growth with new chips
- Open Letter to Customers: 'You Can Continue to Count on BlackBerry'
Applications
- Startup Wants to Give You a Better Night's Sleep
- What 3 Big Google Updates Mean for Your SEO Strategy
- Microsoft Revamps Yammer's Ipad App
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6 Ways Social Media Can Boost Your Business - Is Twitter's Top Engineer Worth $10.3 Million?
- Newsgator Tunes Social Collaboration Suite for 'Aha!' Moments
- Adobe Helps Marketing Teams Tap Predictive Analytics, Mobile and Video Data
- Washington Post: NSA Collects Address Books to Map Human Relationships
- Salesforce delivers Identity to simplify herding of apps
- Lavabit Briefly Allowing Users to Recover Their Data
Careers
- Silicon Valley Tech Workers: Get Your Butt in Here!
- Is Twitter's Top Engineer Worth $10.3 Million?
- Increasingly, Your IT Co-Worker is a Contractor
- Gartner's Dark Vision for Tech, Jobs
- Why Managers Need to Stop Worrying and Love Millennials
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How to Get a Job in Healthcare IT - Cut the Snark and Save Your Job: How Not to Gripe Online
- CIOs Rake in the Big Bucks
- As the Digital Revolution Kills Jobs, Social Unrest Will Rise
- Career Advice: Moving to the Public Sector
Cloud Computing
- VMware Expands Management of Amazon, Microsoft, OpenStack Clouds
- The State of HP, As Told by Meg Whitman
- AWS Launches New Package to Help Start-ups Use its Cloud
- How to Get Self-Service Right in Private Clouds
- Gartner: The Cloud According to Daryl
- Will Cloud Services Be Traded Just Like Stocks and Bonds One Day?
- Google Cozies Up to Apple Developers with Cloud Platform
- Microsoft Says Its Future in the Cloud Is Bright
- Three Lessons From Netflix on How to Live in the Cloud
- IBM Begins Integration of its Cloud Portfolio with Softlayer
Data Center
- Juniper Seeks Edge Router Advantage Over Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent
- Backup Starts to Scale Out Along with Storage, Data Growth
- The State of HP, As Told by Meg Whitman
- How to Build the Immortal Data Center
- After Leak, HP Says Revenue Will Dip Slightly Next Year
- Kaseya Now Lets MSPs Offer Single Pane Infrastructure Monitoring
- NSA Data Center Suffers 'meltdowns,' is Delayed By a Year, Report Says
- Backupify Opens Up its Cloud-to-cloud Backup to More Saas Vendors
- Fujitsu Won't Cede the Unix Market to IBM
- CIOs in the Public Sector Face Roadblocks to Data Center Consolidation
Mobile
- Open Letter to Customers: 'You Can Continue to Count on BlackBerry'
- Windows Phone 'Phablet' Update Opens Door to Tablets
- Supreme Court Shouldn't Review NSA Spying Case, US Gov't Says
- Siemens Enterprise Changes its Name to Unify
- 2-to-1 iPhone 5S/5C Sales Mix Resembles 2012's Blend
- Facebook Acquires Mobile Data Optimization Startup Onavo
- Full HD Comes to Windows Phone Devices
- Digital Nomad Survival Tips You Can Use Anywhere
- AT&T; Moves to Mobile Share-Only Plans for New Customers
- How Cable Companies have Quietly Dominated Public Wi-Fi
Social Media
- What 3 Big Google Updates Mean for Your SEO Strategy
- Twitter's Take on TV: 'We Make it Better'
- Yahoo Reports Another Sales Drop As Ad Clicks Yield Less
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6 Ways Social Media Can Boost Your Business - Is Twitter's Top Engineer Worth $10.3 Million?
- Messiest IT Workstation Photo Contest
- Facebook Acquires Mobile Data Optimization Startup Onavo
- Google to Feature User Recommendations in Ads
- Soon, Everyone Will Be Searchable on Facebook
- Twitter Appears to Try Out a News Delivery Service
Virtualization
- VMware Acquires Desktone, Makes Network Virtualization Generally Available
- How to Beat Storage Bottlenecks in a Flash
- VM-based Storage Platform Scales Out to Multiple Sites
- Extrahop Mines the Network to Glean Operations Intelligence
- 4 Ways CIOs Can to Respond to a Service Outage
- Ranking the Top 10 Software Defined Networking Startups
- VDI Technology Better, Faster and Cheaper, But Adoption Still Slow
- NetApp's Hybrid Cloud Plan Targets Storage for Any Virtual Systems
- Rightscale's Cloud Gateway Expands to Control Virtual Networks
- Brocade Stocks Fabric and Net Virtualization Arsenal to Better Battle Cisco
Security
- Security Vendor Admits Mistake in Website Take Down
- Changeable Default Passwords are Not Seen as Vulnerabilities By ICS-CERT, But Should They Be?
- What the Internet of Things Means for Security
- Supreme Court Shouldn't Review NSA Spying Case, US Gov't Says
- Insider Threats and How They Can Be Mitigated
- Yahoo to Encrypt Webmail Sessions By Default Starting January
- Washington Post: NSA Collects Address Books to Map Human Relationships
- Salesforce delivers Identity to simplify herding of apps
- Lavabit Briefly Allowing Users to Recover Their Data
- Managed Security Service Providers Face $40M Liability Exposures
Outsourcing
- 6 IT Outsourcing Lessons Learned From Healthcare.gov's Troubled Launch
- Federal Government Shutdown Unlikely to Impact H-1B Users
- Infosys' Revenue Rises, but Margins Are Under Pressure
- Nike Sprints From Offshore to Onshore Developers
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Northeast Utilities Confirms IT Outsourcing Plan - Switching IT Outsourcing Providers Easier (and Less Costly) Than Ever
- House Democrats Push Ahead on Immigration, H-1B
- Utility Cuts IT Workforce, Hires Indian Outsourcers
- Workforce-as-a-Service Scales to Meet IT Staffing Needs on Demand
- IBM Settles with U.S. Over Alleged Discrimination in Job Ads
Operating Systems
- The Future of Linux: Evolving Everywhere
- Windows Phone 'Phablet' Update Opens Door to Tablets
- 2-to-1 iPhone 5S/5C Sales Mix Resembles 2012's Blend
- Enterprises Will Snub Microsoft's Faster Release Tempo by Sticking with Windows 7
- Microsoft Ships Tool to Block IE11 on Windows 7
- PC Shipments Stink Less, May Prop Up Microsoft's Q3 Revenue
- Bay Trail Tablets with Windows 8.1 Will Hit Stores Next Week
- 5 Things You Must Do to Prepare for the End of BlackBerry
- How to Fix iOS 7 Glitches
- HP's Whitman Pegs Microsoft as an 'Outright Competitor' Over Surface
Data Center Definitions & Solutions
What is a data center? How are data centers managed? What data center technologies should I be aware of?
CIO 100 2013
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