10 tech patents that should have been rejected

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	10 tech patents that should have been rejected Welcome to the wacky world of tech patents--a place where you'll find not just the crazy-sounding ideas that inhabit any category of patents granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), but some ideas that seem so minute or so obvious that you wonder how they ever qualified as patentworthy. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Protecting Unstructured Data on File Servers Emails, spreadsheets and other documents often contain business-critical information in a readily digestible form. Learn how to protect them with ChangeAuditor. ChangeAuditor delivers the tracking, auditing, alerting and reporting you need to ensure security and regulatory compliance. View Now In this Issue Cisco study: More users = more devices = more connections = 3 reasons why tablets thrive while PCs dive Look out, Google Fiber – scientists build 400G connection Rude and overworked? Blame tech It's a desktop! It's a tablet! Dell XPS 18 vs. Sony Vaio Tap 20 Review: VMware's vCenter Operations Manager lightens the load Why teenage girl's smartphone battery breakthrough may never see daylight Cisco acquires IT energy management technology Citrix CEO questions efficacy of Yahoo's remote working ban Microsoft says social tools help foster productivity, but many disagree WHITE PAPER: CDW Software Asset Management: Ensuring Today's Assets Today's trends like BYOD and SaaS are new and exciting in terms of how they will help make our jobs more productive but they also introduce challenges as it relates to software licensing. Find out more - it's time for your organization to look at how to better manage software assets. Read Now Cisco study: More users = more devices = more connections = Global fixed and mobile IP traffic will grow three-fold between 2012 and 2017, according to Cisco's latest Visual Networking Index (VNI), which was released this week. It is expected to reach an annual run rate of 1.4 zettabytes, or more than a trillion gigabytes per year, by 2017. Read More 3 reasons why tablets thrive while PCs dive As the PC desktop and laptop market slumps and the tablets market grows, it might seem obvious to tablet users why that's so. However, details shared by analysts dramatically highlight three reasons behind robust tablet growth. Read More Look out, Google Fiber – scientists build 400G connection A research team led by Bell Labs' Xiang Liu has published an article in Nature describing a way to send and receive information at 400 gigabits per second across 12,800km of optical fiber – an enormous potential gain of both speed and effective distance compared to current technology. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Accelerate WAN File Transfers by 50x According to Taneja Group research, 83% of IT managers are considering a move to the cloud a top priority. This paper highlights their research and provides guidance on how to overcome cloud adoption barriers and further leverage virtualization and consolidation efforts by strategically deploying WAN optimization. Read now! Rude and overworked? Blame tech IT execs say employees are getting ruder on the job, and they're blaming technology for the rise in bad manners. Read More It's a desktop! It's a tablet! Dell XPS 18 vs. Sony Vaio Tap 20 We look at the Dell XPS 18 and the Sony Vaio Tap 20: Two all-in-ones that transform into large-scale tablets. Is this an alteration you can work with? Read More Review: VMware's vCenter Operations Manager lightens the load Monitoring virtual servers for availability, performance, health, and workload capacity has never been easy, but Operations Manager goes a long way toward that goal. Read More WEBCAST: Fluke Networks Best Practices Performance Monitoring Recorded Webinar Webinar will examine the driving factors, objectives, requirements, and best practices surrounding converged network and application performance management. Learn More Why teenage girl's smartphone battery breakthrough may never see daylight Eesha Khare, an 18-year-old senior at Lynbrook High School in San Jose, Calif., won both the first prize at the Intel Science Fair and the Project of the Year award for the senior division of the California State Science Fair with her research on supercapacitors. Read More Cisco acquires IT energy management technology Cisco this week announced its intent to acquire privately held JouleX, a developer of enterprise IT energy management tools, for $107 million in cash. Read More Citrix CEO questions efficacy of Yahoo's remote working ban Citrix CEO Mark Templeton has said that banning employees from working from home is an ineffective way of preventing slacking on the job. Read More Microsoft says social tools help foster productivity, but many disagree New research released by Microsoft on Tuesday dives into raging debate of whether social tools like Twitter, Microsoft Lync, and Facebook belong in the business realm. Do they enable employees to become more productive, or are they distractions that should be limited in the workplace? The answer, it seems, depends on what country you work in. Read More
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