4 key features coming to Windows 9 (hopefully)

The most in-demand marketing tech skills iFixIt giving away 15K iPhone 'liberation kits' ITworld Today July 03, 2014 Share this email 4 key features coming to Windows 9 (hopefully) The earliest we might see a beta is spring 2015, but here we speculate on the four most significant features it's likely to have. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. The most in-demand marketing tech skills 2. iFixIt giving away 15K iPhone 'liberation kits' 3. Is XFCE the best Linux desktop ever? 4. Unix tip: Having fun with diff 5. Cloud platform simplifies Spark clusters, big data deployments 6. Google quietly announces plan to kill Quickoffice apps after beefing up Drive's editing 7. BOOK GIVEAWAY: SQL Queries for Mere Mortals: A Hands-On Guide to Data Manipulation in SQL Resource compliments of: VMware Innovation Awards Wanted: Ground breaking Projects - VMware Innovation Awards Winners will be selected by a prestigious panel of judges and honored at VMworld taking place August 24-28 in San Francisco. Your innovation story will be featured in a VMware Innovation Awards print advertisement appearing in Computerworld. Plus you'll get two complimentary full conference passes to VMworld 2014. Submission nomination deadline July 21. The most in-demand marketing tech skills As organizations look to strengthen their digital presence, jobs in digital marketing are in demand and expected to rise 38 percent by year's end, according to Mondo data. READ MORE iFixIt giving away 15K iPhone 'liberation kits' Having been so widely saluted last year, the folks at iFixIt have declared today through the Fourth of July to be "Liberation Week" for iPhone owners, 15,000 of whom can receive for free a special tool needed to get at the innards of an iPhone. READ MORE Is XFCE the best Linux desktop ever? In today's open source roundup: Is XFCE the best Linux desktop environment available today? Plus: Android Wear could be as revolutionary as the iPad. And how you can install and dual-boot SteamOS on your computer. READ MORE White Paper: HP and Intel® Converged Infrastructure for Dummies - 2.0 Simplify and align IT to the speed of business with HP Converged Infrastructure Learn More>> Unix tip: Having fun with diff The diff command can be your best friend when you're troubleshooting problems on a Unix system, but are you using it effectively as you could? READ MORE Cloud platform simplifies Spark clusters, big data deployments In his keynote at Spark Summit 2014 in San Francisco today, Databricks CEO Ion Stoica unveiled Databricks Cloud, a cloud platform built around the Apache Spark open source processing engine for big data. READ MORE Google quietly announces plan to kill Quickoffice apps after beefing up Drive's editing A little more than a year after Google introduced Quickoffice for Android and iOS, the company quietly announced that the apps will soon be pulled from Play and the App Stores. READ MORE BOOK GIVEAWAY: SQL Queries for Mere Mortals: A Hands-On Guide to Data Manipulation in SQL Five will win. Enter the drawing today! READ MORE White Paper: CDW Smarter Environmental Analytics Solutions This IBM Redbooks® Solution Guide describes a solution for implementing smarter environmental monitoring and analytics for oil and gas industries. The solution implements real-time monitoring of environmental data to facilitate early detection of, and response to, operational events surrounding offshore oil and gas installations. View Now GIVEAWAYS: July's giveaways are here. Enter now for your chance to win! App Accomplished: Strategies for App Development Success Whether you're writing your own code or contracting out, you'll find hard-won guidance for your entire mobile app development life cycle. Five will win. Enter now! SQL Queries for Mere Mortals: A Hands-On Guide to Data Manipulation in SQL The clearest, simplest tutorial on writing effective SQL queries. Five will win. Enter now! DON'T MISS... Ringing a bell: 11 common phrases and terms that came from obsolete technology IT salaries for the 20 hottest tech skills Quick Look: Ubuntu GNOME 14.04   Haunting photos of a village built to handle electronic waste Willkommen software engineers! 10 countries that pay you what you're worth Follow ITworld Share this email You are currently subscribed to itworld_today as security.world@gmail.com. Unsubscribe from this newsletter | Manage your subscriptions | Subscribe | Privacy Policy Learn about INSIDER If you are interested in advertising in this newsletter, please contact: sean_weglage@itworld.com Copyright (C) 2014 ITworld, 492 Old Connecticut Path, Framingham, MA 01701 ** Please do not reply to this message. To contact someone directly, send an e-mail to online@itworld.com. **