From Pong to Furby, games and gadgets of holidays past

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	From Pong to Furby, games and gadgets of holidays past This holiday season's biggest gifts -- the e-readers, tablets and digital games techies and kids are clamoring for -- are the result of 40 years of innovation. We take a look back at some of the biggest breakthroughs in tech gadgets from the '70s, '80s and '90s. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CDW Save now with the best deals from CDW. Click here to save on desktops, notebooks, LCDs and more. Click to continue In this Issue Headphones built into your hoodie and other tech clothing wonders Google quashes 13 Chrome bugs, adds PDF viewer New net neutrality proposal: What's in this thing? Hackers issue bogus Amber Alert Microsoft Invests In Open Source Company, Are Pigs Flying? IT spending to be up as much as 6% in 2011 Microsoft gains cloud security certification … six months after Google Google caves in Street View 'trespassing' case, pays $1 WikiLeaks.org downed by domain hosting service AVG Free Update Bricks 64-Bit Windows 7 PCs What the influx of 'digital natives' will mean for IT WEBCAST: Netop Best Practices for Remote Support Join this live Webcast December 7th at 1 PM ET to hear practical advice on deploying remote support without putting your organization at risk. You'll learn how companies from regulated industries are implementing remote support and since this event is live, you'll have a chance to ask the experts your specific questions. Join us for this Live Event Headphones built into your hoodie and other tech clothing wonders A phone built into the sleeve of a dress. Gloves that enable you to swipe a touchscreen on the ski slope. Solar-powered backpacks. Here are nine examples of apparel that blurs the line between clothing and tech gear. Read More Google quashes 13 Chrome bugs, adds PDF viewer Google on Thursday patched 13 vulnerabilities in Chrome as it shifted the most stable edition of the browser to version 8. Read More New net neutrality proposal: What's in this thing? Julius Genachowski's grand unveiling of his new net neutrality proposal was long on broad principles, short on details. Read More WHITE PAPER: Emerson Network Power Improving Availability in a Digital Hospital Downtime is not an option for healthcare IT systems. To ensure patient data is always available at the point of care, the hospital's network closet IT infrastructure must be properly designed. Learn the essential points for evaluating the benefits and costs associated with powering and cooling a hospital's network closets. Read Now Hackers issue bogus Amber Alert Iowa's Amber Alert website was hacked and used to send out a bogus alert over the weekend. Read More Microsoft Invests In Open Source Company, Are Pigs Flying? It was reported earlier this week here on Network World that Microsoft has made in an investment in open source mainframe emulator TurboHercules. Back last April I wrote about TurboHercules and its complain to the EU about IBM trying to stifle competition in the mainframe emulator space. So is Microsoft really starting to invest in open source business models here or is there something else afoot? Read More IT spending to be up as much as 6% in 2011 IT spending may grow by almost 6% next year due to cloud computing, mobile networking and social media, according to market researcher IDC. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sybase Mobility is in your workplace. Are you paying attention? When devising a mobility strategy, one of the key decisions to make is whether to invest in point solutions or to move toward a MEAP solution. This affects your ability to manage applications, devices, and security as mobility becomes more prevalent in your organization. Learn more with this complimentary whitepaper! Read More Microsoft gains cloud security certification … six months after Google Microsoft counters Google's cloud momentum in the government market with FISMA certification. Read More Google caves in Street View 'trespassing' case, pays $1 So Google has gone and settled its long-running "trespassing" case with a Pittsburgh couple who got their curtains in a bunch after a Street View photographer traversed their precious private road to take a picture of their house. Read More WikiLeaks.org downed by domain hosting service WikiLeaks' main website could not be accessed on Friday through its WikiLeaks.org domain name after a subsidiary of Dynamic Network Services terminated its domain name service. Read More AVG Free Update Bricks 64-Bit Windows 7 PCs If you haven't already downloaded the latest mandatory AVG 2011 Free software update, it may be best not to if you want your computer to turn on again. The December 1 update is causing 64-bit PCs running Windows 7 to totally breakdown. Read More What the influx of 'digital natives' will mean for IT In about 15 years, the Millennial Generation -- the "digital natives" who began entering the workforce in 2000 -- will be, more or less, in charge of their workplaces, with those who have leadership potential having moved up the corporate rungs by then. Read More
	Fill out a survey, get rewarded Get a free Starbucks gift card for participating in a Network World survey about application performance management best practices. Research firm NetForecast is surveying enterprises about APM practices for an upcoming Network World article. The first 100 participants will receive a $5 Starbucks gift card. Click here. December goodies from the Subnets SharePoint 2010 power user training for three people from Webucator, plus a brand new iPad available from Microsoft Subnet. Five massive libraries on CCNP, security, NX-OS up for grabs on Cisco Subnet. Enter to win! SLIDESHOWS Top IT Turkeys of 2010 Thanksgiving is a time for giving thanks for all of the people and things we love, to cherish what's most important to us. But that's for another slideshow. This one's all about taunting the companies, products and people who most resembled a turkey over the last year. So cut me a hockey-puck-shaped slice of jellied cranberry sauce and read on. Cool Yule favorites: 15 techie gifts we like Ho Ho Ho, it's time again to get our holiday wish lists together. Here are our 15 favorite products from the 140+ products submitted and tested in this year's Cool Yule Tools holiday gift guide. MOST-READ STORIES Amazon reportedly shows WikiLeaks the door IBM chip breakthrough may lead to exascale supercomputers Is a next-generation firewall in your future? The Linux desktop revolution is dead The first rule of Windows Phone 7 sales Verizon sets the bar for future LTE launches Microsoft's dropped feature is Linux's gain Inside the labs at Microsoft, HP and IBM Women desire iPhones, men want Android smartphones WikiLeaks is not the actual problem
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