Friday, February 08, 2013

33 expert tips and tricks for iOS 6

If Xbox rumors are true, Microsoft may be making a huge mistake

25 techie Valentine's Day gift ideas

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February 08, 2013
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33 expert tips and tricks for iOS 6

Perhaps you are already an iOS master. Or maybe you consider yourself more of a novice. Either way, we feel confident that at least some of the tips and tricks for iOS 6 that we present below will be new to you. What's more, we hope you love them--and benefit from them--as much as we do.

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Issue highlights

1. If Xbox rumors are true, Microsoft may be making a huge mistake

2. 25 techie Valentine's Day gift ideas

3. INSIDER 8 classic IT hiring mistakes and how to avoid them

4. Cisco loses round in fight against patent troll

5. Facebook's most important open source projects

6. Six good reasons to download LibreOffice 4.0

7. Internet Explorer flaws fixed by Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates

8. Wireless industry by the #s: Millions, Billions & even Trillions!

9. Apple says nothing, shares inexplicably rise

10. Intel invests in SDN pioneer Big Switch Networks

11. The growing importance and network impact of VDI

12. Is Stolen IP Walking in the Door With New Employees?

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If Xbox rumors are true, Microsoft may be making a huge mistake

There's no feeling of relief like a rumor proven wrong, and I hope to hell that the latest rumors on the next-generation Xbox are completely off the market. If they are true, they are a bad sign for the industry. EDGE Online has the rumored details and specs on the next-generation console, which some fans call the Xbox 720. The specs look great and rumors of a Blu-ray player are excellent news. Read... READ MORE

25 techie Valentine's Day gift ideas

From subtle geekery to blatantly techie devices, Valentine's Day gifts suit a range of personalities READ MORE

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8 classic IT hiring mistakes and how to avoid them

From writing dated, irrelevant job descriptions to accepting a less-than-ideal candidate because the work is piling up, classic hiring mistakes are just waiting to trip up managers. READ MORE

WEBCAST: Cisco

Smart Solutions Deliver Unified Workspace Strategy

Workers today use up to four mobile devices daily--yet companies are struggling to integrate mobile devices into their business models. Learn how Cisco Unified Workspace can help meet these challenges for increased efficiency and growth. View Now

Cisco loses round in fight against patent troll

Cisco's attempt to block a patent enforcement company -- commonly known as patent trolls -- from collecting licensing fees has been shot down by a federal court in Chicago. READ MORE

WHITE PAPER: Exceed Group

Fortune 500 optimized mobile plan to save 28%

Exceed Group helped a global manufacturing company implement a complete wireless expense management solutions with Mobil-Eye. Read about what steps they took to reach full optimization of their AT&T and Verizon contracts. Learn how to get your own free Mobil-Eye wireless expenses analysis. Learn More.

Facebook's most important open source projects

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Six good reasons to download LibreOffice 4.0

It's been just a few weeks since the first LibreOffice 4.0 release candidate made its debut, but on Thursday the Document Foundation officially launched the final version of the free and open source office productivity suite. READ MORE

Internet Explorer flaws fixed by Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates

Microsoft says Internet Explorer versions 6 through 10 are subjects of two critical Patch Tuesday updates for February that could address recent Java woes. READ MORE

Wireless industry by the #s: Millions, Billions & even Trillions!

Headlines have been catching my eyes left and right this week regarding the utter enormity of the mobile technology market. A sampling: *Nexus 4 Owners Estimate One Million Handsets Have Shipped Since November 2012 Launch (TechCrunch): Android lovers at the XDA Developers forum figured out a method for estimating Nexus 4 smartphone sales based on obscure numbers found on the devices. Google wouldn't... READ MORE

Apple says nothing, shares inexplicably rise

If there's one stock on the market that's unpredictable, it's Apple's. Let's just take a quick look back at the last few weeks. Apple in late January posted the best quarterly earnings report any tech company has ever had in history. And though Apple slightly missed analyst's revenue projections, Apple's overall profits slightly bested the consensus on Wall St. The result? Shares of Apple absolutely... READ MORE

Intel invests in SDN pioneer Big Switch Networks

Intel Capital has invested in software-defined networking company Big Switch Networks, as it hopes to help the company change the way data centers are networked. READ MORE

The growing importance and network impact of VDI

If virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) was a racehorse, it would be one to back. Gartner predicts that hosted virtual desktop (HVD) deployments will reach 15% of professional desktop users by 2014 and Visiongain estimates that the value of the global cloud-based VDI market will reach $11 billion in 2012. But VDI places significant strain upon the WAN due to the amount of data being transferred between the server and the desktop. If the network is unable to provide adequate performance to applications, they are likely to perform poorly, or fail completely. READ MORE

Is Stolen IP Walking in the Door With New Employees?

Are your former employees walking out the door with your intellectual property? And worse, is your new hire putting your organization at risk by bringing in IP stolen from a former employer? A new global survey by Symantec and The Ponemon Institute finds that half of employees who left or lost their jobs in the past 12 months kept confidential corporate data, and 40 percent say they plan to use the data in their new jobs. READ MORE

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