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Cisco study: More users = more devices = more connections = | 3 reasons why tablets thrive while PCs dive

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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

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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

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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

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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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The 20 best iPhone/iPad games of 2013 so far

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