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Saturday, November 30, 2013

How to Solve Windows 8 Crashes in less than 1 minute

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How to Solve Windows 8 Crashes in less than 1 minute

Windows 8 has been out for a while, featuring an interface that's as cool as it is annoying . . . until you get the hang of it. But, like any computer operating system, it can fall over. Luckily, there is an easy way to solve the cause of most crashes; just call up WinDbg, the Windows debugger; a free tool to diagnose the most common causes of Windows crashes -- misbehaved third party drivers.

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Issue highlights

1. 20-plus eye-popping Black Friday tablet, computer & tech deals

2. The latest battleground for cloud marketing wars: Newspapers

3. INSIDER Is open source encryption the answer to NSA snooping?

4. The absurdly simple guide to backing up your PC

5. 12 Best Free iOS 7 Holiday Shopping Apps

6. Router start-up gets boost from Cisco

7. NSA spreading malware to further goals for more power

8. Apple acquires 3-D sensing technology company PrimeSense

9. Million-dollar robbery rocks Bitcoin exchange

10. 15 programming productivity killers

WEBCAST: SAP

Major forces drive requirement for new application platform

Cloud computing, rampant mobility, Big Data, and social business have created challenges never seen before. There is a need for a new application platform. In this webcast, find out about the forces shaping the 'third platform', and why the move to the third platform is the only way to meet customer needs. Learn more

20-plus eye-popping Black Friday tablet, computer & tech deals

Apple iPads, latest Android and Windows machines all in for big discounts. Oh, and free snow globes. READ MORE

The latest battleground for cloud marketing wars: Newspapers

Open up your morning New York Times or Wall Street Journal and you may see the latest ad from a cloud computing company praising the virtues of their services. It's the latest push by some vendors, including VMware, IBM and Pivotal, and it's coming with some snarky fallout too. Technology companies have long taken to traditional media outlets to pitch their products, but in recent weeks the back and... READ MORE

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Is open source encryption the answer to NSA snooping?

When Unisys CISO John Frymier came in to work on Friday, Sept. 6, the phones were ringing, and continued to ring all day. Customers were panicking over the news headlines of the day before. READ MORE

WHITE PAPER: VCE

The Sky's the Limit for Eclipse Aerospace and VCE

Learn how Eclipse was able to virtualize the entire data center without any business disruption, dramatically reduce IT infrastructure hardware costs and easily migrate SAP business applications, Siemens Teamcenter and NX CAD server software. Learn More

The absurdly simple guide to backing up your PC

The first rule of PC Club is: Always, always back up. READ MORE

12 Best Free iOS 7 Holiday Shopping Apps

Braving the long lines and crowds for holiday shopping on Black Friday (and beyond)? Use these free iOS7 shopping apps to make your life a little bit easier. READ MORE

Router start-up gets boost from Cisco

Compass-EOS, a start-up shipping a silicon photonics-based router, this week closed a $42 million round of funding with the help of existing investor Cisco. Other existing vendors participating in the latest round include Comcast Ventures, Pitango Venture Capital, Benchmark Capital, Northbridge Venture Partners and Marker LLC. READ MORE

WHITE PAPER: Oracle

Is Cloud ERP Right for You?

Over the past six years, Aberdeen Group has been measuring organizations' willingness to consider a SaaS deployment model for their ERP implementations. Learn More

NSA spreading malware to further goals for more power

Over the weekend, NRC Handelsblad, a Dutch newspaper, reported that the NSA has infected more than 50,000 networks with malware globally. This report was followed by one in the New York Times, detailing the lengths the NSA is willing to go to in order to obtain more power. READ MORE

Apple acquires 3-D sensing technology company PrimeSense

Apple has acquired PrimeSense, a developer of 3-D sensors that allow devices to respond to the environment in three dimensions. READ MORE

Million-dollar robbery rocks Bitcoin exchange

Bitcoin Internet Payment Services, a Denmark-based exchange billing itself as Europe's biggest, was robbed of bitcoins worth more than $1 million in a theft that took place over the course of the past several days. READ MORE

15 programming productivity killers

Meetings, know-nothing managers, productivity metrics -- here's what's threatening to slay the next generation of great software READ MORE

WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors

Top Reasons to Choose HP BladeSystem

With continuously changing business requirements and technology playing a strategic role in day-to-day business, your organization needs a server infrastructure that enables you to take advantage of new opportunities while containing cost and complexity. Learn More

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5. Microsoft reveals Black Friday deals for Surface, laptops

6. 15 programming productivity killers

7. 10 things we learned - or didn't -- from Cisco's Insieme launch

8. OS X Mavericks tips and tricks you need to learn

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Telecom Ramblings: Thanksgiving Roundup: Jazztel, Broadview, Level 3

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Before USA readers go off for the holiday weekend, here's a little 400G, a trip to the dentist, and of course bandwidth to a volcano. … [visit site to read more]

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Telecom Ramblings: Friday Bytes: SK, Colt, Interoute, Telstra, and TWC

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Telecom Ramblings: Friday Bytes: SK, Colt, Interoute, Telstra, and TWC

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The US is mostly out for the weekend, now trying to work off all that turkey with a bit of shopping.  But the globe does keep on turning, and so here is a quick survey of some news from around the world: … [visit site to read more]

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Friday, November 29, 2013

Which tech degrees pay the most from day one?

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Gift Guide 2013: Phones, tablets and computers

How to Hack Your Own WiFi Network

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Which tech degrees pay the most from day one?

Computer Engineering tops the list ... and math skills matter most

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Issue highlights

1. Gift Guide 2013: Phones, tablets and computers

2. How to Hack Your Own WiFi Network

3. Meet the fastest supercomputers in the world

4. WinAMP's long, strange journey may lead to Redmond

5. InterCall and Blue Jeans Network Integrate Audio and Video Services

6. 10 most powerful network management companies

7. IBM Is Focused on Burgeoning Enterprise Security Requirements

8. Time to Retire the Serial Port

9. Network World's 2013 Holiday Gift Guide - Something for Everyone

WHITE PAPER: ExtraHop Networks

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The ExtraHop Discovery Edition is a free virtual appliance will help you to discover the performance of your applications across the network, web, VDI, database, and storage tiers. Get yours today! Learn More>>

Gift Guide 2013: Phones, tablets and computers

Here's the big stuff - ideas for wicked good mobile devices and PCs to make their holiday awesome READ MORE

How to Hack Your Own WiFi Network

15 free (or almost free) Wi-Fi penetration testing tools READ MORE

Meet the fastest supercomputers in the world

It's that time again – 2013's second and last Top500 report is out, detailing and ranking the most powerful supercomputers on the planet. Here's our walkthrough of just the top 10, which features a lot of long-standing heavyweights, along with a new face. READ MORE

WHITE PAPER: Oracle

Is Cloud ERP Right for You?

Over the past six years, Aberdeen Group has been measuring organizations' willingness to consider a SaaS deployment model for their ERP implementations. Learn More

WinAMP's long, strange journey may lead to Redmond

Only a few apps on my modern PC date back to the 1990s in regards to my own personal use, but WinAMP is one of them. One of the earliest MP3 players, WinAMP was made by a small company called Nullsoft that knew how to use the Internet to stay close to the community it fostered. READ MORE

InterCall and Blue Jeans Network Integrate Audio and Video Services

InterCall recently announced it has integrated Blue Jeans Network video with InterCall Reservationless-Plus® audio conferencing. With more than 400,000 access ports, InterCall has one of the largest proprietary IP-based global conferencing platforms in use today. READ MORE

10 most powerful network management companies

Our look at the biggest players in the network management, um, world READ MORE

WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors

Boldly Go Where No Deduplication Has Gone Before

HP addresses four data protection challenges that affect nearly all organizations in one way or another: Backup windows, Disaster recovery (DR), Remote office data protection, and Restore performance. HP's federated Deduplication 2.0 capability provides a pay-as-you-grow model to help shrink your backup windows and improve your restore performance Learn More

IBM Is Focused on Burgeoning Enterprise Security Requirements

A few years ago, IBM's information security assets were haphazardly scattered throughout its business units. RACF sat with the mainframe crew, IAM lived within the Tivoli group, and what remained of ISS gathered dust within IBM Global Services (IGS). READ MORE

Time to Retire the Serial Port

I was recently setting up a new piece of networking equipment, and, lo and behold, I needed to do that initial setup via a CLI on a serial port. Yes, I know that testosterone is recharged by such activities; real men configure routers and such with obscure commands over difficult-to-configure interfaces based on RS-232. I don't want to pick on any particular vendor here, because there are so many of... READ MORE

Network World's 2013 Holiday Gift Guide - Something for Everyone

We've completed work on the 2013 edition of the annual Network World Holiday Gift Guide with one of the most diverse sets of great gifts ever. I'm pleased once again to have been part of Keith Shaw's team in testing and evaluating an astonishingly broad array of gift possibilities, for home and even for work. READ MORE

WHITE PAPER: Krux

People Data Management: Premise and Promise

The consumer web has given rise to a new normal. Always-on communications has transformed people's expectations and reshaped how they interact with companies. People Data Management systems offer a new class of enterprise software that allows companies to confront the implications of the people web. Read now!

SLIDESHOWS

20-plus eye-popping Black Friday tablet, computer & tech deals

Apple iPads, latest Android and Windows machines all in for big discounts. Oh, and free snow globes.

JOIN THE NETWORK WORLD COMMUNITIES

As network pros you understand that the value of connections increase as the number of connections increase, the so called network effect, and no where is this more evident than in professional relationships. Join Network World's LinkedIn and Facebook communities to share ideas, post questions, see what your peers are working on and scout out job applicants (or maybe find your next opportunity).

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MOST-READ STORIES

1. Million-dollar robbery rocks Bitcoin exchange

2. 12 jobs getting the biggest raises in 2014

3. HP private cloud service leads the pack, followed by Cisco and Microsoft, Forrester says

4. The Tenth Gibbs Golden Turkey Awards

5. Microsoft reveals Black Friday deals for Surface, laptops

6. 15 programming productivity killers

7. 10 things we learned - or didn't -- from Cisco's Insieme launch

8. OS X Mavericks tips and tricks you need to learn

9. 20-plus eye-popping Black Friday tablet, computer & tech deals

10. NAS goes outside the box

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