Weirdest, wackiest & coolest sci/tech stories of 2013

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	Weirdest, wackiest & coolest sci/tech stories of 2013 It's always a tall order to decide which high-tech stories are the wackiest or coolest of the year but we aren't shy about trying. This year we find all manner of interesting items from NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft leaving our solar system and Microsoft developing sensory bra technology to a Verizon employee being locked underground and a man being arrested for stealing 5 cents worth of electricity. Read More WHITE PAPER: Attachmate Mobile-Enabling Your Workforce with Apps You Already Have Learn how Verastream can unlock your legacy assets and make them seamlessly accessible to your mobile audience. An advanced technology tool and mobile-enablement platform, Verastream can quickly package your applications and data into any format, for any device. Learn More! In this Issue Cisco counting on Glue for stickiness Tech companies find their inner Zen 10 Mobile Tech Predictions for 2014 Robot trading cards, Dark Silicon & other last-minute stocking stuffers Enterprise Organizations Identify Incident Detection Weaknesses NASA's greatest challenges in 2014 Blue Coat acquires anti-malware firm Norman Shark 2013 Year End: Tech News Review University of Florida gets 100Gbps link to Internet2, upgrades campus research net to 200Gbps What You Need to Know to Hire, Manage and Market to Millennials Phishing messages fall markedly in 2013 despite better targetting 8 products you should not rush to upgrade ARTICLE: Comcast The Network – A Growth Engine for Business The enterprise network, once the Rodney Dangerfield of IT, has emerged as a key enabler of business agility. Today's employees and customers expect instant access to information, from any location and with any computing device. In this report from Comcast and IDG, learn why investment in network services that provide both scale and flexibility will be critical as a foundation for sustainable growth. Cisco counting on Glue for stickiness Glue Networks, a developer of software-defined wide area networking products, has landed $12.4 million in new funding from unidentified private investors. The company also got a big sales boost from Cisco, which now includes Glue products on its price list and will compensate 14,000 sales people for selling them. Read More Tech companies find their inner Zen Tech companies like Intel and Google are offering courses in meditation to help their workers handle stress, become more innovative and find work/life balance. Read More 10 Mobile Tech Predictions for 2014 What does 2014 have in store for mobile technology? Experts, analysts and others share their predictions for smartphones, tablets, platforms, wireless network technologies, video and mobile banking in the coming year. Read More Robot trading cards, Dark Silicon & other last-minute stocking stuffers Researchers at Georgia Tech produce some of the most intriguing creations around in terms of technologies that might one day make their way into enterprise networks. Read More Enterprise Organizations Identify Incident Detection Weaknesses In the past, many large organizations spent about 70% of their security budgets on prevention and the remaining 30% on incident detection and response. Prevention is still important but given the insidious threat landscape, enterprises must assume that they will be breached. This means that they need the right processes, skills, and security analytics to detect and respond to security incidents effectively,... Read More NASA's greatest challenges in 2014 In its annual look at what challenges NASA faces in the coming year, the agency's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) this year outlined nine key areas it says will cause the most angina. Leading the way in pain is money. NASA's current money story starts off bad and just gets worse. Read More Blue Coat acquires anti-malware firm Norman Shark Blue Coat Systems today announced it has acquired anti-malware firm Norman Shark for an undisclosed price, in order to integrate its technologies, such as sandboxing, into other security products available through Blue Coat. Read More 2013 Year End: Tech News Review 2013 Year End: Tech News Review Politics and technology collided this year, while the post PC era had some new entrants. We'll take a look at it all in our 2013 Tech News Review. From: Network World Videos Views: 5 0 ratings Time: 05:26 More in Science & Technology Read More University of Florida gets 100Gbps link to Internet2, upgrades campus research net to 200Gbps The University of Florida is just putting the wraps on a remarkable year of IT upgrades. The school, which has a 2,000-acre campus and more than 900 buildings, installed a new supercomputer in a new data center, installed a 100Gbps link to Inernet2, and upgraded its Campus Research Network from 20G to 200Gbps while adding support for Software Defined Networking (SDN). Network World Editor in Chief John Dix got the lowdown on all of the developments from Erik Deumens, director of research computing. Read More What You Need to Know to Hire, Manage and Market to Millennials Generation Y is a complicated bunch. Many millennials are over-educated, under-employed and carry debt greater than their annual salaries -- yet your future hinges on them. Whether you need to hire them or sell to them, this infographic looks at common traits of millennials as both employees and consumers. Read More Phishing messages fall markedly in 2013 despite better targetting Criminals are sending markedly fewer phishing emails than a year ago but they are now being more skilfully targeted, an end-of-year report by security firm Websense has found. Read More 8 products you should not rush to upgrade While some technologies continue to improve with each iteration, others have leveled off. Don't feel the need to rush out and buy the latest hype. Read More
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