10 great places for techies to 'pay it forward' (you can too!)

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Windows 8 Update: As Windows XP wanes, Windows 8 scoops up users CES 2014: Products to watch for Network World Daily News PM January 03, 2014 Share this email 10 great places for techies to 'pay it forward' (you can too!) Why not kick off the New Year by putting your awesome IT skills to work for the greater good? Here are just a few of the many organizations that can use techie assistance. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Windows 8 Update: As Windows XP wanes, Windows 8 scoops up users 2. CES 2014: Products to watch for 3. Data scientists: IT's new rock stars 4. The case for an iPad Pro 5. Paradigm Shift in the Security Industry: FireEye acquires Mandiant 6. Your dog have peculiar potty behavior? Check the Earth's magnetic field 7. Sorry, no apology from Snapchat regarding security hole 8. No hypervisor vulnerability exploited in OpenSSL site breach 9. LG's WebOS TV project raises a lot of questions 10. MediaTek to demo chipsets for LTE, wearables and 4K TVs at CES 11. 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READ MORE The case for an iPad Pro Apple will move upmarket to an iPad Pro tablet, perhaps this year, as it faces pressure from Android device makers searching for profits, an analyst said today. READ MORE WEBCAST: IBM Tame the data explosion with IBM Real-time Compression Learn about IBM's unique Real-time Compression technology that can enable storing up to 5x as much data in the same storage space. Learn More Paradigm Shift in the Security Industry: FireEye acquires Mandiant As an industry veteran, I've witnessed my share of IT transformations. Yup, I'm old enough to remember the transitions from mainframes to mini-computers, to client/server computing, to Internet computing, etc. Each of these IT tectonic shifts also led to changes in the balance of power within the industry. IBM owned business computing in the 1970s with its 370 mainframe but the transition to... READ MORE Your dog have peculiar potty behavior? Check the Earth's magnetic field Researchers say they have for the first time proven that dogs in particular are sensitive to the Earth's geomagnetic field when it comes to one of the most common of bodily functions -- pooing. READ MORE Sorry, no apology from Snapchat regarding security hole Snapchat has issued an update on its security-challenged photo-sharing app, alerting users via a blog post ("Find Friends Abuse") that a revised version of the iPhone/Android program is on the way that will enable them to opt out of a friend finding feature that attackers can exploit to fish for phone READ MORE No hypervisor vulnerability exploited in OpenSSL site breach The OpenSSL Project confirmed that weak passwords used on the hosting infrastructure led to the compromise of its website, dispelling concerns that attackers might have exploited a vulnerability in virtualization software. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Fortinet High Performance Data Center Firewall Survey With Data Centers consolidating and virtualizing, the core infrastructure is upgrading to 10G, 40G and even 100G. The Firewall must keep pace with these changes otherwise it becomes a bottleneck. Does your Firewall have the horsepower to keep up? View now >> LG's WebOS TV project raises a lot of questions It appears the Linux-powered WebOS is set to make a bit of a comeback in 2014. I know. I know. I'm surprised too. READ MORE MediaTek to demo chipsets for LTE, wearables and 4K TVs at CES MediaTek is planning to show off its latest chipsets for LTE smartphones with wireless charging, wearables and 4K TVs at the International CES trade show in Las Vegas next week. READ MORE Modern-style Firefox for Windows 8 pushed back to March Mozilla is making Windows 8 users wait a couple months longer for a modern-style version of Firefox. 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