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27 of the worst product knockoffs in tech Here's how Apple is spending $1 billion on sapphire Network World Daily News PM May 26, 2014 Share this email How Netflix streams movies to your TV At peak times, Netflix accounts for around a third of the consumer Internet traffic in North America. This week, one of its senior engineers described how it gets all those movies to your screen. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. 27 of the worst product knockoffs in tech 2. Here's how Apple is spending $1 billion on sapphire 3. How 3-D Printing Makes Product Prototyping Faster and Cheaper 4. How VMware sees OpenStack as a standard 5. How to protect your company from an eBay-like breach 6. How 'Liquid Networks' Can Lead to the Next Great Idea 7. How to Manage Millennials: Let Them Do Whatever They Want 8. How to Do Big Data in Healthcare 9. Here's how to chat with your Facebook friends using encryption 10. How a Boston Hospital is Using Google Glass to Save Lives 11. How Gamification Drives Business Objectives 12. Most popular YouTube videos of all time WHITE PAPER: Mobiquity Inc. The Five Big Lies Leaders Hear About "Going Mobile" Mobile hasn't been around long, but it has already made a tremendous impact. With such a new technology, it's not surprising that a lot of misinformation is floating around. Don't be taken in. Get the truth by reading this paper. It lays out how to develop an effective mobile initiative, one you need to succeed. Learn More 27 of the worst product knockoffs in tech With so much money to be made selling electronics, many just try to copy what's already successful. READ MORE Here's how Apple is spending $1 billion on sapphire From rare gemstone to mass market material for future iPhones, iPads and more? READ MORE How 3-D Printing Makes Product Prototyping Faster and Cheaper Longtime robotics entrepreneur Henry Thorne admits nothing works in reality the same way it works in your head. Thorne's newest venture, 4moms, focuses on baby products, and 3-D printing helps the firm turn ideas into prototypes in just one day's time. READ MORE How VMware sees OpenStack as a standard VMware is not necessarily known as a company that thoroughly embraces open source, but one of its top CTOs says OpenStack could play an important role as a standard in the cloud computing market. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Case Study - MTC Australia In moving to a "cloud first" approach for their business-critical apps, they were able to remedy the increased network traffic with Riverbed solutions to ensure a positive user experience. View now>> How to protect your company from an eBay-like breach The eBay database breach that led to the theft of customers' passwords and personal information started with the compromise of employee login credentials, a reminder that companies should check the safeguards in place for protecting such critical information. READ MORE How 'Liquid Networks' Can Lead to the Next Great Idea Technological innovation often comes when your hunch collides with someone else's hunch, says best-selling author Steven Johnson. Open collaborative spaces are vital to allowing those hunches to mature into breakthrough moments. READ MORE How to Manage Millennials: Let Them Do Whatever They Want In about 10 years, 75 percent of the workforce will be made of millennials. Fortunately, managing them is easy. Just give them space, freedom to make decisions and a creative workplace. Oh, and be sure to ask them how their day was. READ MORE How to Do Big Data in Healthcare Many healthcare organizations like to talk about data analytics. However, here are eight pieces of expert advice to help you actually do it. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: IBM The Total Economic Impact Of IBM Datacap Taskmaster In April 2012, IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact (TEI) and potential ROI that enterprises might realize by deploying IBM's Datacap Taskmaster Capture solution. Learn More Here's how to chat with your Facebook friends using encryption Facebook's messaging application doesn't support encryption, but an open-source chat program, Cryptocat, has made it possible to chat with friends there over an encrypted connection. READ MORE How a Boston Hospital is Using Google Glass to Save Lives When Glass was first unveiled at Google's annual I/O developer conference in the summer of 2012, it was seen mostly as an expensive novelty that would be available to only a select few "Explorers," at least for a few years. Today, the device is still not widely available, and it still costs $1,500, but it's proving to be much more than novel to some businesses and organizations. (Glass isn't the only form of wearable tech making waves in the enterprise; read "Wearables Offer Promise (and Peril) for the Enterprise" for details.) READ MORE How Gamification Drives Business Objectives As more businesses add gamification to their repertoire of tools, the misconception remains that awarding points or badges for existing activities should do the trick. After all, who doesn't like more points and badges? READ MORE Most popular YouTube videos of all time From at the Zoo to Gangman Style, YouTube has come a long way in nine years READ MORE WEBCAST: Ipswitch, Inc 4 Ways Network Monitoring Improves Wireless Networks Originally deployed as a 'network of convenience', wireless is rapidly evolving into the primary network for more users and many more devices than planned. Join this interactive session to learn the four key drivers for successful review and deployment of wireless networks. 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