20 great productivity apps for Android, iOS, and the Web

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NoSQL takes the database market by storm Employee-owned PCs are scaring enterprise IT Network World Daily News PM October 27, 2014 20 great productivity apps for Android, iOS, and the Web Android, iOS, and Web: 20 multiplatform apps for maximum productivityImage by Flavio~ via FlickrMan, the days of "Mac or PC" sure were simple.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. NoSQL takes the database market by storm 2. INSIDER Employee-owned PCs are scaring enterprise IT 3. Competition is holding Apple Pay, mobile payments back 4. Wireless price war's good for consumers, but challenges carriers 5. Quick look: The 76 year-old "War of the World" broadcast rumpus 6. 255 terabits a second: New fiber speed record? 7. Gamification helps utility companies change customer behavior 8. Report: Criminals use Shellshock against mail servers to build botnet 9. How CVS and Rite Aid's wrongheaded war against Apple benefits Walgreens 10. Suse enterprise Linux can take your system back in time 11. Nest to build out IoT with acquisition of Revolv's home hub engineering team 12. Larry Page just gave Sundar Pichai responsibility over all of Google's most important properties 13. Microsoft: 42% of Americans endure daily or weekly attacks on personal data 14. Big Switch rolls out SDN starter kits WHITE PAPER: AT&T Network-Enabled Cloud: Key Considerations A network-enabled cloud combines the control, protection, and performance advantages of a private cloud with the economies and elasticity of a public cloud, and seamlessly integrates corporate VPNs with cloud-based resources. Learn more about key Considerations and Partner Selection Criteria in this IDC whitepaper. Learn More NoSQL takes the database market by storm The NoSQL database market is a small but increasingly important segment of the database market, and it's giving SQL database vendors a scare READ MORE INSIDER Employee-owned PCs are scaring enterprise IT Largely ignored in the enterprise mobility craze of the last few years, which saw the acceptance of bring-your-own device (BYOD) policies, were the risks incurred when employees use their personal computers to access business data. Now, with PCs designed to operate more seamlessly with smartphones and tablets, enterprise IT could soon face new consumerization challenges.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) READ MORE Competition is holding Apple Pay, mobile payments back As two big drugstore chains decline to support Apple Pay, something is going to have to change for mobile payments to succeed. READ MORE Wireless price war's good for consumers, but challenges carriers More than any time in the past decade, wireless customers are reaping the benefits of a carrier price war over smartphones and tablets, as well as monthly data service contracts.The news isn't as good for the major wireless carriers, based on earnings reports earlier this week from Verizon Wireless and AT&T. Sprint is expected to be the hardest hit when it reports earnings Nov. 3.While it is just a single quarter, Verizon slightly missed profit estimates in its latest report on Tuesday. Its earnings were 89 cents a share, a penny below the average analyst estimates of 90 cents compiled by Bloomberg, even as sales climbed 4.3% to $31.6 billion.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Onapsis Inc. Protecting Your Company's Lifeblood Threats to mission-critical ERP data are sometimes overlooked, leaving systems exposed to potentially crippling attacks. Learn best practices for safeguarding your SAP ERP systems, including the use of automated assessment and audit solutions. Learn More Quick look: The 76 year-old "War of the World" broadcast rumpus One of the country's biggest overreactions occurred 76 years ago this week when on Oct. 30, 1938 a radio dramatization of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds was mistaken for an actual Mars invasion.According to many, the radio broadcast read by actor Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre on the Air repertory group, fooled millions of Americans into thinking the world was pretty much going to end that night.   The truth about how many citizens actually felt the Martians were invading is up for debate.+More on Network World: World's craziest Halloween coffins+To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE 255 terabits a second: New fiber speed record? Researchers from the University of Central Florida and Eindhoven University of Technology say that they've developed a new fiber optic medium that allows data to be sent and received at up to 255Tbps, a roughly twenty-fold increase over current fiber.The innovation, described in a paper for the current online edition of the journal Nature Photonics, lies in the use of a group of seven microstructured fibers, rather than a single one. Eindhoven University of Technology professor Chigo Okonkwo, one the paper's principal authors, said that the individual fibers are less than 200 microns in diameter.RELATED: Alcatel-Lucent, BT credit "Super Alien Channel" in delivering fastest broadband speed EVAH!To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Gamification helps utility companies change customer behavior In exchange for discounts from their favorite companies, people will like corporate Facebook pages, fill out surveys and join mailing lists. But power companies have to get their customers to do more than that.To comply with policies in 26 states that call for them to reduce electricity and natural gas use in the next several years, utility companies hope to spark a sustained change in behavior among customers. Their method: gamification.+ ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD Top 4 gamification apps +In Massachusetts, for example, utilities must cut electricity usage by the equivalent of 2.6 percent of retail sales and gas usage by 1.15 percent of sales by 2015. Goals increase after that. "With increasingly aggressive savings targets, we needed new and innovative strategies," says Tom Baron, senior program manager at the $13 billion National Grid U.S.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Report: Criminals use Shellshock against mail servers to build botnet Targeting message transfer agents (MTAs), and mail delivery agents (MDAs), criminals are using Shellshock as a means to create botnets. The process is slow, but working, thanks to unpatched installations of Bash or certain implementations of it.When it was disclosed in September, Shellshock – the common name given to a vulnerability in Bash that enables command execution – impacted systems both large and small, creating ripples across the tech industry.Vendors struggled to release and maintain patches. For several days after the initial disclosure, researchers found ways to bypass the fixes, leading to the publication of four additional CVE advisories related to the main flaw.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WEBCAST: Collaborative Consulting A Smarter Offshore Outsourcing Alternative Do you know the true cost of offshore outsourcing? Many organizations are measuring hourly rates alone, missing the additional costs, risks and complexities of offshoring. Join Rebecca Wettemann of Nucleus Research as she explains current trends and challenges with offshore outsourcing Live November 12th at 12:00-1:00 pm EST. Learn More How CVS and Rite Aid's wrongheaded war against Apple benefits Walgreens Rite Aid and CVS weren't official Apple Pay launch partners, but shoppers armed with new iPhones found that the chains had near-field communication card readers that were compatible with the new mobile payment system—at least for a few days. Over the weekend, both companies blocked NFC recognition, uniting enraged iPhone and Android users and inspiring plans to boycott both chains.MORE ON NETWORK WORLD: 12 most powerful Internet of Things companies The drugstore companies are members of the Merchant Customer Exchange, a group of retailers developing their own mobile payment solution called CurrentC. Walmart, Best Buy, Gap, and other major chains are also throwing their weight behind CurrentC, which doesn't roll out until next year. Details of how CurrentC will work are still fuzzy, but we know that the solution is a mobile app that bypasses credit cards—and the associated merchant fees—by linking directly to customers' checking or savings accounts.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Suse enterprise Linux can take your system back in time The newest enterprise edition of the Suse Linux distribution allows administrators to go back in time, for instance, to immediately before they made that fatal system-crippling mistake.Suse Linux Enterprise Server 12 (SLES 12) features a system snapshot and rollback capability that allows the user to boot the system to an earlier configuration, should the latest one unexpectedly fail.Such a capability can be handy for undoing a system configuration change that did not turn out as expected. For instance, an administrator might have the SLES computer in a perfectly fine running state, but then install a botched software update, or make a change that destroys the kernel. Typically, Unix systems have been unforgiving about such mistakes, forcing the administrator to reinstall the system software from scratch, should they not know how to undo the unfortunate change.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Nest to build out IoT with acquisition of Revolv's home hub engineering team The next step for the IoT in the home is enabling the devices to communicate with each other. READ MORE Larry Page just gave Sundar Pichai responsibility over all of Google's most important properties Google's corporate leadership structure was recently reorganized in a significant way READ MORE Microsoft: 42% of Americans endure daily or weekly attacks on personal data The good news is people are getting smart to these attacks. READ MORE Big Switch rolls out SDN starter kits SDN pioneer Big Switch Networks this week is expected to unveil "starter kits" designed for its Big Cloud Fabric product that began shipping in September amidst a stream of positive product reviews. The starter kits provide the hardware and software necessary for a simple lab proof of concept up to a full two-rack production network fabric ready for Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) clouds, big data and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) projects. RELATED: Can SDN usher in better security? "While our largest customers are building pods for 16K [virtual machines], we realize that the majority of enterprise architects want to experiment with hyperscale networking on a small project first," said CEO Doug Murray. "These starter kits are intended to make that fast and easy."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WEBCAST: IBM Leveraging Software-Defined Flash to Drive Your Business With end-to-end, tightly integrated functionality and super-fast flash technology, products like IBM FlashSystem V840 Enterprise Performance Solution empower businesses to leverage the efficiency of SDS and the speed of flash storage all at once. Learn More SLIDESHOWS Ubuntu turns 10: A look back at the desktop Linux standard bearer A brief history of Ubuntu, as alliterative as all-get-out. 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. 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