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Your next fridge could charge all your mobile devices
Your next refrigerator or television may also double as a wireless charger for your mobile devices and wearables.Home appliance maker Haier announced today that it has signed a joint development agreement with Energous, creator of the WattUp wireless router that sends power in a 15-ft. radius using radio frequency transmissions.China-based Haier, a $180 billion company, dominates the market in shipped white goods, which include major appliances such as freezers, refrigerators and washing machines, according to research firm Euromonitor. Haier also produces thousands of other products, from televisions and computers to cellphones and robots, all of which could potentially house wireless charging technology.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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Scaling Virtual Environments with Tintri Smart Storage
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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
An open letter to tech billionaires: Follow Gates, Zuckerberg's lead on Ebola
Dear Tech Billionaires:I'm sure you've all heard of the growing Ebola crisis that has infected more than 10,000 people in West Africa, while spreading fear across the rest of the world.Yet most of you don't seem to think that the Ebola outbreak has anything to do with you. That has got to change.Kudos go out to Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who has come up with a $100 million donation, including financing a pair of safety cocoons: containment units designed to evacuate infected healthcare workers from West Africa. Fellow Microsoft founder Bill Gates has offered $50 million through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and his wife have pledged $25 million.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
NoSQL takes the database market by storm
CARFAX, the online vehicle tracking and valuation website, built its first database in 1984 based on technology named OpenVMS. At the time, it was cutting edge for its ability to handle millions of records. But the company grew. "We had a hard time scaling it and finding people to work on OpenVMS," says Jai Hirsch, senior systems architect for data technologies at CARFAX. The company needed a new database. For years the default enterprise databases have been based on SQL, a programming language that databases from Oracle, Microsoft, SAP and many other companies predominantly use. But increasingly, SQL databases aren't an ideal fit for companies like CARFAX. Traditionally, SQL databases are based on rows and columns; CARFAX has 13.6 billion records associated with 700 million vehicles. A column-based system would have required thousands of columns and tabs, but for any given vehicle maybe only a dozen of them would be populated. It just wasn't ideal for CARFAX. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read 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
Larry Page just gave Sundar Pichai responsibility over all of Google's most important properties
In a late-breaking story on Friday, Re/Code published a report relaying Google's corporate leadership structure was recently reorganized in a significant way. According to the report, Google CEO Larry Page is transferring a number of his responsibilities over to Sundar Pichai, a rising star at Google who took control over the company's Android team just this past March.Before that, Pichai, who is reportedly very well respected within the company both for his technical acumen and judicious handling of intra-company politics, worked on Google Chrome. Now, a few years into his tenure at Google, Pichai's oversight will extend to include a "who's who" of Google properties, including Maps, Search, Google+, and more. From the Re/Code story:To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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
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
Cannon barrel won't fly
Who could have predicted that the Transportation Security Administration would frown upon a passenger trying to check baggage that contains a cannon barrel?One passenger at Hawaii's Kahului Airport is not among them. TSA Blog Cannon barrel discovered in checked bag "You can add this one to the 'items we don't see every day' category," writes Bob Burns on the always entertaining TSA Blog. "An unloaded cannon barrel was discovered along with a passenger's checked items at the Kahului Airport (OGG). Our officers have discovered cannonballs in the past, but this is the first cannon I can recall." To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
New products of the week 10.27.2014
Products of the weekOur roundup of intriguing new products. Read how to submit an entry to Network World's products of the week slideshow.NetVanta 5660Key features: The industry's first converged Layer 2/3 Gigabit access router with eSBC and Carrier Ethernet gateway functionality, enabling providers to support bandwidth-hungry cloud, VoIP and streaming business applications from one device. More info.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
10 things you need to know about the Lenovo Yoga tablet
Lenovo's Yoga Tablet 10Lenovo's Yoga Tablet 10 HD+ features an industrial design that makes it stand out from the crowd of other Android tablets. We tested a silver model (there's also a gold version) for a week and here's what we learned.It features a one-hand gripThe Yoga has a cylindrical grip fashioned along its length. It's meant to help you hold the tablet in one hand, whether your left or right. I found holding it with one hand felt more comfortable and secure than handling a typical tablet. The sensation is akin to holding a magazine in one hand where you have several of its pages folded behind its back.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Big data wars: How technology could tip the mid-term elections
After John Kerry lost a very winnable election in 2004, Democrats were worried that Republicans had gained an almost insurmountable lead in both technology and data analysis."Progressive technology infrastructure was born in 2004, when we got our teeth kicked in," says Bryan Whitaker, COO of the NGP VAN, a privately held company that offers technology-based services to Democratic candidates."Back in 2004, we had no counter to the right's consistent messaging machine. Fox News, talk radio, Drudge, etc. put out consistent, never-ending messages, and the left didn't have a viable response to that," he says. "As we investigated ways to catch up, one thing we realized we should focus on is figuring out how to build up better grassroots efforts. The most persuasive way to influence someone is through person-to-person interactions, but how do you do that effectively, especially in off-year elections?"To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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