2014’s 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries

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The greatest tech wins and epic comebacks of 2014. View it in your browser How our favorite social networks failed us in 2014. View it in your browser Network World Daily News PM January 01, 2015 2014's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries Network World's 8th collection of the year's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries includes the launch of the first GPS satellites, Lotus Notes 1.0, Nintendo's Game Boy and SimCity, as well as one of tech's most notorious false alarms: cold fusion. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. The greatest tech wins and epic comebacks of 2014 2. How our favorite social networks failed us in 2014 3. 3D Printing Medical Breakthroughs -- Including Dog Legs 4. The "Future" is Now (Well, in October) 5. The 5 Biggest Smartphone Disappointments of 2014 6. South Korea nuclear operator strengthens security system against cyber attack 7. AMD retools laptop chip strategy to challenge Intel's dominance 8. CSC pays $190M to settle 4-year-old accounting fraud case with SEC 9. 6 Technologies That Will Change PCs in 2015 10. Why 2015 will be the year of the Apple 11. When management meddles with passwords White Paper: IBM Quintillion Case Study Hedge fund administration company Quintillion doubles its asset and investor portfolio while keeping staff levels almost flat, by working with Insight 2 Value to deploy an efficient content management solution, based on IBM Case Manager. Read Now The greatest tech wins and epic comebacks of 2014 Refinement, not revolutionWhile 2014 didn't bring much in the way of revolutionary technology, it was a great year for refinement. The products and services we've relied on for years became cheaper and more accessible, while once-difficult concepts like virtual reality and mobile wallets starte to look a little more practical. And if you look hard enough, you can even find... READ MORE How our favorite social networks failed us in 2014 This year was all about the messaging app, and for good reason: Social networks behaved abysmally in 2014. Sharing information and photos privately with friends is a compelling alternative to social networks with their ads, weird research experiments, and harassment.That's not to say anyone is abandoning social media, but more and more users are pressuring companies to be better and... READ MORE 3D Printing Medical Breakthroughs -- Including Dog Legs 3D printing's medical marvelsOver the past year, 3D printing has enabled medical feats that previously would have been impossible to achieve. Here, we look at just a handful of the amazing objects that 3D printing can produce, remembering at the same time that these are only the beginnings of far greater advancements to come.A human earResearchers at Princeton University have... READ MORE White Paper: IBM Become a Social Business in the Cloud Deepen your customer relationships. Drive operational effectiveness. Optimize your workforce. Read this solution brief to see how using IBM SmartCloud for Social Business services to become a social business can help your organization simplify, speed up and enhance interactions in practically all areas of the business. Learn More The "Future" is Now (Well, in October) Marty McFly is backHappy 2015, the year that Marty McFly visits the "future" in the 1989 movie "Back to the Future Part II". In the film, McFly (played by Michael J. Fox) travels from 1985 (the year the original movie came out) 30 years into the future, more precisely, Oct. 21, 2015.As the world has approached the actual date, we've... READ MORE The 5 Biggest Smartphone Disappointments of 2014 Raining on the smartphone paradeImage by flickr/Uncalno TeknoEditor's Note: If you are unable to advance to the next slide, try disabling adblock or read the article version of this story. We apologize for the inconvenience.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE South Korea nuclear operator strengthens security system against cyber attack Control systems at South Korean nuclear plants have not been harmed by recent attacks by hackers, but nevertheless Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power is increasing its security efforts to defend against a possible additional attack, the company's CEO Cho Seok told legislators on Tuesday.An investigation had found traces of a low-risk worm that had been removed from PCs and portable... READ MORE White Paper: IBM Superior Group case study Superior Group contracted with IBM Business Partner Avnet, Inc. to host a responsive web design solution built on IBM Web Content Manager software.The solution streamlines creation of nine mobile-ready websites, saving nearly USD180,000 in deployment costs and putting control of content creation and publishing in the business staff's hands. Learn More>> AMD retools laptop chip strategy to challenge Intel's dominance Advanced Micro Devices wants its chips in more laptops, and is devising a new strategy to reverse a free fall it has endured in the PC market over the last few years.The chip maker is reshaping the way it supplies chips and components with the hope that more PC makers will use its upcoming Carrizo processors in laptops. At the... READ MORE CSC pays $190M to settle 4-year-old accounting fraud case with SEC IT services company CSC will pay US$190 million to settle a case brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over four-year-old charges that it violated U.S. antifraud, reporting, and books-and-records laws. The company did not admit guilt, but has promised not to violate those laws in future.The charges concerned accounting entries relating to CSC's activities in Australia and Denmark,... READ MORE 6 Technologies That Will Change PCs in 2015 Changes aheadImage by flickr/tracyshaunEditor's Note: If you are unable to advance to the next slide, try disabling adblock. Or you can read the article version of this story. We apologize for the inconvenience.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Why 2015 will be the year of the Apple Apple broke sales records in 2014 with bigger iPhones, then satisfied long-time fans with a Retina iMac and an updated iPad—all great products, but we're looking ahead to 2015, when we expect to see even greater releases out of Cupertino.Apple Watch Apple's most anticipated product of 2015 is one that's already seen the light of day: the Apple Watch. Introduced... READ MORE When management meddles with passwords There's a password discussion ongoing today in the section of Reddit populated by system administrators and it was prompted by this lament: I work in sales now, and I was a former Network Administrator. Today I got an email from management that is asking everyone for their recently changed domain passwords (apparently this is a common practice for the company).This... READ MORE : Curvature Case Study: From Edge to Core, Across Multiple Locations The Sisters of Charity Health System faced the challenge of offering the best technology support while keeping operational expenditures in line with budgetary constraints. They sought Curvature to develop a best-of-breed networking solution, leading to cost benefits as well as increased efficiency. Learn more SLIDESHOWS The Onion's 10 greatest gags about Google Here are 10 of what we believe are its better efforts. 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