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MOBILE & WIRELESS

Secure location sharing with smartphone app

Location-sharing app Glympse shares GPS locations, but expires after a predetermined time

Hot mobile startups to watch

Eight of the very best


SME

Can the UK create a billion-dollar company when Silicon Valley giants prey on its best start-ups?

Companies including Monoidics, Myrrix, Summly and TweetDeck have all been acquired in recent months

Driverless cars yield to reality: It's a long road ahead

Several automotive and tech groups are researching the technology, but a fully self-driving car could be far off


DATA CENTRE

Project Moonshot can spur widespread VDI deployments, says Carrenza

HP's high density server system used in production at Comic Relief

Global ad firm urges companies to consider AWS alternatives for big data analytics

Neither AWS nor Rackspace were able to meet Struq's requirements for low latency and fast provisioning of physical servers


NETWORKING

ExtraHop mines the network to glean operations intelligence

Old school management tools are not tenable in todays' highly virtualised environment

Saving YouTube videos for offline viewing

KeepVid lets users watch YouTube videos later


VIRTUALISATION

Benchmarking Amazon EC2: The wacky world of cloud performance

Drivers of cloud machines should keep a close watch on performance

HortonWorks: The Hadoop company everyone wants to be best friends with now

Neustar was able iterate on top of Hadoop and contribute back to the open source community


PERSONAL TECH

Gamification is failing to meet business objectives: Gartner

The vast majority of gamified applications available today are badly designed, claims Brian Burke

How to make your Surface RT touchscreen respond faster

Bet you didn't know you could tweak a Surface's Registry. You can, and this hack helps reduce touchscreen lag time


GREEN IT

How a private cloud can save money and the environment

Ricoh Europe has developed a private cloud capable of consolidating 9 data centres into 2

Power efficiency a growing concern in the data centre and for end users

Energy consumption is at the forefront of IT as industry leaders seek to lower costs and, for the more altruistically inclined, save the planet at the same time


SECURITY

7 sneak attacks used by today's most devious hackers

Most malware is mundane, but these innovative techniques are exploiting systems and networks of even the savviest users

Our Internet privacy is at risk -- but not dead (yet)

Legislation, stealth technologies, and emerging data privacy markets are proving that the battle for our Net privacy has only just begun


APPLICATIONS

Greed is good: 9 open source secrets to making money

Low-cost marketing, hard bargains, keeping competitors in check -- profiteering abounds in the open source community

2013 InfoWorld/Forrester Enterprise Architecture Awards

InfoWorld, Forrester Research, and the Penn State University Center for Enterprise Architecture honor five companies.


OPERATING SYSTEMS

The last days of Unix?

The operating system may be down, but it is not out

Unix pioneers remember the good times

In their own words


STORAGE

How to pick a CPU when buying servers

As your IT team looks to upgrade your computational and storage systems, be sure you understand the choices and tradeoffs you face regarding your server CPU options. Some of our recommendations may seem, well, counterintuitive

New molecules could bring super-dense, solid-state hard disk alternatives

Researchers have discovered a better way to store data in individual molecules



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