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Smile, you're on Google Glass, whether you like it or not
A cafe in Seattle took the unusual step this week of banning from its establishment a product that hasn't even shipped yet. The 5 Point Cafe warns on its website: "[I]f you're one of the few who are planning on going out and spending your savings on Google Glasses... plan on removing them before you enter The 5 Point. The 5 Point is a No Google Glass zone." Though privacy advocates may have cheered this development, the online reaction to the ban has thus far been overwhelmingly negative among Facebook commenters on the 5 Point's home page Read More


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Managing the I/O Explosion Without Extra Hardware
In this Technology Spotlight, IDC highlights the unexpected I/O explosion brought about by virtualization and presents new technologies that deliver exceptional application performance without additional hardware by eliminating unnecessary I/O traffic at the source. Read more. Read Now!

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Adopting Unified Communications: Key Steps to Consider
Organizations are turning to UC as a critical strategy for increasing productivity by enabling end users to communicate anytime, anywhere. Find out which specific areas of your organization can most benefit and how to best approach ROI and TCO calculations. Learn More

Samsung unveils Galaxy S 4 with novel camera design
Samsung has taken the wraps off of its new Galaxy S 4 smartphone, which will support global LTE roaming and has front- and rear-facing cameras that can be used simultaneously, Samsung said. Samsung introduced the phone Thursday evening during a launch event at New York City's Radio City Music Hall. The event was also broadcast live to people watching in New York's Times Square. Read More

Facebook's Sandberg stirs debate among women in IT
Sheryl Sandberg's belief that the women's revolution has "stalled" and that "men still run the world" may be true for IT. Women are rejecting IT as a career. In the early 1980s, around the time Apple issued its IPO and Time magazine named the PC its Machine of the Year, women accounted for just over 37 percent of the students earning bachelor's degrees in computer science. By 2010, that percentage had fallen to a little more than 17 percent, according to latest available data from the National Science Foundation. Read More

Security appliances are riddled with serious vulnerabilities, researcher says
The majority of email and Web gateways, firewalls, remote access servers, UTM (united threat management) systems and other security appliances have serious vulnerabilities, according to a security researcher who analyzed products from multiple vendors and presented his findings Thursday at the Black Hat Europe 2013 security conference in Amsterdam. Read More

Coming soon: Self-healing chips for smartphones, computers?
Scientists have taken the next step in the evolution of the computer chip, developing self-healing integrated chips. A team of researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) said they now can envision smartphone and computer chips not only defending themselves but also repairing themselves, recovering from trouble -- like total transistor failure -- in microseconds. Read More



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