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Say hello to the text-friendly office chair
Bringing mobile technologies to work can lead to new aches and pains as workers hunch over small devices and tap at tiny keypads. Veteran furniture maker Steelcase studied changing postures in the workplace and designed Gesture, a new office chair geared for people who juggle multiple devices. Read More


WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks

Application Performance in a World of Cloud and Mobility
Cloud, mobility, and networking have shifted the dynamics of application performance. As a result, IT is under more pressure than ever to improve application performance. Learn how to ensure that employees and customers can access applications effectively without being forced to expend more resources on network upgrades. Read more >>

WEBCAST: Egnyte

Consider Hybrid Approach to File-Sharing
Security. Scalability. Control. These are just some of the many benefits of enterprise cloud file-sharing that you'll discover in this KnowledgeVault, packed with short videos, white papers and demos. View Now!

Why IBM will be saved by analytics -- and Steven Mills
It's easy to tell executives exactly what they want to hear, even if it makes you like the violin player on the Titanic. Luckily, today's analytics technology gives executives real-time insight into how their firms are performing. At IBM, leaders such as Steven Mills are making sure Big Blue eats its own dog food and continues to reinvent itself in an ever-dynamic market. Read More

Cheaper equipment to give fast copper broadband a boost
Vendors are working on products to lower the cost of building copper-based broadband with bandwidth up to 100M bps, and are at the same time getting ready to increase speeds even further. Read More

Study: 10% self-driving car penetration could save $38 billion, 1,000 lives
A new study estimates that if just 10% of cars on the road were self-driving, the U.S. economy would see an overall economic increase of $38 billion and 1,000 fewer traffic deaths per year. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Ipanema Technologies

Don't Let App Performance Problems Drag You Down
Check out this exclusive IDG-Ipanema survey to learn about the far-reaching impacts of poor application performance, and what you can do about it. Learn More.

Salesforce.com to hold mobile app 'hackathon' with $1 million prize
Salesforce.com really wants lots of developers to come to its Dreamforce conference next month in San Francisco. As in, really. Read More

3-D printing adds new dimension to business innovation
3-D printing may have an image problem. It's sometimes seen as a hobbyist pursuit -- a fun way to build knickknacks from your living room desktop -- but a growing number of companies are giving serious thought to the technology to help get new ideas off the ground. Read More

Healthcare.gov may be a 'black swan'
Despite partisan sniping over the Affordable Care Act, members of a U.S. House committee probing the problems at Healthcare.gov Thursday asked some tough, IT-specific questions that revealed some key facts. Read More


WHITE PAPER: AT&T

Managing Mobile Access to the Cloud
Use of mobile personal cloud services is proliferating on personal and enterprise-owned mobile devices. Organizations are considering controls that appear to conflict with the spirit of BYOD and wonder if their approach is correct. Learn More

ATM malware may spread from Mexico to English-speaking world
A malicious software program found in ATMs in Mexico has been improved and translated into English, which suggests it may be used elsewhere, according to security vendor Symantec. Read More

PHP.net maintainers to reset user passwords, change SSL certificate
The PHP Group will reset the passwords for accounts on php.net, the official website of the PHP programming language, and will change the site's SSL certificate after attackers compromised two servers and injected malicious code into the website. Read More

NSA spied on 35 world leaders according to leaked document
The U.S. monitored the phone conversations of 35 world leaders, according to a National Security Agency document provided by its former contractor, Edward Snowden, according to The Guardian newspaper. Read More


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