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	8 great sites for one-stop data visualization These are places to find, analyze and visualize publicly available data to use in your own materials. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Data+ Conference Computerworld Data+ Conference: Sept. 8-10, Scottsdale, AZ Data+, which evolved from the former BI & Analytics Perspectives Conference, takes place September 8-10, 2013 in Scottsdale, Arizona. Over the course of this two-day event, 250+ IT decision-makers and business leaders, like you, connect with peers and leading big data business and technology solution providers. Register now. In this Issue 8 apps to keep your car rolling Preston Gralla: Windows 8.1 first look: Finally, Windows the way you want it Barbara Krasnoff: 6 cool gadgets seen at CE Week (videos) Finally! A full-featured 'phablet' What makes OS X Mavericks so special? Keep watch: 5 cloud security cameras for your home Why I hate the look and feel of iOS 7 First look: Windows Server Blue beta shows compelling improvements INSIDER How to use Azure's new connectivity features WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Eliminating the Challenge of Remote Backup In today's global economy, many companies are increasingly distributed. That puts IT in a precarious position, especially when it comes to backup processes. Providing IT services to remote locations generally requires investment in local servers, storage, and networking. Read Now 8 apps to keep your car rolling 8 apps for iPhones, iPads and Android devices that help you maintain your car, save money on gas, avoid accidents and make life on the road easier. Read More Preston Gralla: Windows 8.1 first look: Finally, Windows the way you want it With Windows 8.1 Microsoft finally recognizes that a big portion of the world actively dislikes the new "Modern" interface and Start screen, and lets people downplay it, bypass it, or make it work the way they like. It doesn't solve the basic problem of Windows 8 having dueling interfaces -- one for touch and tablets, and another for the desktop and mouse and keyboard -- but it gives desktop fans enough options to make the operating system much better to use. Read More Barbara Krasnoff: 6 cool gadgets seen at CE Week (videos) CE Week took place in New York City last week; a group of vendors showed off their new and upcoming consumer products to interested New Yorkers. I took videos of six of the company reps showing off their gadgets: Read More Finally! A full-featured 'phablet' Phablets (phones + tablets) need wearable devices to make them powerful and mainstream, as well as acceptable in business. Here's one company that understands this. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Preparing Your Infrastructure for the Hyperconvergence Era From cloud computing and virtualization to mobility and unified communications, an array of innovative technologies is transforming today's data centers. And along the way, they're also flooding corporate networks with enormous new torrents of traffic. Read Now What makes OS X Mavericks so special? OS X might not be getting as much attention this year as iOS 7, but as is usually the case, Apple is refining OS X to make it work better for users, says columnist Michael deAgonia. Read More Keep watch: 5 cloud security cameras for your home Cloud-based security cameras can keep watch on your home when you're not around. We tested 5 of these systems and report on our findings. Read More Why I hate the look and feel of iOS 7 Earlier this month, Apple unveiled iOS 7, the successor to the mobile OS that powers iPhones, iPads and iPod touch models. Not everyone is sold on the new look and feel, including columnist Alex Burinskiy. Read More First look: Windows Server Blue beta shows compelling improvements There's a lot to like in Windows Server 2012 R2, but the key question centers around how Microsoft will handle licensing, our reviewer says. That alone might be the gating factor for the eventual success of this OS release. Read More INSIDER How to use Azure's new connectivity features Here's what you need to know about the recent point-to-site and site-to-site VPN upgrades to Windows Azure. Read More
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