2014: The tech year in cartoons

	Tech luminaries we lost in 2014 | North Korea blames U.S. for Internet blackouts, calls Obama 'monkey'
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	2014: The tech year in cartoons From Satya Nadella's rise to the top spot at Microsoft to the emergence of 3D printing and the Internet of Things, here's a look at some of the year's biggest IT stories from the pen of Computerworld's editorial cartoonist, John Klossner. Read More WHITE PAPER: OpenText Is ECM Just a Cost of Doing Business? This paper outline the finding of the most recent research commissioned by OpenText. From the results of extensive customer interviews with some of the world's best-known brands across a wide variety of industries, OpenText has uncovered a wealth of information about the ROI of ECM. Learn More In this Issue Tech luminaries we lost in 2014 North Korea blames U.S. for Internet blackouts, calls Obama 'monkey' Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Microsoft will surprise in 2015 Top 10 tech conspiracy theories of all time 3D printing medical breakthroughs -- including dog legs PlayStation Network recovers from outage -- or does it? 6 aging protocols that could cripple the Internet What Microsoft's 'fresh start' browser strategy means MIT unifies Web dev into a single, speedy new language -- Ur/Web : Box Splunk Boosts Day-to-Day Operational Intelligence Splunk needed a better and more secure way to track its intellectual property (IP). Previously, Splunk's documents were stored in several consumer cloud services. Mobile devices supporting Splunk's salespeople seemed to exacerbate current issues. Learn how Splunk managed sensitive company material and empowered its end users. Learn More>> Tech luminaries we lost in 2014 Some reached for the stars. Others had two feet on the ground. They were pioneers, inventors, rocket scientists, authors, scholars and entrepreneurs. You might not know their names, but you know their products, their companies and their legacies. Read More North Korea blames U.S. for Internet blackouts, calls Obama 'monkey' North Korea on Saturday blamed the U.S. for its nine-and-a-half-hour Internet outage last week, and called President Barack Obama a "monkey" as part of a racist, vitriolic statement issued by the country's highest government body. Read More Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Microsoft will surprise in 2015 You may have noticed that I take a rather cynical view of Microsoft. But I think I am able to recognize when it does good things. As a matter of fact, I think the company made some smart moves in 2014, and it's going to benefit from them in 2015. Read More Top 10 tech conspiracy theories of all time Everybody likes a good conspiracy theory: Roswell. JFK. The moon landings.The appeal of the conspiracy theory is rooted in its own essential slipperiness. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Corporation 5 Ways Elastic Storage Provides Performance and Scalability Please Join IBM and Nuance Communications Inc. to learn how Nuance uses IBM Elastic Storage to improve the power of their voice recognition applications by managing storage growth, cost and complexity while increasing performance. Learn More 3D printing medical breakthroughs -- including dog legs From 3D-printed skin to prosthetic legs for a dog, here are some of the medical advancements that 3D printing has brought about this past year. Read More PlayStation Network recovers from outage -- or does it? Sony said early Saturday that its online gaming platform was getting back to normal, but apparently it ran into trouble again later on. Read More 6 aging protocols that could cripple the Internet The biggest threat to the Internet is the fact that it was never really designed. Instead, it evolved in fits and starts, thanks to various protocols that were cobbled together to fulfill the needs of the moment. Read More What Microsoft's 'fresh start' browser strategy means Microsoft will unveil a browser not named Internet Explorer (IE) alongside Windows 10. Here's what that means. Read More MIT unifies Web dev into a single, speedy new language -- Ur/Web Building a moderately complex Web page requires understanding a whole stack of technologies, from HTML to JavaScript. Now a researcher from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has wrapped these technologies into a single language that could streamline development, speed up performance and better secure Web sites. Read More
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