6 great videos from CITE 2013

Earlier this week I attended the second annual CITE Conference (Consumerization of IT in the Enterprise), held in San Francisco (Disclaimer: The conference is produced by IDG Enterprise, the company I work for). As always, I was there with my video camera to capture some interviews and get some product-related demos from companies at the show. Here are the six videos we shot, showing a variety of interviews and products:

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8 Great Videos from Interop

If you were busy last week attending the Interop show or doing other things network-related, here's a chance to watch some interesting videos we captured at the show, without needing to bog yourself down with a whole lot of text.

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Video: Unboxing the Samsung Galaxy S4

The Samsung Galaxy S4 review unit finally showed up on my desk today (we here at IDG are not as cool as some the more "popular" gadget reviewers out there, so we have to wait for a bit). Here's a quick "unboxing" video to show you what the phone looks like and what's inside the box:

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Video: Security Threat Landscape - May 2013

Here's the latest Security Threat Landscape security video podcast, a joint venture between Network World and Fortinet. Join Keith Shaw and Fortinet's Derek Manky as they discuss the latest computer security threats in the world today.

This month: Derek discusses fallout from the Twitter hack against the Associated Press, offers up details from the Spamhaus DDOS arrests (including a description of DNS amplification) and highlights some new Android malware aimed at Korean banking institutions.

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Forget Google Glass - these glasses may help workers be more productive

Google's Project Glass continues to garner big headlines - the company recently shipped its Explorer Editions to those "Explorers" who ponied up $1,500 for the right to try them out and we've seen a few of their results over the past few weeks.

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Logitech cuts cord on latest UC headset

Logitech today has a new wireless headset on the market - the company announced its Wireless Headset H820e, geared towards workers who use unified communications and PC-based soft phones.

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Video: Can T-Mobile make a splash with UNcarrier plan?

Yesterday, T-Mobile made news with its plans to eliminate the two-year agreement for cell phones, as well as launch a 4G LTE network (and finally offer the iPhone for its customers).

I did a Short Take video with Computerworld's Matt Hamblen to discuss the news announcements - will this impact the carrier's position in the mobile phone market? How will customers and other carriers react? Watch the video for some more analysis of the T-Mobile changes.

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Belkin closes Linksys acquisition

If you own a Linksys Wi-Fi router and were worried about receiving support for it or other gear after the company was sold to Belkin in January, you can breathe easier, at least for the foreseeable future.

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Watch the entire 48-minute Samsung Galaxy S4 presentation

I realize that not everyone was glued to their computer screens last night or sitting in Times Square when Samsung launched its Galaxy S4 smartphone at Radio City Music Hall in New York.

If you wanted to catch the event for the first time, or perhaps relive some key moments (tap-dancing boy on stage! Goofy fake actors!), we've got you covered. Here's the entire 48-minute event, courtesy of the livestream and the folks at Ustream and the IDG News Service:

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Video: Security Threat Landscape - March 2013

The lifecycle of video viral-ity as demonstrated by the Harlem Shake

Chances are that by now you've heard of the latest video trend hitting the Internet - the Harlem Shake.

This one is a bit hard to explain (go here for a full explainer), but basically it's a video where one person in a crowd full of people is dancing alone, and then when the music stops and starts again, you cut to a video of everyone dancing.

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Video: Up close with the Surface Pro

Microsoft's latest Surface tablet, the Windows 8 Surface Pro, hits stores on Feb. 9, but you can get a sneak peek at the hardware in this video, courtesy of CIO.com and Shane O'Neill.

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5 reasons geeks/techies need to watch the Super Bowl on Sunday

In case you've been living under a rock or worrying about the Feb. 15 asteroid that's going to miss the Earth by a mere 17,200 miles, the Super Bowl is on Sunday.

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Video: World Tech Update, Jan. 31, 2013

What happened in the world of technology this week? Take a few minutes to find out in this week's segment of the IDG News Service's World Tech Update.

In this week's episode, Nick Barber discusses the new OS from BlackBerry, Nintendo refusing to cut the price of the Wii U, and Google adding new locations to its mapping application.

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Video: Facebook's Open Compute Project Summit

Employees from Facebook, Dell, Intel and others gathered in Santa Clara, Calif. to attend Facebook's fourth Open Compute Summit. The meeting aims to figure out new innovations for data center design.

Kerry Davis from the IDG News Service has this video report:

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Video: World Tech Update, Jan. 17, 2013

This week on World Tech Update (the IDG News Service's weekly video news wrapup): Facebook unveils Graph Search, the FAA grounds 787 Dreamliner aircraft, Cadillac debuts a high-end hybrid electric car, and more.

Follow WTU and Nick Barber on Twitter @worldtechupdate, @nickjb, and at facebook.com/worldtechupdate.

Video: Visual Highlights from CES 2013

Here's a list of all of the videos that we did at CES, organized by category - check them out to see what you may have missed last week!

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Watching CES 2013: Storage products

The team at IDG Enterprise (including Network World, Computerworld and CIO.com) and the IDG News Service created more than 50 videos last week at 2013 International CES, covering everything from news events, computers, smartphones, tablets and other electronic gadgets. In this post, we are highlighting videos focusing on storage and networking gear that we saw at the show:

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Watching CES 2013: Gaming Gear

The team at IDG Enterprise (including Network World, Computerworld and CIO.com) and the IDG News Service created more than 50 videos last week at 2013 International CES, covering everything from news events, computers, smartphones, tablets and other electronic gadgets. In this post, we are highlighting videos focusing on gamers, whether it's a new keyboard that can light up to help your strategy, or reduce lag on your home router when fighting off enemy aliens:

First off, NVIDIA was at the show with some new chips and servers. The IDG News Service has these two reports:

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Watching CES 2013: Enterprise stuff

The team at IDG Enterprise (including Network World, Computerworld and CIO.com) and the IDG News Service created more than 50 videos last week at 2013 International CES, covering everything from news events, computers, smartphones, tablets and other electronic gadgets. In this post, we are highlighting videos focusing on some of the enterprise products and news from the show. It's not just the "consumer" electronics show now, some enterprise products were also announced:

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