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How to Use Gamification to Engage Employees

Gartner: BI software market growth rate slowed in 2012

SAP holds onto the top spot in terms of market share

Design Automation Conference at 50: Bring on the women, cloud and maybe even open source

DAC speakers look back, forward at system design trends, including flight of talent to social network firms

Hot cloud products IT pros swear by

Cloud-based security, storage and management services are popular favorites among the IT pros who contributed to Network World's annual Fave Raves feature

Red Hat packages newer versions of Ruby, Python

Software Collections are designed for developers seeking access to cutting edge tools with support

Amazon’s RDS database gets SLA, becomes generally available

The service-level agreement comes with 99.95 percent availability promise

Report: Secret court order gives US access to Verizon call records

The order gives the National Security Agency access to phone records and related data.

Bitcoin payments could be a landmine for companies

Bitcoin sales all recorded to a public ledger, meaning payments made to a company could lead to tracking of later payments made to that address

Japan’s Rakuten continues Amazon pursuit, will buy US logistics firm

Japan's largest online retailer said it will acquire Webgistix, an online third-party shipping service for retailers

Online ring for trading in stolen credit card data busted

The conspirators based in Vietnam allegedly had data on over 1.1 million cards

Microsoft, US feds disrupt Citadel botnet network

More than 1,400 Citadel botnets, responsible for over half a billion U.S. dollars in losses, were disrupted

Mobile security incident costs, regional threat differences revealed

Facebook sets Sept. 12 deadline for moving games to local currencies

A new local-currency API is designed to give game developers more flexibility in how they price items

Dell combines faster and cheaper SSDs in one box, with automatic tiering

The company's Compellent division will offer both SLC and MLC drives, with software to move data between them

Windows Server 2012 R2 bulks up on storage and networking

Automated tiering, deduplication and a self-service cloud portal are among the new features in this Windows Server OS update

Advertising group close to mobile privacy guidelines

An FTC commissioner calls the Digital Advertising Alliance a success story in self-regulation

Researchers use Wi-Fi and gestures to make a ‘smart home’

University of Washington researchers have developed a new gestural recognition technology based on Wi-Fi signals

More than half of Americans own a smartphone. Now what?

Boosting smartphone ownership for low income earners and the elderly could be tough, analyst says

Analyst says iPhone 4’s U.S. sales injunction could cost Apple billions

Well-known financial analyst Peter Misek estimates U.S. ITC decision will result in between $1 billion and $2 billion in lost revenue.

SAP buys e-commerce vendor Hybris in strike back at Oracle, Salesforce.com

The deal will give SAP an 'omni-channel' e-commerce offering

CirroScope: Stealthy cloud security startup hatched by ex-Symantec teammates

Silicon Valley start-up CirroScope targets SaaS security

Q&A: Microsoft hybrid-cloud push promises benefits for IT, end users, pocketbook

Microsoft's chief hybrid-cloud exec opens up about what it can mean for businesses

Microsoft : Hybrid cloud is good for IT, end users and corporate bottom line

At TechEd Brad Anderson, Microsoft vice president of Windows Server and System Center details  hybrid cloud vision

Malware increasingly uses peer-to-peer communications, researchers say

The number of P-to-P malware samples surged during the past year, researchers from Damballa said

Texas Instruments, Qualcomm to power small cells for enterprises

The use of small cells by enterprises will open the door for services such as dedicated voice capacity and local switching of voice traffic

Microsoft to include Outlook app with update to Windows 8 RT

Microsoft is addressing one of the criticisms of Windows 8 RT by adding its popular email client

AMD breaks from Windows exclusivity, adopts Android and Chrome OS

AMD adds OS flexibility as it expands its custom-chip business and tries to expend into tablet market

Panelists decry lax security in medical devices

Pacemakers, MRI machines and the like at risk; manufacturers reluctant to patch

SQL Server 2014 hastens transaction processing

Microsoft's next relational database management system will come with built-in in-memory technologies

$99 Android PC maker hopes to set off industry change

MiiPC wants to license the Android PC designs to tech vendors

IT departments won’t exist in five years

Generation gap between new technologists and old is widening, say experts at CITE conference

Eight questions about Windows 8 for Microsoft OEM chief Nick Parker

OEM boss Nick Parker discusses Outlook on RT and smaller Windows tablets

Big Switch lowers forecast for OpenDaylight SDN effort

OpenFlow pioneer scales down role in Cisco-IBM founded software-defined networking group

Snap! Google updates key Glass feature — the camera

Google set to push out automatic software update for computerized eyeglasses

Intel says tablets with Bay Trail processors will start at under $199

Intel has lowered its price target for the tablets, which could be on store shelves by the fourth quarter

Apple fixes irritating Mountain Lion bugs, firms up Java defenses

Keeps 25% of Mac users happy by continuing to patch 2009's Snow Leopard

Samsung expands Galaxy S4 family with water-resistant Active model

The Galaxy S4 Active will go on sale in the US and Sweden this summer

AMD hopes to bridge gap between Xbox, PlayStation and PCs

AMD wants to work with programmers to write applications portable across gaming consoles and PCs

Amazon.com sets up portal in India, will only service other retailers

The company will be offering selling and fulfillment services in the country to Indian retailers

Google Glass competitors vie for attention as industry grows

Some similar products for industrial and military applications hope to gain traction

Dell, Oracle form strategic partnership for integrated systems

The companies will optimize Oracle software for Dell servers in integrated systems with joint support

ITC orders import ban on some iPhones, iPads in Samsung patent dispute

The International Trade Commission rules that Apple violated a Samsung patent

Researchers find Java users woefully tardy on patching

Half of users running version two-years-old or older

Cyberespionage campaign ‘NetTraveler’ siphoned data from hundreds of high-profile targets, researchers say

The operation compromised government institutions, companies and activists from around the world, researchers from Kaspersky Lab said

Think cloud is no big deal? IBM and Salesforce.com just spent a combined $4.5 billion on it

IBM buys IaaS firm SoftLayer; Salesforce.com scoops up email marketing firm ExactTarget

Dell takes converged systems to small sites with PowerEdge VRTX

The system includes servers, storage and networking but is designed to run in a regular office setting

ARM chief executive explains his exit

Warren East wants to make room for new leadership, says IT industry needs collaborative approach

Google Chrome bags a rare critical vulnerability fix

Browser update also patches 11 other flaws

Possibly related DDoS attacks cause DNS hosting outages

In at least one case a provider's authoritative DNS servers were used to amplify DDoS attacks using DNS reflection

To-do software goes from ugly duckling to white swan

Social task management applications that cater both to project leaders and team members are gaining traction