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MSDN Magazine[^]:

There’s an entirely different set of standards and expectations for today’s apps than the desktop apps of a decade ago. One of these expectations is that apps work and share data across multiple devices. If a user has the same app installed on their desktop and laptop, they’ll expect both apps to maintain the same configuration and work on the same set of data. Taking it a step further, if the same app is available on multiple devices, users will expect to be able to share data across devices.

ZDNet[^]:

Microsoft is working on its next preview releases of Windows 10 for desktops, mobile devices and servers. Here's the latest from tipsters about what to expect when.

ZDNet[^]:

According to a new report from The Linux Foundation, Linux is leading Windows on both the cloud and in enterprise application deployments

Programming Zen[^]:

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about beginners and the very understandable struggle to grasp programming that many of them face. This post is mostly aimed at those who currently find themselves in this position.

SD Times[^]:

As the year comes to a close, it’s the season of analyst firms looking ahead at the year to come in technology

Infoworld[^]:

The IEEE is just starting to tackle 2.5G/5G Ethernet, and two groups think they have the answers

O'Reilly Radar[^]:

You're using the web even when you don't think you are.

Networkworld[^]:

Microsoft’s Windows 10 is still in testing, but hardware makers can’t wait for the day the OS replaces the controversial Windows 8.

ComputerWorld wrote:

"The Internet of Things (IoT) may be more significant in reshaping the competitive landscape than the arrival of the Internet. Its productivity potential is so powerful it will deliver a new era of prosperity."

"There's a major lifestyle shift that's been brewing over the last 30 years," including kids and adults doing more close-up work and spending more time indoors, says Mark Jacquot, clinical director of vision care at LensCrafters. "This is contributing to a reduced ability to focus on things farther away, which is essentially myopia."

In the early 1970s, about 25 percent of 12- to 54-year-old Americans were myopic. By the 2000s, more than 41 percent had the condition, research finds.

In Taiwan, the myopia prevalence among 7-year-olds increased from 5.8 percent in 1983 to 21 percent in 2000. And in South Korea, a large, representative study of 19-year-olds showed that more than 96 percent were myopic in 2010.

Ars Technica[^]:

Google's browser falters on both desktop and mobile.

Reuters[^]:

The Federal Bureau of Investigation warned U.S. businesses that hackers have used malicious software to launch a destructive cyberattack in the United States, following a devastating breach last week at Sony Pictures Entertainment.

wired.co.uk[^]:

Intel has today unveiled a new open-source communication system created especially for Professor Stephen Hawking, which can be adapted for for the three million people worldwide who suffer from quadriplegia and motor neurone disease.

ZDNet[^]:

In its Africa Telecoms Outlook 2014, Informa Telecoms and Media predict that mobile date revenues will nearly triple by 2018, and mobile broadband subscriptions will more than quadruple.