DragonCon and PAX: Labor Day Weekend is the best weekend of the year for geeks

DragonCon and PAX: Labor Day Weekend is the best weekend of the year for geeks Baidu, Tencent help Chinese shopping malls take on Alibaba ITworld Today August 29, 2014 FINAL WEEK: Enter to win a copy of "Essential Mobile Interaction Design" Learn how to design user-friendly, intuitive smartphone and tablet apps for any platform. Five will win. Enter the drawing today! READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. DragonCon and PAX: Labor Day Weekend is the best weekend of the year for geeks 2. Baidu, Tencent help Chinese shopping malls take on Alibaba 3. Google's Project Wing building drone delivery service 4. Poaching drivers may be the norm for ride-sharing companies 5. Hillary Clinton: 'Our technology companies are not part of our government' 6. Paging Dr. Watson, IBM's medical adviser for the future 7. How to avoid 10 common Active Directory mistakes 8. CIOs: Expand your skills with M&A : CradlePoint Vehicle Best Practices Installation Guide With the Vehicle Best Practices Installation Guide you will learn the background on the problems and solutions as well as guidance for the installation of in-vehicle networks. Learn More DragonCon and PAX: Labor Day Weekend is the best weekend of the year for geeks Here's how to keep tabs on happenings at DragonCon and PAX remotely. Also the XBox One September update arrives early, and brings with it some handy SmartGlass improvements READ MORE Baidu, Tencent help Chinese shopping malls take on Alibaba Baidu and Tencent are teaming up with a Chinese shopping mall operator in a joint venture that could steal business away from local e-commerce giant Alibaba Group. READ MORE Google's Project Wing building drone delivery service For two years, Google has quietly been developing autonomous flying vehicles that can be used to deliver packages for disaster relief or for commerce purposes, the company revealed Thursday. READ MORE Poaching drivers may be the norm for ride-sharing companies It seems like poaching drivers is par for the course in the ride-sharing industry. READ MORE Webcast: Windstream Customizing UC to Meet Today's Enterprise Demands Many organizations are looking to Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) from providers such as Windstream to deliver UC capabilities with high reliability at a reasonable cost. Read More Hillary Clinton: 'Our technology companies are not part of our government' Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for a "global compact" on surveillance and the use of collected data, saying the U.S. isn't the only country that does it and American technology companies are unfairly targeted for the government's actions. READ MORE Paging Dr. Watson, IBM's medical adviser for the future IBM continues to make the case for the nascent field of cognitive computing, showing off some Watson prototypes Thursday that could help speed scientific discovery in the medical field, by scanning large volumes of literature and data far more quickly then humans can, and suggesting possible leads. READ MORE How to avoid 10 common Active Directory mistakes This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach. READ MORE CIOs: Expand your skills with M&A Few business situations are more fraught with equal measures of peril and promise than mergers and acquisitions. Billions of dollars change hands. Thousands of jobs are affected. Yet the majority of M&As never live up to the deal-makers' giddy expectations. READ MORE White Paper: Polycom The Role of the User Experience in Video Conferencing While video conferencing can offer significant, measurable benefits to companies and their employees, all video conferencing solutions are not alike. To ensure adoption, a successful deployment and implementation--and to maximize (ROI)--managers must choose their video conferencing tools wisely, matching the right technology to the right use cases. Learn more >> DON'T MISS... Why many programmers don't bother joining the ACM Top 25 free tools for every Windows desktop 10 amazing (and bizarre) drone discoveries Just their type: 10 keyboards beloved by programmers 11 colorful characters seen at Comic-Con International 2014 Follow ITworld You are currently subscribed to itworld_today as garn14.tech@blogger.com. Unsubscribe from this newsletter | Manage your subscriptions | Subscribe | Privacy Policy Learn about INSIDER When accessing content promoted in this email, you are providing consent for your information to be shared with the sponsors of the content. Please see our Privacy Policy for more information. If you are interested in advertising in this newsletter, please contact: sean_weglage@itworld.com Copyright (C) 2014 ITworld, 492 Old Connecticut Path, Framingham, MA 01701 ** Please do not reply to this message. To contact someone directly, send an e-mail to online@itworld.com. **