TECH BOX

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/australia/are-your-holiday-rosters-and-tools-ready/1584 Just because you are not at work, doesn't mean that hardware or hackers respect your timesheet.

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/tech-manager/nanophotonics-whats-light-got-to-do-with-it/8071 IBM announces a breakthrough in nanonphotonics, one it says will speed the creation of affordable silicon/optical chips to speed data through servers and data centers.

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10things/10-more-technologies-that-are-just-plain-broken/3514 Some items from our original broken-tech list have been improved -- making room for a new crop of flawed and poorly implemented systems and technologies.

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/big-data-analytics/can-big-data-analytics-learn-some-lessons-from-fraud-detection-software/296 Credit card fraud detection analytics has worked in banking-and its history yields lessons that should be applied to Big Data.

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/networking/smbs-will-benefit-from-the-google-and-amazon-custom-server-strategy/6218 With huge cloud players building their own stripped-down servers on a massive scale, midsize data centers could reap benefits from the altered server landscape.

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/career/why-employees-quit-their-jobs/4734 Here's why employees quit their job. Managers, what can you do to reduce turnover in your shop?

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/how-to-get-netflix-streaming-on-ubuntu-1210/4019 It's taken quite some time, but Netflix streaming video has finally arrived on the Ubuntu Linux desktop. In this easy, step-by-step, Jack Wallen shows you how.

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/security/reporting-online-crime-what-to-do-when-youre-the-victim/8770 Online fraud shouldn't happen, but it does. And when it does, how should one report the crime, and to whom? Michael Kassner would like to share what he's learned.

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/cio-insights/tech-workers-back-need-for-more-women-in-it-but-oppose-quotas/39749709 UK IT workers argue the industry needs to address its gender imbalance but say positive discrimination is not the answer.

https://www.infoworld.com:443/t/applications/simulations-in-play-real-world-scenarios-unfold-in-virtual-environments-208820?source=rss_ While gamification -- the use of game mechanics within applications -- is catching hold, simulations, which mimic real-world scenarios, are still a hot market for organizations.Here are three examples of how businesses are using simulations: