The people over at FuseChicken have attempted to describe what the iWatch might have in store for its users.

Tell us in the comments below if you think Apple is making the right decision by creating the iWatch and what new features you hope it will have.

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Dreaming of a trip to California or Florida to start off the New Year? Well, you’re in luck as several high-profile IT events will be hosted there. Make sure to check out these great conferences!

1. NMX 2013 New Media Expo (January 6-8, Las Vegas, Nevada)

2. MediaX 2013 (January 8, Stanford, California)

3. 2013 International CES (January 8-11, Las Vegas, Nevada)

4. The Intersection (January 19, Mountain View, California)

5. Renaissance: The iOS App Makers’ Conference (January 21-23, San Francisco, California)

6. IBM Connect 2013 (January 27-31, Orlando, Florida)

7. FETC 2013 (January 28-31, Orlando, Florida)

8. Customer Loyalty Marketing Summit (January 28-30, Orlando, Florida)

9. DistribuTECH (January 29-31, San Diego, California)

10. Macworld/iWorld 2013 (January 31-February 2, San Francisco, California)

We’ll be sharing IT events each month here on the Enterprise IT Watch blog. Got an event to add to our list? Let us know via Twitter (@ITKE) or email. Going to one of these events? Share your takeaways (and photos) with us!

Tell us what you think was the biggest technology story of 2012.

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On October 5, 2011, the technology world lost a legend as Apple founder Steve Jobs passed away after a long battle with pancreatic cancer at the age of 56.

Known as the ‘Father of the Digital Revolution’, Jobs created Apple in 1976 and turned it into one of the most valuable companies in the world. He developed the future of Apple’s operating systems, Mac OS X and iOS and changed the tech world forever with the creation of the iPhone and iPad. He also founded the computer company NeXT and bought the highly successful animated film studio Pixar.

What do you think was Jobs’s greatest contribution to the IT world? Tell us in the comments below.

Each Tuesday, the ITKE team will take you back in time, as we take a look at the events that have changed technology history. Have a tip for us? Email mtidmarsh@techtarget.com or find us on Twitter (@ITKE).

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It was a wild week in the technology world, with Apple and RIM creating much of the buzz.  Relive the news with the week’s best IT quotes.

“It is absolutely a race between our ability to create data and our ability to store and manage data.”

- Storage expert Jeremy Burton explaining that while servers and chips continue to get faster each year, the data processing requirements increase at an even faster rate for data centers. This was one of the many quotes from the recent New York Times article ‘Power, Pollution and the Internet‘. The controversial piece sparked a flurry of reactions among the tech press; see what three things ITKE blogger Sharon Fisher says the article left out.

“We are extremely sorry for the frustration this has caused our customers and we are doing everything we can to make Maps better.”

- Apple CEO Tim Cook apologizing to its users in an open letter on the company’s website following terrible reviews of the new ‘Apple Maps’ app. The company previously used Google Maps on its mobile devices but replaced it with its own navigational technology.

“I hope it’s not too late for them because this product is great.”

- Sean Green, developer at Mobtapp, expressing his excitement over the improvements RIM has made in the BlackBerry 10. Some experts say RIM is reinventing themselves with new strategies across the board, while others think the company has reached a new low (pointing to this music video as proof).

“Personally I think it’s going to happen faster than that. I think Gartner is maybe underestimating.”

- Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff expressing his belief that CMOs will outspend CIOs on IT sooner than Gartner’s 2017 prediction. However, many experts wonder if that shift will limit the overall effectiveness of IT. Who do you think will win the battle?

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On September 16, 1985, Steve Jobs resigned from Apple after losing control of the company five months earlier in a battle with former CEO John Sculley. Jobs went on to found the computer company NeXT and also purchased Pixar before returning to Apple and, well, you know the rest.

Each Tuesday, the ITKE team will take you back in time, as we take a look at the events that have changed technology history. Have a tip for us? Email mtidmarsh@techtarget.com or find us on Twitter (@ITKE).

Disclaimer: All posts presented in the “This week in tech history” series are subjectively selected by ITKnowledgeExchange.com community managers and staff for entertainment purposes only. They are not sponsored or influenced by outside sources.

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 It seems a negative light has surrounded this week’s best quotes from the IT industry. Can you put a positive spin on them?

“Throughout our history, we have provided 99.999% uptime in our DNS infrastructure. This is the level our customers expect from us and the level we expect of ourselves. We have let our customers down and we know it.”
- GoDaddy CEO Scott Wagner expressing his displeasure after 52 million websites were taken down on Monday. Confusion still remains over what caused the outage but it does cause trust issues between a user and their hosting provider.

“It’s going to radically change the way data is stored.”
- Brendan Collins, vice president of product marketing for HGST, taking about its new 3.5 inch, helium-based hard disk drive, which will be coming out in 2013.

“What we uncovered is this infringement on personal lives. That is what has underlined this dislike of business travel.”
- Tricia Heinrich, chief marketing offer of ON24, explaining why business travelers would rather stay at home instead of going on business trips. Over 85% of respondents felt work is a major infringement on personal time while 91% said spending too much time away from home because of work could lead to several consequences. Do you feel work travel infringes on your personal time? Share your thoughts on the Head in the Clouds blog.

“This is yet another clear reminder that otherwise smart people continue to create electronic documents that are both dangerous and discoverable.”
- Jeffrey Hartman of EDiscovery Labs explaining why electronic documents played a critical factor in Apple’s patent victory over Samsung. His take: Don’t create harmful documents in the first place.

When some people need a fresh look, they get haircuts. Microsoft gets a new logo. But will it change the overall perception of the brand and its new flagship product, Windows 8? Read through the week’s quotes to find out.

“The fact that the square is repeated four times and two of the squares are on top of each other means that it can’t move at all. Imagine if someone was sitting on top of you. You could not move, and neither could they.”
- Dr Dirk Thrusting of the University of Paekakariki, interviewed by the always serious TechEye about the new Microsoft logo unveiled this week.

“It would be faster to turn on Windows XP, wait 10 minutes for it to boot, and check email that way.”
- TechTarget news director Bridget Botelho’s husband, on the non-intuitive nature of Windows 8 on a Samsung Series 7 Slate tablet. For more on the experience of Windows 8 on a number of devices, check out the thoughts of Denny Cherry and Ed Tittel.

“The content is jittering spasmodically.”
- An expert witness in the Apple-Samsung patent infringement trial, describing on-screen tablet behavior that she said proved Samsung was in the wrong. Bloomberg Businessweek has 10 good lines from the trial. If you’re on Apple’s side of things, there’s a video you should watch.

“When you’re in the middle of a firefight and bullets are going over your head, it’s hard to be very strategic.”
- Katalus Advisors CEO Jeremy Bikman on how hospitals and vendors ignore the long-term costs of implementation of electronic health records. The Meaningful Use Stage 2 rules, meant to incentivize use of EHRs, were released this week – for more reactions to the release, visit SearchHealthIT.com and the HealthIT Knowledge Exchange.