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How many of you wake up every morning from Monday to Friday, being raring to go to work? Some might dread at the very thought of showing up at the office, even more so when your boss checks up on you in the form of a telepresence robot. Well, I don’t think that too many employees over at Twitter have much to complain about, as Glassdoor’s result on the 50 best places to work for has been revealed, with Twitter trumping the likes of Facebook, Google, and Apple when it falls back upon the different metrics such as work satisfaction, salary, and CEO leadership, among others.

To make matters more interesting, this is also the very first year where the social network made its way to the top 50 list. As for the top company on the overall list, Bain & Company was top dog. It does seem as though times are going great for Twitter this year, where their IPO went ahead without any issue last month, while its shares have been performing pretty well. Free food, communal office space and a fantastic view of the city would surely add to the overall brownie points that make Twitter such a joyful place to be at.

Glassdoor: Twitter Is Best Tech Company To Work For original content from Ubergizmo.

HP launched the EliteBook Revolve G1 hybrid PC last year and today, the company announced its successor, the HP EliteBook Revolve G2. The second generation features the exact same chassis and gets a hardware update with the 4^th generation of Intel Core i3/i5/i7 ULT processors. The new features include an improved pen experience with an improved palm rejection technology. The hand writing solution is provided by Atmel.

Since it is the same chassis, according to HP, we assume that it will feature a 11.6” HD touch display, a 720p HD camera, dual-microphone array, DTS Studio Sound, durable, scratch-resistant Corning Gorilla Glass 2 as well,and a 256 GB SSD (we did not get the specifications). The Revolve G2 comes with an optional 4G LTE connectivity features, the previous model was 3G enabled.

The HP EliteBook Revolve G2 will be available late in December for a starting price of $1,364.

HP EliteBook Revolve G2 original content from Ubergizmo.

Although desktop PCs are not really the flavor of the month in terms of “wants” from employees, they remain one of the more cost-efficient compute methods. Since it’s hard to make those desktop PCs “sexy”, it looks like HP is trying to make them as invisible and cost-efficient as possible by introducing an updated ProDesk series. The 600 G1 pictured above is the smallest of them and can be connected to up to 3 displays, comes with SSD storage and more importantly the latest Intel vPro manageability.

For regular consumers, the $489 price tag of the 600 G1 (the 800 costs $669)may not seem to be such a great deal, but keep in mind that in the Enterprise space, it is really the computer management and maintenance that become very expensive over time. The remote management features often save a ton of time to the IT staff, which translate into shorter downtime to the employee using the computer. Also, HP typically promises to provide this exact configuration for a number of years, which allows the IT team to easily replace them with the exact same configuration if needed. This is something that is nearly impossible to do with off the shelf computers. The new ProDesk desktop computers will be available in April 2014, so this is quite an early announcement.

HP ProDesk 600 and 800 Are Tiny Business Desktop PCs original content from Ubergizmo.

When Microsoft first introduced Windows 8, it thought it could do away with the beloved “Start” button, which apparently they were wrong as Windows customers showed just how much they missed the button through feedback of the software. Windows 8.1 brought back the Start button, but it still doesn’t offer the traditional Windows Start button experience we’ve all become accustomed to. It looks like Windows 8.2 may finally give us the Start button we’ve all been wanting in Windows 8. (more…)

Windows 8 Threshold Could Bring Back Full Start Menu Experience [Rumor] original content from Ubergizmo.

Storm System Technology hits back with another high-end gaming PC, the Storm Super Gamer Max Cross Fire. Adopting NZXT’s PHANTOM 820-GM1 PC case, the system sports a 3.60GHz Intel Core i7-4960X Extreme Edition processor, an Intel X79 Express Chipset, 2x Radeon R9 290X 4GB graphics card, a 16GB DDR3 RAM, 512GB SSD (Plextor M5 Pro), an optional HDD, a DVD Super Multi Drive, a 1200W 80PLUS GOLD power supply and runs on either Windows 7 or 8.1 OS. The Storm Super Gamer Max Cross Fire is priced at 535,500 Yen (about $5,201). [Product Page]