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Network World NewsNetwork World, Inc.Copyright(C) 1994 - 2013 Network World, Inc.Forrester: PaaS makes developers happy
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Although the platform as a service (PaaS) market is smaller than both IaaS and SaaS segments of the cloud computing industry, research firm Forrester says this technology could be one of the most important cloud-based services for businesses moving forward.Brandon Butler2013-06-18T12:50:51-04:00Source code for Carberp financial malware is up for sale at a very low price, researchers say
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The source code for the Carberp banking Trojan program is being offered for sale on the underground market at a very affordable price, which could result in additional Carberp-based financial malware being developed in the future, according to researchers from Russian cybercrime investigations firm Group-IB.Lucian Constantin2013-06-18T12:39:40-04:00EU institutions' sites move toward compliance on cookie-tracking laws
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Europe's top law-making body is working to bring its websites into line with the cookie tracking laws it enforces on other entities.Jennifer Baker2013-06-18T11:45:02-04:00Venture firm Accel makes another huge Big Data bet
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Accel Partners Tuesday announced a $100 million fund to back software companies exploiting the technology foundation built by the first wave of Big Data start-ups.Bob Brown2013-06-18T11:30:52-04:00Huawei's Ascend P6 smartphone has 5-megapixel front camera to watch you with
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Huawei Technologies' much-leaked Ascend P6 smartphone is the world's thinnest at 6.18 millimeters, and has the highest-resolution front-facing camera at 5 megapixels, the company claimed at the phone's London launch.Peter Sayer2013-06-18T11:30:40-04:00Google Glass privacy concerns raised by international data protection authorities
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The Canadian privacy commissioner and 36 other data protection authorities on Tuesday raised privacy concerns about Google Glass in an open letter to CEO Larry Page.Loek Essers2013-06-18T11:28:46-04:00HP shakes up management team of PC division
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Hewlett-Packard has shuffled the management of its PC division as it tries to sharpen its focus on growth markets.Agam Shah2013-06-18T10:36:51-04:00Swedish court OKs Pirate Bay co-founder Svartholm Warg's extradition to Denmark
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The Swedish Nacka District Court has ruled that Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg may be extradited to Denmark to face hacking charges, the court confirmed Tuesday.Loek Essers2013-06-18T09:56:49-04:00Why Cloud Computing Offers Affordability and Agility
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Remember those 'Tastes great! Less filling!' beer ads? Many debate cloud computing in a similar manner, saying the cloud's great because it's either agile or inexpensive. As it turns out, cloud computing's affordability and agility aren't mutually exclusive--and that's good news for enterprise IT.Bernard Golden2013-06-18T09:29:12-04:00Wall Street sets example for testing security defenses
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Quantum Dawn 2 will test institutions' playbooks while also finding more efficient ways to share real-time informationAntone Gonsalves2013-06-18T09:08:27-04:00How to Evaluate the Risk of Outsourcing Locations
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IT organizations and CIOs don't contract and outsource to countries, they contract and outsource to companies. Given that, it's time to stop assessing location-based risk in a vacuum because sometimes the 'riskiest' suppliers may have the most innovative solutions.Stephanie Overby2013-06-18T09:07:25-04:00Enterasys enhances data center offerings
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Enterasys this week unveiled new switches, software and management products to enhance the automation and centralized control of data center operations.Jim Duffy2013-06-18T08:30:29-04:00Jive boosts mobile capabilities of its enterprise social suite
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Jive Software is making a mobile push with new and enhanced mobile applications that have an emphasis on helping users of the enterprise social networking (ESN) suite create, not just view, content from their tablets and smartphones.Juan Carlos Perez2013-06-18T08:01:58-04:00Facebook set to beef up Instagram with video?
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Speculation abounds that Facebook Thursday will unveil tools to enable its popular Instagram app to take and share short videos.Sharon Gaudin2013-06-18T07:17:58-04:00Japan's NHK develops robot camera array for Matrix-like effects
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Japan's public television broadcaster, NHK, has developed an array of video cameras that are synchronized to create "bullet time" shots like those popularized in the film The Matrix.Jay Alabaster2013-06-18T06:56:59-04:00Walmart taking the Chromebook mainstream
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Walmart has begun selling the Chromebook in 2,800 of its approximately 4,600 U.S. stores, expanding the reach of this still-on-the-margins platform. Staples too.Patrick Thibodeau2013-06-18T06:12:58-04:00Start-up tackles advanced persistent threats on Microsoft, Apple computers
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Start-up CrowdStrike today made available its first product, called Falcon, designed to detect and block stealthy infiltrations of Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh-based endpoint machines and servers.Ellen Messmer2013-06-18T06:00:00-04:00How to become an IT Innovator
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Innovation has become a top concern for companies seeking a competitive edge in today's business world, especially as more organizations face new competitors that are using technology as a business disruptor.IDG InsiderMary Brandel2013-06-18T06:00:00-04:00Google adds more retailers for Chromebook
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Google's Chromebook laptop will be carried by over 6,600 stores around the world, as the company signs on more retailers.John Ribeiro2013-06-18T03:07:41-04:00Yahoo discloses user data requests from US law enforcement agencies
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Yahoo has received between 12,000 to 13,000 requests for user data from law enforcement agencies in the U.S. between Dec. 1 and May 31 this year, the company said Monday.John Ribeiro2013-06-18T01:52:00-04:00AMD reboots server strategy with first ARM chips
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Advanced Micro Devices is building its future server strategy around chips used in smartphones and tablets. The company said its first ARM server processors -- which will be released in the second half of next year -- will be faster and more powerful than its existing low-power x86 server processors.Agam Shah2013-06-18T12:03:00-04:00Open Data Center Alliance tackles big data analysis
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The Open Data Center Alliance, a customer group that shares tips about cloud deployments and tries to nudge vendors into supplying the products they want, has added big data to the list of IT topics it covers.James Niccolai2013-06-17T11:16:00-04:00NewsGator's SharePoint add-on tries to filter, reduce enterprise social noise
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NewsGator has upgraded its Social Sites enterprise social networking (ESN) add-on for SharePoint to make the software better able to tailor the content, notifications and capabilities it displays for each user.Juan Carlos Perez2013-06-17T10:37:51-04:00Sprint sues Dish, Clearwire over takeover plan
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Sprint Nextel sued Clearwire and Dish Network on Monday in a bid to block Dish from taking over Clearwire, Sprint's majority-owned network partner.Stephen Lawson2013-06-17T09:39:00-04:00Efficiency will hold down storage growth, IDC says
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Lean storage techniques will keep a lid on storage investments over the next few years, though the world's enterprises still are on track to buy 138 exabytes of storage system capacity in 2017, IDC said.Stephen Lawson2013-06-17T08:48:00-04:00How Apple shook up the electronic book market
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Apple didn't try to fix or raise the prices of electronic books when it entered into the market in 2010, according to Apple Senior Vice President Eddy Cue. Rather, he says, the company was only working to ensure a profit for itself.Joab Jackson2013-06-17T08:44:25-04:00NASA's new astronauts could one day blast off to Mars
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After a year and a half of culling through 6,100 applicants, NASA has chosen four men and four women to train to become astronauts and potentially travel to an asteroid or even Mars.Sharon Gaudin2013-06-17T06:18:15-04:00Rambus, STMicroelectronics settle lawsuits, sign patent agreement
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Much of Rambus' past is associated with lawsuits, but the company is moving forward with dispute settlements.Agam Shah2013-06-17T06:06:42-04:00Why we can't stop malicious insiders
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Security experts have been saying for years that insiders -- malicious, careless or simply unaware -- are a greater threat to organizations, both public and private, than hackers.Taylor Armerding2013-06-17T05:03:00-04:00Scientist out to break Amdahl's law
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Many attempts have been made over the last 46 years to rewrite Amdahl's law, a theory that focuses on performance relative to parallel and serial computing. One scientist hopes to prove that Amdahl's law can be surpassed, and that it doesn't apply in certain parallel computing models.Agam Shah2013-06-17T04:41:51-04:00Oracle's Q4 results: What to watch
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Many eyes in the tech world will fall on Oracle later this week, when the vendor's fourth-quarter results are set for release. This is typically the biggest reporting period for Oracle each year in terms of revenue, but a number of questions loom beyond its top-line performance.Chris Kanaracus2013-06-17T04:27:28-04:00Now, a robot with nine lives
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Swiss scientists have created a cat-like robot with the stability and agility to one day be used in search-and-rescue missions.Sharon Gaudin2013-06-17T03:33:58-04:00Latest iPhone 6 concept design inspired by Apple iOS 7 debut
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Within just a few days of Apple unveiling iOS 7 at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference last week, a creative designer came out with a concept of what iPhone 6 might look like with the new software.Bob Brown2013-06-17T03:32:58-04:00Google tests Internet connectivity via balloons in the stratosphere
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Google launched high-altitude balloons in a test to create a wireless network that could provide Internet access to remote and underserved parts of the world.Sharon Gaudin2013-06-17T02:39:10-04:00Samsung's Galaxy S4 doubles download speeds on LTE-Advanced network
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Samsung plans to begin selling a Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone capable of running on LTE-Advanced 4G networks -- which offer download speeds that are twice as fast as LTE -- in South Korea this month.Matt Hamblen2013-06-17T02:17:59-04:00UK spy agency reportedly intercepted email of delegates at G20 meetings in 2009
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British intelligence agency Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) reportedly intercepted the electronic communications of foreign politicians during G20 meetings that took place in London in 2009.Lucian Constantin2013-06-17T02:17:30-04:00Most Data Breaches Caused by Human Error, System Glitches
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When it comes to data breaches, hackers and organized crime garner most of the headlines, but most data breaches are caused by human errors and system glitches--application failures, inadvertent data dumps, logic errors in data transfer and more. As a result, educating your employees and making sure they're not cutting corners is a big component in preventing data breaches.Thor Olavsrud2013-06-17T02:13:08-04:00Google Project Loon: It's a bird! It's a plane! It's the Internet!
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Google engineers are planning to test a system aimed at providing accessible Internet service to parts of the world with insufficient communications infrastructure – a collection of high-flying balloons equipped with specialized radios, dubbed Project Loon.Jon Gold2013-06-17T02:11:41-04:00US NSA can access data without court approval, leaker says
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Analysts at the U.S. National Security Agency can gain access to the content of U.S. targets' phone calls and email messages without court orders, NSA leaker Edward Snowden said, contradicting denials from U.S. government sources.Grant Gross2013-06-17T02:06:47-04:00Five ways the Sprint-Clearwire drama might end
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The battle of takeovers among Sprint Nextel, Dish Network, Clearwire and SoftBank has heated up as Clearwire's board recommended shareholders accept Dish's bid instead of Sprint's.Stephen Lawson2013-06-17T01:50:01-04:00Apple pushing iPhone 4 in China to gain market share
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As rumors of Apple's budget iPhone continue to circulate, the U.S. tech giant has been pushing sales of its older iPhone 4 model in China as a way to grab market share in the nation's mid-tier market, according to research firm IDC.Michael Kan2013-06-17T01:28:04-04:00Prism doesn't have CIOs in a panic -- yet
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Revelations over the U.S. National Security Agency's Prism surveillance program have much of the general public in uproar, but in terms of the controversy's impact to enterprise IT, some CIOs have measured, albeit watchful reactions.Chris Kanaracus2013-06-17T11:56:15-04:00Get New IT Pros Up to Speed Fast With This Onboarding Checklist
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In a recent TekSystems survey, 1,500 IT leaders and 2,400 IT pros were polled on the importance of onboarding. When IT leaders were asked about onboarding's importance, the majority agreed that it's necessary but that many aren't doing it well.Rich Hein2013-06-17T11:04:32-04:00Samsung mass produces 1.4GB/s PCIe flash cards
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Samsung has started mass shipments of its XP941 PCIe flash drive, a card for untra-slim notebooks that delivers a sequential read performance of 1,400MB/s throughput.Lucas Mearian2013-06-17T10:40:00-04:005 Ways to Evaluate Your IT Outsourcing Maturity
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IT outsourcing has become increasingly integral to building and operating the enterprise IT environment, but many IT services customers remain frustrated with their results.Stephanie Overby2013-06-17T10:30:33-04:00Feedly starts moving users to homespun RSS service as Google Reader death looms
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Feedly said Monday that it has started migrating its users to its own back-end RSS infrastructure two weeks before Google is to pull the plug on its Reader service.Gregg Keizer2013-06-17T10:18:08-04:00European trust in US compromised, says EU data protection head
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Europe's top privacy watchdog and the Digital Agenda Commissioner both said Monday that more transparency and trust is needed between the European Union and the United States following the Prism scandal.Jennifer Baker2013-06-17T10:15:25-04:00What's next for Wi-Fi?
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Wi-Fi is blossoming in the enterprise as organizations find new ways to leverage the wireless infrastructure and workers, having benefited from mobility, demand increased range and better performance (and support for all those devices they are bringing in from home). The industry is responding in kind, introducing new products and technologies, including gigabit Wi-Fi, and it is up to IT to bring it orchestrate this new mobile symphony.John Dix2013-06-17T09:39:16-04:00Rising SSL traffic to degrade firewall performance
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Drop in performance caused by extra workload required to decrypt data packets to look for malicious code, then re-encrypting before sendingAntone Gonsalves2013-06-17T09:11:32-04:00Can Red Hat do for OpenStack what it did for Linux?
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Red Hat made its first $1 billion commercializing Linux. Now, it hopes to make even more doing the same for OpenStack.Brandon Butler2013-06-17T09:01:46-04:00IT morphs as tech and users change
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As the consumerization of IT and self-service trends gain momentum, IT's role is changing from technology implementer to technology enabler.Lucas Mearian2013-06-17T06:18:10-04:00More malware is traveling on P2P networks these days
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Hackers have found a devious new way to disseminate malware: They're using peer-to-peer networks.Lucian Constantin2013-06-17T06:18:08-04:00Experts support Google in Oracle's lawsuit over Java APIs
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Nearly three-dozen computer scientists have signed off on a court brief opposing Oracle's effort to copyright its Java APIs, a move they say would hold back the computer industry and deny affordable technology to end users.James Niccolai2013-06-17T06:18:05-04:00Data that's here today could be gone tomorrow, says Cerf
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As one of the computer scientists who created the Internet's TCP/IP protocol, Vinton Cerf is concerned that much of the data created since then, and for years to come, will be lost.Patrick Thibodeau2013-06-17T06:18:03-04:00BYOD decision points: Who pays?
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As enterprises implement BYOD initiatives, IT managers have some key decisions to make: who purchases the devices, who pays for data plans and carrier contracts, and how does the company manage a mix of corporate and personal access to data on the devices.IDG InsiderJohn S. Webster2013-06-17T06:00:00-04:00Apple received thousands of data requests from US law enforcers
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Apple received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests for customer data from U.S. law enforcement between Dec. 1 and May 31, the company said on Monday.Loek Essers2013-06-17T04:41:59-04:00China trounces US in TOP500 supercomputer race
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The supercomputing arms race is heating up again between the United States and China, as China retakes the top spot in the 41st Top500 listing of the world's most powerful supercomputers with Tianhe-2, an updated system that was able to execute 33.86 petaflops, or 33.86 thousand trillion floating point operations per second.Joab Jackson2013-06-17T03:01:58-04:00Facebook, Microsoft disclose little on national security requests
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Facebook and Microsoft each fielded thousands of requests for user data as part of law enforcement investigations from U.S. authorities in the second half of last year, they said late Friday.Martyn Williams2013-06-15T05:40:59-04:007 essentials for defending against DDoS attacks
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Go ahead and ask CSOs from the nation's largest banks about the myriad distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks they've experienced in recent months. They're not going to tell you anything.George V. Hulme2013-06-14T08:01:22-04:00Samsung's next big thing - born in the USA?
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Could Samsung's "next big thing" come from the heart of the Big Apple or Silicon Valley?Martyn Williams2013-06-14T06:44:54-04:00Internet Society urges transparency in intellectual property discussions
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Greater transparency, as well as respect for the Internet's open architecture and multi-stakeholder participation, are needed to help guide discussions around intellectual property policy on the Internet, according to the Internet Society.Zach Miners2013-06-14T05:48:10-04:00Microsoft sticks it to the iPad with Windows-first Office strategy
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Microsoft's surprise launch of Office Mobile for the iPhone today shows that the software giant continues to favor Windows' future over Office's fortune, analysts said today.Gregg Keizer2013-06-14T05:23:59-04:00Facebook to announce mysterious new product next week
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Facebook appears to have a new product up its sleeve that it will unveil next week at its headquarters in Menlo Park, California.Zach Miners2013-06-14T05:22:54-04:00Digital surveillance programs in other countries trigger controversy
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Last week's disclosure of massive data collection efforts at the U.S. National Security Agency has generated heated debate in the U.S. and across the world about privacy. The NSA is collecting metadata on U.S. residents' phone calls made on Verizon's network and Internet records from nine Web companies, including Facebook, Google and Microsoft, according to reports in the Guardian and The Washington Post newspapers. But intelligence agencies in other countries have similar goals, according to reports, and in some cases there are few details about what data these governments are collecting.Idg News Service Staff2013-06-14T05:08:53-04:00As once-mighty Symbian enters hospice, will it be missed?
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Shipments of new Symbian smartphones from Nokia are rapidly dying, less than three years after the last time it topped the list of the world's most-used mobile platforms.Matt Hamblen2013-06-14T04:56:03-04:00Facebook to announce mysterious new product next week
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Facebook appears to have a new product up its sleeve that it will unveil next week at its headquarters in Menlo Park, California.Zach Miners2013-06-14T04:52:17-04:00Facebook sets new product reveal for June 20
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Facebook is gearing up for a product announcement on June 20, but isn't saying what it has planned.Computerworld Staff2013-06-14T04:19:57-04:00Oxford English Dictionary breaks own rule, lists 'tweet'
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Tweeting has become so popular that the Oxford English Dictionary broke one of its own rules to add 'tweet' to its lexicon.Sharon Gaudin2013-06-14T03:58:00-04:00'Stop Watching Us' Coalition Aims to Stop NSA's PRISM Surveillance Program
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Reddit, Mozilla, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and others from across the political spectrum join forces to flood members of Congress with letters seeking revisions to the Patriot Act and reforms that will rein in the NSA's surveillance of Internet and phone records via a program known as PRISM.Kenneth Corbin2013-06-14T03:56:05-04:00Google Glass could get a look at the enterprise
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While the curious are looking to get their hands on a pair of Google's Glass, companies also may be looking to weave the computerized eyeglasses into their businesses.Sharon Gaudin2013-06-14T03:14:59-04:00NYC wants its old mechanical-lever voting machines back
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The New York City Board of Elections is hoping to replace state-of-the art optical scanning voting machines with decades-old mechanical-lever machines for the city's mayoral primary in September.Jaikumar Vijayan2013-06-14T02:41:59-04:00Best Buy gets the best of Microsoft in Windows Store deal
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While Microsoft gained space in 600 Best Buy stores yesterday, the electronics retailer got the better end of the deal, an analyst said.Gregg Keizer2013-06-14T01:27:22-04:00Does encryption really shield you from government's prying eyes?
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If you're thinking about encrypting email in light of revelations about U.S. government spying, you may be wasting your time.Zach Miners2013-06-14T01:19:29-04:00IBM remolds DB2 10.5 as a Hadoop killer
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In the new update of DB2, released Friday, IBM has added a set of acceleration technologies, collectively code-named BLU, that promise to make the venerable database management system (DBMS) better suited for running large in-memory data analysis jobs.Joab Jackson2013-06-14T12:53:11-04:00Businesses slow-walk classified data-sharing efforts with feds
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Costs, skepticism dampen participation in Enhanced Cybersecurity Services initiativeJohn P. Mello Jr.2013-06-14T12:35:03-04:00iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending June 14
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Think of Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference this week as a giant tea cup, drained to the dregs of loose leaf tea and the entire iOSphere leaning-in to read the soggy remains and figure out what the heck is happening with iPhone 6.John Cox2013-06-14T12:21:47-04:00CEO paychecks: Winners and losers
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The U.S. tech industry has fared well amid the fiscal doom and gloom, and its economic fortitude is reflected in the jumbo pay packages of some tech CEOs.Ann Bednarz2013-06-14T12:02:06-04:00Obama directs agencies to move toward sharing spectrum
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U.S. President Barack Obama has directed federal agencies to take new steps toward sharing their wireless spectrum with commercial operators, in an effort to meet growing demands for mobile data services.Grant Gross2013-06-14T11:52:52-04:00EU justice commissioner on Prism: EU citizens' rights are not negotiable
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Europe's Justice Commission said Friday that she would not sacrifice European citizens' rights for United States' national security.Jennifer Baker2013-06-14T11:47:00-04:00Startup uses new technology to out-Akamai Akamai
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Instart Logic is taking on the likes of Akamai and Amazon Cloudfront with a Web app-streaming service it says can cut in half the time it takes to load pages and applications to wireless devices.Tim Greene2013-06-14T11:40:37-04:00European and US cloud providers go head-to-head after NSA revelations
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European cloud providers think the U.S. spy scandal will result in more enterprises choosing local alternatives over the likes of Amazon Web Services and Rackspace, which, on the other hand, are adamant that they aren't taking part in programs such as Prism.Mikael Rickna$?s2013-06-14T11:19:05-04:00Oracle to ship 40 security fixes for Java SE
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Oracle is set to release a patch set for Java SE that targets 40 security vulnerabilities.Chris Kanaracus2013-06-14T10:57:46-04:00Intel wants to be your new cable provider
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Intel wants to create a virtual cable service that would bundle TV channels for subscribers. But cable providers are expected to put up a fight.Lucas Mearian2013-06-14T10:55:59-04:00iPad 5 rumor rollup for the week ending June 12
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With Apple's WWDC providing actual news and, you know, facts, the iOSphere seemed like a hot air balloon that was rapidly cooling and losing not only altitude but attitude. Blogs and tech sites seemed to flounder in finding something to say that could compete with reality.John Cox2013-06-14T10:41:19-04:00French appeals court confirms Twitter must identify authors of racist tweets
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A French court of appeal has rejected a move by Twitter seeking to shield the identities of those responsible for posts last year contravening French laws on hate speech and carrying the hashtag #unbonjuif (a good Jew).Peter Sayer2013-06-14T10:28:39-04:00Some foreign-backed US phone companies reportedly excluded from NSA surveillance program
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At least two U.S. mobile operators, T-Mobile US and Verizon Wireless, reportedly do not participate directly in the U.S. National Security Agency's call metadata collection program because of their partial ownership by foreign telecommunication companies.Lucian Constantin2013-06-14T09:59:34-04:00Local developer aims to bring mobile apps to Myanmar
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How do you build a blockbuster app in Myanmar, one of Asia's poorest countries? You go and ask a fortune teller for help, according to 25-year-old Htoo Myint Naung, a local developer.Michael Kan2013-06-14T09:46:23-04:00Federal regulators address rising security risk to medical devices
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Issues recommendations, noting existing 'vulnerabilities ... that could directly impact medical devices or hospital network operations'Antone Gonsalves2013-06-14T09:38:32-04:00Microsoft Office 365 lands in US iPhone App Store
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Microsoft released a version of its office suite for iPhones in the U.S. that is only available for Office 365 subscribers.Loek Essers2013-06-14T09:03:00-04:00Siemens looking to unload share in networking venture with Nokia, report said
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Siemens has started talks with private-equity firms about the sale of its share in Nokia Siemens Networks, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.Mikael Rickna$?s2013-06-14T08:03:55-04:00