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• Apple Faces Ridiculous Lawsuit Over the Size of iOS 8

  01-01-2015 22:35
  
  iOS 8 has had its share of problems, and now we can throw one more on the pile: a lawsuit. Two plaintiffs have filed a suit claiming their 16GB iPhones and iPads don’t actually come with 16GB of storage, and iOS 8 takes up too much space—and Apple should make that clearer, in case we are all idiots who don’t get that operating systems do use storage.
  Ars Technica’s iOS 8: Thoroughly Reviewed includes a look at how much more storage space iOS 8 consumes, versus a clean install of iOS
  
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• What Microsoft's 'Fresh Start' Browser Strategy Means

  01-01-2015 18:20
  
  Microsoft will unveil a browser not named Internet Explorer (IE) alongside Windows 10, according to an online report.
  Long-time Microsoft watcher and ZDNet blogger Mary Jo Foley cited unnamed sources on Monday to say that the browser would be separate from the existing IE, would sport a minimalist user interface (UI), and would support extensions, sometimes called add-ons, much like Google's Chrome and Mozilla's Firefox.
  Separately, Neowin claimed that Microsoft has forked its Trident brows
  
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• 10 Top Big Data Stories of 2014

  01-01-2015 14:00
  
  In 2014, businesses stopped just taking about big data and got serious about big data deployments, moving many of their initiatives from test environments to production. The phenomenon is shaking up business structures, causing roles to shift and evolve and seemingly birthing new use cases with every passing day. Here are CIO.com's most-read big data stories of 2014.10) Why Analytics Makes Tesla Better Than Jaguar, by Rob Enderle, published Aug. 8, 2014To read this article in full or to leave
  
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• IT Pro's Revitalization Guide 2015

  01-01-2015 12:30
  
  For seasoned and new IT leaders alike, the new year is a good excuse to pause and take stock of your professional and personal progress in our always interesting, always chaotic industry.
  Take a few moments to read through all the best of Computerworld's management and career articles, or click a link below to skip directly to your chosen topic.
  Hone your tech skills
  Track hot tech titles
  Take control of your IT career
  Be a better boss
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• Police suspect fraud took most of Mt. Gox's missing bitcoins

  01-01-2015 02:15
  
  Nearly all of the roughly US$370 million in bitcoin that disappeared in the February 2014 collapse of Mt. Gox probably vanished due to fraudulent transactions, with only 1 percent taken by hackers, according to a report in Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper, citing sources close to a Tokyo police probe.Of the 650,000 bitcoins unaccounted for—worth about US$208 million today—only about 7,000 appear to have been purloined by hackers, the newspaper reported on New Year’s Day, adding that
  
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• White House Plans to Leave IT in Better Shape Than it Found it

  01-01-2015 00:30
  
  WASHINGTON -- White House IT transitions have a checkered history. In 2001, some members of President Bill Clinton's outgoing staff pulled the letter "W" from dozens of keyboards in anticipation of the arrival of George W. Bush. At the end of Bush's two terms in 2009, departing White House staffers left the incoming administration of President Barack Obama with ancient desktops running floppy disk drives.
  
  White House Deputy CIO Alissa Johnson.To read this article in full or to leave a comm
  
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• 'Agent Carter' Gets Behind The Scenes Clip - The Fandom Post

  01-01-2015 00:28
  
  'Agent Carter' Gets Behind The Scenes Clip
  The Fandom Post
  It's executive produced by Christopher Markus, Steve McFeely, Tara Butters, Michele Fazekas, Kevin Feige, Louis D'Esposito, Jeph Loeb. Series concept: It's 1946, and peace has dealt Peggy Carter a serious blow as she finds herself marginalized when the ...
  
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