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• How to Prepare for Verizon's 2-Day Cloud Shutdown

  08-01-2015 23:35
  
  With some of Verizon's enterprise customers about to lose their cloud service for up to two days, now is the time for them to prepare for the extended downtime.
  "One of the major selling points of cloud computing is that it takes the burden of IT management off the shoulders of the customer, but with this outage, Verizon's customers are right back in the thick of things when it comes to IT management," said Dan Olds, an analyst with The Gabriel Consulting Group. "They're going to have to fig
  
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• Global post-recovery Ebola campaign adds mobile app

  08-01-2015 23:00
  
  An interactive mobile app has been added to the West African multimedia #ISurvivedEbola campaign, one of the first global efforts at helping Ebola survivors in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea connect with each other, share public health advice and update the world on the challenges they face in their post-recovery lives.Funded by Paul Allen’s Vulcan Productions and implemented by PCI Media Impact in collaboration with UNICEF, #ISurvivedEbola is part of the #TackleEbola initiative and the P
  
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• Transformational Leadership in the Era of Accelerated Change: 2015 CIO ... - PR Newswire (press release)

  08-01-2015 22:56
  
  Transformational Leadership in the Era of Accelerated Change: 2015 CIO ...
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  HMG Strategy has the strongest CIO network on the planet. HMG facilitates connections and thought leadership to elevate the role of the CIO/IT Executive. Yearly, HMG Strategy recognizes top performing Chief Information/Innovation/Technology Officers ...
  
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• Videoconferencing leidt tot snellere besluitvorming

  08-01-2015 22:36
  Acht op de tien gebruikers van oplossingen voor videosamenwerking ervaren dat beslissingen sneller tot stand komen en er meer balans tussen werk en privé is. Organisaties plukken echter lang niet alle voordelen door beperkingen in de toegang tot videoconferencing. Daarop duidt onderzoek van Polycom, specialist... lees meer
  
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• Nederlandse datacenters bundelen krachten

  08-01-2015 22:36
  Sinds vandaag kent Nederland een overkoepelende brancheorganisatie voor datacenters: de Stichting Dutch Datacenter Association (DDA), die 20 marktleidende bedrijven in Nederland vertegenwoordigt.
  
  De aangesloten bedrijven maken zich sterk voor de economische en maatschappelijke betekenis van de snelgroeiende... lees meer
  
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• De keten in zes dilemma’s

  08-01-2015 22:36
  In de afgelopen periode is binnen de overheid steeds meer ervaring opgedaan met ketensamenwerking. De ervaringen laten zien dat het niet eenvoudig en vanzelfsprekend is dat ketens optimaal functioneren. Onderzoeken, evaluaties en Gateway Reviews tonen dat ketensamenwerking andere aanvullende randvoorwaarden en eisen... lees meer
  
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• Advanced Notice of Microsoft Patch Tuesday Fixes is No Longer Free

  08-01-2015 22:18
  
  From now on if you want to see what patches Microsoft is going to issue on Patch Tuesday you’ll have to pay for it.
  The company’s Advanced Notification Service - the Thursday postings that thumbnailed the security bulletins the company would issue on Patch Tuesday – will only be available to Premier customers. For the past 10 years the service has been free to anyone who wanted to subscribe.MORE ON NETWORK WORLD: Free security tools you should try
  
  “Moving forward, we will provide AN
  
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• BrandPost: For The Future Of IT, Look Around Your Home (Or Better Yet, Your Kid's Room)

  08-01-2015 22:16
  
  I’ve got my home systems running beautifully, thanks very much—but what does that have to do with the enterprise?Everything, actually. The way I consider enterprise IT has its roots in my personal technology decisions. And when I talk to many other IT executives, they say the same thing.It wasn’t always so. In the past, enterprise technology had its heart in the data center—an awe-inspiring, mystical place full of enormous equipment and men in white coats. No one except on-site techni
  
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• Samsung Mass-Produces Laptop SSD with 2.1Gbps Speeds

  08-01-2015 22:04
  
  At CES this week, Samsung announced it is mass producing a hyperfast SSD expansion card for ultrathin notebooks that boasts read speeds of up to 2.15Gbps.
  The new SM951 SSD is the first mass-produced expansion card using the PCIe 3.0 x4 slot SSD specification.
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  The new SM951 SSD has random read and write speeds that reach up to 130,000 and 85,000 IOPS (inputs/outputs per second), respectively. It boasts sequential read speeds of 2,150MBps and write speeds of 1,550MBps.To read this
  
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• Shelter available during Mahoning Valley cold snap - WYTV

  08-01-2015 21:55
  
  Shelter available during Mahoning Valley cold snap
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  Don't risk it, its just not worth it,” Executive Director Jim Echement said. In sub-zero degree temperatures, frostbite can set in within 10 minutes. Remember, you can call Help Hotline at 211 if you need a warm place to stay while temperatures are cold.
  
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• The top six priorities of a new healthcare CIO - TechTarget

  08-01-2015 21:39
  The top six priorities of a new healthcare CIO
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  CIOs will be challenged by the personal and organizational adjustments they will oversee. They will lean on their experience within healthcare IT, leadership and change management to guide themselves and their department. When an IT executive, such as ...
  
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• 4 CISO Wish List Items for 2015

  08-01-2015 21:22
  
  The chief information security officer (CISO) has one of the toughest and most thankless jobs in IT. Cyber attacks and data breaches are becoming larger, more damaging and more common with every passing year and the attacks the CISO successfully averts can often be invisible to the organization and public, while the failures are often all too visible.Just two days ago, Morgan Stanley announced that it had fired an employee for stealing partial client information for 10 percent of its Wealth M
  
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• 2015: The Year the Internet Crashes. Hard.

  08-01-2015 21:12
  
  An Internet joke that goes back at least to the early 1980s consists entirely of the phrase: “Imminent Death of the Net Predicted!” Every year, even more often than you’d hear “This will be the year of the Linux desktop!” someone would predict that the Internet was going to go to hell in a handbasket — and nothing happened. This year it’s my turn, but I fear I’m going to be proved right.
  Here’s why.
  Take a good look at what happened to the Internet in 2014. In February we s
  
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• What CES told us about this year's smartphone trends

  08-01-2015 20:30
  
  International CES has never been a showcase for new smartphones, but it always features several interesting announcements that highlight big trends for the next 12 months, and this year was no exception.Smartphone manufacturers are struggling to get people to upgrade because new models lack earth-shaking features. But these new devices will still offer significant improvements, including powerful processors, better screens and enhanced cameras, as seen at CES.Lets look at what some specific m
  
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• BrandPost: New Opportunities, New Risks: The Internet of Things and Business Innovation

  08-01-2015 19:48
  
  The Internet of Things (IoT) is creating unprecedented opportunities for both individuals and organizations to gain greater value from networked connections among people, processes, data and things. These connected devices are impacting our lives on a daily basis, changing everything from the way we deliver healthcare to heating our homes to running our manufacturing facilities and other critical infrastructure. Today there are 10 billion connected devices but that number is expected to grow
  
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• Microsoft adds key management to Azure cloud

  08-01-2015 19:40
  
  Microsoft continues to bulk up its Azure cloud platform, adding a secure key vault for protecting cloud workloads as well as a new set of larger virtual machines and an easier way to deploy Docker-based workloads.Collectively, the new services could “enable simple and affordable solutions while still offering cloud-scale capabilities,” said Corey Sanders, Microsoft partner director of Azure program management. Enterprises can “write applications that scale and the cloud will scale with
  
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• At CES: Consumer Products With IT Implications

  08-01-2015 18:55
  
  LAS VEGAS – At International CES, it's easy to understand why IT managers are losing control of technology-buying decisions.
  CES is not a conference aimed at IT managers. The focus is on new electronic technologies for consumers, and many attendees are marketing managers and buyers.
  But the show includes technologies to help companies sell these products, including virtual reality and robotics, along with tools for ongoing customer service. It's the IT department that will deploy, integra
  
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• BrandPost: What to Look for in a Data Center Partner

  08-01-2015 18:19
  Every organization is searching for ways to reduce the costs and complexity of running a data center. Nearly all IT operations look first to the technology they want to use to address that challenge. Few organizations look first to leverage a partner for that journey. The demands on IT seem to be increasing every day—everyone wants everything on demand, without having to wait for it and in accordance with the governance, risk, and compliance requirements that their organization must adhere
  
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• Shelter available during Mahoning Valley cold snap - WKBN.com

  08-01-2015 18:01
  
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  Shelter available during Mahoning Valley cold snap
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  Don't risk it, its just not worth it,” Executive Director Jim Echement said. In sub-zero degree temperatures, frostbite can set in within 10 minutes. Remember, you can call Help Hotline at 211 if you need a warm place to stay while temperatures are cold.
  
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• NASA Hubble: Taking the Best Shots for 25 Years

  08-01-2015 17:23
  
  Happy 25th birthdayImage by REUTERS/NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage TeamNASA this week began celebrating the Hubble Space Telescope’s 25th birthday a little early by releasing an update of one of the telescopes most iconic images, that of the “Pillars of Creation” which are part of the Eagle Enbula. NASA said that this particular image is so popular that it has appeared in movies and television shows, on T-shirts and pillows, and even on a postage stamp. The updated image is just one of many newl
  
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• OS X Yosemite Continues Swift Adoption Pace, Closes in on 50%

  08-01-2015 16:42
  
  Apple's OS X Yosemite continued its rapid pace of adoption in the second month after release, with uptake exceeding that of any of its predecessors, according to data from analytics vendor Net Applications.
  The numbers hint that as Apple's 2013 decision to give away upgrades becomes the norm, future OS X adoption will increase in speed.
  For December, Yosemite accounted for 45% of all instances of OS X tallied by Net Applications, which estimates operating system user share by counting visits
  
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• 'Super Cookies' Can Track You Even in Private Browsing Mode, Researcher Says

  08-01-2015 16:25
  If there's one thing websites love to do it's track their users. Now, it looks like some browsers can even be tracked when they're in private or incognito mode. Sam Greenhalgh of U.K.-based RadicalResearch recently published a blog post with a proof-of-concept called "HSTS Super Cookies." Greenhalgh shows how a crafty website could still track users online even if they've enabled a privacy-cloaking setting.
  The key to the exploit is to use HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) for something
  
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• Inside AT&T’s Grand Plans for SDN

  08-01-2015 16:16
  
  AT&T spends some $20 billion per year on capital expenditures, the bulk of that on its massive network, and recently announced a bold plan to adopt Software Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization in a big way. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix caught up with AT&T Senior Vice President of Architecture & Design Andre Fuetsch for a deeper dive on the grand plan.
  Let’s start with some background on your role. As I understand it you lead a team of 2,000 engineer
  
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• Twitter Talks Up Its Starring Role in Entertainment

  08-01-2015 16:15
  
  Whenever news breaks, a TV show premieres or an anticipated film hits the big screen, marketers look to Twitter first to promote, share thoughts and engage with consumers. Despite all of the challenges facing Twitter, the platform is unmatched in terms of the exposure and interest it attracts throughout the media and entertainment industries. The company methodically engages the most socially active celebrities, artists and media powerhouses, and it has convinced them to turn to Twitter firs
  
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• Apple blocks tool that brute-forces iCloud passwords

  08-01-2015 16:05
  
  Apple has fixed an issue that could have allowed attackers to launch brute-force attacks against iCloud users in order to guess their passwords.The problem came to light after a proof-of-concept attack tool called iDict was released on GitHub in early January.Developed by a user who uses the online alias Pr0x13, the tool was described as “100% Working iCloud Apple ID Dictionary attack that bypasses Account Lockout restrictions and Secondary Authentication on any account.”It worked by tryi
  
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• Bosch's Traffic Jam Assist Takes Stop-and-Go Driving Off Your Hands, Literally

  08-01-2015 15:43
  
  LAS VEGAS—Go ahead: Take your hands off the wheel. And the pedals. That’s what a gentleman from automotive supplier Bosch did in heavy traffic as he demonstrated Bosch’s first Traffic Jam Assist system Image: Melissa Riofrio
  
  The front-mounted camera looks ahead at lane markings and objects for the Traffic Jam Assist system.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• BMW's Latest Self-Driving Car Brakes Automatically for Obstacles When You Don't

  08-01-2015 15:17
  
  LAS VEGAS—I tried to hit a wall. I tried to clip a corner. The car just wouldn’t let me do it. I was experiencing one of BMW’s current research projects, 360-degree Collision Avoidance—for some reason, they shy away from the word “crash”—and if I drove too close to any of the obstacles BMW had set up, the car simply braked on its own.
  ‘Simply’ is an overstatement, though. The technology needed to achieve this involves tons of software, fed by data from special high-resoluti
  
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• ThreatTrack Security Bolsters Executive Team with Veteran Product and Sales ... - SYS-CON Media (press release)

  08-01-2015 15:14
  ThreatTrack Security Bolsters Executive Team with Veteran Product and Sales ...
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  Choudhary is an accomplished IT executive with nearly 20 years of leadership experience. Most recently, he was Senior Director of Engineering for NetIQ, where he was responsible for shaping the firm's security strategy and developing solutions for ...
  
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• Internet of Things Demands Security by Design

  08-01-2015 14:40
  
  Vendors developing products in the broad and fast-growing area of Internet-connected devices need to embrace security by design and adopt meaningful policies to limit data collection and provide users with meaningful notice and choices about how their information is used, according to the nation's top consumer protection regulator.In remarks at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Edith Ramirez touted the potential of the so-called Internet of
  
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• 2015 State of the CIO: The Good, the Bad and the Scary

  08-01-2015 14:00
  
  Each year, CIO.com’s research team surveys hundreds of CIOs to provide you with our State of the CIO report – a barometer of your hopes, dreams and fears (OK, that may be overstating things, but it does provide a benchmark of the business and technology climate). This year (our 14th), 558 top IT leaders responded to an online survey to help us gauge the industry and technology trends as they apply to the CIO role (check out Kim Nash's insightful feature story on this year's results).To read
  
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• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Thursday, January 8

  08-01-2015 13:50
  
  FCC chief says he’s in sync with ObamaThe top US telecoms regulator is pulling in the same direction as President Barack Obama when it comes to net neutrality: “no blocking, no throttling and no paid prioritization,” FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said in a speech at CES. The full FCC panel is set to vote at the end of next month, and the question they face is how to place “just and reasonable” rules on service providers, he said.Amazon wants your startupThere’s a mysterious new project
  
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• GameZone, Huffington Post Hit By Malvertising Attack

  08-01-2015 13:35
  
  Criminals hijacked ads on AOL's Advertising.com network and served drive-by malware downloads to visitors to the Huffington Post, LA Weekly, GameZone, and other sites last week, according to a report from Santa Clara-based security company Cyphort Inc.
  Cyphort reported the problem to AOL on January 3 and the issue was fixed within two days, said Nick Bilogorskiy, Cyphort's director of security research.
  "They cleaned it up and for now it seems okay," he said. "But it could reoccur and we're
  
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• 10 Popular iPhone Apps You Should Delete

  08-01-2015 13:06
  
  Time to Kick Your iPhone Addiction?Image by ShutterstockFirst, a disclaimer: This list of apps to delete isn't for everyone. You might not think you have a problem. You might prefer life in the digital world rather than the real one. Others, though, are getting a little tired of how the phone has highjacked society. More than a few have made a New Year’s resolution to wean themselves off of their iPhone addiction. If you’re ready to take a stand, this list is for you.To read this article in
  
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• How Your Time-Off Policy Can Cut Costs and Improve Productivity

  08-01-2015 13:00
  
  Having a clear, concise and generous time off policy in place will allow your business to better budget for employees' planned absences as well as cut costs associated with unplanned absences. You'll also have a more engaged, loyal and productive workforce.
  
  Kronos recently released study, the Total Financial Impact of Employee Absences survey, explores the many residual effects that employee absences have on an organization, including how they affect co-worker and supervisor productivity; th
  
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• Retail banks turn to IT to drive revenue in 2015 - Firstpost

  08-01-2015 12:37
  
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  Retail banks turn to IT to drive revenue in 2015
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  As the economic outlook improves, retail banks are using IT to grow revenue. Across the senior IT executive respondents in Ovum's ICT Enterprise Insights survey, 43% highlighted supporting revenue growth as one of the top three strategic priorities for ...
  
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• Yahoo's U.S. Share on Firefox Quadruples After Deal

  08-01-2015 12:02
  
  Mozilla's deal with Yahoo has quadrupled the search provider's usage by those running Firefox in the U.S., but the browser's users still prefer Google, according to data from an Irish analytics company.
  Data provided to Computerworld by StatCounter showed that Yahoo's search engine referred more than four times the number of pages visited by Firefox 34 than did the browser's predecessor, Firefox 33, in the U.S.
  Mozilla changed the default search from Google to Yahoo when it released Firefox
  
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• The 8080 Chip at 40: What's Next for the Mighty Microprocessor?

  08-01-2015 12:00
  
  It came out in 1974 and was the basis of the MITS Altair 8800, for which two guys named Bill Gates and Paul Allen wrote BASIC, and millions of people began to realize that they, too, could have their very own, personal, computer. Todd Dailey [CC By-SA 2.0] via Wikimedia Commons
  
  The Altair 8800, based on the Intel 8080, was the first commercially successful home hobbyist PC.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• 7 Cool Tools for Doing Devops Right

  08-01-2015 12:00
  
  7 cool tools for doing devops rightImage by iStockphotoOnce upon a time, developers and operations were often at each other’s throats. Production code was never updated quickly enough for developers’ liking, and administrators in charge of keeping the servers running smoothly chafed at developers’ hasty insistence on shortcutting processes and piling up serve requests.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• Lenovo says Windows 10 will breathe life back into OS

  08-01-2015 08:35
  
  As the Windows 10 release gets closer, excitement around the OS is growing among those waiting to close the curtain on Windows 8.Lenovo, the world’s largest PC maker, sees more customers wanting to upgrade to Windows 10, and is bullish about the OS, said Peter Hortensius, chief technology officer at Lenovo, during an interview at International CES in Las Vegas.“I think customers are anxious to breathe some life into that product,” Hortensius said. “We’re obviously very bullish and h
  
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• Samsung's strategy to sell cheaper smartphones may hit profits

  08-01-2015 06:50
  
  Samsung Electronics’ strategy to try to capture market share with lower-cost smartphones appears to be cutting into profits as competition builds up from Chinese players.The South Korean company reported Thursday in a pre-earnings guidance that its operating profit in the fourth quarter of 2014 is likely to have fallen by about 37 percent to the range of 5 trillion won (US$4.55 billion) and 5.4 trillion won, from 8.3 trillion won a year ago. Sales are expected to be between 51 and 53 trilli
  
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• AT&T to Allow Monthly Data Rollover; Plan Includes Businesses

  08-01-2015 02:38
  
  AT&T on Wednesday announced that data will soon be rolled over to the next month for 50 million of its Mobile Share Value subscribers.
  The rollovers will occur automatically as of Jan. 25 and will benefit an entire family or business across all smartphones and devices on the same Mobile Share Value plan.
  The move comes less than a month after T-Mobile announced a rollover data plan called Data Stash.
  The T-Mobile plan doesn’t apply to business users as the AT&T plan does.
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• With Facebook's help, news feed videos more than tripled in 2014

  08-01-2015 02:25
  
  The number of videos in people’s Facebook feeds grew by 3.6 times over the past year, the company says, the result of a broad video push by the company that may be just getting started.Facebook has gradually been encouraging more news feed videos from marketers as part of an effort to siphon ad dollars away from Google-owned YouTube. The company started letting advertisers test video ads that play automatically in news feeds in late 2013. The company has also tweaked its news feed ranking t
  
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• FCC Chair Calls for ‘Just and Reasonable’ Rules for Broadband

  08-01-2015 02:05
  
  LAS VEGAS -- FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler on Wednesday called for an open Internet that protects innovators and consumers while also making sure Internet service providers (ISPs) retain economic incentives to continue building better networks.
  Wheeler told an audience at International CES here that he will give the other four members of the Federal Communications Commission his specific recommendations about the open Internet debate on Feb. 5, with a commission vote set for Feb. 26.
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• Marketing wordt het nieuwe sales

  08-01-2015 01:18
  Door Denis Hoogweg – Verkopers zijn van oudsher niet echt gecharmeerd van marketeers. Ze gooien geld over de balk en weten niet waar klanten mee bezig zijn. Bovendien komen ze niet me goede leads op de proppen. Door de groeiende invloed van cloudtechnologie zijn markteers echter steeds beter marketingactiviteiten... lees meer
  
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• Helft IT-beslissers vindt 24x7 IT-beheer grootste voordeel bij uitbesteden

  08-01-2015 01:18
  Ruim de helft (53%) van IT-beslissers ziet 24x7 IT-beheer als grootste voordeel bij het uitbesteden van beheertaken. Onderzoek van SPS, specialist in IT-beheer en ontwikkelaar van beheersoftware Gensys, onder 145 IT-beslissers, duidt hierop.
  
  Als grootste nadeel voor het zelf beheren van IT noemen de respondenten de... lees meer
  
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• iPhone 6 sales boost Apple's smartphone OS market share

  08-01-2015 00:15
  
  The launch of the iPhone 6 helped Apple increase its share of the smartphone OS market in eight countries, according to a report from research firm Kantar Worldpanel ComTech.For the three months ending in November 2014, iOS’s market share grew in the U.S., Germany, the U.K., China, France, Australia, Italy and Spain. Sales were weaker in only one of the surveyed countries, Japan, where Apple’s share fell by 15.3 percentage points. The decrease wasn’t due to a lack of interest in the iPh
  
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