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• Apple Returns to Brand Perception Top 10 List

  14-01-2015 23:21
  
  Apple returned to the top 10 in the 2014 ranking of YouGov BrandIndex, a brand quality measurement firm that polled more than 1.5 million U.S. adults last year.
  Apple placed sixth, behind other technology-related companies like Amazon, which was first, YouTube (No. 2) and smartphone rival Samsung (No. 5), but slightly ahead of Android maker Google (No. 7.).
  The Cupertino, Calif. company had been absent from BrandIndex's top 10 list for the previous two years, and had been No. 10 in 2011, sai
  
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• Report: Samsung makes $7.5 billion buyout bid for BlackBerry

  14-01-2015 23:10
  
  Mobile giant Samsung Electronics reportedly approached rival BlackBerry with a buyout proposal worth as much as $7.5 billion, according to a Reuters news report.Samsung offered BlackBerry a buyout price of between $13.35 to $15.49 per share, according to the news agency, which cited documents and an unnamed person with knowledge of the matter.Samsung is reportedly also interested in acquiring BlackBerry’s patent portfolio.BlackBerry stock skyrocketed almost 30 percent after the news broke,
  
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• Obama Outlines Broadband Boost via Executive Action

  14-01-2015 23:09
  
  President Obama said today he will take executive action to boost broadband speeds and connections at lower prices, especially in inner cities and rural areas.
  The move is sure to draw fire from Republicans concerned about the president's preference for executive initiatives that he believes are beyond the reach of the GOP-controlled Congress.
  Obama appeared in Cedar Falls, Iowa to push his latest broadband proposal and plans to raise the matter in his State of the Union address next Tuesday
  
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• Broad coalition to try again for minimum wage hike - The Idaho Statesman

  14-01-2015 22:59
  Broad coalition to try again for minimum wage hike
  The Idaho Statesman
  It's executive director, Adrienne Evans, said the majority-holding Republicans will be more open to a minimum wage increase now that it's a non-election year. "You'd be surprised," Evans said. "A lot of people are coming to the table and want to talk ...
  
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• Cooler Than Cubicles: 18 New Designs for the Office

  14-01-2015 22:28
  
  Cool cubesWhat do workers want most? Flexibility, say staffing pros. People want to be able to adjust their hours, their locations, and their devices. The way work gets done is changing in today’s world, and furniture designers are responding. Check out the comfy pods, mobile desks, and lounge-like layouts that put ordinary cubicles to shame.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• New H-1B Bill Will 'Help Destroy' U.S. Tech Workforce

  14-01-2015 22:04
  
  New legislation being pushed by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) to hike the H-1B visa cap is drawing criticism and warnings that it will lead to an increase in offshoring of tech jobs.
  IEEE-USA said the legislation, introduced by a bipartisan group of lawmakers on Tuesday, will "help destroy" the U.S. tech workforce with guest workers.
  Other critics, including Ron Hira, a professor of public policy at Howard University and a leading researcher on the issue, said the bill gives the tech industry "a
  
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• Twitter to tour the world teaching developers how to build apps

  14-01-2015 22:00
  
  Twitter is embarking on a worldwide tour to disseminate knowledge and technical know-how about building good apps. Using the company’s tools, of course.Flock, as Twitter calls it, is the company’s inaugural worldwide tour for its mobile development platform, Fabric, which was announced late last year. Fabric includes a range of tools for developing and monetizing mobile software, such as tools for app logins and crash reporting, and mechanisms for developers to weave Twitter content into
  
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• U.S. government lurked on Silk Road for over a year

  14-01-2015 21:55
  
  In order to build a case against the notorious Silk Road underground marketplace, a team of U.S. law enforcement agencies spent well over a year casing the site: buying drugs, exchanging Bitcoins, visiting forums and even posing as a vendor, although they did stop short of selling any illicit goods.From March 2012 until September 2013, Federal agents closely tracked the site, making over 50 drug purchases, according to Jared DerYeghiayan, an agent with the Department of Homeland Security who
  
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• Facebook Takes on the Enterprise with New Social Network

  14-01-2015 21:54
  
  Facebook, the world's largest social network, is making its first move into the enterprise.
  The company confirmed to Computerworld today that it is beginning a pilot test of a desktop service and mobile app for what's being dubbed Facebook at Work, an enterprise-level social and collaborative network for the workplace.
  "Facebook at Work is a separate experience that gives employees the ability to connect and collaborate efficiently using Facebook tools -- many that they're likely already usi
  
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• Quick Look Inside IBM’s Snazzy New Mainframe

  14-01-2015 21:20
  
  Happy 51stWhat did IBM do to celebrate the mainframe’s 51st birthday? Reinvented the Big Iron basically. The z13 models announced this week are the result of a $1 billion, five-year development cycle that resulted in the most powerful, feature-laden mainframe to date. Here we take a quick look at some of the more interesting features of the new system.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• Robotics startup building bones and muscles of humanoid

  14-01-2015 21:15
  
  San Francisco startup Modbot is designing industrial and hobby robots that piece together like Legos.The main component of the system is a motorized joint that connects the robot. The joint includes smartphone-like sensors and a harmonic drive—a special type of gear—powered by a DC motor.The Modbot team had one prototype robot at its shared office space in San Francisco. It was a simple arm with a jaw on the end that could be used for a variety of pick-and-place scenarios. The arm used th
  
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• Container Wars

  14-01-2015 20:49
  
  A year ago if you asked most system administrators what they would do with a container, chances are you'd get a blank look. That was then. This is now.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• Cloud Price Wars Give Way to Feature Battles Among Amazon, Microsoft and Google

  14-01-2015 20:43
  
  Two years ago the biggest battles in the IaaS cloud computing industry were over price. Amazon Web Services would drop prices one day, and Google or Microsoft would cut the price tag on virtual machines or storage weeks, days, or even hours afterwards.
  It was a seemingly non-stop back and forth that caused some to wonder how low the prices could go.
  Fast forward to today and providers are still dropping prices, but not with the same vigor and frequency as in 2013. Constant jostling of prices
  
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• Memory prices to fall this year after stabilizing in 2014

  14-01-2015 20:10
  
  After more than a year of holding steady, memory prices could fall this year as competition heats up between DRAM makers and excess inventory floods the market.If prices shrink, semiconductor revenue will take a hit in 2015, according to Gartner, which is forecasting year-on-year growth of 5.4 percent, down from a previous projection of 5.8 percent. A key factor leading Gartner to cut its 2015 forecast is the expected price drop of DRAM price drop, which is a significant part of overall semic
  
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• Microsoft Patches Windows Bugs That Got Under its Skin

  14-01-2015 19:46
  
  Microsoft yesterday patched both Windows vulnerabilities that Google had taken public before the fixes were ready.
  The disclosures had irked Microsoft, leading to an unusual dust-up where the company specifically called out Google for allegedly putting Windows customers at risk.
  As part of an eight-update Patch Tuesday slate yesterday, Microsoft issued fixes for two Windows bugs that Google security engineer James Forshaw had found and reported in 2014. Forshaw works on the Google Project Ze
  
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• Republican bill: Net neutrality protections without reclassifying broadband

  14-01-2015 19:45
  
  Top Republicans in Congress plan to introduce legislation that they say will ensure net neutrality protections for Internet users and will spur U.S. economic growth.The proposal would create “unambiguous” rules prohibiting broadband providers from selectively blocking or throttling Web traffic, while avoiding a reclassification of broadband as a regulated public utility, said a Wednesday blog post at Reuters.com by Senator John Thune, a South Dakota Republican, and Representative Fred Upt
  
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• EC balks at planned joint venture from large music licensing companies

  14-01-2015 19:25
  
  Online music could become more expensive in the European Union (EU) if a joint venture of licensing companies gets the green light, according to the European Commission, which started an in-depth investigation into the planned collaboration on Wednesday.The Swedish, British and German music copyright collecting societies unveiled their plan to work together on the online licensing of musical works in 2013. The joint venture, which aims to create easier access for digital music services to cle
  
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• Spec showdown: Microsoft's Lumia 532 makes more sense than Samsung's Tizen-based Z1

  14-01-2015 19:15
  
  Competition among low-price smartphones has gotten more intense, as Microsoft and Samsung Electronics hope to devices based on Android a run for their money with, respectively, the Lumia 532 and the Z1.The two smartphones were launched on Wednesday. Samsung’s Z1 is based on the oft-delayed Tizen OS, has a US$92 price without a contract and will first go on sale in India. The Lumia 532 costs about the same and will get a wider distribution when it goes on sale next month.Here is a spec compa
  
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• Google Brings Project Ara Modular Phone Pilot to Puerto Rico

  14-01-2015 19:09
  
  If you want to try out Google's Project Ara modular smartphone, start booking your flights to Puerto Rico: The island protectorate will be the location of the Project Ara "Market Pilot," where Google plans to sell an early version of the hardware from converted food trucks during the third quarter of this year.
  That plan was announced at today's second annual Project Ara developer's conference at the Mountain View Googleplex, where Google's Regina Dugan and Paul Eremenko took the stage to la
  
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• CIOs beef up security tools in wake of 2014 data breaches - TechTarget

  14-01-2015 19:02
  CIOs beef up security tools in wake of 2014 data breaches
  TechTarget
  But if you teach them a little bit every day, it will become habit," said an IT executive from a security firm that provides training software to help organizations teach their employees secure behavior. Measures taken to mitigate internal threats ...
  
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• Pokagon Fund, New Buffalo Township disagree over leadership of non-profit ... - Harborcountry News

  14-01-2015 18:52
  Pokagon Fund, New Buffalo Township disagree over leadership of non-profit ...
  Harborcountry News
  It executive director debate is part of a 15-month dispute that followed The Pokagon Fund (TPF) removing township representative Paul Oselka from its board. The fund, which distributes Four Winds Casino profits, said it was protecting its tax status ...
  
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• Samsung's First Round Smartwatch May Have an Apple-like Twist

  14-01-2015 18:45
  
  Samsung's next smartwatch, codenamed “Orbis,” could take a page from the Apple Watch with a rotating hardware element.
  According to SamMobile's unnamed sources, Orbis will have a round watch face with a rotating bezel. This could allow users to scroll or zoom through certain apps instead of interacting through touch, and Samsung may launch an SDK so app makers can accommodate the bezel.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• Review: LulzBot Mini 3D printer delivers outstanding details

  14-01-2015 18:43
  
  There are about a dozen metrics by which I judge 3D printers when testing them, including speed, noise and the materials with which they can print.
  But, none of the latter attributes compares in importance with a printer's ability to produce objects with precision and accuracy. It is in that one area that the new LulzBot Mini 3D printer excels.
  Computerworld
  
  Gears and sprockets printed by the LulzBot Mini. Note the precision.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click
  
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• LulzBot Mini 3D Printer Delivers Outstanding Details

  14-01-2015 18:43
  
  There are about a dozen metrics by which I judge 3D printers when testing them, including speed, noise and the materials with which they can print.
  But, none of the latter attributes compares in importance with a printer's ability to produce objects with precision and accuracy. It is in that one area that the new LulzBot Mini 3D printer excels.
  Computerworld
  
  Gears and sprockets printed by the LulzBot Mini. Note the precision.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click
  
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• Suspected Computer Glitch Forces Astronauts to Evacuate Part of Space Station

  14-01-2015 18:39
  
  The astronauts living onboard the International Space Station are safe after evacuating part of the station when they awoke to an alarm going off this morning.
  NASA spokesman Kelly Humphries told Computerworld there was initial concern of a possible ammonia leak inside the station, but that has since been ruled out. It now appears there may be a faulty sensor in a computer relay box that sends commands and data to different onboard computer systems, he said.
  When the alarm went off at 4 a.m.
  
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• CryptoWall ransomware is back with new version after two months of silence

  14-01-2015 18:15
  
  Attackers have started distributing a new and improved version of the CryptoWall file-encrypting ransomware program over the past few days, security researchers warn.The new version, dubbed CryptoWall 3.0, uses localization and passes traffic to a site where users can pay for their decryption keys through two anonymity networks—Tor and I2P (the Invisible Internet Project).CryptoWall is a sophisticated ransomware program that encrypts the victims’ files with a strong cryptographic algorith
  
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• Diversity in IT: Interop Las Vegas Dispels the Talent Gap & Brings Focus to ... - Las Vegas Blog (blog)

  14-01-2015 18:11
  Diversity in IT: Interop Las Vegas Dispels the Talent Gap & Brings Focus to ...
  Las Vegas Blog (blog)
  Interop Las Vegas is proud to announce Adobe SVP & CIO Gerri Martin-Flickinger as a keynote speaker, representing and inspiring women in IT executive roles. With more than 20 years of time of experience leading large-scale global IT organizations in ...
  
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• IT Spending Expected to Grow in 2015, but by How Much? > - ASUGNews

  14-01-2015 18:03
  IT Spending Expected to Grow in 2015, but by How Much? >
  ASUGNews
  That begs the question—how much did misplaced optimism skew Computerworld's final number? This CIO apparently had yet to even present his budget to the board, let alone finalize it for 2015. Any IT executive knows there's a gap between what we want to ...
  
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• Changing the Culture of IT

  14-01-2015 17:55
  
  UCB
  When Herman De Prins became CIO of UCB, the $4.2B pharmaceutical company, in 2009, he had been reading articles that declared that IT no longer matters, that cloud and digital technologies threaten to push IT to the margins, and that IT organizations would shrink by 25 percent by 2016. “It was clear to me that IT organizations that fail to find new ways to provide value will lose their edge and become obsolete,” says De Prins. “I knew that if we stuck to traditional IT at UCB, we w
  
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• Scroogled No More: Microsoft's Anti-Google Campaign Slinks Away For Good

  14-01-2015 17:50
  Microsoft's sleazy ad campaign against Google is no more, as the “Scroogled” website has quietly vanished.
  As Winbeta points out, Scroogled.com now redirects to a new site called Why Microsoft. Instead of just bashing Google, the site tries to point out advantages of Microsoft enterprise services over competitors, including Google, Amazon and Cisco.
  Meanwhile, the Scroogled section of Microsoft's online store seems to have fallen into disrepair. Microsoft had previously sold Scroogled s
  
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• Attention iPhone Owners: Microsoft Wants YOU

  14-01-2015 17:32
  
  Microsoft today pitched a preview of a new Skype client to iPhone and iPad owners, asking for volunteers to test the software.
  The call for testers may be part of Microsoft's decision to change the name of its corporate messaging platform -- Lync -- to Skype later this year as it blends aspects of both in the next generation of its enterprise software, which will be called Skype for Business.
  "We're looking for enthusiastic Skype users who are interested in providing feedback that will shape
  
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• Say ‘Queso:’ Next Version of Google Translate App Adds Instant Visual Translation

  14-01-2015 17:29
  
  The mobile version of Google Translate is about to get two impressive new features – the ability to use your phone’s camera to translate written text, and a hands-off mode that makes holding conversations in a foreign language go somewhat more smoothly.
  The first feature, which Google is calling Word Lens, ought to be a boon to travelers looking for subway stations, finding restaurants, and trying to avoid walking into the wrong gender’s bathroom. It instantaneously translates signage,
  
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• Sony Hack: Never Underestimate the Stupidity of Criminals

  14-01-2015 16:45
  
  So who was really behind the Sony hack? And does it really matter?
  We’ve certainly seen some amazing ups and downs in our efforts to answer the first question. Initially, everyone fixated on the previously unknown, Anonymous-like hacker group Guardians of Peace, which took credit for the hack. Then the media began speculating that the hack had something to do with the movie The Interview. Since the movie involved the assassination of North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un, the suspicion arose
  
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• Facebook at Work Wants to Get All Up in Your Business

  14-01-2015 16:31
  Facebook’s long-rumored enterprise offering is stepping out of the shadows, though it’s far from being a finished product.
  It’s called Facebook at Work, and while it looks a lot like Facebook’s existing mobile app and website—complete with Likes, comments and private messaging—it’s walled off from the wider social network to allow for inter-office communication. As TechCrunch reports, Work is a standalone app for iOS and Android, and it has a separate website.To read this artic
  
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• Diversity in IT: Interop Las Vegas Dispels the Talent Gap & Brings Focus to ... - PR Newswire (press release)

  14-01-2015 16:10
  
  Diversity in IT: Interop Las Vegas Dispels the Talent Gap & Brings Focus to ...
  PR Newswire (press release)
  Interop Las Vegas is proud to announce Adobe SVP & CIO Gerri Martin-Flickinger as a keynote speaker, representing and inspiring women in IT executive roles. With more than 20 years of experience leading large-scale global IT organizations in expanding ...
  
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• Bosch, Amazon's First Hour-Long Drama, Lands Feb 13 - WebProNews

  14-01-2015 16:04
  
  WebProNews
  Bosch, Amazon's First Hour-Long Drama, Lands Feb 13
  WebProNews
  Bosch, based on bestselling author Michael Connelly's books about LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch (City of Bones, The Concrete Blonde, and Echo Park), was greenlit back in March of last year after a successful pilot premiere. Bosch stars Titus ...
  
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• 'Parks and Recreation' Season 7 Premiere Recap: “2017” and “Ron and Jammy” - Flavorwire

  14-01-2015 15:43
  
  Flavorwire
  'Parks and Recreation' Season 7 Premiere Recap: “2017” and “Ron and Jammy”
  Flavorwire
  For example, April is, as she puts it, “Executive Director of Regional Whatever” while Andy has his own television show (!!) based on his character Johnny Karate (but more on them later). Donna is getting married to Joe (who was played by Keegan ...
  
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• Apple and Ericsson sue each other in LTE patent royalty spat

  14-01-2015 15:35
  
  Ericsson and Apple filed patent lawsuits against each other in the U.S. in a dispute over royalty payments demanded by the Swedish telecommunications equipment manufacturer.For about two years the companies have been locked in negotiations over renewal of an expired licensing deal on patents that Ericsson deems essential to industry standards. Since they can’t agree on a new license fee, they are going to duke it out in the courts.Every Apple smartphone and tablet with cellular capability u
  
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• Adobe patches remote code execution and keylogging flaws in Flash Player

  14-01-2015 15:30
  
  Adobe Systems fixed nine vulnerabilities in Flash Player that allow attackers to record users’ keystrokes or take complete control of their computers.These are Flash Player updates you’ll want to install, unlike the malicious one served from the North Korean news agency site.The updates, Flash Player 16.0.0.257 for Windows and Mac and Flash Player 11.2.202.429 for Linux, address seven remote code execution vulnerabilities, an information disclosure flaw that can be exploited to capture ke
  
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• How to Deploy Small-Business Wi-Fi With Xclaim Access Points

  14-01-2015 15:01
  
  With the BYOD phenomenon now several years old, CIOs and IT managers have become intimately familiar with the necessity and challenge of setting up and maintaining Wi-Fi wireless networks. And as tablets and ultrabooks with no built-in LAN ports increase in popularity, having a smooth-running Wi-Fi network is proving to be more important than ever.
  Not surprisingly, the challenge of establishing reliable Wi-Fi networks is most acutely felt by small businesses. Lacking the budget to acquire e
  
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• How to Improve Employee Retention

  14-01-2015 14:03
  
  Ways of Improving Employee Retention
  
  Employee retention is a critical issue facing today's enterprises as they compete for talent in a recovering economy. As Josh Bersin, principal at Deloitte and founder of Bersin by Deloitte, spells out, the costs of employee turnover are increasingly high, as much as 1.5 to 2 times an employee's salary. There are also other, soft costs, such as lowered productivity and a decrease in employee morale. These all add up to big trouble for businesses that aren
  
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• Social Media Engagement Is Dead — 2015 Is About Measurable Goals

  14-01-2015 14:00
  
  A focus on social media engagement metrics — the likes, re-tweets, favorites, re-blogs, pins, comments, shares, followers, fans and friends — could be holding companies back from realizing social's full potential. In fact, Forrester Vice President and Principal Analyst Nate Elliott warns clients against measuring social engagement.[Related News Analysis: Facebook: Don't Advertise With Us If You Don't See Clear ROI]From a Forrester research note written by Elliott:To read this article in f
  
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• 7 Security Buzzwords That Need to be Put to Rest

  14-01-2015 14:00
  
  BuzzwordsImage by ShutterstockEvery industry has its own buzzwords that often cause confusion in creating multiple meanings. It used to be your network should be like candy with a hard shell and soft gooey inside. That catch phrase was bandied about at every technology conference for a while. With help from fellow CSO writers, here are a few more phrases that need to be eliminated.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Wednesday, January 14

  14-01-2015 13:50
  
  IBM says its new mainframe can stalk fraud in real timeIBM took the wraps off a new mainframe computer on Tuesday, promising it will help customers to detect more fraud in real time and plow through billions of transactions generated each day by smartphones and tablets. The z13 gets a new processor design, faster I/O and the ability to address up to 10TB of memory—three times as much as its predecessor. It can house up to 141 processor units in a single system and run as many as 8,000 virtu
  
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• The Lumia 435 is Microsoft's cheapest smartphone yet at $80

  14-01-2015 13:35
  
  Microsoft is hoping to turn around the fortunes of Windows Phone with a growing number of cheap smartphones: The Lumia 435 and Lumia 532 are its latest contenders.The two newcomers are primarily aimed at emerging markets where budgets are small, but where users still want to upgrade from feature phones to smartphones. They will cost €69 (US$80) and €79 respectively without a contract when they go on sale next month in parts of Europe, Asia-Pacific, India, the Middle East and Africa.It goe
  
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• Degree-Free IT: Can College-Skippers Thrive in Tech?

  14-01-2015 12:30
  
  Mike Samaras has worked steadily in IT for a decade, starting when he was 17 and fresh out of high school.
  He’s worked in contract jobs and staff positions, held titles like junior systems administrator, desktop administrator, network engineer and systems administrator, and picked up knowledge of Microsoft Server and Windows, Cisco routers and EMC storage. Courtsey photo
  
  Senior systems engineer Mike Samaras, who never finished college, says, "In IT, experience counts for more than a degr
  
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• Helping the ECB Cross the Rubicon - The New Dawn Liberia

  14-01-2015 12:18
  Helping the ECB Cross the Rubicon
  The New Dawn Liberia
  Though the ECB has resisted QE for more than five years, even as other major central banks embraced it, Executive Board member Benoît Coeuré has already called it the “baseline option.” On the face of it, the ECB has many reasons to launch QE. For two ...
  
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• The Best PCs of 2015 Will be Superlight, Pen-Friendly and Broadwell-based

  14-01-2015 12:00
  
  The Consumer Electronics Show is great for one thing: spotting PC technology trends. Out of hundreds of systems we saw, three clear trend lines emerged that we think will hold through the year.Ultralight and ultrathin laptops
  
  Smaller and thinner were the 'it' attributes at CES. Samsung was first out of the gate with news of its two-pound ATIV Book 9. I hefted it at an event and came away impressed, but clearly it was too heavy, right? Who am I—Arnold Schwarzenegger? 
  Lenovo thinks it has
  
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• Samsung's first Tizen phone arrives in India at $92

  14-01-2015 11:55
  
  Samsung Electronics started selling its first Tizen smartphone in India on Wednesday, priced at 5,700 Indian rupees (US$92).The Z1 runs the open-source Tizen operating system backed by Samsung and other vendors including Intel, and which already powers some of the South Korean company’s wearables and TVs.Samsung announced a different Tizen smartphone, the Z, in June, ahead of the Tizen Developer Conference in San Francisco. It said then that it would launch it first in Russia, in the third
  
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• IT to drive retail bank revenue - IT-Online

  14-01-2015 10:16
  
  IT to drive retail bank revenue
  IT-Online
  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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