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• As Box's IPO looms, so do its challenges

  22-01-2015 23:45
  
  The road to an initial public offering is rarely smooth for any company, but it’s fair to say that Box’s journey has been one of the bumpier ones. Though it filed plans to go public early last year, it wasn’t until this week that the milestone finally come into view. In the meantime, Box’s challenges have only intensified.The share price for its long-awaited IPO is expected to be set late Thursday, with its debut on the New York Stock Exchange slated for Friday morning. Some 12.5 mill
  
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• Ford Opens Autonomous Vehicle R&D Center in Tesla Territory

  22-01-2015 23:40
  
  Ford on Thursday announced that it is opening a research center in Palo Alto, California, to accelerate its development of autonomous vehicles and how they will communicate with cars and the infrastructure around them.
  Located in Stanford Research Park, the facility will expand the automaker's physical footprint in an already existing office space, and the company has plans to grow it further.
  With the new facility, Ford expects to have one of the largest automotive manufacturer research cen
  
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• Tech Industry May Gain From Obama’s Free Tuition Plan

  22-01-2015 23:13
  
  Seminole State College in Sanford Fla., near Orlando, graduates about 70 students annually with two-year degrees in its programming and networking programs. Local tech firms have helped to shape the college's courses.
  The college's IT curriculum is guided by an advisory board of 39 firms, including representatives from Cisco, Siemens, Sprint and Lockheed-Martin. It "means they know that our students have the skills that they need," said Lenny Portelli, associate dean of Information Technolog
  
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• Microsoft's HoloLens uses unreleased Intel Atom chip

  22-01-2015 22:40
  
  Microsoft’s stunning HoloLens holographic computer, which stole the show at this week’s Windows 10 event, runs on an unreleased Intel Atom chip code-named Cherry Trail, according to a source familiar with the hardware.The HoloLens computer, which isn’t yet commercially available, is an augmented reality headset that allows users to interact with 3D objects that show up as floating images, much like holographic projections. Users can wear HoloLens and then build 3D objects, chat on Skype
  
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• Myrna M. Soto, Senior Vice President of Comcast Corp., and Deborah H. Butler ... - MarketWatch

  22-01-2015 22:33
  
  Myrna M. Soto, Senior Vice President of Comcast Corp., and Deborah H. Butler ...
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  Soto serves as an executive committee board member of HITEC (Hispanic IT Executive Council) and as a member of the Federal Communications Commission's Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council and its CyberSecurity working ...
  
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• Nigerian smart card plant supports expansion of financial services to poor

  22-01-2015 22:10
  
  Responding to banks’ efforts to reach out to people who do not typically use financial services, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan this week inaugurated the first Europay, MasterCard and Visa (EMV) certified smart card manufacturing plant in sub-Saharan Africa.The plant, built by Nigeria-based SecureID, will be based in the country’s capital, Lagos, and produce mostly payment cards such as credit, debit and prepaid or personalized card services with various combinations of functions in
  
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• After Being Dumped by Firefox, Google Wants Users Back

  22-01-2015 22:09
  
  After Google's share of the U.S. search market slipped in December, the Mountain View, Calif. company has been trying to entice Firefox users back to the fold.
  Firefox users who steer to google.com are being asked if they want to reset their home page to the site or if they would like to change their default search engine to Google.
  Computerworld has confirmed the first pitch but not the second; SearchEngineLand first reported on the change-default-search message today.
  The move was an obvio
  
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• Microsoft: Windows 10, it's on Us

  22-01-2015 21:56
  
  Microsoft yesterday said it would provide free Windows 10 upgrades to customers running either Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 on their PCs and tablets.
  The unprecedented deal kicks off when Windows 10 officially releases later in 2015, and runs for one year after that. During those 12 months, users can upgrade free of charge. Microsoft, however, dodged a question Wednesday at its Windows 10 presentation about what will happen after the year's expiration, saying it had not yet worked out those deta
  
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• Box CEO Aaron Levie's Top 10 Snarkiest Tweets

  22-01-2015 21:41
  
  It’s rare to find a CEO of a high-profile company who is more outspoken on social media than Aaron Levie, founder and “chief magician” (as he calls himself) of Box, which today is launching its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange on Friday Jan. 23.
  Levie (@Levie) is snarky, brutally honest and clever in his Tweets. And they get a lot of attention. Below are 10 of @levie’s most-shared Tweets:
  Apple-Microsoft over the years
  Number of retweets: 2,097
  
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• Italy Antitrust Authority fines carriers for premium service abuses

  22-01-2015 21:35
  
  Italy’s Antitrust Authority has levied substantial fines on four major mobile telecommunications operators for abusive practices in connection with the sale of premium services.The authority imposed fines of €1.75 million (US $2 million) on Telecom Italia and H3G and lesser fines of Euros €800,000 on Wind Telecomunicazioni and Vodafone Omnitel.The authority said it had received numerous complaints from individuals and consumer associations in the course of 2014 in relation to the unwant
  
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• USPTO leader New Year's resolution: improve patent quality

  22-01-2015 21:25
  
  Improving the quality of patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will be a top priority there in 2015, the office’s acting director said.Michelle Lee, now the USPTO’s deputy director but nominated by President Barack Obama to serve as director, will soon launch a new patent quality initiative, she said Thursday. The initiative, with details coming soon, will work toward excellence in customer service and in measuring patent quality.Patent lawsuits can costs millions of doll
  
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• Google Preps for Wireless Services with T-Mo and Sprint

  22-01-2015 21:17
  
  Google is prepping to offer its own wireless voice and data service over the networks of Sprint and T-Mobile -- a move likely to be markedly different from traditional virtual network operations.
  With Sprint and T-Mobile -- the third and fourth largest U.S. wireless carriers -- Google would become a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO), able to market potentially cheaper and faster services to consumers and small businesses for voice and data.
  But that's not all.
  Google's ultimate goal wil
  
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• Desert Storm war memorial planned in Washington D.C., newspaper reports - NOLA.com

  22-01-2015 21:04
  
  Desert Storm war memorial planned in Washington D.C., newspaper reports
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  A veterans group, the National Desert Storm Memorial Association, is leading the effort. It's executive director, Scott Stump, told the newspaper that it took 60 years for the nation to build the World War II memorial in Washington D.C., and he hated ...
  
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• Anti-H-1B Senator to Head Immigration Panel

  22-01-2015 21:03
  
  The biggest enemy facing U.S. Senate Republicans in raising the H-1B cap are Senate Republicans.
  The Senate's two top Republican critics of temporary worker immigration, specifically the H-1B and L-1 visas, now hold the two most important immigration posts in the Senate.
  They are Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), who heads the Senate's Judiciary Committee, and his committee underling, Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), who was appointed by Grassley on Thursday to head the immigration subcommittee.
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• FBI and IRS Warn of Pervasive, Maddening Business, Consumer Scams

  22-01-2015 20:58
  
  The FBI and IRS separately this week warned of a couple timeworn but highly effective scams that continue to grow and strip businesses and consumers of cash.
  First, the FBI is again warning businesses to be aware of a growing scam that tricks them into paying invoices from established partners that look legitimate but in fact are fraudulent.
  + More on Network World: The hottest 3D printing projects +
  The FBI says the fraud is a tweak of the “man-in-the-middle” scam and usually involves c
  
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• BrandPost: 3 Big Cloud Fears (And How To Solve Them)

  22-01-2015 20:52
  
  Spending on cloud computing is expected to double in just three years, reports IDC. That’s six times the growth rate of the overall IT market.Some enterprises hesitate to fully embrace cloud. But in the end, it’ll be a major component of the future of computing infrastructure.So your task will be easier if you understand the risks and develop a clear strategy for the transition.IT is constantly buried under extremely demanding business and operational objectives. A cloud-based IT delivery
  
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• BrandPost: With Multi-Vector Attacks, Quality Threat Intelligence Matters

  22-01-2015 20:51
  
  In the last year, the world’s attention has been riveted by a series of high-profile hacks of major corporations in retail, finance and the entertainment industry, among others. Each of these incidents is unique, involving different threat actors and motives. However, each of these attacks is also a sterling example of what we, at Cisco, term “multi-vector attack” that employs a range of technologies, deployed in numerous stages, to penetrate the defenses of the target organization
  
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• Friend of Silk Road creator details early days of the site

  22-01-2015 20:50
  
  A college friend of Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk Road online exchange, testified on Thursday that he helped Ulbricht troubleshoot the site in its early days, providing more ammunition for federal prosecutors to make the case Ulbricht was the mastermind behind the notorious illegal goods marketplace.The testimony from Richard Bates could help federal prosecutors establish a timeline showing Ulbricht was heavily involved with the site beyond just creating it.Ulbricht has admitted to c
  
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• BrandPost: Hitachi Data Systems Shares Their Vision for Business Defined IT

  22-01-2015 20:30
  
  Among the many enhancements that Intel has announced with the new Intel® Xeon® E5v3 family of processors, is a feature aimed at improving performance of nested Virtual Machine Managers (VMMs — also known as hypervisors), that is, the ability for a root VMM to support guest VMMs. Although this has been technically possible in previous Xeon generations, it was limited in practicality because of the high performance overhead involved. In the Xeon E5v3 Intel has removed the performance barrie
  
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• Data Center, Cloud, SDN Driving Ethernet Switch Market to $25B

  22-01-2015 20:17
  
  The Layer 2-3 Ethernet switch market is expected to exceed $25 billion in 2019, a compounded annual growth of over 2% from 2014, according to Dell’Oro Group.
  Data center switching will drive most of the growth in the market.  Data center switching growth will be driven exclusively by the cloud, with the enterprise market declining slowly, towards the end of the decade, Dell’Oro expects. 
  MORE ON NETWORK WORLD: Will enhanced servers do away with the need for switches?To read this articl
  
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• Microsoft Announces Office 2016 Suite, Touch-Enabled Office for Windows 10 Apps

  22-01-2015 19:56
  
  After describing the next version of Windows on Wednesday, Microsoft on Thursday unveiled the next versions of Office: Office for Windows 10, and the standalone Office 2016 desktop suite.
  Microsoft said that the Office for Windows 10 apps, like their counterparts on iOS and Android, would be free to use (and preinstalled) on Windows 10 phones and small tablets—no Office 365 subscription required, apparently. And more importantly, they’ll be available as part of the Technical Previews of
  
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• Report: Apple agrees to Chinese security audits of its products

  22-01-2015 19:55
  
  Apple will allow China’s State Internet Information Office to run security audits on products the company sells in China in an effort to counter concerns that other governments are using its devices for surveillance, according to news reports.Apple CEO Tim Cook agreed to the security inspections during a December meeting in the U.S. with information office director Lu Wei, according to a story in the Beijing News.China has become one of Apple’s biggest markets, but the country needs assur
  
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• Adobe fixes just one of two actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in Flash Player

  22-01-2015 19:45
  
  Emergency updates for Flash Player released Thursday fix a vulnerability that is actively exploited by attackers, but leave a separate one unpatched.Adobe Systems released Flash Player 16.0.0.287 for Windows and Mac, Flash Player 11.2.202.438 for Linux and Flash Player Extended Support Release 13.0.0.262. These updates address a vulnerability identified in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database as CVE-2015-0310.Adobe is aware of an exploit for this vulnerability “in the wild” b
  
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• Microsoft Researchers Spin Up a Smart Scarf

  22-01-2015 19:06
  Microsoft researchers have dreamed up a high-tech version of the heated scarves you might find at your local pharmacy.
  The prototype scarf, dubbed Swarm (Sensing Whether Affect Requires Mediation), made its debut at a Stanford University conference this week, accoridng to MIT Technology Review and Mobi Health News. It consists of hexagon-shaped modules of industrial felt with conductive copper taffeta on top, with some of the modules able to heat up and others able to vibrate.To read this a
  
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• Come to Your Senses: Presence Through Embodiment - Huffington Post

  22-01-2015 18:54
  
  Come to Your Senses: Presence Through Embodiment
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  Anyone who wants to build presence -- be it executive presence, or the presence to parent, co-parent or run a civic organization effectively -- will develop it first and foremost by learning how to redirect their focus from thinking to connecting with ...
  
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• Kim Dotcom ready to take on Skype with end-to-end encrypted video calling service

  22-01-2015 18:20
  
  Mega has opened beta testing for a new encrypted video calling service that integrates with its existing file hosting and sharing offerings.The new MegaChat only supports voice and video calling for now, but text chat and video conferencing will be added soon, Mega founder Kim Dotcom said on Twitter.The service runs inside Web browsers, not through a dedicated application, and is free to use. It can be launched from the mega.nz (not mega.co.nz) website by clicking on the new “Conversations�
  
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• Microsoft's Surface RT Tablets Won't Be Upgraded to Windows 10

  22-01-2015 18:17
  While the Surface Pro tablet lineup will be receiving Windows 10, owners of the Windows RT-powered Surface RT and Surface 2 will be forced to settle for a more neutered update.
  During a Q&A with reporters at the Windows 10 event, Microsoft representatives said that the company is working on an update for Windows RT. In subsequent statements sent to both The Verge and CNET, spokespeople clarified that “We are working on an update for Surface, which will have some of the functionality of
  
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• Uber in legal hot water again in South Korea

  22-01-2015 18:15
  
  Uber Technologies may land in court again in South Korea, this time accused of violating communications laws.The Korea Communications Commission said Thursday that Uber doesn’t comply with requirements to report how it protects user location data. Violators can be sentenced to prison up to three years or get fined a maximum 30 million won (about US$ 28,000).The telecom regulator said it will file a formal complaint requesting that federal prosecutors take Uber to criminal court.Uber didn’
  
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• BrandPost: The CMO - Not The CIO – Should Lead Digital Transformation

  22-01-2015 18:13
  
  The concept of digital transformation is not a new one, as technology has been used to augment business functions since the dawn of the computer age. However, these days, digital transformation means different things to different companies, requiring each company to tailor their integration of technology in a way that increases productivity and improves communication with internal and external parties.
  Personally, I like the Altimeter Group’s definition of digital transformation, since it
  
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• Proximity-Based Advertising Closer Than You Think

  22-01-2015 17:43
  
  In the futuristic movie "Minority Report," Tom Cruise's character, John Anderton, is on the run, pursued by police searching for him using super high-tech, privacy-invasive tools. Anderton has someone else's eyeballs; you'll have to see the movie to find out why.A previous scene showed Anderton walking through a shopping mall and being bombarded with customized advertisements from wall screen displays. This time, as Anderton eludes police in a store, a wall screen display identifying him thro
  
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• The First Place to Tackle SDN? In the WAN

  22-01-2015 17:13
  
  Disruptive innovation in infrastructure is on the rise, and nowhere is that more evident than in the Software Defined Networking movement. But while much of the SDN discussion has focused on the data center, the better initial use case might be in the wide area network. One advocate of that approach is Michael Elmore, IT Senior Director of the Enterprise Network Engineering Infrastructure Group at Cigna, a global health service company headquartered in Bloomfield, Connecticut. Michael is als
  
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• Panasonic's triangular robot vacuum aimed squarely at corners

  22-01-2015 16:45
  
  Panasonic has entered the robot vacuum market with a pricey wedge-shaped droid that gets deep into corners.The MC-RS1 Rulo has a roughly triangular shape with rounded sides and corners and a dust sensor that are designed to help it do a better job at cleaning up than rival robots, according to the company.The unit can move from side to side in tight spots while attacking dirt with two rotating brushes that stick out from its corners. They push dirt toward a cylindrical sweeper on the undersid
  
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• European Space Agency Deploys Private Cloud with Red Hat

  22-01-2015 16:18
  
  The European Space Agency (ESA) has created an on-premise private cloud across two data centres in order to improve delivery of IT services to its user communities.
  Many of the staff working at the organisation - which spans a number of European countries - require intense use of IT resources, often for limited periods of time.
  To meet these data and applications expectations, the ESA created a new internal cloud to support resource delivery, recently going live at one of its two data centre
  
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• BlackBerry CEO John Chen Proposes Profoundly Stupid 'App Neutrality' Law

  22-01-2015 16:13
  BlackBerry’s developer support has sunken so low that the company is now seeking a government bailout.
  In a blog post on BlackBerry’s website, CEO John Chen made a proposal that seems too preposterous to believe: In addition to considering net neutrality—the idea that Internet providers shouldn’t discriminate against certain types of traffic—Chen said the government should consider “application/content neutrality.”
  Essentially, Chen is saying developers who write for iOS and An
  
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• Windows 10 for Phones: A Change in name, But Not in Core Features

  22-01-2015 15:47
  
  Windows Phone is dead. Long live Windows 10. And right now, there’s not that much else to get excited about aside from new flagship phones, which Microsoft execs promised will debut this fall.
  If Windows 10 is an iterative upgrade to Windows 8, then Windows 10 for phones feels even more so. I think the best way to view Windows 10’s direction, both in mobile devices as well as the desktop, is not so much straight ahead, but laterally: closer together, with each Windows device becoming a m
  
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• CEOs Have Rosier View of Data Initiatives Than Rest of Management

  22-01-2015 15:27
  
  CEOs may have a very different — and far more positive — view of the current status and benefits of data initiatives than the rest of management in their organizations, according to a new study by the Economist Intelligence Unit.The study, conducted in September and October of last year, found that CEOs are much more likely to believe data and analytic tools are available to the broader organization: 47 percent of CEOs believe all employees have access to the data they need, compared with
  
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• ECB says further policy measures to come as rates left unchanged - Kathimerini

  22-01-2015 15:23
  
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  ECB says further policy measures to come as rates left unchanged
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  “If that's the discussion -- that the ECB takes Europe forward and takes this big leap toward risk pooling, then we'd better not have it,” Executive Board member Benoit Coeure said in Dublin this week. The issue of who will be liable for any risks from ...
  
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• BrandPost: The Business Case for Storage Optimization

  22-01-2015 15:21
  The explosion of data triggered by the mobile and social media revolutions have created extraordinary opportunities for enterprises to collect and analyze digital information. Naturally, enterprises also need ways to store that growing amount of valuable data. Between the requirements of the business for scalable data storage and the perpetual constraints of IT budgets, storage management—or storage optimization—is more than a best practice; it’s an imperative.Storage optimization enabl
  
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• Atlassian fixes critical vulnerability in development collaboration products

  22-01-2015 15:15
  
  A critical vulnerability in popular software development collaboration products by Atlassian allows attackers to compromise servers.The vulnerability affects Atlassian Confluence, a wiki-like collaboration platform for software development teams; Bamboo, a software build and testing platform; FishEye, a code-tracking system for centralizing different repositories; and Crucible, a collaborative peer code review framework.Attackers can exploit the vulnerability to execute arbitrary Java code on
  
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• 5 Best and 5 Worst Places to Work

  22-01-2015 14:55
  
  The Best and Worst Tech Companies to Work ForImage by ShutterstockWhile the IT industry enjoys an unemployment rate that's half that of the general workforce, not all IT companies are created equal. Sure, it might be easier to land a high-paying job in IT if you've got the skills, but what about culture, benefits and other perks? Will you be happy where you land? Based on anonymous, employee-submitted reviews from job search and career management site Glassdoor, we've put together the five best
  
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• Dropbox for Windows Phone hints at Microsoft's cross-platform future

  22-01-2015 14:30
  
  Dropbox has finally released an app for Microsoft’s smartphones, hinting at a future when Windows smartphones, tablets and PCs will become more integrated.It’s hardly a secret that Microsoft has struggled to compete with Apple and Android-based tablets and smartphones because of a lack of apps for its platform, but that has started to change, and the addition of Dropbox on Wednesday is an important one.Its arrival is the latest piece of Drobox’s Microsoft puzzle, allowing users to save
  
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• EU should oblige Internet firms to hand over encryption keys, says antiterrorist advisor

  22-01-2015 14:05
  
  Internet and telecommunications companies should be obliged to share encryption keys with police and intelligence agencies to help them fight terrorism, the European Union’s Counter-Terrorism Coordinator has advised.It’s a remarkable suggestion, because companies such as Google and Facebook have only just begun encrypting their Internet traffic to shield it from intelligence agencies, after documents leaked by Edward Snowden detailed the depth of government surveillance programs.To read t
  
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• How Mobile, Social Tech Elevate Enterprise Collaboration

  22-01-2015 14:00
  
  Collaboration in the enterprise comes in many forms, but no trends have shaped the market more than social media and mobile technology. The ongoing convergence of smartphones, always-on connectivity and ubiquitous social media lifts collaboration to new heights.While effective corporate collaboration is a worthy goal, it's often too ambiguous. Business managers and consultants are eager to talk about collaboration, but many of them simply check the collaboration boxes on their to-do lists and
  
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• ECB Says Further Policy Measures to Come as Rates on Hold - Bloomberg

  22-01-2015 13:59
  
  Bloomberg
  ECB Says Further Policy Measures to Come as Rates on Hold
  Bloomberg
  “If that's the discussion -- that the ECB takes Europe forward and takes this big leap toward risk pooling, then we'd better not have it,” Executive Board member Benoit Coeure said in Dublin this week. The issue of who will be liable for any risks from ...
  
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• Lack of Security in Small Companies Means Big Risk for the Enterprise

  22-01-2015 13:53
  
  “I’ve been in the security business for 25-years. The industry spent the first 20 of those developing perimeter security products. Then five years ago, we simply let everybody in, building an ecosystem of third-party vendors and service providers that are now part of our federated enterprise,” says Mo Rosen, COO, Xceedium.
  Once attackers enter these small organizations, they access the large enterprises those small companies serve. The trust relationship that big enterprise shares with
  
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• Huawei's elusive founder tries to dispel spying concerns, and air of mystery

  22-01-2015 13:35
  
  U.S. security concerns may still haunt the reputation of Huawei Technologies, but the Chinese company’s elusive founder brushed off any involvement in state-sponsored cyber espionage in a rare interview on Thursday.“We are a Chinese company, but we will never hurt another country,” said Ren Zhengfei, in an webcast interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos.Appearing relaxed and smiling at times, Huawei’s founder tried to dispel misconceptions surrounding the Chinese company, which
  
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• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for January 22

  22-01-2015 13:30
  
  Ford Motor tapping into Valley talent with Palo Alto research centerThe tech and automotive industries continue to grow more intertwined: Ford CEO Mark Fields will announce on Thursday that Ford is opening a research and innovation center in Palo Alto. The company has been in the Valley since it put ten people there in 2012 to work on big data and open source, Automotive News reports. Ford had a big presence at CES earlier this month, where it talked up autonomous vehicle tech.To read this ar
  
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• Microsoft Office 365 Adoption Takes Off, War With Google Apps Rages On

  22-01-2015 13:26
  
  Microsoft's cloud-based Office 365 is the company's fastest growing commercial product ever, and adoption shows no sign of stalling. The company's cloud revenue (which included Azure and Dynamics CRM as well as Office 365) grew 128 percent in the most recent quarter compared to the same period last year, and the number of Office 365 commercial seats in use nearly doubled.If there was a suspicion that Microsoft might have picked most of the low hanging fruit -- companies that found a cloud-bas
  
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• IT’s Security Metrics and Reporting Problem: A Communication Failure

  22-01-2015 13:11
  
  What used to be a back room, invisible function of enterprise, IT security has been launched into the limelight with high profile data breaches with Sony as the most recently, and reoccurring, example. Enterprises are rightfully bringing IT security to the forefront of the business process, and IT teams are responsible for showing the improvement and success of security programs that are often a significant line item on the books.
  Therein lies a new challenge for IT: to develop security metr
  
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• Satya Nadella: Articulating a vision for Windows 10

  22-01-2015 12:55
  
  During Wednesday morning’s Windows 10 preview event in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft executives made their strongest pitch to date in favor of a somewhat different interpretation of cross-platform functionality than Windows 8 and 8.1 delivered.But is the company’s vision for Windows 10 clear enough to be encapsulated in a single phrase or image that people can rally behind—a vision as clear as Apple successfully conjures for its products and platforms? That’s the essence of the quest
  
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