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• Marriott CIO: FCC Message on Wi-Fi Blocking Loud and Clear

  31-01-2015 23:50
  
  The FCC's sternly worded warning about illegal Wi-Fi blocking earlier this week got through to at least one organization: Marriott International's Global CIO issued a statement Friday that the hospitality outfit is withdrawing efforts to gain clarification from the commission on what methods can be used to protect corporate Wi-Fi networks.
  It was a complaint against a Marriott hotel in Nashville that blocked visitors from using personal Wi-Fi hotspots at a convention center -- and a subseque
  
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• The Best of IT Resume Makeovers

  31-01-2015 20:02
  
  Let's face it: Having great credentials and having a great resume don't go hand-in-hand. For that reason, every month CIO.com helps an IT pro looking become a CIO or other technology executive land his or her next position by giving a less-than-steller resume a makeover. Thanks to our team of career consultants and resume specialists, we work with aspiring IT executives to focus on their most important attributes and accomplishments.Because it's easy to focus only the most recent resume makeo
  
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• 5 Team-Building Tips for IT

  31-01-2015 19:50
  
  IT talent can be hard to find and even harder to keep – which means there’s plenty of incentive to make the workplace attractive to technology pros. Culture is paramount, and focusing on organizational development can lead to more satisfied and productive workers.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• Microsoft to Business: Don't Worry About Windows 10, Consumers Will Test it

  31-01-2015 17:12
  
  Microsoft on Friday said consumers would become coal mine canaries who turn up bugs and problems in each Windows 10 update months before businesses have to commit to the fixes.
  In a blog post that outlined enterprise options for deploying Windows 10's faster update tempo, Microsoft formalized what has been a long-standing practice by savvy customers: wait to accept an update until unwitting others shake out the bugs and Microsoft fixes them.
  "By putting devices on the Current branch for Busi
  
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• 7 Smartphone Rules Changed This Week

  31-01-2015 13:00
  
  Federal regulators have been throwing their weight around lately, and mostly to good effect for consumers and users of mobile technology.
  The net effect of their recent activism adds up to a whole new set of rules and protections for all of us.
  Here are the ramifications of seven new rules.1. Carriers can't throttle 'unlimited" data plans anymore.
  
  The Federal Trade Commission ordered prepaid mobile provider TracFone to pay a fine of $40 million. The transgression? It throttled (deliberately
  
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• Google Now adds data from Lyft, Airbnb and many more apps

  31-01-2015 02:55
  
  Google Now just got a lot smarter, adding data from dozens of outside apps to help people get more things done as they go about their day.Google Now is a search tool and digital assistant built into Android devices and the Chrome browser, and included as part of the Google search app for iOS. Until now it’s served up information about the weather, restaurant reservations, shipping notifications and nearby events based on people’s past Google searches and reading their Gmail messages. The
  
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• NEC aims at Big Data 'sweet spot' with new SAP Hana tool

  31-01-2015 01:00
  
  Cloud computing and SAP’s Hana in-memory database can be a powerful combination for data analysis, and new tools could help to make sure it doesn’t fall down on the job.On Friday, NEC released a tool designed to make life easier for data analysts by boosting Hana availability in the cloud.Focusing in particular on users of the Amazon Web Services cloud, the new tool takes advantage of NEC’s ExpressCluster software. The tool can automatically detect system faults as SAP Hana runs on AWS
  
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• West Africa turns into dumping ground for e-waste

  31-01-2015 00:10
  
  As measures by countries in East and Southern Africa to prevent the dumping of e-waste take effect, West Africa has become a destination for old computers, mobile devices and components.European Commission and U.N. studies show that West Africa is becoming a dumping site for e-waste from various parts of the world. Meanwhile, communication technology and services firm Ericsson says West Africa is becoming highly affected by e-waste, relative to other regions on the continent.The problem is co
  
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