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• Seagate ships 8TB drive for video

  28-10-2015 22:51
  
  Seagate today announced its first 8TB hard disk drive (HDD) customized for recording video -- lots and lots of video.
  The new 3.5-in. 8TB Surveillance HDD, which will retail for around $385 online, is designed to store more than 800 hours of high-definition (HD) content captured by up to 64 cameras simultaneously.
  The new drive is engineered to run 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the company said.
  Seagate, which unveiled the new drive today at the China Public Security Expo, said its previou
  
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• Facebook is revamping the way people share app content on the iPhone

  28-10-2015 21:43
  
  More than 50 billion pieces of content are shared from third-party apps to Facebook every year. That's a massive opportunity to drive engagement for both the social network and developers, by getting users to spend more time in applications that connect with Facebook and on the service itself.To that end, the company announced a new sharing experience for iOS users on Wednesday that is supposed to make it clearer to users what they're sharing to the social network, and how that will look when di
  
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• The coolest next-gen tech from the Tokyo Motor Show

  28-10-2015 20:40
  
  Electric, hydrogen and lots of tech dreamsImage by HondaThe 44th Tokyo Motor Show opens to the public this weekend showcasing some of the most advanced car tech yet. Japanese car companies have a major presence at the show and on Wednesday unveiled new prototypes that provide a taste of the tech we'll soon be seeing in our cars.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 5 ways a consultant can benefit your software implementation

  28-10-2015 20:29
  
  I freely admit that, early in my career, I said that I would never become a consultant. Well, I got that one wrong: except for eight years working for a chemicals and energy company and two years working for a software company, I've spent most of my career as a consultant. And I went to the "dark side" of software consulting in the last century!To some people, the word “consultant” evokes a negative response, reminding them of past bad experiences. Yet the right consultant can invigo
  
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• Verizon focuses on lowering costs for IoT apps, network

  28-10-2015 20:19
  
  On Wednesday Verizon launched ThingSpace, a development platform for companies of all sizes to create Internet of Things applications more efficiently and then later manage those apps.
  The carrier also announced it is creating a new dedicated network core for IoT connections that can scale far beyond the ability of its existing networks with the intent to reach billions of sensors and devices.
  "Continued innovation in smart cities, connected cars and wearables demonstrates that IoT is the futur
  
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• Clock is ticking for Dorsey as Twitter's earnings fail to impress

  28-10-2015 20:13
  
  Twitter's earnings call on Tuesday didn't go quite as investors might have hoped.
  That can't be good news for Jack Dorsey, who recently took over -- again - as CEO of the struggling social media company's CEO.
  With an underwhelming third-quarter financial report and a dismal forecast for its fourth quarter, the amount of time Dorsey, Twitter's co-founder, has to pull off a rescue could be limited. Very limited.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• Biometric data becomes the encryption key in Fujitsu system

  28-10-2015 19:41
  
  Fujitsu says it has developed software that uses biometric data directly as the basis for encryption and decryption of data, simplifying and strengthening security systems that rely on biometrics such as fingerprints, retina scans and palm vein scans.Current security systems that rely on encryption require the management of encryption keys, which are stored on secure smartcards or directly on PCs. Biometric scans can be used as a way of authenticating the user and providing access to those encry
  
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• Second wave of Windows 10 usage growth crests

  28-10-2015 19:27
  
  Windows 10 passed a pair of milestones over the last two weekends, breaking the 10% usage share bar 10 days ago, then the 11% mark on Sunday, according to measurements by Irish analytics firm StatCounter.
  More importantly to Microsoft's plans for the new OS, Windows 10's growth has kicked back into a higher gear, pushing week-over-week gains to a level not seen since late August.
  By Monday, 90 days after Windows 10's July 29 debut, the operating system's usage share -- an indication of online a
  
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• CIOs get creative to find top tech talent

  28-10-2015 19:25
  
  Before hiring Clay Johnson at General Electric in 2014, then Global CIO Jamie Miller went beyond the references provided and vetted the Boeing vice president of IT by calling people whom she knew worked with Johnson.Johnson, now global CIO of GE’s Power & Water division, was slightly taken aback but he could hardly fault the woman who would become his new boss. After all, he follows the same protocol to check out prospects.“It’s key to get the right person and sometimes by
  
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• New Surface Book owners complain of unexpected freezes, other bugs

  28-10-2015 18:40
  
  Although Microsoft’s Surface Book is officially just a few days old, the “ultimate laptop” is being hit by a wave of unexpected lockup problems that has concerned new users.
  A thread on Microsoft’s support forums has begun to gain steam, with users reporting similar symptoms: The notebook just suddenly stops working, and nothing short of power cycling the Book via the power button seems to work. 
  So far, Microsoft has yet to issue a fix. Some users have begun to sus
  
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• Sony BMG Rootkit Scandal: 10 Years Later

  28-10-2015 18:22
  
  Ben Edelman/Wikipedia
  A warning pops up on computer screen about Sony BMG rootkit on music CD
  Hackers really have had their way with Sony over the past year, taking down its Playstation Network last Christmas Day and creating an international incident by exposing confidential data from Sony Pictures Entertainment in response to The Interview comedy about a planned assassination on North Korea’s leader. Some say all this is karmic payback for what’s become known as a seminal mome
  
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• A short history of Sony hacks

  28-10-2015 18:18
  
  Target on its backThe giant Japanese electronics company dazzled us with its Walkman and Discman in the late 70s/early 80s, as well as with its TVs, cameras and game consoles over the years. But things took a bad turn in 2005…(SEE ALSO: Sony BMG Rootkit Scandal: 10 Years Later)To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• 6 things to love about DROID Turbo 2 (and 5 to hate)

  28-10-2015 17:42
  
  Verizon Wireless and Motorola yesterday unveiled the next-generation of DROID Android smartphones, the DROID Turbo 2 and DROID Maxx 2, at a media event atop a high-rise tower in New York City's Chelsea neighborhood.Both new phones are notable for many reasons, but the high-end DROID Turbo 2 stole the show, thanks to its unique "shatter proof" display, the cool "Moto Maker" customization options and an impressive list of tech specs. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please
  
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• US says it's ok to hack cars and medical devices (sometimes)

  28-10-2015 17:13
  
  The U.S. Copyright Office has given security researchers reason to hope that they'll be able to search for flaws in car systems and medical devices without the threat of legal action.
  On Tuesday, the Librarian of Congress, who makes final rulings on exemptions to copyright rules, granted several exceptions to Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which prohibits the circumvention of the technological methods that are used to protect copyright works. The U.S. Copyright Off
  
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• US copyright law exemption allows good-faith car, medical device hacking

  28-10-2015 17:13
  
  The U.S. Copyright Office has given security researchers reason to hope that they'll be able to search for flaws in car systems and medical devices without the threat of legal action.On Tuesday, the Librarian of Congress, who makes final rulings on exemptions to copyright rules, granted several exceptions to Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which prohibits the circumvention of the technological methods that are used to protect copyright works. The U.S. Copyright Offic
  
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• Outlook for iOS and Android gets a subtle redesign as Microsoft moves to unite email apps

  28-10-2015 17:00
  
  Back in January, Microsoft launched Outlook for iOS and Android, designed to help users of the two most popular mobile platforms manage their email and calendars. The new apps, which came about after the acquisition of Accompli, is part of the company's push to provide productivity tools across platforms -- even those it doesn't own. In the case of Outlook, that seems to be paying off. Microsoft announced Wednesday that 30 million people use Outlook for iOS and Android every month. That's s
  
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• IBM snaps up Weather.com and more in Watson IoT push

  28-10-2015 16:35
  
  IBM will acquire Weather.com and other digital assets from The Weather Company for its new Watson IoT Unit and Watson IoT Cloud platform, it announced Wednesday.The purchase covers The Weather Company's mobile and Web-based products, including also WSI, Weather Underground and The Weather Company brand. The TV-based Weather Channel is not included, but it will license weather forecast data and analytics from IBM under a long-term contract, IBM said.The deal is expected to close in the first quar
  
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• Cisco acquires a third company this week

  28-10-2015 16:23
  
  Cisco this week announced its third acquisition in as many days with the intent to buy 1 Mainstream, a privately-held provider of cloud-based video.
  Cisco other two acquisitions this week focused on analytics. Cisco announced intentions to acquire Lancope for $452.5 million, for its network visibility and threat detection technology; and ParStream for its Internet of Things data gathering and analysis wares.
  Terms of the 1 Mainstream deal were not disclosed.To read this article in full or to le
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Why I like the iPod touch 6 better than the iPhone 6s

  28-10-2015 15:47
  
  Apple updated its iPod touch device a few months ago, and I finally got around to getting one yesterday. Since I already own an iPhone 6s, you might be wondering why I bothered to buy an iPod touch 6. It's a fair question and I'll tell you why in this post. And I'll also share why I've found myself liking the iPod touch 6 so much more than the iPhone 6s.But first you should know that a little bit of the backstory. Last year I tried the iPhone 6 Plus and liked it quite a bit for a while. Ultimate
  
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• Facebook Message Requests wants to replace your phone number

  28-10-2015 15:07
  
  Facebook wants anyone around the world to be able to message you on Facebook, but to do it, the social network is killing a part of your Facebook inbox you probably never knew you had. Facebook’s barely known and rarely used ”Other” inbox will soon be discontinued in favor of a new addition to Messenger called Message Requests.
  If you don’t know what the Other inbox is, login to facebook.com/messages and at the top of the left-hand navigation panel you’ll see
  
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• Mac sales reach record high as unrelenting iPad slide continues

  28-10-2015 15:03
  
  Apple yesterday said it sold a record number of Macs in the September quarter, dealing out 5.7 million machines to customers worldwide.
  With those sales, the Mac reached a major milestone for the first time -- sales of 20 million or more machines in an Apple fiscal year -- by logging a total of 20.6 million over the last four quarters.
  Mac unit sales were up 3.4% from the same period the year before, when Apple sold a then-record 5.5 million systems. The September quarter was the eighth consecu
  
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• How to succeed at digital transformation

  28-10-2015 14:42
  
  Businesses are almost universally undergoing digital transformation today, but only five percent of organizations say they have mastered digital to a point of differentiation from their competitors, according to a new report.On behalf of Accenture Interactive, in May  Forrester Consulting conducted an online survey of 396 organizations across the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Germany, France, China, India, Japan, Brazil and Mexico to evaluate their digital and customer experience strategies. In t
  
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• Onderzoek: van zeer groot deel opgeslagen data is nut niet aangetoond

  28-10-2015 14:38
  Het bewaren van nutteloze data kost organisaties een aanzienlijk deel van hun IT-budget en Nederland is een van de slechtst scorende Europese landen op dit punt: slechts 11% van de gegevens die Nederlandse organisaties bewaren zou een aantoonbaar zakelijke waarde hebben. Daarop duidt onderzoek in de EMEA-regio van... lees meer
  
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• Split between EU privacy watchdogs on Safe Harbor worries business lobby

  28-10-2015 13:54
  
  German data protection authorities' decision to break ranks with their counterparts in other European Union countries and block alternatives to Safe Harbor has business lobbyists worried.The striking down of the Safe Harbor data sharing agreement by the European Union's highest court on Oct. 6 left a legal vacuum that European Commission officials immediately sought to fill with a reminder of the legal alternatives available and promises of coordinated action by national privacy regulators, who
  
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• Despite recent moves against Adobe, 80% of PCs run expired Flash

  28-10-2015 13:54
  
  Despite recent moves against Adobe Flash by Google and Firefox and its declining use by websites, Adobe Flash remains a significant security vulnerability for end users, with 80 percent of computers running an end-of-life version of the plugin.
  According to a report released on Tuesday by Secunia Research, now part of Flexera Software, Adobe Flash Player 18 reached end-of-life on Sept. 22, and is no longer supported by Adobe with patches and updates.To read this article in full or to leave a co
  
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• InteliSecure building a high-end security-services boutique

  28-10-2015 13:41
  
  Data-loss-prevention provider InteliSecure is taking in new money, new employees and an entire U.K. security company in an effort to establish itself as a high-end security boutique.
  The company has raised $22 million in equity financing and a $6 million debt financing in order to buy Pentura – a U.K. managed security service provider – as well as expand its operations globally and hire additional hard-to-find security personnel.
  CEO Rob Eggebrecht
  Its premiere service, protecting d
  
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• CISA legislation would lift liability for businesses sharing cyber threat information

  28-10-2015 13:31
  
  A bill that encourages businesses to share threat intelligence with each other and the government is closer to becoming a law than it has been for years now that it offers businesses near immunity from liability if the data they share is stolen and causes harm, but such sharing is still fraught with problems.
  Nathan Taylor
  The proposed Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) proposal doesn’t force anyone to participate in sharing, but it creates incentives for businesses to do so wil
  
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• Ferocious opposition not enough to stop CISA

  28-10-2015 13:23
  
  October is National Cyber Security Awareness month. But after the U.S. Senate’s approval of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 (CISA) on Tuesday, the many and increasingly vocal opponents of the bill may be inclined to re-name it “Lack of Cyber Security Awareness” month.
  CISA, which got final passage on a 74-21 vote, and which President Obama has indicated he will sign, is touted by advocates as a way to improve cyber security in both the public and private sect
  
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• Can citizen developers bring shadow IT into the light?

  28-10-2015 13:19
  
  Citizen developer tools that allow business staff to build applications are becoming increasingly powerful and can lead to important productivity gains.That’s the view of Mark Driver, a research director at Gartner. He expects citizen development efforts to expand significantly over the next five years.A key reason for this is the accelerating enterprise use of cloud-based software platforms that allow citizen developers to access corporate data more easily than data stored on servers in c
  
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• Angst voor gegevensdiefstal belemmert mobiel werken

  28-10-2015 13:17
  Negen van de tien ICT-afdelingen beperkt de toegang tot gevoelige bedrijfsinformatie en applicaties vanaf mobiele apparaten. Hierdoor komen organisaties onvoldoende tegemoet aan de behoefte van medewerkers om flexibel en mobiel te werken. Daarop duidt onderzoek in opdracht van Gemalto, specialist in mobiele... lees meer
  
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• The 12 commandments of Wikipedia

  28-10-2015 13:00
  
  Countless reasons exist for why a person, organization or brand might want to make edits to their pages on Wikipedia. However, haphazardly making changes can have surprising, and lasting, effects -- properly maintaining Wikipedia pages is a task best handled with care.[Related:Top 4 marketing automation tools and why you'll love (and hate) them ]Here are six Wikipedia dos, and six more don'ts, from a handful of marketing experts we interviewed for advice and best practices on the care and feedin
  
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• MIT uses Wi-Fi to look through walls

  28-10-2015 13:00
  
  Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence lab are working on a technology, called RF Capture, which uses radio frequencies to see people standing on the other side of a wall with startling clarity.
  The team behind RF Capture has been working with similar technology since 2013. They’ve used that to track subtle movements of human bodies, like breathing, from behind walls, but the new system is capable of seeing even finer detail.
  +ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD: Can Or
  
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• How to effectively create and manage a Wikipedia page

  28-10-2015 13:00
  
  When it comes to Wikipedia, a huge gap exists between what the company's executives and marketers expect and what the Wikipedia community actually allows. Wikipedia articles are often created to demonstrate the perceived importance of a company or individual, and because they often rank highly in Google search results, their subjects frequently try to assert control of their Wikipedia pages.As a crowd-sourced encyclopedia, however, Wikipedia can’t be controlled. Instead, volunteer Wiki edi
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How the Software Selection Maturity Scale can improve enterprise software selection

  28-10-2015 12:34
  
  Buying business-critical enterprise software entails significant risks for an organization. The goal of an evaluation and selection project is to purchase software that maximizes the ROI and minimizes implementation risks, but the sheer number of requirements make this difficult to achieve. For example, a comprehensive ERP selection for a larger company can approach 10,000 requirements. Also, there is the risk described by the Dunning-Kruger effect where IT professionals overestimate their softw
  
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• Teleena en Levi9 gaan samenwerken

  28-10-2015 12:27
  De Nederlandse bedrijven Teleena and Levi9 IT Services hebben onlangs een raamovereenkomst gesloten voor langdurige samenwerking. Levi9 wordt trusted technology partner van de mobile service enabler en gaat kennis, vaardigheden en capaciteit leveren voor ontwikkeling en onderhoud van producten en de implementatie ervan... lees meer
  
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• Where’s the diversity? Look at your culture, not your pipeline

  28-10-2015 12:00
  
  In 2010 alone, the U.S. spent $3.4 billion in federal funds to address Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education talent shortages, and to help improve representation of women and people of color in these fields.
  Despite that investment, the percentage of women practicing engineers remains at around 11 percent-- the same for almost 30 years? Nadya Fouad, Ph.D., distinguished professor, educational psychology, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, has focused her research on this qu
  
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• Meet the man-in-the-middle of your next security crisis

  28-10-2015 11:51
  
  Man-in-the-middle attacks are pesky and stealthy maneuvers that show up everywhere from the cloud to SSL. They appear as attackers find ways to secretly insert themselves between any two points of communication in any new or existing technologies.
  “Any communications path can have its own form and methods to exploit MITM attacks,” says Michael H. Davis, CISO, American Bureau of Shipping.
  You could be at a disadvantage if you don’t know where he’ll strike next. CSO presen
  
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• Review: The HTC One A9 -- an iPhone for the Android crowd

  28-10-2015 11:30
  
  The guy in the T-Mobile store turned the phone over in his hands a few times. "This is a nice phone," he said. "But isn't this the HTC One A9? How'd you get this already? It's not out 'til next week."I explained that I was reviewing it for Computerworld, but my SIM card had expired and I needed a new one. "This is sweet," he said, referring to the phone, not the assignment. "I'd have thought it was an iPhone, except I saw it's got Android. And look," he continued, unable to resist poking and swi
  
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• 6 tips for your security awareness training

  28-10-2015 11:24
  
  Keep a sharp eye out forImage by ThinkstockSecurity experts remind us that awareness is an ongoing effort. Here are some best practices for keeping your organization educated and aware year-round.Get the C-Suite involvedImage by ThinkstockTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• Techies back Democrats in Presidential race

  28-10-2015 11:00
  
  It will be many months before presidential candidates face their respective conventions, but for the time being the Democrats are winning the wallets of technology workers.Finance reform bars corporations from directly funding campaigns, but that doesn’t stop individuals from backing candidates of their choice. And according to Network World’s analysis of candidates’ most recent filings to the Federal Elections Commission, those technology workers donated far more to Democratic
  
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• iPad face-off: Microsoft Office vs. Apple iWork vs. Google Apps

  28-10-2015 11:00
  
  The other shoe has dropped: Apple recently revised its iWork productivity suite (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote) to take advantage of the split-screen multitasking introduced in iOS 9 for select iPad models. Microsoft had done the same several weeks earlier in its Office 365 productivity suite (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).
  iWork has added sharing support for Android users, but they can only view shared documents. Shared iWork documents can be edited only in a Windows PC or Mac browser, or in iOS
  
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• Honda unveils hydrogen-powered car with 400-mile range

  28-10-2015 11:00
  
  Honda Motor Co. announced a new version of its hydrogen-powered fuel-cell vehicle (FCV) that can travel up to 400 miles and refuel in just three minutes.
  The new Honda Clarity Fuel Cell's drive train technology is about one-tenth the cost of Honda's previous FCV the FCX Clarity. The fuel-cell technology is also smaller than in the previous vehicle. Pricing for the vehicle was not released.
  "The fuel cell stack for this model was downsized by 33% compared to the previous version of the fuel cell
  
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• First look: Microsoft Azure Active Directory Domain Services puts it all in the cloud

  28-10-2015 11:00
  
  On Oct. 14, Microsoft announced the preview release of Azure Active Directory Domain Services or, as I like to call it, a domain in a cloud.
  Next up, you will need to either create a new virtual network or select an existing virtual network. This network has to be in the U.S. or Asia Azure regions. (These are the only geographic locales that the preview supports; of course, this feature will likely be available globally when the code comes out of the preview phase).To read this article in full
  
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• Examining 5 Presidential candidates’ support from tech company employees

  28-10-2015 11:00
  
  Money talksImage by WikimediaIn a review of the Presidential candidates’ latest campaign finance reports, which list employee donations by company, we found seven tech companies that were common across most of the five candidates examined. Here’s a look at how much employees have contributed since the campaigns of Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Carly Fiorina and Ben Carson began.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• Agile pionierswerk Amir Arooni bekroond met CIO titel

  28-10-2015 09:43
  Begin 2016 neemt Amir Arooni het stokje over van Bruce Hodges als nieuwe CIO van verzekeraar Nationale Nederlanden Group (NN Group). Het is een kroon op het werk van Arooni die van bank ING komt, het moederbedrijf waar de verzekeraar net van is afgesplitst.Bij ING liet Arooni zien dat een combinatie van insourcing en... lees meer
  
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• Amazon Prime Now delivery drivers sue over classification as contractors

  28-10-2015 06:21
  Amazon.com has been sued by delivery drivers in a proposed class-action suit that alleges that the company misclassifies its workers as contractors rather than as employees with full benefits.The lawsuit filed by four drivers in the Superior Court for the State of California, County of Los Angeles, is the latest in a string of similar lawsuits filed against tech companies, particularly those like Uber that offer app-based on-demand services through independent workers.The on-demand model has bee
  
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• Windows users often forget to patch their Apple programs

  28-10-2015 03:30
  A survey of applications installed on Windows computers found that a lot of users don't run up-to-date versions of Apple programs.
  Apple's multimedia program, QuickTime, and its iTunes software were ranked as some of the most "exposed" programs based on risk by Secunia Research, which is now part of Flexera Software.
  Among U.S. users, some 61 percent of computers detected running QuickTime did not have the latest version. With iTunes, 47 percent of the installations were outdated versions.
  It's
  
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• Oracle's Larry Ellison decries poor state of security, says he's fixed it

  28-10-2015 02:18
  
  Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison has put better security at the heart of his pitch for the company's new products, though it could be a tough sell for a man who's long claimed his products are "unbreakable."
  "We need much better security," Ellison said Tuesday in a speech at Oracle OpenWorld. "We need a next generation of security because we're not winning a lot of these cyberbattles. We haven't lost the war, but we're losing a lot of battles."
  He pointed to recent breaches including one at the U.
  
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• The FBI isn't wrong; sometimes you will have to pay the ransom

  28-10-2015 01:18
  
  Last week, during the 2015 Cyber Security Summit in Boston, Special Agent Joseph Bonavolonta said that the FBI's advice for some Ransomware attacks is to pay the ransom. Immediately, some security professionals took offense at his remarks, but the bigger picture is that payment might be the only option.
  Let's look at things in context. The debate over this topic starts with a story written by the Security Ledger.
  Bonavolonta, who is the Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s CYBER
  
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• Researchers developing roads that charge your electric car while you're driving

  28-10-2015 01:18
  
  At least two universities are testing or preparing to test wireless charging stations embedded along roadways that will incrementally recharge vehicles as they drive over them.
  Clemson University's International Center for Automotive Research (ICAR) in Greenville, S.C., has been testing stationary wireless vehicle charging and is now preparing to test mobile wireless recharging for vehicles.
  Clemson's R&D project is backed in part by a multimillion-dollar grant from the U.S. Department of E
  
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