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• MongoDB extends database to new users, adds enterprise features

  03-11-2015 22:44
  
  MongoDB moved to open its NoSQL database to a wider range of users — including business analysts, data scientists and even executives — with its latest release, announced today..MongoDB 3.2 adds a number of new tools and features to help data analysts, DBAs and operations teams integrate the database within their existing processes and toolsets. New features include the following:MongoDB Compass.. This graphical tool gives offers the capability to quickly and securely explore databas
  
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• Need a ride home from work? Now you can call Lyft from Slack

  03-11-2015 21:56
  More than a few enterprise users today spend a growing proportion of their work time in Slack's team-communication software, but so far it hasn't been a simple matter to tie in outside apps and services.Back in August Slack rolled out a new "Add to Slack" feature to simplify the process with launch partners including Box, and on Tuesday, it introduced another update designed to make the process even easier.Tapping that Add to Slack button, Slash Commands make it possible for users to simply clic
  
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• Infor says European data stays in Europe with its ERP service

  03-11-2015 21:08
  
  What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas -- and, for enterprise software vendor Infor, what happens in Europe, stays in Europe.At its annual customer meeting in Paris on Tuesday, the company told European Union customers to move their data to its cloud services -- just a week after German data protection authorities told companies handling Europeans' personal information to shun U.S. service providers and keep the data at home.Infor CEO Charles Phillips said that although it's not an issue for most
  
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• Has FCC 'gone off the rails' with latest Wi-Fi blocking fines?

  03-11-2015 21:02
  
  It turns out that critics of the FCC's crackdown over the past year on organizations purposefully blocking consumers' Wi-Fi hotspots might actually have a couple of kindred spirits on the Commission itself.
  In the FCC's announcement this week that it plans to fine a big electrical contractor named M.C. Dean $718,000 for blocking consumers' Wi-Fi connections at the Baltimore Convention Center, it notes that Commissioners Ajit Pai and Michael O'Rielly dissented. The FCC action, however,
  
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• MakerBot boosts desktop 3D printer speed by 30%

  03-11-2015 20:55
  
  3D printer manufacturer MakerBot today announced an upgrade to its machine management and computer aided design (CAD) software that increases printing speed by 30%.
  The new MakerBot Desktop 3.8 software also enables one-click printing, which means once a 3D design file is uploaded, it will immediately begin the print job versus waiting for software to slice the object into its multiple layers.
  Slicing is the process of turning a 3D design into a 3D printable file by determining how many layers
  
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• Larry Page talks Alphabet, security, and Google's long-term vision in Fortune interview

  03-11-2015 20:51
  
  For Larry Page, Alphabet spells “moonshot.”
  That was the overarching subject of the first sit-down in a while for the CEO of the freshly-christened Alphabet, Google’s new parent company. He chatted with Alan Murray at the Fortune Global Forum to talk about where he sees the company going forward with its new structure and increasingly diverse focus. 
  In the rather wide-ranging interview he spoke most passionately about Project Loon, the company’s effort to brin
  
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• Why CIOs need to become 'what people' instead of 'how people'

  03-11-2015 20:24
  
  I was recently talking with Scott McKay, CIO of $10 billion insurance provider Genworth Financial, and he offered the following analogy:
  "In the boardroom, there are chairs around the table and chairs lining the walls. Every chair is occupied by an executive who is highly valued and highly compensated. But there is a clear difference between the people who sit at the table and the people who sit along the wall. The people at the table are making decisions about what the company will do. The peop
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How to recognize project warning signs early

  03-11-2015 20:19
  
  When your health takes a turn for the worst, what do you do? You go to the doctor, right? Well, not everyone does, but you should...and most do. It depends on the warning signs, I guess.Medical scares are real...don't ignore them
  My oldest daughter is pregnant with her first child and going through a difficult pregnancy. She has very similar symptoms to what happened with my wife (her mother) on her first pregnancy. My wife was admitted to the hospital, spent three weeks there on IV's, got the m
  
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• Vivaldi beta browser's trick to lure in power users: Mashing Chrome and Opera together

  03-11-2015 20:17
  
  Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Opera all render the Web, but each has gone its own way in terms of its interface, plugin strategy, performance, and more. Now a new browser targeting power users has blurred the lines: Vivaldi, which puts a feature-packed, Opera-like interface on top of Chromium's open-source platform.
  Vivaldi has been available for some time as a technical preview, and the company claims that 2 million people or so have downloaded it. On Tuesday, the Vivaldi brows
  
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• Intel targets IoT with new Quark chips and free cloud OS

  03-11-2015 20:09
  
  Intel has released new processors and free cloud services as part of its latest push to capitalize on the nascent Internet of Things market.The products include new low-power Quark processors and microcontrollers for devices that will connect to the Internet of Things, and cloud services from its Wind River subsidiary to make it easier for companies to network these devices and upload data for analysis.The promise for organizations is that they can connect devices in their business -- everything
  
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• OneDrive users rage against the Microsoft machine for backpedaling on unlimited storage

  03-11-2015 19:42
  
  Users of Microsoft's OneDrive online storage service on Tuesday railed against the company's decision to ditch its unlimited allowance, calling it a betrayal and asking why all are being penalized for the excesses of a few.
  "Why punish everyday subscribers for those that are abusing your system with possibly illegal content?" asked someone identified only as John in the comment that kicked off more than 600 messages appended to Microsoft's blogged announcement of the changes to OneDrive.
  "I do
  
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• Microsoft OneDrive price hike could push consumers to cloud rivals

  03-11-2015 19:35
  
  What's with companies that promise consumers "unlimited" use of their products and then get bent out of shape when people take them up on the offer? So-called "data hogs" get their download speeds throttled if they consume too much data on their mobile devices, and now Microsoft is inveighing against users who store too much data on its supposedly unlimited OneDrive storage service.
  As if Microsoft's decision to crack down on the tiny percentage of users who, well, use too much storage space wa
  
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• Sprint reports bigger-than-expected loss, stock sags 7%

  03-11-2015 19:20
  
  Sprint's stock fell nearly 7% at mid-day Tuesday after the wireless carrier posted a quarterly loss greater than analysts had predicted and revenues that were down 6% compared to a year ago.
  The carrier also said in a statement that it plans to cut $2 billion or more in operating expenses for its fiscal 2016 year, which begins in April.
  Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure nonetheless pointed to customer momentum and network improvements in the company's second fiscal quarter, which ended Sept. 30. "This
  
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• Mozilla keeps your browsing private with new Tracking Protection feature

  03-11-2015 18:52
  
  Firefox users who want to better hide their browsing habits have a new tool to use, thanks to Mozilla’s launch of Private Browsing with Tracking Protection in its latest browser release on Tuesday.The new feature is an enhancement to Firefox’s Private Browsing mode, which deleted users’ browsing history and cookies after they closed a private window. Tracking Protection adds an extra layer of privacy to that by blocking code embedded in websites that tracks the way people
  
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• Wireless power alliance, with 195 vendors, takes new name

  03-11-2015 18:46
  
  Two of the three wireless charging consortiums today announced they are putting a name to their previously announced merger, which brings 195 member vendors under one umbrella.
  The Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP) and the Power Matters Alliance (PMA) will now be called the AirFuel Alliance.
  The AirFuel Alliance, whose members include AT&T, Samsung and Intel, are pitted against the largest of the wireless charging groups, the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC), which has 222 members. WPC, whi
  
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• Juniper disaggregates even further

  03-11-2015 18:00
  
  Juniper Networks this week unveiled a new access switch supporting 25/50G Ethernet as well as an open version of its Junos operating system for it.
  Juniper says it disaggregated Junos so it can enable third-party application and service support, and enhanced programmability. Disaggregation is the industry practice of breaking the dependencies of hardware and software on each other so they can be sold independently, giving customers more choice in what they purchase and operate.To read this arti
  
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• Google researchers poke holes in Galaxy S6 Edge, show OEMs add risky code

  03-11-2015 17:55
  
  Google's security researchers hunted for bugs in Samsung's Galaxy S6 Edge phone as part of an experiment to see how vulnerable the code that manufacturers add to Android can be. It's pretty bad.The researchers found 11 vulnerabilities in Samsung's code that could be exploited to create files with system privileges, steal the user's emails, execute code in the kernel and escalate the privilege of unprivileged applications."Overall, we found a substantial number of high-severity issues, though the
  
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• IBM pumps up its hybrid-cloud muscle with Gravitant buy

  03-11-2015 17:43
  
  The hybrid cloud is widely expected to be a key force in enterprise computing in the coming years, so it's no wonder vendors are scrambling to bolster their capabilities on that front. Case in point: IBM on Tuesday bought Gravitant, a maker of brokerage software designed ease the purchase and management of software and services across mixed cloud platforms.Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Founded in 2004, Texas-based Gravitant develops cloud-based software designed to make it easier for orga
  
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• Twitter ditches stars for hearts to become less confusing to newbies

  03-11-2015 17:33
  
  Every social network has a way of letting you show that you like, love, or agree with a post. Facebook has the thumbs-up sign. Instagram has hearts. Since 2006, Twitter has used bright yellow stars, known to users as favorites, to let people show appreciation for tweets. But the platform is under pressure to add new users and prove it’s not just a torrential flood of news that’s impossible to keep up with, so its new solution: replace stars with hearts.
  The difference between hearti
  
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• 8 ecommerce categories that will be hot in 2016

  03-11-2015 17:11
  
  Forecasters predict that in 2016 ecommerce sales in the United States alone should exceed $550 billion dollars. So which ecommerce categories will or will continue to be ripe for new business and growth in the coming year? Following are eight predictions.1. Activewear. “Activewear and sporting goods retailers will see a boom in digital commerce growth in 2016,” says Rick Kenney, director, Strategic Initiatives, Demandware, an enterprise cloud ecommerce platform provider. “
  
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• ExtraHop appliance blends historical data with real-time wire data

  03-11-2015 17:01
  
  Since its launch in 2007, ExtraHop, a specialist in real-time wire data analytics, has had a handle on data-in-motion. Wire data encompasses all network, client, application, infrastructure and business data, and ExtraHop's platform is able to perform analytics on that wire data at line rate — up to a sustained 20Gbps. But with Tuesday's release of the new ExtraHop Explore appliance, the company is adding the ability to perform wire data analytics on data-at-rest as well."Our existing appl
  
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• You'll only be able to buy Windows 7 PCs for one more year

  03-11-2015 16:14
  Halloween 2016 could be especially frightful for Windows 7 fans, as it’s the last day PC makers will be allowed to pre-install the aging operating system.
  As ZDNet’s Ed Bott points out, Microsoft recently updated its Windows lifecycle page to include an end date for Windows 7 PC sales. That date is October 31, 2016, which is also the same day that Windows 8.1 PC sales will cease. From then onward, all PCs must come with Windows 10 pre-installed.
  The end of sales date for Windows 7 i
  
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• East European botnet targets Russian banks

  03-11-2015 16:00
  
  Cybercriminals based in Russia and Eastern Europe typically avoid targets in their home countries, but a botnet called Tinba is proving to be an exception, according to a new report from the Dell SecureWorks’ Counter Threat Unit.
  The Tinba Banking Trojan, also known as Tiny Banker because of its small file size, is targeting the biggest banks and payment service providers in Russia, said Brett Stone-Gross, senior security researcher at Dell SecureWorks.
  It is believed to be controlled by
  
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• Google's Inbox uses machine learning to speed up email replies

  03-11-2015 15:31
  
  Not every email deserves a handcrafted response. Sometimes, all it takes is a sentence to answer the one burning question that someone has dropped in your inbox, which is why Google is using the power of machine learning to make email triage a little bit faster.The company announced a new Smart Replies feature for its Inbox email client on Tuesday, which gives users up to three quick options to send back in reply to emails based on a machine learning analysis of the message's content. People can
  
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• Google boosts its enterprise chops with Apps for Work partnerships

  03-11-2015 15:30
  
  Google Apps for Work continues to forge ahead, with the company revealing Tuesday today that 2 million businesses are now paying to use some part of its online productivity suite.The service, which includes a business-specific version of Gmail and a version of Google Drive that lets employees work together, competes against established players like Microsoft as well as newcomers like Dropbox and Quip.As part of its push to expand the reach of the product, Google announced eight "recomm
  
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• Crucial announces laptop SSD line that sells for 30 cents a gigabyte

  03-11-2015 15:00
  
  Crucial Technology today announced its least expensive SSD line, which will retail for 30 cents per gigabyte for models with up to 960GB capacity.
  The Crucial BX200 SSD line will be offered in three capacities: 240GB, 480GB and 960GB with retail prices of $84.99, $149.99 and $299.99, respectively.
  The new SSD prices are about 5 cents per gigabyte less than Crucial's previous consumer SSD, the BX100. For example, the 1TB model of the BX100 retailed for $342.
  By comparison, Samsung's lowest cost
  
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• 8 lessons Apple is learning from 8 mobile health apps

  03-11-2015 14:53
  
  There's an app for...what? Asthma? Epilepsy? Autism?
  After first telling folks nearly six years ago that "there's an app for that," Apple is now working with big name university medical schools and development partners on apps for eight different maladies. Many thousands of iPhone users have already downloaded these apps from Apple's App Store. Meanwhile, Apple and its prestigious partners are learning valuable lessons about the types of features iPhone owners will happily use in the interests
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How IT can win over management teams and influence boards

  03-11-2015 14:33
  
  I took a leaf out of the famous Dale Carnegie book title: How to Win Friends & Influence People. In the modern technology driven world that title could be: How CIOs Can Win Over Management Teams and Influence Boards.Most non-IT executives have in-depth knowledge of enterprise operations. In my years as an IT leader, I have had multiple in-depth discussions with executives on order to cash, procure to pay and design to release business flows. Executives understand challenges with manufacturin
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The new Apple TV needs dark mode in tvOS

  03-11-2015 14:27
  Apple has usually gotten praise for its user interfaces over the years. But one area where it has stumbled at times is in the sheer brightness of its software. The recent release of the new Apple TV has resulted in a reddit thread about the lack of a dark mode in tvOS. Some Apple redditors feel that the new Apple TV's interface is simply too bright for darkened living rooms.I'll share my own thoughts below, but here's a sample of the discussion thread:
  Masterbrew: ”As nice as the new inter
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: New Apple TV needs dark mode in tvOS

  03-11-2015 14:27
  Apple has usually gotten praise for its user interfaces over the years. But one area where it has stumbled at times is in the sheer brightness of its software. The recent release of the new Apple TV has resulted in a reddit thread about the lack of a dark mode in tvOS. Some Apple redditors feel that the new Apple TV's interface is simply too bright for darkened living rooms.
  I'll share my own thoughts below, but here's a sample of the discussion thread:Masterbrew: ”As nice as the new inte
  
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• Apple Watch is $50 cheaper if you also buy an iPhone

  03-11-2015 13:58
  
  For the first time since it launched, Apple is cutting the price of the Apple Watch but only if you end up spending more at the Apple Store.
  On Monday CNET reported that some Apple Stores have started selling the Apple Watch with a $50 discount if customers purchase it along any new iPhone. Currently, the bundle discount is only available in select Apple Store locations in Northern California and the Boston metro area.
  This limited-time promotion is only available in stores and not online at Ap
  
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• Federation: The future of cloud

  03-11-2015 13:57
  
  There was much discussion last month about predicting the future, as October 21 2015 marked the futuristic date that Marty McFly visited in the second Back to the Future movie. So it’s appropriate that many in the IT community are taking out their hoverboards and trying to predict the future of cloud computing as well.
  Some see the future of cloud computing as one big public cloud.  Others believe that enterprises will ultimately build a single large cloud to host all their corporate
  
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• OneDrive dumps unlimited storage, slashes free storage amount by two-thirds

  03-11-2015 13:51
  Microsoft announced late Monday that it would no longer provide unlimited OneDrive storage to Office 365 home subscribers and that it’s slashing the amount of free OneDrive storage it provides by a whopping two-thirds.
  The reason for ditching the unlimited storage, Microsoft said in a blog post, is that “a small number of users” really went for it by backing up multiple PCs, entire movie collections, and DVR recordings to OneDrive. Microsoft says these users’ excessive s
  
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• Microsoft ends Windows 7 Pro reprieve on new PCs

  03-11-2015 13:31
  
  Microsoft has quietly ended a reprieve for Windows 7 Professional, telling computer makers that they must stop building new PCs with the operating system in 12 months.
  The new deadline of Oct. 31, 2016, was added to the Windows lifecycle fact sheet some time between late Thursday and mid-day Saturday, according to search caches. After the deadline, OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) will be barred from pre-loading Windows 7 Professional on new systems, and will be able to sell only those t
  
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• Revealed: The top 10 apps that companies hate

  03-11-2015 13:25
  Companies are wary about what employees are doing on their smartphones. Be it data loss or time-wasting, a growing number of employers are actively stopping staff from using certain apps on company-controlled devices.
  After surveying the roughly 6,000 companies that uses its mobile security management software, MobileIron determined the top 10 consumer apps that are most often blocked or blacklisted at companies:Dropbox
  Angry Birds
  Facebook
  Microsoft OneDrive
  Google Drive
  Box
  Whatsapp
  Twitter
  S
  
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• How to solve the STEM gender equality equation

  03-11-2015 13:20
  
  It wasn't until Christianne M. Corbett began working as an industrial designer that she gave serious thought to the lack of women in computing and engineering. The desire to explore the underlying reasons for the underrepresentation of women in these fields was fueled by her master's degree in cultural anthropology, prompting her to pursue a Ph.D. in sociology in an effort to get to the bottom of these issues.
  Corbett, American Association of University Women (AAUW) senior researcher and Catheri
  
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• 10 tips to meet your project planning goals

  03-11-2015 13:06
  
  If you’re a project manager, chances are your daily calendar is already filled from the moment you sit down at your desk to whatever time of day – or evening, most likely – you clock out. Many people at all levels of the enterprise rely heavily on you to have a solid grasp on all aspects of project management, including timing, status and direction of projects, at all times.Since your time is limited and valuable, here are some specific areas where things have the potential to
  
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• Audi’s A3 Sportback e-tron can’t fix the diesel scandal, but it’s a modestly green start

  03-11-2015 13:00
  
  Audi’s A3 Sportback e-tron couldn’t have arrived at a better—or worse—time. Six weeks ago, Audi’s parent company, Volkswagen, was outed for cheating on diesel emissions tests. So Audi’s first foray into plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) buffs up, if only a little, VW’s tarnished reputation in the green space. That’s a good thing.
  On the flipside, because the VW scandal is so atrocious, the e-trons are suddenly under extra pressure to make u
  
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• 14 DRaaS vendors that will rescue you in a pinch

  03-11-2015 12:51
  
  To the rescueImage by Flickr: Beverley Goodwin According to a Gartner report, the Disaster Recovery as a Service market originally emerged to address IT organizations' need to support increasingly aggressive recovery-time targets and more frequent and lower-cost testing while understaffed, or without requiring a significant time commitment by existing IT staff.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• Indy speedway CIO says a sense of urgency drives decision-making

  03-11-2015 12:30
  
  Few CIOs provide services for the diversity of business operations that Rhonda Winter does. As CIO at Hulman & Co., owner of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Winter and her IT staff of 12 full-timers and two contractors must ensure that tech systems at the famous track are ready for the iconic Indianapolis 500, numerous other races and big-time nonracing events like this year's July 4 Rolling Stones concert. Winter's team also delivers IT services to Hulman's IMS Productions video productio
  
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• Economische positie Nederland in gevaar door gebrek aan digitale weerbaarheid

  03-11-2015 10:03
  Het is van groot belang dat het Nederlandse onderwijs en bedrijfsleven meer aandacht schenken aan cyber security. De digitale toekomst van Nederland is in het geding en dat kan gevolgen hebben voor onze positie als een van de meest concurrerende economieën in de wereld, zegt de Cyber Security Raad (CSR), een... lees meer
  
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• Legislation aims to ban use of stingrays without warrants

  03-11-2015 09:16
  New legislation introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives aims to prohibit federal, state and local government agencies from using without a warrant so-called stingrays or cell-site simulators often used to intercept mobile communications.Stingrays or “IMSI catchers” track the location of mobile phones by mimicking cellphone towers. The use of this technology without a warrant by law enforcement has been criticized by civil rights groups.The new legislation will try to implemen
  
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• Microsoft shrinks OneDrive for Office 365 customers

  03-11-2015 07:46
  
  Microsoft is ending its unlimited OneDrive cloud storage plan and will put a cap of 1TB on storage for Office 365 consumers.The company said its earlier unlimited storage offer had been misused by a few users of its Office 365 Home, Personal or University application, who backed up "numerous PCs and stored entire movie collections and DVR recordings," amounting at times to 75TB per user or 14,000 times the average, the OneDrive Team said in a blog post late Monday."Instead of focusing on extreme
  
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• Amazon.com to open brick-and-mortar bookstore in Seattle

  03-11-2015 05:39
  Considered the bane of many brick-and-mortar bookshops, Amazon.com is ironically entering the business with a physical bookstore it is opening in Seattle on Tuesday.The online retailer sees the store that it is opening in University Village as a physical extension of its online business.The book store follows several steps taken by Amazon to offer physical outlets to its customers, including order pick up and return counters in shopping centers and staffed pick-up and drop-off locations at unive
  
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• PageFair says small percentage of users were at risk from attack

  03-11-2015 03:58
  PageFair, an Irish ad analytics company, said Monday a small percentage of users were at risk after attackers compromised its systems over the weekend.CEO Sean Blanchfield wrote that 501 publishers that use the company's javascript tag were affected.Ninety percent of publishers have less than ten million page views per month, and 60 percent have less than one million page views per month, he wrote.PageFair has calculated that about 2.3 percent of the visitors to those sites would have been at ri
  
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• Winner claimed in $1 million iOS 9 hacking contest

  03-11-2015 02:39
  
  A team of security researchers may have found a way to remotely penetrate the defenses of Apple's latest mobile OS, making them eligible for a $1 million reward.
  The money was offered in a contest run by a Washington, D.C.-based company called Zerodium, which is in the controversial business of buying and selling information about software vulnerabilities.
  It congratulated the winning team on Twitter Monday, though it didn't identify the researchers or provide any details of
  
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• EPA slams VW for more emissions cheating, now involving Porsche and Audi

  03-11-2015 02:31
  
  The EPA today accused Volkswagen AG of a second series of emissions violations that include 10,000 U.S. passenger vehicles whose model years date from 2014 through 2016.
  The vehicles covered by today's notice of violation (NOV) of the Clean Air Act (CAA) are the 3.0-liter diesel engine versions of the 2014 VW Touareg, the 2015 Porsche Cayenne and the 2016 Audi A6 Quattro, A7 Quattro, A8, A8L and Q5.
  The most recent vehicles in violation of EPA emission standards were emitting up to nine times t
  
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• FCC strikes again on Wi-Fi blocking: Hilton, big electrical contractor fined thousands

  03-11-2015 02:29
  
  The FCC isn’t kidding around in going after Wi-Fi blockers: Now it has slapped big electrical contracting company M.C. Dean with a $718,000 fine for blocking consumers’ Wi-Fi connections and has proposed a $25,000 fine for Hilton Worldwide for “apparent obstruction of an investigation” into whether Hilton blocked consumers’ Wi-Fi devices.
  Word of this punishment comes on the heels of the FCC hitting Smart City, an ISP for convention centers and hotels, with a $750,
  
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• Don’t throw out that old phone — turn it into a privacy device

  03-11-2015 02:27
  
  Most forms of communication used by enterprises these days are highly prone to being intercepted, whether by law enforcement, cyberthieves, corporate spies, or wayward employees and contractors. That leaves enterprise IT open to new approaches to safeguard communications. I just saw one creative idea on the Lifehacker website suggesting that outdated mobile devices could be used as top-secret, Wi-Fi-based privacy devices.
  The core of this idea is that old smartphones that are no longer tied to
  
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• Apple TV review: Big steps forward, but not a revolution

  03-11-2015 02:16
  
  Apple finally updated its Apple TV set-top box, which had remained virtually unchanged for years, since going 1080p in 2012. The new version is faster, easier to use, and less frustrating, at least most of the time. What it isn’t is a revolution—everything Apple added already existed in its competitors.
  An App Store and a microphone-equipped remote for voice search are both excellent features to have, and they bring the Apple TV closer to the Amazon Fire TV and Roku. But Apple still
  
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