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• Apple hit with $626M damages in case filed by patent licensing firm

  03-02-2016 23:27
  
  A jury in Texas has decided Apple must pay $626 million for infringing four patents held by a Nevada-based patent licensing company.The patents cover technology used in Apple's VPN on Demand software back to 2009, its FaceTime messaging system back to 2010, and its iMessage software.The trial follows one in 2012 in which Apple was found to infringe on Virnet X patents but managed to overturn the verdict on appeal.On Wednesday, a jury in the Eastern District of Texas found for VirnetX and ag
  
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• Apple hit with $626 million damages in patent case

  03-02-2016 23:27
  
  A jury in Texas has decided Apple must pay $626 million for infringing four patents held by a Nevada-based patent licensing company.The patents cover technology used in Apple's VPN software and its iMessage and FaceTime messaging systems. The trial follows one in 2012 in which Apple was found to infringe on Virnet X patents but managed to overturn the verdict on appeal.On Wednesday, a jury in the Eastern District of Texas found for VirnetX and against Apple on all counts.The Eastern Distric
  
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• IoT bij negen op de tien organisaties in Nederland op de agenda

  03-02-2016 23:15
  90% van de bedrijven met meer dan 100 werknemers is op enigerlei wijze bezig met het Internet of Things. Een derde daarvan heeft een of meerdere toepassingen in productie. Organisaties met een IoT-budget besteden er jaarlijks gemiddeld 2,5 miljoen euro aan. Daarop duidt onderzoek in opdracht van dienstverlener... lees meer
  
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• Lifting telemedicine limits would save Medicare $1.8B over 10 years

  03-02-2016 23:13
  
  Reimbursing physicians for consulting with and monitoring Medicare patients at home could yield significant savings, according to a new study spurred by recently proposed legislation.
  Medicare fee for service (FFS) already allows reimbursement for telehealth services provided to patients at rural area health clinics, but not from the patient's home.
  A new bill that has bipartisan congressional support would expand Medicare reimbursement of telehealth consultations and remote patient monitoring
  
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• Cisco will get stronger in IoT by buying Jasper for $1.4 billion

  03-02-2016 22:58
  
  Cisco Systems plans to acquire Internet of Things platform company Jasper Technologies for more than US$1.4 billion, giving the networking giant an even larger role in enterprises' growing use of IoT.Jasper connects devices to the Internet through 27 service-provider groups around the world and runs a SaaS (software as a service) platform for managing the connectivity of those devices. This makes it easier for enterprises to take advantage of IoT to add new service revenue streams or change a bu
  
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• Microsoft's Power BI visualizations go public with new 'publish to web' feature

  03-02-2016 22:55
  
  Microsoft's Power BI data visualization service is making it possible for companies to share their business information with the world in an interactive format. On Tuesday, Microsoft launched the beta version of a new publish to web feature that lets people take Power BI dashboards (which display information from a variety of data sources) and show them off on the web in a live-updating format.The feature means that companies' Power BI use can work double duty as both an internal tool to he
  
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• Google is said to endorse ARM server chips, but don't get excited yet

  03-02-2016 22:20
  
  Google is said to be working with Qualcomm to design servers based on ARM processors, which would be a significant endorsement for ARM as it tries to challenge Intel's dominance in data centers.Google will give its public backing for Qualcomm's chips at an investor meeting next week, according to a Bloomberg report Wednesday that cities unnamed sources. If the chips meets certain performance goals, the report says, Google will commit to using them.It would be a big vote of confidence for both AR
  
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• Q&A: What the new NetApp plus SolidFire combo means for storage buyers

  03-02-2016 21:06
  
  This week, storage giant NetApp completed its buyout of SolidFire, one of the most successful early entrants in the flash storage market. In this installment of the IDG CEO Interview Series, SolidFire CEO Dave Wright talked with Chief Content Officer John Gallant about what drove the NetApp deal and what customers of the two companies can expect in the months ahead.One of the areas that I was interested in is your software-only approach to this. How close do you think enterprises are to a softw
  
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• CSO Explainer: What is social engineering?

  03-02-2016 21:02
  
  Editor’s note: CSO is embarking on creating some new video animations that help explain security terms and concepts. The goal is not to explain something that you, the reader, is already likely to know, but rather to present these concepts in an easy-to-share format for employees to enhance awareness in the workplace, or even with friends and relatives (like your Uncle George, who may fall victim to one of these ploys). Let us know if there are some other security terms and concepts you&r
  
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• The specter of Comcast as a wireless carrier is more than a little frightening

  03-02-2016 20:57
  
  If the thought of Comcast supplying your cable, phone, Internet access and wireless service scares you, then hide under the covers: Comcast said Wednesday it's going to participate in the wireless spectrum offering the government will hold this spring.
  Comcast isn’t obligated to bid. The company has simply declared its intention to participate. If the company bids and wins rights to a portion of the wireless spectrum that the FCC is offering up, then the most likely options would inc
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: OpenStack survey reveals potential, potholes

  03-02-2016 20:54
  
  OpenStack is rapidly gaining adoption and maturity, with 60% of deployments in production compared to just 32% reported less than two years ago, according to OpenStack's October 2015 user survey. It is the biggest open source IaaS (infrastructure as a service) player, with backing from major IT vendors, including Red Hat, SUSE, Canonical, Rackspace, HP, IBM, CISCO, Mirantis, VMWare and AT&T, to name a few. And it competes head-to-head against the likes of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azur
  
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• Microsoft pushes Windows 10 upgrade using tactic it once called 'a mistake'

  03-02-2016 20:47
  
  Microsoft has begun to deliver the Windows 10 upgrade to eligible Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 PCs through Windows Update, making good on an October announcement.
  A company spokeswoman confirmed that the Windows 10 upgrade is reaching customers' systems.
  More than three months ago, Terry Myerson, the executive who leads the operating system and devices group, said that the Windows 10 upgrade would be pushed to users via Windows Update, the primary maintenance service for its OSes.To read this arti
  
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• As 5G approaches, 3G and 4G are still getting faster

  03-02-2016 20:16
  
  Most of the excitement at Mobile World Congress this month will be about 5G, which won't officially exist until 2020. But vendors will also be showing off new ways to speed up the networks people are using now.That means more than 4G, because while LTE gets a lot of press, older services are more common than you might think. Just over half of the world's mobile subscriptions (51 percent) are for 2G service only, according to Tolaga Research analyst Phil Marshall. Almost one-third are limited to
  
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• CIOs must make risky bets to become CEOs

  03-02-2016 19:51
  
  HALF MOON BAY, Calif. -- Implementing technologies to drive strategic advantages, coupled with the willingness to accept additional responsibilities and challenges, are table stakes for CIOs who aspire to become CEOs. That’s the advice of Dawn Lepore, who as CIO of Charles Schwab boosted her stock with an ambitious move to the Internet."To take any CEO job, things change so rapidly, the marketplace changes, competition changes, you have to show that you can take on something that you've ne
  
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• New $12m project aims to 'reverse-engineer' the brain

  03-02-2016 19:30
  Teaching computers to learn the way we do is widely considered an important step toward better artificial intelligence, but it's hard to achieve without a good understanding of how we think. With that premise in mind, a new $12 million effort launched Wednesday with aims to "reverse-engineer" the human brain.Led by Tai Sing Lee, a professor in Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC), the five-year project seeks to unlock th
  
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• Google Fiber to be free for select affordable housing residents

  03-02-2016 19:20
  
  Google Fiber on Wednesday announced free gigabit Internet service to residents of selected public housing projects connected to its fiber optic service in U.S. cities.
  The program was launched at West Bluff, an affordable housing community in Kansas City, Mo., where 100 homes have been connected to Google Fiber. Across the Kansas City area, Google is now working with affordable housing providers to connect as many as nine properties that could reach more than 1,300 local families.
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• Wait until April before relying on Privacy Shield, EU privacy watchdogs warn

  03-02-2016 18:01
  
  Businesses that need to transfer European Union citizens' personal data to the U.S. should wait until at least mid-April before relying on the Privacy Shield to provide legal protection -- and in the meantime, they shouldn't count too much on alternative mechanisms for legalizing such transfers, Europe's data protection authorities warned Wednesday.April is when the DPAs hope to have concluded their legal analysis of the replacement for Safe Harbor that was unveiled on Tuesday. But that time fra
  
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• Netanyahu: 'I want Israel to become a cyberpower'

  03-02-2016 17:07
  
  EDITOR’S NOTE: Israel has a long tradition of delivering security products for enterprise IT, dating back to Check Point introducing the first firewall 20 years ago. Today, Israel exports $6 billion in cyber technology and accounts for a fifth of the world’s private investment in cyber. Network World’s David Strom attended last week’s CyberTech 2016 conference in Tel Aviv and filed this report.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider
  
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• Cisco sees eight-fold increase in mobile data by 2020

  03-02-2016 16:54
  
  Mobile data traffic is expected to grow eight-fold in the next five years, according to a forecast by Cisco released Wednesday.
  The increase will have a dramatic impact on businesses, as IT managers struggle to securely support mobile workers with wearables and other smart devices that increasingly rely on mobile video. Cisco said that smartphones alone will account for 81% of global mobile traffic by 2020.
  In 2020, mobile data traffic will reach 367 exabytes, up from 44 exabytes in 2015, Cisco
  
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• YouTube may get live 360-degree videos

  03-02-2016 16:45
  
  The virtual reality revolution is almost here, and YouTube wants to be ready for it.
  The Google-owned property is getting ready to roll out live 360-degree videos, according to Buzzfeed. This would allow users to watch live concerts and other events with a virtual reality headset or just pan around the scene with a mobile device. A launch date for the purported live 360-degree video service is unknown.
  To get ready for live streaming, YouTube has been meeting with 360-degree camera makers, Buzz
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Why Apple rolls in iPhone profits while Android manufacturers starve for cash

  03-02-2016 16:32
  According to a recent article in Apple Insider, Apple is now taking in 94% of the smartphone profits globally. And this is happening despite the fact that the company only sells about 14.5 percent of the total volume of smartphones.Meanwhile the situation among Android device manufacturers has become quite grim. Many of them can't make profits on their Android phones, despite flooding the market with various models.A writer at The Verge recently explored the question of why Android manufacturers
  
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• Rackspace to resell PLUMgrid OpenStack SDN

  03-02-2016 16:18
  
  SDN start-up PLUMgrid received a major endorsement from an OpenStack pioneer this week with a worldwide resale agreement with cloud provider Rackspace.
  Rackspace will resell PLUMgrid’s full SDN product line, including its Open Networking Suite for OpenStack, CloudApex, and support and training services. The agreement is non-exclusive, meaning Rackspace also has the option to resell SDN products from PLUMgrid competitors, and PLUMgrid can sell through other cloud providers.
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• What you need to know about Comcast's new gigabit Internet service

  03-02-2016 16:14
  
  Comcast customers in five U.S. cities will have access to 1 Gigabit per second (Gbps) broadband service by the end of the year, the cable giant said this week.
  However, Comcast's official announcement left some key questions unanswered. The company didn't say, for example, how much the service or the special modems needed to use it will cost, and whether monthly data caps, an existing and unwelcome feature of Comcast service in some cities, will apply.To read this article in full or to lea
  
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• Socat vulnerability shows that crypto backdoors can be hard to spot

  03-02-2016 16:09
  Developers of the Socat networking tool have fixed a cryptographic flaw that left communications open to eavesdropping for over a year. The error is so serious that members of the security community believe it could be an intentional backdoor.Socat is a more complex and feature-rich reimplementation of netcat, a cross-platform networking service that can establish outbound and inbound connections on different ports and protocols. It is also a popular tool for network debugging.Socat can create e
  
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• Microsoft, Google earnings shed light on cloud war

  03-02-2016 16:04
  
  Microsoft and Google are racing to win business customers and build loyalty in the fast-moving business collaboration and productivity markets. In recently released earnings reports, both companies said they plan to accelerate collaboration efforts and related investments in 2016, to capitalize on the enterprise shift to the cloud.Only 13 percent of businesses currently use either Office 365 or Google for Work, according to new research from Gartner, which means massive opportunities for growth
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Why you need to make 2016 the year of the customer

  03-02-2016 15:12
  
  Forrester Research claim that many CIOs are living in the past, with their lives focused on internal operations. According to Bobby Cameron of Forrester, in a report on digital transformation, and in an interview with TechTarget, there is a lot of immaturity still around in CIOs that can lead to career-threatening issues.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Top 3 reasons CFOs migrate to a cloud-based accounting system

  03-02-2016 15:09
  
  Reason #1: The current vendor no longer supports the product.
  Cloud applications are here to stay. In the next few years, the vast majority of companies will be running their back office systems in the cloud. If you take a close look at the legacy ERP vendors, every single one of them is either building a cloud product or trying to put a cloud veneer on their existing products (be careful, though not all clouds are equal). They are pushing the vast majority of their R&D dollars to their clou
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: If tech implementation is not the first thing to focus on, what is?

  03-02-2016 15:06
  
  Implementation doesn’t automatically deliver strategic outcomes
  A lot of business literature is excellent, but some of them give us the impression that strategy execution is about implementation and deployment. Sadly, we frequently see the same idea in practice as well. Most software projects are implemented passionately — in an effective and efficient manner. Increasingly, software is also deployed with great care and there's celebration when software goes live. Sooner or later thou
  
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• Tech cos dominate ranking of top 20 employee benefits and perks

  03-02-2016 15:01
  
  Offering generous benefits and perks can be an advantage for employers when competition for talent is tight. Glassdoor, the jobs and career marketplace, today released its ranking of the top 20 employee benefits and perks.Among the standout companies in Glassdoor’s new ranking, 14 out of 20 are in the consumer or enterprise tech industry. The top 20 list is, by design, intended to single out some of the more unique benefits employees are enjoying at companies. It doesn’t list every b
  
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• Why Microsoft continues to embrace the freemium model

  03-02-2016 14:41
  
  When it comes to the cloud, Microsoft is taking a page out of Apple's playbook.For evidence, look no further than Chris Capossela, Microsoft's chief marketing officer. Speaking on a recent podcast, he talked about users of the company's cloud products experiencing "the delight of the engineering work." And if that word "delight" sounds familiar it's probably because it is one that Apple loves to use. As in "surprise and delight." Or "The first thing we ask is: What do we want people to feel? Del
  
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• Day in the life of a social CIO: Oliver Bussmann of UBS

  03-02-2016 14:00
  
  During his 26 years in IT, Oliver Bussmann transformed large banking and insurance businesses. Today, as he navigates the modern IT landscape, Bussmann finds his greatest inspiration in an unlikely place: social media sites. The global CIO of Swiss bank UBS says social media is both an exciting way to express his opinions online and a critical tool for today's IT executive. Bussmann's social media journey started six years ago, and he has since collected more than 15,000 followers on Twitte
  
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• China's next five-year plan offers preview of cybersecurity targets

  03-02-2016 14:00
  
  Is your industry next in line to be targeted by China's government-sponsored hackers? To find out, look at China's latest five-year plan, suggests a global threat report released this morning.
  The report covers attacks by nation states, cybercriminals and hacktivists.
  "China is the biggest offender that we can see," said Adam Meyers, vice president of intelligence at security vendor CrowdStrike, which produced the report.
  The country is mostly focused on collecting intelligence that supports it
  
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• Startup mimics security analyst’s decision making, learns from humans

  03-02-2016 13:30
  
  Startup PatternEx with roots in MIT’s artificial intelligence lab is launching a security platform it says employs artificial intelligence by learning from input it gets from human security analysts about data exfiltration and bank fraud incidents that it flags.
  It monitors firewall logs and traffic in and out of the network and alerts customer analysts of suspicious traffic that might represent malware connecting to command and control servers or transferring data out of the network, say
  
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• Dell Skylake XPS 13 review: The best ultrabook just got better

  03-02-2016 12:30
  
  At first glance, most would dismiss Dell’s 2016 refresh of the XPS 13 as minor at best. If you dig into the details though, the upgrade to arguably the best ultrabook of last year is a worthy one.
  The highlights are the move from the 5th-gen Broadwell Intel chip to a 6th-gen Skylake chip and the inclusion of a rather cool USB-C implementation that we’ll get into later, but there's a whole lot more here.
  If you didn’t catch our review of the XPS 13 last year, I can sum it up as
  
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• MIT takes a page from Tony Stark, edges closer to an ARC fusion reactor

  03-02-2016 12:21
  
  For the past 20 years, MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) has been experimenting with nuclear fusion through the world's smallest tokamak-type (doughnut-shaped) nuclear fusion device -- the Alcator C-Mod.
  The goal? To produce the world's smallest fusion reactor -- one that crushes a doughnut-shaped fusion reaction into a 3.3 meter radius -- three of which could power a city the size of Boston.
  And MIT researchers are getting close to their goal, despite a recent cut in federal fundin
  
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• Healthy smartwatch growth seen after slow 2015

  03-02-2016 12:15
  
  Despite slower than expected sales last year, smartwatch sales will grow at a healthy rate and will have the highest revenue potential of all wearables through 2019, according to Gartner.
  The market research firm expects global smartwatch sales to reach $11.5 billion in 2016, then jump to $17.5 billion in 2019.
  On Tuesday, Gartner said about 30 million smartwatches were sold globally in 2015, and that number is expected to reach 50 million in 2016, then nearly 67 million in 2017. Skipping to 20
  
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• IT-middenmanagement ondersteunt transformatie onvoldoende

  03-02-2016 12:11
  Bij bedrijven die hun digitale businessmodellen willen aanpassen zouden wel eens de verkeerde mensen verantwoordelijk kunnen zijn voor het IT-middenmanagement, zodat substantiële veranderingen niet worden doorgevoerd. Dat zei Peter Sondergaard, VP bij Gartner, gisteren op de CIO Network Conference van de Wall... lees meer
  
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• What works where: Outlook vs. Outlook vs. native apps

  03-02-2016 12:00
  
  Microsoft is in the midst of reworking its Outlook clients and server software to truly support its mission to bring its Office communications tools everywhere: the Mail, Calendar, People (contacts), and Notes components in Outlook. (I did not include OneNote because it does not work through Exchange but through the still-unfinished OneDrive for Business.) In the meantime, Microsoft has a hodgepodge of clients whose capabilities vary widely, which can bedevil multiplatform organizations.To read
  
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• Cheerp creator: Our C++-to-JavaScript compiler beats Emscripten

  03-02-2016 12:00
  
  Cheerp, a C++ compiler that generates JavaScript code for use in any browser, is being upgraded this week with improved performance, reduced output code size, and  backing for 64-bit integers.
  Open source Cheerp, from Leaning Technologies, is based on LLVM, which features a set of modular, reusable compiler technologies. Version 1.2, introduced this week, "comes with some big performance improvements, both in execution time and in startup time," according to a blog post by Leaning Technolo
  
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• Apple, don’t make the smaller iPhone a second-class device

  03-02-2016 12:00
  Remember when Tim Cook explained why the iPhone 5 was just exactly the right size?
  The iPhone 5 offers a new, 4-inch Retina display, which is the most advanced display in the industry. No one comes close to matching the level of quality as the Retina display. It also provides a larger screen size for iPhone customers without sacrificing the one-handed ease of use that our customers love. We put a lot of thinking into screen size and believe we’ve picked the right one.
  That was in an earni
  
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• 10 essential OS X command-line tips for power users

  03-02-2016 12:00
  
  For most casual users, the OS X command line, accessed via the Terminal app, is at least as murky and daunting as the Windows Command Prompt, to be used only in times of extreme distress. For those users, this is usually when something has gone inexplicably wrong, and typing cryptic commands into the prompt seems the only hope for a cure. Of course, most likely they’re actually restarting a launchd service or deleting a plist file.
  To those familiar with the Unix shell, the command line o
  
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• 16 employee engagement trends that will shake up IT in 2016

  03-02-2016 11:00
  
  Employee engagement trends for 2016In an era of Glassdoor-driven transparency, every corporate decision can now be put on public display for all employees and potential employees to view and consider. This kind of exposure is pushing organizational culture and employee engagement into the spotlight and making engagement a major competitive advantage, according to a recent Bersin report by Deloitte, "Culture and engagement: the naked organization."To grasp how this emphasis on employee engagement
  
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• Microsoft confirms SwiftKey buy, says it will continue developing Android and iOS apps

  03-02-2016 10:55
  
  Microsoft is buying SwiftKey, the developer of a popular software keyboard for Android and iOS phones -- even though it already has its own software keyboard, Word Flow.Software keyboards such as SwiftKey and Word Flow are used to speed up input: Rather than pecking at individual letters, users slide their finger from one letter to another, drawing a shape on the touchscreen. The software analyses the pattern to identify which word they are trying to type.Microsoft's executive vice president for
  
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• EU, U.S. data-transfer deal will never work

  03-02-2016 04:18
  
  News hit Tuesday (Feb. 2) that the U.S. and the European Union had agreed to a deal on data transfers. The deal, according to an initial report from The Wall Street Journal, had the U.S. agreeing to “binding assurances that personal information about Europeans wouldn’t be subject to mass surveillance when it is copied to U.S. servers.” (Read the IDG News Service story here.)
  I hoped that something had been lost in translation from the Brussels agreement, bu
  
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• Microsoft reportedly buying AI-powered software keyboard maker SwiftKey

  03-02-2016 02:15
  
  Microsoft will pay around $250 million to acquire SwiftKey, the company behind a popular keyboard for iOS and Android, according to a report in the Financial Times Tuesday. The acquisition would be an interesting buy for Microsoft, which has been on a buying spree lately. SwiftKey brings a lot to the table -- it's a wildly popular replacement for both the stock iOS and Android keyboards, known for the artificial intelligence that recommends the next word users will type. To read this a
  
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• How Sigfox plans to spread its low-power IoT network across the U.S.

  03-02-2016 01:59
  
  Sigfox, a French networking company whose technology is already supporting large Internet of Things (IoT) deployments in several countries in Europe, has its sights set on the U.S. market.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• Stratasys enables more than 1,000 colors via Photoshop on 3D printers

  03-02-2016 01:56
  
  3D printer maker Stratasys today unveiled an enhanced integration with Adobe's Photoshop that allows users to design and print objects with more than 1,000 colors.
  Stratasys today released Creative Colors software, which is powered by the Adobe 3D Color Print Engine. The software now comes bundled with Objet 500 Connex3 printers or can be purchased for existing 3D printers. StratasysAn Object 500 Connex3 printer, which costs about $250,000, can produce multiple parts at the same time using
  
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• With STEM degrees, it’s not the school that matters

  03-02-2016 01:53
  
  In terms of pay, it may not matter whether you went to a prestigious, top-tier school, middle tier or a local state university. Your pay may be little different from that of your peers.In a new study, researchers looked at STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) salaries 10 years after graduation. It compared the salaries of more than 7,000 people and found little difference in wages for STEM graduates. But students who left with liberal arts degree, for instanc
  
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• VR headset shipments are about to skyrocket

  03-02-2016 00:49
  
  In the next year or two, millions of gearheads will strap on VR headsets to explore their alter-egos, play games and view 3D content.Shipments of virtual reality and augmented reality headsets will balloon this year to 1.4 million, up from just 140,000 in 2015, Gartner predicted Tuesday. In 2017, shipments will soar to 6.3 million.VR systems were a hot-ticket at this year's CES, and products like the Oculus Rift, Sony's PlayStation VR, Microsoft's HoloLens and HTC's Vive are all expected to
  
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• Arista just lost a patent round against Cisco and could face an import ban

  03-02-2016 00:40
  
  Cisco Systems has won the latest round against Arista Networks at a U.S. trade agency that could block importation of Arista products.
  Arista violated three Cisco patents on networking technologies, Administrative Law Judge David Shaw of the U.S. International Trade Commission ruled on Tuesday. If the full Commission confirms that finding, the ruling could be bad news for Arista, a growing player in data-center networking.
  Cisco sued Arista in December 2014, alleging the Silicon Valley startup
  
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