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• BrandPost: Metrics that Matter

  27-05-2016 20:02
  
  In the past year, LNS Research and MESA International work together to identify and communicate the most notable trends in manufacturing and performance measurements. In 2015-2016, topics such as Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, and Cloud have continued to grow in prominence. Here are six key takeaways from the 2015-2016 Metrics that Matter Research Study.1.       Major progress has been made around IoT awareness.More manufacturers than ever before are understand
  
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• 35% off Omron 10 Series Bluetooth Wireless Blood Pressure Monitor - Deal Alert

  27-05-2016 19:41
  
  The Omron 10 series wireless blood pressure monitor averages 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon from over 2,600 customers (read reviews). With a regular list price of $99.99, this 35% off deal puts it at just $64.99.  The bluetooth monitor is compatible with Omron's free iOS and Android apps. It features multi-color indicator lights which show if your readings is in the normal (green) or hypertension (orange) range. BP level bar displays how your reading compares to normal home blood pr
  
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• Facebook begins aiming ads at non-users

  27-05-2016 18:36
  
  Facebook is expanding its ad network past its own borders, encompassing Internet users who don't even use the social network.
  The company said it's looking to improve ads, both on and off Facebook.
  One industry analyst said the move will enable Facebook to extend its reach in mobile advertising, and that should mean increased revenues for the world's largest social network.
  "Digital advertising is a very big deal," said Ezra Gottheil, an analyst with Technology Business Research. "This is actua
  
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• Financial services firms struggling with ecommunications

  27-05-2016 18:19
  
  Financial services firms face an urgent need to rethink their usual approach to retention and oversight of electronic communications, according to a recent survey.Last week, Smarsh, a provider of hosted archiving solutions for compliance and rediscovery, released its sixth annual Electronic Communications Compliance Survey Report, which found that compliance processes are buckling under the weight of the volume and variety of today's electronic communications.To read this article in full or to l
  
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• Is the end of the U.S. tech market upon us?

  27-05-2016 18:17
  
  Why are so many tech companies in trouble? This was part of the discussion of a recent meeting I attended. I think it’s a compelling question and one we need to consider when choosing a vendor. At heart of this, and it likely applies to your company as well, is a change in stock ownership from individuals and institutional investors mostly investing over the long term to hedge funds and other financial entities that chase quarterly results and want fast returns. This last group not only do
  
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• Shared malware code links SWIFT-related breaches at banks and North Korean hackers

  27-05-2016 18:01
  
  Malware links suggest that North Korean hackers might be behind recent attacks against several Asian banks, including the theft of US$81 million from the Bangladesh central bank earlier this year.Security researchers from Symantec have found evidence that the malware used in the Bangladesh Bank cyberheist was used in targeted attacks against an unnamed bank in the Philippines. The same malware was also previously linked to an attempted theft of $1 million from Tien Phong Bank in Vietnam.Symantec
  
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• How to turn a 'toxic' IT shop into a trusted business partner

  27-05-2016 18:01
  
  “We were an organization of ‘no’ and we had to transform to an organization of ‘how,’” said Robert Fecteau, CIO of government contractor SAIC, describing his effort to turn the IT department into a partner trusted by other parts of the business.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• Fearing forced Windows 10 upgrades, users are disabling critical updates instead

  27-05-2016 18:01
  
  Microsoft stepped on the gas in its quest to drive Windows 7 and 8 users to Windows 10 over the past couple of weeks, rolling the upgrade out as a Recommended update. Watch out! The only behavior that could deny the Windows 10 upgrade before—closing the pop-up by pressing the X in the upper-right corner—now counts as consent for the upgrade, and worse, the upgrade installation can automatically begin even if you take no action whatsoever.
  It’s nasty business, and it’s tr
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Why I won’t use Dropbox’s Project Infinite if it’s not open source

  27-05-2016 17:59
  
  Dropbox recently unveiled Project Infinite that will go beyond the user-space level and go as deep as the kernel level to give users access to their content -- even on devices with small hard disks.
  What Dropbox is planning to do is work as a file system so everything that’s stored on your Dropbox will be accessible on your device without taking up any space. So even if you have only 50GB of storage on your PC and you have purchased over 4TB of Dropbox storage you don’t need a 4TB h
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Why IT and marketing need to work together

  27-05-2016 17:48
  
  One thing systemically changing businesses of all stripes today is data. While it may seem that many companies have gotten their arms around the complicated data situation, it’s as clear as ever that is not the case. Although the marketing department is being tasked with providing a more enriched interaction between businesses and their respective customers, the reality is that they’re still orienting themselves to the problem and current solutions.
  To help you better understand wha
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: New federal Defend Trade Secrets Act expands protection, adds safe harbor

  27-05-2016 17:46
  
  We know that Intellectual Property rights (copyright, patent, trademark, trade secrets)  play a crucial role in America’s global competitiveness. Effective May 11, 2016, President Obama signed into law a major change in how Intellectual Property rights are recognized and enforced at the federal level. This new law requires notice in any agreement that the individual is aware of new whistleblower immunity provisions. In order for businesses to take advantage of the protections afforded
  
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• Windows 10 books big growth spurt

  27-05-2016 17:19
  
  Windows 10 in the last two weeks has posted its largest growth spurt since August 2015, according to data from an Irish analytics vendor.
  StatCounter, which measures usage share -- a proxy for activity, but not necessarily representative of the number of devices running Windows 10 -- portrayed a large and extended string of week-over-week increases, starting around May 13 and continuing through Thursday. In the last three days -- starting Tuesday -- those gains were in excess of a percentage po
  
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• Senate proposal to require encryption workarounds may be dead

  27-05-2016 16:37
  
  A proposal in the U.S. Senate to require smartphone OS developers and other tech vendors to break their own encryption at the request of law enforcement may be dead on arrival.The proposal, released as a discussion draft last month, may not be formally introduced this year because of strong opposition, according to a Reuters report.The draft bill, pushed by Senators Richard Burr and Dianne Feinstein, would allow judges to order tech companies to comply with requests from the FBI and other l
  
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• Most marketers miss mark with mobile messaging

  27-05-2016 16:22
  
  Messaging is the most frequently used form of mobile communication among consumers today, but the majority of businesses fail to effectively use mobile messaging services to communicate with their customers, according to a new report from Forrester Research. The firm surveyed 1,943 U.S. smartphone users between October and December of last year to identify the messaging they consider to be the most effective and contextually relevant. While 96 percent of U.S. smartphone owners receive some
  
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• What big ISPs don't want you to know about data caps

  27-05-2016 15:58
  
  If you buy 10 gallons of gas, you should pay more than the person who buys just five gallons, right? That's the argument Comcast and AT&T make as they impose data caps on more and more broadband customers. People today use much more data than ever before, they say, and it's only fair that folks who use more data pay more.But there's a flaw in that argument. "The cost of increasing [broadband] capacity has declined much faster than the increase in data traffic," says Dane Jasper, CEO of 
  
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• New JavaScript spam wave distributes Locky ransomware

  27-05-2016 15:46
  Over the past week, computers throughout Europe and other places have been hit by a massive email spam campaign carrying malicious JavaScript attachments that install the Locky ransomware program.Antivirus firm ESET has observed a spike in detections of JS/Danger.ScriptAttachment, a malware downloader written in JavaScript that started on May 22 and peaked on May 25.Many countries in Europe have been affected, with the highest detection rates being observed in Luxembourg (67 percent), the Czech
  
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• U.S. CIO aims to cut legacy spending, proposes IT modernization

  27-05-2016 14:49
  
  With the startling new finding that federal agencies spend about three-quarters of their IT budgets on keeping legacy systems running, is it any wonder that the administration is pressing for an ambitious technology modernization initiative?At a House hearing on government IT this week, the federal CIO and senior agency officials stressed the urgency of updating aging systems with more nimble, cloud-based applications and infrastructure, making the case for the administration's proposed $3.1 bil
  
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• JetBlue CIO pilots VC arm in search of revenue growth

  27-05-2016 14:48
  
  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- An airline's effort to find emerging technologies that can grow revenues is taking flight. JetBlue Airways' venture capital firm is seeking out innovation, including machine learning and analytics as well as new approaches to customer service, to differentiate itself in a travel industry whose margins run razor thin.In what it claims is the first venture-capital unit in Silicon Valley backed by a U.S. airline, JetBlue Technology Ventures (JTV) serves as a sort of test lab for
  
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• Zelf bedrijfsapps op maat maken

  27-05-2016 14:36
  Steeds meer organisaties doen een beroep op bedrijfsapps. Werknemers zijn privé gewend apps te gebruiken en ook in het bedrijfsleven wordt dit steeds meer gemeengoed. Maar als werknemers privé-apps ook zakelijk gaan gebruiken verliest de IT-manager het zicht op de data en kan hij of zij de security niet... lees meer
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Get on the cloud bus or get in the clown car

  27-05-2016 14:10
  
  Some innovations become part of a storyline that arcs from “visionary” to “comical.”
  Take the cloud, for instance. Here’s what technology writer Nicholas G. Carr had to say about what we’ve come to call the “cloud” in his 2003 article "IT Doesn’t Matter":“More and more, companies will fulfill their IT requirements simply by purchasing fee-based 'Web services' from third parties—similar to the way they currently buy electric power
  
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• 4 LinkedIn messaging tips for career builders

  27-05-2016 13:54
  
  Maybe you're in the middle of a software deployment and need advice from someone who's been there. Perhaps you're seeking a new mentor to help you carve out a career path or improve an existing skillset. Either way, navigating LinkedIn's waters, which are full of HR representatives, recruiters, jobseekers and managers, isn't always easy.
  The key to successful connections with these different personalities lies in both the approach and the details of communication, according to Blake Angove, dir
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Are you building the right solution?

  27-05-2016 13:53
  
  I'm a real stickler for finding value in what I buy.  There are few times that I go for the "fancy trends".  For instance, when it comes to cars, I want it to get me from point A to point B without fear of breaking down at a high level of comfort.  I want it to be durable, long lasting with the fewest visits to the repair shops possible.  It doesn't need to be fast nor slick.  That's my definition of value.  However, a good friend of mine loves fast and slick lookin
  
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• Second-factor may prevent ATM fraud

  27-05-2016 13:23
  
  Crooks stole $12.7 million at 1,400 Japanese ATMs earlier this month, with around 100 people making 14,000 transactions with 1,600 counterfeit credit cards based on stolen information from real cards issued by a South African bank.The theft could have been avoided, a security expert said, if ATMs accepting the old-style, easy-to-copy magnetic stripe cards moved to two-factor authentication.In many countries, the liability for magnetic-stripe card fraud has shifted from card issuers to merchants,
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: iPad Pro: 12.9-inch or 9.7-inch for writing?

  27-05-2016 13:00
  
  When Apple released the 9.7-inch iPad Pro many users were uncertain if they should buy it or the larger 12.9-inch iPad Pro. While there are many things to consider when choosing the right size iPad Pro, here’s one that you may want to consider: typing on the 12.9-inch iPad Pro's on-screen keyboard is easier and faster.The larger iPad Pro offers a full sized keyboard that matches the key location and size of a physical keyboard, while the smaller iPad Pro does not. This is an important dist
  
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• Legacy op universiteit zorgt voor ondermaatse digitale ervaring

  27-05-2016 12:56
  Pakweg driekwart van de studenten wereldwijd vindt dat hun universiteit haar digitale dienstverlening moet verbeteren omdat de gebruikservaring onder de maat is. Een derde van de studenten zou om deze reden zijn onderwijsinstituut zelfs niet aanbevelen. Daarop duidt internationaal onderzoek in opdracht van... lees meer
  
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• Woningbelegger Vesteda besteedt IT uit aan Valid

  27-05-2016 12:34
  De grootste Nederlandse commerciële woningbelegger Vesteda, die een portefeuille van ongeveer 22.500 woningen beheert, heeft zijn IT geheel uitbesteed aan ICT-dienstverlener Valid. De overgang is juli afgerond.Eind vorig jaar heeft Vesteda besloten zijn IT als managed service uit te besteden. Het gaat om... lees meer
  
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• Wayfair takes augmented reality, Project Tango to the enterprise

  27-05-2016 12:00
  
  Virtual and augmented realities aren't just for gaming.
  Wayfair Inc. , a Boston-based, 14-year-old e-commerce company that sells home furnishings, is working on an app based on Google's Project Tango technology that would put augmented reality, and one day virtual reality, squarely in the enterprise.
  If all goes as planned, customers using Wayfair's app would go beyond looking at a photo of a love seat or table, reading the measurements and wondering how the piece would look in their living roo
  
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• Pepperoni spices up iOS and Android app dev

  27-05-2016 12:00
  
  Mobile developers can get a slice of assistance from Pepperoni, which provides a blueprint for cross-platform app-building.
  Also characterized as an app starter kit, Pepperoni works with Facebook's React Native JavaScript framework, to build apps for iOS and Android. Its core is an implementation of the Redux state container for JavaScript, enhanced with libraries like Immutable and redux-loop. On top of this, developers are building a modular app skeleton with capabilities like API communicati
  
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• Acer's Windows 10 Switch hybrids priced to battle Chromebooks

  27-05-2016 10:26
  
  Windows 10 PC prices have been slowly creeping up, but some new back-to-school Switch tablet/laptop hybrid devices from Acer may be attractive to those on a shoestring budget.
  The US$199 Switch One 10 is one of a few touchscreen hybrids priced under $200. Acer also announced the Switch V 10, which starts at $249 with additional features including a USB-Type C port, a fingerprint reader, 802.11ac Wi-Fi and a Gorilla Glass screen.
  The hybrids, also known as 2-in-1 devices, are 10-inch tablets tha
  
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• Windows 10 Build 14352 lets Windows Insiders run two antivirus programs on their PC

  27-05-2016 03:32
  
  With Microsoft’s Insider Preview Build 14352 of Windows 10, released on Thursday afternoon, new features include the ability to ask Cortana for specific songs and ink reminders in Windows Ink’s Sticky Notes. The most interesting addition is this: You can now run two antivirus programs on your PC.
  Gamers, too, receive a boost: full-screen Windows Game bar support for some perpetual hits like League of Legends and World of Warcraft.
  There’s one catch: Just as Google re
  
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• Shoot an atom into silicon, and you may have the beginnings of a quantum computer

  27-05-2016 00:14
  
  Take one atom of the element antimony, use an ion beam to shoot it into a silicon substrate, and you just may be on your way to building a working quantum computer.That's according to researchers at Sandia National Laboratories, who announced this week that they've used that technique with promising results.In their experiment, described in the journal Applied Physics Letters, the researchers used an ion beam generator to insert the antimony atom into an industry-standard silicon substrate -- a
  
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