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• How I went from zero to overclocking in 30 minutes

  06-06-2016 23:58
  
  If you think overclocking is something that only hardcore PC enthusiasts can get into, think again. At Computex in Taipei last week I got the chance to try overclocking Intel's latest processor, the 10-core Broadwell-E chip, and it was a lot of fun.Thanks to Intel's XTU (Extreme Tuning Utility) overclocking app, doing some basic overclocking was easy. But beware: If you're the type of person who likes a challenge and enjoys tinkering with computers, it can get addictive fast.Overclocking is
  
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• Transforming IT? Keep your eye on three time horizons

  06-06-2016 23:07
  
  When Clark Golestani set about transforming the IT organization at Merck & Co., he adopted a “three horizons” model:To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• 13% off ThermaCELL Mosquito Repellent Pest Control Outdoor and Camping Lantern - Deal Alert

  06-06-2016 22:33
  
  The Thermacell Mosquito Repellent Lantern effectively repels mosquitoes and other biting insects in a 15 x 15-foot zone. It has no open flames, operates on a single butane cartidge, and is perfect for a deck, porch or campsite. It averages 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon and is currently discounted to $34.90. See it now on Amazon.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• How Intel plans to change servers as it breaks away from PCs

  06-06-2016 22:07
  
  From PCs to servers, Intel is trying to redesign the way computers operate. We've already seen how PCs are changing, with 2-in-1 hybrids and tiny Compute Sticks, but some of the chip maker's groundbreaking technologies will initially appear in servers.The PC market is in decline, and the chipmaker has cut unprofitable products like smartphone chips. Intel is redirecting more resources to develop server and data-center products, which are already money makers for the company. Intel is a
  
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• 7 ways employers can ensure new graduates aren’t compromising their networks

  06-06-2016 21:23
  
  With college graduations now behind students, many young people might already have secured jobs even before they crossed the stage with their degrees in hand. With these fresh-faced employees on the payroll, now businesses must make sure their security habits are in line with today’s policies.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: What we can learn from ownCloud's collapse

  06-06-2016 20:50
  
  OwnCloud was founded by Frank Karlitschek in 2010, a KDE developer who created many other open source projects. Concerned about the rise of proprietary cloud, Karlitschek's vision for ownCloud was to give users complete control over their cloud storage and sync software.
  After the successful launch of the project, Karlitschek started looking to build a business model around it. In 2012, he co-founded ownCloud Inc. with Markus Rex. They raised over $10 million in venture capital and the company
  
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• Tesla Model X autonomously crashes into building, owner claims

  06-06-2016 20:06
  
  The owner of a brand-new Tesla Model X SUV said the car suddenly accelerated at "maximum speed" by itself, jumped a curb and slammed into the side of a shopping mall while his wife was behind the wheel.
  The owner of the Model X, Puzant Ozbag, said the vehicle had been delivered only five days earlier to his home in Irvine, Calif., where the accident also took place. He said his wife had not activated any self-driving features at the time of the crash. Puzant OzbagThe damage to the front end of
  
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• T-Mobile offers free stock, pizza, movie rentals, and more in latest Uncarrier promotion

  06-06-2016 20:01
  
  T-Mobile launched its latest Uncarrier promotion, and boy is the company handing out the free stuff: free pizza, free frosties, free movie rentals and tickets, and even—get this—a free share of T-Mobile stock.T-Mobile chief executive John Legere pitched the promotion as a way to thank customers, launching it at a New York store surrounded by employees wearing shirts that said, “Ask me for a thanking.”
  “I’m not announcing any bullshit loyalty schemes,” L
  
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• Android gets patches for serious flaws in hardware drivers and media server

  06-06-2016 20:00
  
  The June batch of Android security patches addresses nearly two dozen vulnerabilities in system drivers for various hardware components from several chipset makers.The largest number of critical and high severity flaws were patched in the Qualcomm video driver, sound driver, GPU driver, Wi-Fi driver, and camera driver. Some of these privilege escalation vulnerabilities could allow malicious applications to execute malicious code in the kernel leading to a permanent device compromise.Similar high
  
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• Twee derde publieke sector werkt in 2018 geheel digitaal

  06-06-2016 18:56
  Organisaties in de publieke sector zijn snel aan het digitaliseren. Twee op de drie IT-beslissers in Westerse landen verwachten dat in 2018 hun kernprocessen gedigitaliseerd zijn. Vooral productontwikkeling, facturatie, klantcontact, HR onboarding en contractontwikkeling worden gedigitaliseerd. Daarop duidt onderzoek... lees meer
  
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• BrandPost: Make More, Spend Less

  06-06-2016 18:55
  
  The concept of making more and spending less seems like a paradox. How can you possibly produce more without increasing the cost of doing so? There are three interconnected pieces that make this possible.1.      Manufacturing Execution System (MES)The first key to making more while spending less is the use of MES. MES enables a real-time relationship of production management and manufacturing data, ultimately leading to complete inventory visibility. This closed-loop con
  
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• AT&T's 5G ambitions expand, adding Middletown, NJ to its trial sites

  06-06-2016 18:27
  
  Just as you were getting used to the power of 4G LTE, the carriers are already looking ahead to a world of 5G cellular connectivity. AT&T announced on Monday that it plans to add Middletown, N.J. to its 5G-based home broadband trials. AT&T previously announced that Austin, Texas would be part of its broadband tests. The trial locations, which could include more cities, will roll out by the end of the summer. AT&T also announced it was partnering with Nokia to expand its 5G lab trial
  
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• IBM joins R Consortium

  06-06-2016 18:01
  
  IBM is joining the R Consortium with a "significant investment," the company is scheduled to announce at today's Apache Spark Summit, becoming a top-tier Platinum supporter of the open-source R programming language.
  R, designed specifically for statistical computing and other data analysis tasks, has become increasingly popular in recent years as both data volumes and interest in data science have exploded. IBM says that R is among the languages it used to develop its Watson natural language/ma
  
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• Microsoft takes a swing at Trello and Asana with new Planner app

  06-06-2016 18:00
  
  Microsoft has taken a big step toward helping employees stay on track with the launch of a new app called Planner.It's a Web-based tool for Office 365 subscribers designed to let them easily lay out plans for projects and business objectives and then share them with other people. After creating a plan, users can create and assign tasks, share files and update their colleagues on the status of key to-dos.Planner appears to be a response to the likes of Trello and Asana -- startups that have
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: What do iPhone SE owners think of their phone?

  06-06-2016 17:32
  
  When Apple released its tiny iPhone SE a while back, the company caught some flack for using the older iPhone 5/5S design. Some folks also had a tough time thinking about going back to a phone with a small 4-inch screen.The iPhone SE has been out for a while now, and many people have purchased it. But what do they think of it? Should you switch to the iPhone SE?An Apple redditor asked if the iPhone SE was worth buying, and he got some very interesting answers from folks who own the iPhone SE.2Di
  
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• Career path: From programming to … sales?

  06-06-2016 17:11
  
  Constant change, challenge and unrivalled compensation opportunities make sales a particularly attractive career option.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• Widespread exploits evade protections enforced by Microsoft EMET

  06-06-2016 16:22
  
  It's bad news for businesses. Hackers have launched large-scale attacks that are capable of bypassing the security protections added by Microsoft's Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET), a tool whose goal is to stop software exploits.Security researchers from FireEye have observed Silverlight and Flash Player exploits designed to evade EMET mitigations such as Data Execution Prevention (DEP), Export Address Table Access Filtering (EAF) and Export Address Table Access Filtering Plus (EAF+
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Illinois's CIO is leading a statewide digital transformation

  06-06-2016 16:08
  
  States are changing the way they govern, today viewing citizens as customers and providing services based on sound business practices. Information and technology are playing key roles in this transformation, led by strategic and visionary CIOs such as Hardik Bhatt, CIO and secretary designate of the state of Illinois's department of innovation and technology and CIO. I had the opportunity to sit down with Hardik to discuss how he's helping the governor of Illinois reshape the state to be a more
  
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• Health insurer dedicates IT group to work with Digital Experience team

  06-06-2016 15:53
  
  Sean Radlich is Manager of Digital Experience at HealthNow New York, one of the leading health insurance companies in upstate New York servicing about a million members.  Headquartered in Buffalo, NY, the company operates BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York (Buffalo), BlueShield of Northeastern New York (Albany), Health Now Brokerage Concepts (Blue Bell, PA) and Health Now Administrative Services (across the Northeast US and California).  Network World Editor in Chief John Dix rec
  
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• Petition condemns Windows 10 upgrade practices, asks EFF to investigate

  06-06-2016 15:41
  
  A petition launched Friday asks the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to investigate Microsoft's aggressive moves to convince and cajole users into upgrading to Windows 10.
  The request was launched on Change.org, a popular online petition website, and by early Monday had garnered more than 470 signatures.
  "Microsoft's practices with their newest operating system, named Windows 10, has been ignorantly unethical at best and malicious at worst," wrote the petition organizer, Todd Kleinpaste, wh
  
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• Samsung's new, water-resistant Galaxy S7 Active survives severe crash tests

  06-06-2016 15:30
  
  Samsung's new Galaxy S7 Active [ Find it on Amazon – *What’s this?* ] is a toughened-up version of the flagship Galaxy S7 that won't fail if dropped on the ground or in water.
  The Android smartphone has a 5.1-inch screen with a 2560 x 1440 pixel resolution, and  32GB of storage. It sports a 12-megapixel rear-facing camera and a 5-megapixel front camera.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• 7 things you need to know about the Galaxy S7 Active

  06-06-2016 15:30
  
  Samsung this week announced its latest ruggedized smartphone, the Galaxy S7 (GS7) Active — a device that is particularly well-suited for enterprise and business users, according to Chris Briglin, Samsung Business director of enterprise mobile product marketing.
  [Related: 7 things to love about the Galaxy S7 and GS7 edge (and 3 to hate) ]
  The GS7 Active, like previous ruggedized Galaxy phones, is a bulked-up version of Samsung's newest flagship Galaxy, the GS7. And like the GS6 Active befo
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 10 reasons you should be using agile

  06-06-2016 15:18
  
  One of the biggest surprises of my career has been the slow adoption of agile development. I don't understand why most development isn't done using the Agile approach, because the benefits are compelling.
  In this post, I will review my definition of agile since there are so many variations of the methodology available. I will then discuss using agile across multiple development locations, because this is one of the primary reasons why CIOs don't use these concepts. Finally, I will describe the
  
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• CIOs and the politics of technology

  06-06-2016 14:11
  
  At just about any technology conference — be it a conference addressing social media, mobility, analytics and big data, cloud computing, security or any other topic — at least one keynoter is sure at some point to emphatically say something along the lines of, “Technology is the easy part; the hard part is politics.” To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• Hackers breach social media accounts of Mark Zuckerberg and other celebrities

  06-06-2016 14:05
  Over the weekend hackers managed to access Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter and Pinterest accounts, as well as the social media accounts of other celebrities.
  Someone posted to Zuckerberg’s Twitter feed on Sunday, claiming to have found his password in account information leaked from LinkedIn.
  A group calling itself the OurMine Team took credit for breaking into Zuckerberg's Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram accounts, but there's no evidence that the Instagram account has been br
  
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• How to prepare to interview for a temporary position

  06-06-2016 14:03
  
  Temporary jobs are on the rise.According to research from CareerBuilder and Economic Modeling Specialist Intl., nearly three million people are employed in a temporary job with a projected 173,478 additional temp jobs expected to open up from 2016 to 2018. The study found that 47 percent of companies plan to hire temporary or contract workers in 2016, and just under 60 percent of that group also plan to consider transitioning temporary workers to permanent employees at some point. Tech jobs are
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Open source and IoT: A match made for the enterprise

  06-06-2016 14:00
  
  The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the most competitive spaces in the enterprise software market. From horizontal platforms to solutions in specific areas such as networking, security, analytics or integration, the market has exploded with platforms that promise be the silver bullet for the adoption of smart devices in the enterprise. Typically crowded technology markets are a catalyst for the adoption of open source technologies and the IoT space should not be different. We think open sourc
  
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• API’s helpen bedrijfsontwikkelaars meer te doen met minder

  06-06-2016 13:37
  Digitale transformatie, zoals omnichannel onderhoud, digitalisatie van productieketens en data analyses, biedt vele opties. Zo veel opties dat voor bedrijven vaak het einde zoek is voordat zij er aan beginnen. Wat is de beste aanpak? Bedrijven zijn vaak op zoek naar quick-wins in digitalisatie; naar een relatief simpel... lees meer
  
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• Enquête: ‘agile’ transformatie levert fikse verkorting time-to-market op

  06-06-2016 13:28
  Bedrijven die transformeren tot een agile organisatie kunnen een aanzienlijke versnelling van de time-to-market van nieuwe producten en diensten verwachten. Het potentiële resultaat van ‘agile’ is een verbetering van de time-to-market met 40% en een toename van het marktaandeel met 20%. Daarop duidt... lees meer
  
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• 11 Father’s Day gifts that techie dads will love

  06-06-2016 12:53
  
  1. Griffin PowerDock ProThe Griffin PowerDock Pro charging dock is the kind of present everyone will welcome – and perfect for sharing if you’re still staying with dad. Sporting a new design that is improved from the original PowerDock 5, the new Pro model now delivers a full 12 watts of charging for each of its five ports to charge both Android and iOS devices. The new charging bays are more contoured now, and holds smartphone and tablets without having to remove their cases. A new
  
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• 10 security Ted Talks you can’t miss

  06-06-2016 12:45
  
  Security talksImage by ThinkstockWe know you’re busy, that’s why we invested the time to find you the 10 Security TED talks that you really can’t miss. These talks tackle some of the biggest security challenges of our time, from securing medical devices to how cyber-attacks can threaten world peace. Some of them will be given by security experts you know, and other talks here by those who may be new to you. Some are recent, others were recorded years ago, but are just (if not m
  
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• WWDC wish list: Here's what we want to see in iOS 10

  06-06-2016 12:35
  
  What to expect from iOS 10The new version of iOS is one of the most exciting things to come out of every WWDC. It usually brings new features for developers and users alike, it’s a free upgrade so we can all join the party, and now with the public beta program, we don’t even have to wait until its final release in September. Here’s what we’re hoping to see in the next big version, iOS 10.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• Lawsuit seeks to replace H-1B lottery with a filing-date-based system

  06-06-2016 12:09
  
  Two firms whose job candidates lost the H-1B visa lottery have filed a lawsuit that seeks to end the current distribution system based on luck.
  The lawsuit says there is "no legal justification" for the visa lottery and wants it replaced by a system that issues H-1B visas in the order they are received.
  This complaint, filed in U.S. District Court in Oregon, is brought by Tenrec Inc., a web development firm. It had filed a visa petition for a citizen of Ukraine for the position of lead develope
  
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• No robots required: AI will eliminate these jobs first

  06-06-2016 12:00
  
  Meet your newest employee, Amelia. She's intelligent, well groomed, and responsive to your moods. If she seems a little robotic, well, that's because she's actually an artificially intelligent entity living inside a software platform.  
  From Alexa to Viv, the world is now full of voice-enabled cloud-connected assistants. But Amelia is more than merely a series of speech-savvy algorithms -- she's Siri with a doctorate in psychology.[ For more stories about IT jobs, check out "To new be
  
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• How to end online harassment

  06-06-2016 12:00
  
  Social networks need to become "walled gardens" again.
  The conventional wisdom is that, when it comes to social platforms, open is good and closed is bad.
  Facebook used to be slammed as a walled garden. But after Google+ came out in 2011 as a social site with public posts that you could link to and find from ordinary search, Facebook followed suit, and Facebook-as-a-walled-garden was no more. Now Facebook is mostly open (albeit with a flawed real-names policy and proprietary formats like Facebo
  
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• Buyer’s Guide to 9 multi-factor authentication products

  06-06-2016 12:00
  
  Multi factorsSince we last reviewed two-factor authentication products, the market has moved beyond two-factor authentication toward what is now being called multi-factor authentication. One of the key features being new types of hardware-based tokens. Here are individual reviews of nine MFA products. See the full review.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• 9-vendor authentication roundup: The good, the bad and the ugly

  06-06-2016 12:00
  
  Due to numerous exploits that have defeated two-factor authentication, either by social engineering, remote access Trojans or various HTML injection techniques, many IT departments now want more than a second factor to protect their most sensitive logins and assets.
  In the three years since we last reviewed two-factor authentication products, the market has responded, evolving toward what is now being called multi-factor authentication or MFA, featuring new types of tokens.
  For this review, we
  
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• 5 trends shaking up multi-factor authentication

  06-06-2016 12:00
  
  Perhaps the biggest surprise in our review of nine multi-factor authentication products is that physical tokens are making a comeback. Many IT managers were hoping that software-based tokens, which are easier to deploy and manage, would make hardware tokens extinct.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• Why legal departments begrudge the cloud

  06-06-2016 11:57
  
  Legal professionals are by their nature a skeptical and cautious lot, but the sharp rise in cloud-based applications being used by enterprises and law firms, as well as recent high-profile law firm security breaches, has many legal professionals reticent about entering cloud engagements.“The buck stops with the lawyer,” says Michael R. Overly, a partner and intellectual property lawyer focusing on technology at Foley & Lardner LLP in Los Angeles. “You’re tru
  
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• A former NASA chief just launched this AI startup to turbocharge neural computing

  06-06-2016 09:05
  
  A new company launched Monday by former NASA chief Dan Goldin aims to deliver a major boost to the field of neural computing.KnuEdge's debut comes after 10 years in stealth; formerly it was called Intellisis. Now, along with its launch, it's introducing two products focused on neural computing: KnuVerse, software that focuses on military-grade voice recognition and authentication, and KnuPath, a processor designed to offer a new architecture for neural computing.To read this article in full or t
  
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• Intel's next monster 24-core chip is made for high-performance computers

  06-06-2016 09:00
  
  Intel continues to pump more horsepower in its chips, by releasing a 24-core processor for high-performance computers.The Xeon processor E7-8890 v4 chip is part of the Xeon E7-8800 v4 family of chips that Intel announced on Monday. It was announced just a week after Intel made headlines with a new 10-core Core chip for gaming code-named Broadwell-E.The 24-core chip will go, in many cases, into monster performer four- to eight-socket servers. An eight-socket system could have up to 192 cores, wit
  
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