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• $19.99 for Premium Windows 10 Training (Includes 100+ Tutorials) - Deal Alert

  25-07-2016 22:56
  
  Learn the ins and outs of Windows 10 with this Introduction to Windows 10 Bundle. For $19.99, you’ll get lifetime access to four e-Books and hundreds of video tutorials.If you have any questions on this popular operating system, you’re sure to find the answer here. Flip through the books to learn how to optimize the OS and preserve your privacy and security. The materials also detail how to make life easier on an everyday basis, with detailed explanations on how to integrate Microsof
  
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• Verizon must pay even if Mozilla walks from Yahoo search deal

  25-07-2016 22:21
  
  Verizon, which today announced its intention to purchase Yahoo for $4.8 billion, will be on the hook to Mozilla for over $1 billion through 2019.
  According to Yahoo's CEO, Marissa Mayer, Verizon may be liable for partial payments even if Mozilla cuts ties to Yahoo and seeks another search provider.
  Earlier this month, Recode and the New York Times claimed that the 2014 Yahoo-Mozilla contact gave Mozilla the right to switch to another search provider if Yahoo was sold.To read this article in ful
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Getting started with IBM Blockchain and exploring the wonder of Legos

  25-07-2016 22:10
  
  Let’s unwrap IBM’s offering and explore how your technology team will benefit from this advancement. Think back. Remember the time you experienced your first Lego kit? It wasn’t just a stationary plastic toy, used for construction. These bricks lived and breathed — they came to life. Anything can be created with Legos, from people that talk to mythical creatures and even entire villages that launch spaceships. The possibilities are only limited by your imagination. Consi
  
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• Twitter scores live-stream deals with MLB, NBA, NHL and NFL

  25-07-2016 22:06
  
  Twitter's hunt for major sports programming hit a new high today as the company struck deals to live-stream some out-of-market games from Major League Baseball (MLB) and the National Hockey League (NHL). During the past three months, the company signed live-stream deals with all of the "Big Four" major sports leagues, and July has been particularly busy. Twitter also inked partnerships with the National Basketball Association (NBA), Pac-12 Conference, Bloomberg Media and CBS News earlier this mo
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Why rolling release is the future of all software

  25-07-2016 21:46
  
  Being a long-time user of Arch Linux and Chrome OS, I am a fan of rolling release software. I am also a user of Adobe Creative Cloud and the experience is so much better than the previous ‘versioned’ Photoshop and Lightroom where plugins would break after each major upgrade. Now, I get updates on a weekly basis without anything breaking.
  Recently Microsoft announced a Windows as a service model for enterprise customers, which hints at rolling release Windows upgrades. I can see a lo
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Companies consistently run into problems in automation efforts

  25-07-2016 21:45
  
  It’s very clear that robotics process automation (RPA) and cognitive computing have tremendous capacity to digitize our workforce and reduce the number of back-office FTEs. Leading companies are looking at doing this in a big way, looking to automate thousands of jobs that have been performed by FTEs. But they consistently run into a problem.The tools to automate a process exist. Admittedly, no tools come ready for use out of the box; they have to be adjusted and implemented. But the techn
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: What marketers need to know about millennial shopping habits in 2016

  25-07-2016 21:20
  
  You’ve been told for years that you should keep an eye on millennials. Regardless of who your target market is at the moment, you must understand who millennials are, what they like, and how they interact with their favorite brands.
  Ultimately, reaching millennials will determine your long-term success as a business.Who are Millennials?The term “millennials” is thrown around so much that it’s become essentially meaningless in many circles. Some people don’t even kn
  
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• Why 'qudits' (not qubits) may be the key to quantum computing

  25-07-2016 21:06
  
  Quantum computers may promise a giant leap forward in performance and efficiency, but none of that can happen until we figure out a practical way to build them. Russian scientists just announced what they say is a major advance.Building quantum computers is difficult because the qubits they're made with tend to be highly unstable. Qubits are the quantum counterpart of the bits used in traditional computing. While traditional bits represent data as 0s or 1s, qubits are distinguished by what'
  
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• 22% off SanDisk Connect Wireless Stick 200GB - Deal Alert

  25-07-2016 20:23
  
  The SanDisk Connect wireless stick is a flash drive with a unique twist -- you can access it wirelessly. Whether it's in your pants pocket, in your bag, or on the picnic table at your campsite, the Connect wireless stick lets you stream media or move files wirelessly with up to three computers, phones or tablets simultaneously. Connections are made via built-in wifi (think "hotspot"), so no external wireless or internet services are needed. A USB connection is also available, if desired. St
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The modern chief data officer: A translator, a gardener and an appraiser

  25-07-2016 19:40
  
  Given the rise of the big data, internet of things, digitization and digital transformation trends, the role of the chief data officer (CDO) has taken on tremendous strategic value. Beyond the table stakes responsibilities of capturing, retaining and capitalizing on the value of the data generated and acquired by the enterprise, the definition of the CDO role has to continue to evolve to maximize the potential of data and give credence and support to other enterprise strategies, such as digital
  
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• 9 big moments in Yahoo's troubled history

  25-07-2016 19:36
  
  Yahoo is founded in 1994Image by JD Lasica/FlickrIn early 1994, Stanford University grad students Jerry Yang and David Filo launch the website, Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web. Within months, they rename it Yahoo.Yahoo goes public with huge stock gainsImage by Yahoo/FlickrTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• Microsoft finalizes Windows 10 Anniversary Update

  25-07-2016 19:03
  
  Last week's Windows 10 update to beta testers is almost certainly the final code for this year's big upgrade, set to release on Aug. 2.
  Build 14393 was issued to participants in Microsoft's Windows Insider preview program last week, first on July 18 to those who had selected the "Fast" track, then two days later to users on the "Slow" ring.
  (Since then, it was re-released on Friday with a follow-up fix; other patches may appear between now and Aug 2.)
  The sequence of Fast, then Slow, both withi
  
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• Low-speed Ethernet champions set plugfest ahead of new net standard

  25-07-2016 18:46
  
  Hand-in-hand with the forthcoming adoption of a low-speed Ethernet standard by the IEEE, proponents of the technology will hold an interoperability plugfest in October to tout the readiness of 2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T products.
  The new specification -- IEEE P802.3bz – defines 2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T, significantly boosting the speed of traditional Ethernet without requiring the tearing out of current cabling.
  +More on Network World: Ethernet everywhere!+
  Perhaps most significantly 2.5GbE a
  
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• With Yahoo buy, Verizon hopes to stay competitive in digital ad market

  25-07-2016 18:31
  
  After months of rumors, Verizon announced Monday that it is buying Yahoo's core business for $4.83 billion in a deal designed to make Verizon competitive as a global mobile media and digital advertising company.
  Analysts said the move primarily will help Verizon remain competitive against AT&T. Both, however, will trail behind Google and Facebook, which control the bulk of the $185 billion digital ad ecosystem.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• Businesses failing to secure privileged accounts

  25-07-2016 18:30
  
  Most companies fail to secure the "keys to the kingdom," according to a new benchmark survey .Last week, privileged account management (PAM) specialist Thycotic and research firm Cybersecurity Ventures released their 2016 State of Privileged Account Management security report, based on the responses of more than 500 IT security professionals who have participated in the Privileged Password Vulnerability Benchmark survey to date.High priority, low compliance
  While 80 percent of respondents indica
  
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• Yahoo's homepage through the years

  25-07-2016 18:15
  
  A look backImage by YahooWith Yahoo’s sale to Verizon for $4.8 billion confirmed this morning, the Wayback Machine offers us an opportunity to see how one of the Internet’s most iconic address – www.yahoo.com – has evolved over the years.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• Devices with Qualcomm modems safe from critical ASN.1 telecom flaw

  25-07-2016 18:05
  
  Despite initial concerns, smartphones equipped with Qualcomm modems are not vulnerable to a recently announced vulnerability that could potentially allow attackers to take over cellular network gear and consumer mobile devices.
  The vulnerability was discovered in ASN1C, a popular compiler that produces C code for parsing ASN.1 encoded data. Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) is a standard for representing, encoding, transmitting, and decoding data in telecommunications and computer networking
  
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• Ransomware protection -- what you may be missing

  25-07-2016 17:45
  
  Unless you have been living on a remote island with no internet access, you are no doubt familiar with ransomware.
  It is a simple but frightening concept -- making all of your files unavailable, and then demanding that you pay to get them back. Ransomware is definitely a growth industry, with a 30% increase in cases in Q1 of 2016 alone, according to Security Intelligence.
  We should not be surprised at all by this trend, as it seems to be the nearly perfect crime. It is an easy business to start
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Do Not Disturb is one of the best features in iOS

  25-07-2016 17:38
  
  Do Not Disturb has been in iOS for quite a long time, and many users swear by it. It helps prevent annoying interruptions when a user is sleeping or otherwise doesn’t want to be disturbed with calls, text messages, etc.
  While the media has constantly trumpeted this or that iOS feature, Do Not Disturb has gotten precious little attention. That’s a shame since it’s one of the most useful features in iOS.How to enable Do Not Disturb on the iPhone or iPadIt’s very easy to en
  
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• Mobile OS once considered dead comes back to life in Indian smartphone

  25-07-2016 17:09
  
  Alternative mobile operating systems are struggling to survive while Android and iOS dominate, but an operating system called Sailfish -- which was on the brink of disappearing -- is back after a short absence.
  Intex Technologies' Aqua Fish smartphone with Sailfish 2.0 started shipping in India on Monday. It's the first Sailfish handset to be sold by a device maker outside of Jolla, the developer of the OS, whose Jolla C handset is available to only to testers.
  Aqua Fish is priced at ₹5,4
  
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• OneDrive's smarter photo features help it catch up with Facebook and Google

  25-07-2016 16:56
  
  Microsoft is upping its game for organizing your personal photos. The company recently announced some significant changes to OneDrive’s photo features that borrows a little from Facebook and Google, as well as a slightly improved Photos app in Windows 10.Automatic AlbumsWhen you upload photos to OneDrive, the cloud service will now detect which photos were taken in a short span of time within a particular location. It will then choose the “highest quality” photos from that set
  
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• 6 Slack alternatives worth a look

  25-07-2016 16:13
  
  Once upon a time if you wanted employees to collaborate you'd probably encourage them to use Internet Relay Chat (IRC). But about three years ago Slack appeared on the scene, and since then it's been eating IRC's lunch. That's because it's much easier to install, get up and running, and use than IRC, making it massively popular with nontechies. And thanks to a well-documented API it's easy to integrate with other programs and services. That means it's customizable and infinitely extensible, whic
  
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• Comcast wants to blur line between cable and web content

  25-07-2016 15:41
  
  Hard-pressed by "cord cutters" who abandon traditional TV for online streaming services, Comcast, the nation's largest pay TV provider, is moving fast to blend its cable offerings with Internet-like content. "We think of them as one business," says Comcast Executive Vice President Chris Satchell.In April, Comcast announced a partnership with Samsung and Roku to bring the ISP's flagship X1 cable platform to devices made by those manufacturers without separate set-top boxes. Now Comcast is ab
  
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• Rosetta Stone embraces storage virtualization in DevOps shift

  25-07-2016 15:33
  
  Mark Moseley, the vice president of Information technology for Rosetta Stone, ran into something of a virtual wall a couple of years ago as the education technology software company shifted to a DevOps programming model.As the team cloned and backed up databases for test-development environments, it made duplicate copies of the same files and database records. Generating these copies, so-called copy data, required a lot of storage capacity and CPU cycles, boosting computing costs. In addition to
  
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• Windows 10 Anniversary Update review: Cortana, Edge overshadow Windows Ink

  25-07-2016 15:00
  
  I just spent more than a week diving deep into Windows 10’s Anniversary Update, which rolls out August 2. As a birthday present of sorts to users who’ve upgraded to Windows 10 in the past year since the OS launched, it’s a pretty nice one.
  Here's what's in the box: Cortana, which is now accessible from the lock screen, is more ubiquitous than ever. Extensions finally make Microsoft Edge usable. Windows Hello improves, Skype’s reboot seems to be on the right track, and un
  
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• 9 ways to bend Windows 10 to your will

  25-07-2016 14:01
  
  If you’re a PC user, chances are you’ve either upgraded to Windows 10, been forced to upgrade to Windows 10 (either by your company or Microsoft itself), or you’re about to.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• How my Apple Watch's heart rate monitoring saved my life

  25-07-2016 13:52
  
  I’ll begin this story the same way I began the phone call to my wife: “I’m OK, but…”
  The “but” began on a Tuesday morning, after I started walking from the parking lot to the front door of my office building. I began feeling short of breath. No matter how deeply I inhaled, it felt like my lungs weren’t filling up completely. At first, the feeling just seemed odd—nothing serious, just…weird.
  By the time I climbed the flight of stairs
  
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• Stop your workers from 'quitting in their seats'

  25-07-2016 13:48
  
  Working hard? Or hardly working? A new report from HR and technology consulting firm CEB's Global Talent Monitor shows that, while U.S. workers intend to remain at their current jobs for at least another year, only 22 percent are showing high discretionary efforts and the remainder are doing less in their role. In other words, employees are "quitting in their seats."
  As organizations struggle to attract and retain talent, engagement becomes a much more important metric. According to the 2016 Del
  
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• Voorlichting cybersecurity werkt

  25-07-2016 13:34
  Voorlichting over cybersecurity in het bedrijfsleven en de rol van het individu om risico’s te beperken heeft positieve gevolgen voor organisaties. Daarop duidt onderzoek van Palo Alto Networks onder beleidsmakers bij grote bedrijven in West-Europa.Zes op de tien Nederlandse respondenten geven aan met hun... lees meer
  
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• How to stop making costly IT contract mistakes

  25-07-2016 13:30
  
  Managing IT contracts is sensitive business. Typically, corporate relationships and large sums of money are on the line. One Western Australian public servant recently learned the pitfalls of poor contract management the hard way. The employee overspent $40 million dollars on an IT contract in the healthcare industry. Similarly, Serco, a private security firm, found itself on the receiving end of over $68 million dollars in fines as a result of contract errors. And NHS Partners, a clinical servi
  
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• Yahoo abandons fight, sells internet business to Verizon for $4.8B

  25-07-2016 13:19
  
  Ailing Yahoo is selling of its operating business for about US$4.8 billion to Verizon Communications, in a cash deal that will reduce the storied tech firm to mainly holding its cash, stakes in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan and non-core patents.For Verizon, the acquisition will help it gain Yahoo’s 1 billion monthly active users, its internet properties and key applications like search and email, and its advertising systems. Verizon is not unfamiliar to the acquisition and integration of web com
  
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• Het werk van de robot is vooral wat de ander deed

  25-07-2016 12:04
  Wanneer mensen het over robotisering hebben en in één adem het verdwijnen van banen noemen, klinkt in die aanname door dat het om werk gaat dat vooral door lager geschoolden wordt gedaan. Goed, ook een paar hbo’ers zullen naar een andere baan moeten omzien, maar dat loopt zo’n vaart niet.Ik... lees meer
  
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• Tableau 10 to feature data mashups, more IT management tools

  25-07-2016 12:00
  
  Tableau Software is expected to release the next major upgrade of its popular data visualization software, Tableau 10, within a couple of weeks. Version 10 will feature better data-mashup capabilities, drag-and-drop clustering, more mobile-friendly dashboards, support for Google Sheets and additional enterprise management tools, the company has told its customers.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• LinkedIn claims Rocket Data beats Apple's iOS caching

  25-07-2016 12:00
  
  To provide iOS app builders an alternative caching solution to Apple's Core Data framework, LinkedIn is offering its Rocket Data caching library via open source.
  Available under an Apache license, Rocket Data is based on a nonblocking immutable model management system with a persistent synchronization layer. LinkedIn developed Rocket Data while rewriting its mobile app, when it wanted a caching system that would present content to users while still loading data from the network. The company was
  
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• Hot job alert: Become a Salesforce coder

  25-07-2016 12:00
  
  Having a direct impact on company revenue is a great way to get ahead, and a career shift to Salesforce development can help you do exactly that. Salesforce.com presents a major opportunity for developers, not only in providing customization and implementation support but also in developing apps for Salesforce’s AppExchange business app marketplace.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• China surges further ahead in solar power production

  25-07-2016 12:00
  
  China's state-run news site said that the nation has pressed further ahead of other countries in its deployment of solar electricity, adding an additional 20 billion watts (20GW) in the first half of this year alone, according to a Reuters report.
  The 20GW installation figure beats most analysts' expectations by a large margin, according to Mohit Anand, a senior analyst for Global Solar Markets with GTM Research.
  Anand cautioned that China's National Energy Agency (NEA) has yet to come out with
  
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