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• The enterprise wish-list for the hybrid cloud

  24-10-2016 23:09
  If you know how to drive one car, you know how to drive pretty much any car. The gas pedal is always on the right and brake on the left. Push the turn signal up to go right and down to go left. Whether it’s a Ford or a Toyota, you don’t need to relearn how to drive each car.
  Public cloud should be the same way, argues Bob Wysocki, CTO of Digital Infrastructure for General Electric and a member of the Open Networking User Group (ONUG). This week at ONUG’s annual fall meeting in
  
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• Answers to ‘Is the internet broken?’ and other Dyn DDoS questions

  24-10-2016 22:49
  
  The massive DDoS attacks that took down internet address-translation service Dyn and its customers last week raise a lot of need-to-know questions about the overall security of online infrastructure and its performance.
  While the attacks were ultimately mitigated and have subsided, the means for carrying out others are still viable and could crop up at any time with other targets. Here are some questions and answers that address what happened, how it happened, whether it could happen again and
  
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• Apple issues iOS, macOS updates

  24-10-2016 22:20
  
  Apple today released the first significant updates for both iOS and macOS.
  iOS 10.1 includes a host of enhancements and bug fixes, but the signature addition is Portrait Camera, a feature previously touted by Apple for the iPhone 7 Plus only.
  Using the dual cameras of the iPhone 7 Plus, Portrait Camera creates a depth-of-field effect that presents the foreground in sharp focus but the background in a slight blur. iOS 10.1 introduces the feature as a beta, a move Apple has used in the past, most
  
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• Mobile content spurs AT&T's need for Time-Warner

  24-10-2016 22:01
  
  The intrinsic value of AT&T's proposed $85 billion merger with Time Warner is based primarily on recent growth in mobile video consumption, especially among users under age 35.
  The two companies envision new ways to get Time Warner's premium content to consumers through a highly distributed AT&T network that has 4,500 data centers nationwide.
  Putting the content on cache servers in those data centers, where it will be closer to users, and then zipping that content over AT&T's upcomi
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Ubuntu Yakkety Yak review: Head in the cloud, feet on the desktop

  24-10-2016 21:09
  
  Canonical announced the release of Ubuntu 16.10, code named Yakkety Yak, earlier last month. I downloaded it and have been using it for a while now. As a desktop Linux user, I have mixed feelings about this release.
  Despite being a desktop OS, Ubuntu 16.10 feels more like a cloud and server OS. And that’s a good thing. Like it or not, desktop is not a market for legacy desktop operating systems and Canonical is making the right decision by baking in more enterprise, cloud and server focus
  
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• Nissan, Renault tout plans to make 10 autonomous vehicles by 2020

  24-10-2016 21:05
  
  The Renault-Nissan Alliance has created a new 300-person division for the purpose of releasing at least 10 vehicles with "significant" autonomous driving capabilities by 2020.
  Nissan and Renault's new Mobility Division will focus on the development of software, cloud engineering and big data analytics for connected-car technologies.
  In 2018, Nissan said it expects to unveil a "multiple-lane control" application that can autonomously negotiate hazards and change lanes during highway driving
  
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• CIO Career Coach: How to ace a job interview, part 2 (video)

  24-10-2016 21:03
  
  Welcome to the fifth episode of "CIO Career Coach," a video series I created with CIO.com and IDG.tv, the video division of CIO's parent company IDG.As an executive recruiter, I constantly prepare IT executive candidates for job interviews. I have spent so much time coaching candidates for job interviews that I have collected more advice than will fit into one video. So, I dedicated three episodes to this critical topic.In the previous episode, I shared valuable pointers such as "prepare a trans
  
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• CIO October 2016 Digital Magazine: Uniting the digital enterprise

  24-10-2016 20:44
  
  Download the CIO October 2016 Digital Magazine.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• LEGO builds on its Mac project

  24-10-2016 20:42
  
  The old way of doing IT at The LEGO Group was very much “we decide how you work,” said Michael Loft Mikkelsen. But things are changing at the family-owned company based in Billund, Denmark. One big change is the growing number of Mac users among the 17,000 worldwide LEGO employees. Driving the change is LEGO’s corporate mission.
  “We have one overarching mission: to inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow. That’s our single most important goal,” said
  
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• Microsoft blocks Belichick's anti-Surface blitz

  24-10-2016 20:40
  
  Microsoft last week defended its five-year deal with the National Football League (NFL) after the coach of the New England Patriots trashed the company's tablet.[ Related: Why Patriots coach tossed Microsoft’s Surface ]"This week Surface has been at the center of the debate on the role of technology in the NFL, with different opinions shared from coaches and players," said Yusuf Mehdi, a Microsoft marketing executive in the Windows and Devices Group, in a post to a company blog Friday.To r
  
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• BrandPost: Making Hadoop Enterprise-Ready

  24-10-2016 20:34
  
  Growing numbers of organizations are augmenting their enterprise data warehouses (EDWs) with the open source Apache Hadoop platform, and gaining the associated benefits — from cost economies to a highly scalable repository for data in its many forms. Now the focus is shifting to the steps an organization can take to make Hadoop a true enterprise-class platform.In recent years the Hadoop ecosystem has made enormous strides in the effort to make Hadoop enterprise-ready, yet we must remember
  
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• Physical RAM attack can root Android and possibly other devices

  24-10-2016 20:15
  
  Researchers have devised a new way to compromise Android devices without exploiting any software vulnerabilities and instead of taking advantage of a physical design weakness in RAM chips. The attack technique could also affect other ARM and x86-based devices and computers.The attack stems from the push over the past decade to pack more DRAM (dynamic random-access memory) capacity onto increasingly smaller chips, which can lead to memory cells on adjacent rows leaking electric charges to on
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: If you're just thinking about cloud it's already too late

  24-10-2016 20:06
  
  Many of us today are thinking about the cloud and what it might mean to the future.  Yet as we’ve pondered cloud technology, it has gone from an intriguing concept to an absolute inevitability.  In fact, it has gotten to the point that if by 2020, an IT leader is not an expert in leveraging the cloud, that person may not have a job. When we step back and take a look at the past decade, it has been an avalanche in terms of how the IT landscape has changed.  Even though t
  
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• 66% off KMASHI 15000mAh External Battery Power Bank - Deal Alert

  24-10-2016 20:00
  
  KMASHI's 15,000mAh power bank can charge any 2 smartphones, tablets or USB devices simultaneously at high speed, and several times over without needing to be recharged. It currently averages 4 out of 5 stars on Amazon from over 7,700 customers (read reviews). With the current 66% discount you can buy it on Amazon for just $17. See it now on Amazon.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• Chinese firm recalls camera products linked to massive DDOS attack

  24-10-2016 19:45
  
  A Chinese electronics component maker is recalling 4.3 million internet-connected camera products from the U.S. market amid claims they may have played a role in Friday's massive internet disruption.
  On Monday, Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology said it was recalling earlier models of four kinds of cameras due to a security vulnerability that can make them easy to hack.
  "The main security problem is that users aren't changing the device's default passwords," Xiongmai said in a Chinese-language s
  
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• Despite concerns, analysts expect an OK for AT&T-Time Warner deal

  24-10-2016 19:19
  
  Prominent U.S. politicians quickly raised concerns about the proposed $85.4 billion merger of AT&T and Time Warner, but some analysts expect it to pass regulatory muster after a lengthy review.
  "The big question is how a new presidential administration will try to make a mark with its handling of the deal, but I expect whoever is elected will essentially wave [in approval] as it goes by," said Bill Menezes, an analyst at Gartner.
  Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his Democrat
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Winning strategies for MACRA and MIPS

  24-10-2016 18:47
  
  Physicians are understandably concerned about how the new Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) will impact their practices — not only because physicians will be publicly ranked against one another but also because they could face substantial reimbursement cuts. With reputation, finances and your practice on the line, it will be critical to establish a winning strategy.But there is a silver lining. The MACRA’s Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), which is antic
  
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• New Samsung loyalty program hints that the Note line may not be dead after all

  24-10-2016 18:06
  
  Samsung isn’t giving up on customer loyalty without a fight. 
  Samsung is aiming to win back those burned by the Note7 debacle with a new upgrade program that indicates the Note line isn’t dead after all. Targeted specifically at buyers in Korea, the company will give an S7 or S7 Edge to those who bought a Note along with an upgrade promise to a new Galaxy S8 or Note8 phone.
  That’s the first solid piece of evidence we’d heard that Samsung isn’t shuttering the N
  
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• Not robocop, but robojudge? AI learns to rule in human rights cases

  24-10-2016 17:18
  
  An artificial intelligence system designed to predict the outcomes of cases at the European Court of Human Rights would side with the human judges 79 percent of the time.Researchers at University College London and the University of Sheffield in the U.K., and the University of Pennsylvania in the U.S., described the system in a paper published Monday by the Peer Journal of Computer Science."We formulated a binary classification task where the input of our classifiers is the textual content extra
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Pepe the Frog and Apple's political bias against Donald Trump

  24-10-2016 16:36
  
  Apple has long been perceived by some to have a tilt to the left in terms of politics. The company’s culture is rooted in the politics of the San Francisco area, a place that has historically been known as a hotbed of left-wing activism on many issues. Apple’s San Francisco cultural roots have sometimes affected how submissions to the iOS App Store have been handled by app reviewers.A recent example of this was the Capitol HillAwry game, which is a political satire of Hillary Clinton
  
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• Where to find the world's best programmers

  24-10-2016 15:53
  
  Donald Knuth, Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Grace Hopper: The United States has produced some of the greatest software engineers who have ever lived.But outside the United States computer technology and education have become far more accessible over the last 20 years or so, and that means that in China and many other less developed countries there are now plenty of young minds that have been trained to become skilled programmers.So which countries produce the best coders is an interesting questi
  
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• 20% off Micca Speck G2 1080p Full-HD Ultra Portable Digital Media Player - Deal Alert

  24-10-2016 15:48
  
  The Micca Speck G2 provides convenient playback of all popular photo, music, and video formats up to 1080p Full-HD resolution on any TV or HDTV. It has a 1080p HD output for sending sharp and clear video and audio in pure digital format to HDTVs, as well as composite AV output for use with analog TVs. The Speck G2 reads media from USB Drives, USB Hard Drives, SD/SDHC Flash Memory Cards, MBR FAT32 and NTFS file systems, up to 2TB. File formats supported are:To read this article in full or t
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: My high heels don't make me any less high tech

  24-10-2016 15:27
  
  When you think of a computer programmer, you probably think of a disheveled young man in glasses hunched over a computer screen, somebody like Richard Hendricks from HBO’s Silicon Valley. Actually, think worse than that. The traditional archetype of a computer programmer is pretty narrow. White. Male. Introverted.   [ Related: StubHub works to grow diversity inside and out ]Even as little as a decade ago, women were told to be tough and have a thick skin to succeed in the male do
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 4 ways CMOs can improve daily workflow

  24-10-2016 15:00
  
  Do you ever feel like your daily routines are cumbersome and slow? Even as a marketing executive in a successful company, it’s quite common for there to be hindrances between you and optimal productivity.
  If this sounds familiar, it’s time identify the root causes and make some changes.What’s holding you back?It doesn’t matter if you’re a marketing intern at a small online business or the CMO of a billion-dollar corporation, everyone struggles with productivity fro
  
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• French surveillance law is unconstitutional after all, highest court says

  24-10-2016 13:31
  
  The French Constitutional Council has taken another look at a new security law it waved through in July 2015, and found it wanting.A key clause of last year's Surveillance Law essentially allowed security agencies to monitor and control wireless communications without the usual oversight applied to wiretapping operations.This is unconstitutional as the lack of oversight is likely to result in a disproportionate invasion of privacy, the council ruled Friday. It was responding to a complaint filed
  
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• StubHub works to grow diversity inside and out

  24-10-2016 13:22
  
  When Jennifer Betka joined StubHub 12 months ago, she knew the company was about to evolve and scale overnight. As if that wasn't daunting enough, the company's customer demographics skewed mostly male, and purchasing data showed most customers were sports fans. Betka's job was to grow and scale the company globally and diversify the customer base.
  "We'd already been having conversations around diversity and inclusion from a hiring-and-retention view, but it's equally important for us to look ex
  
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• 10 must-have Android apps for Halloween

  24-10-2016 13:00
  
  Turn your phone into a Spooktacular Halloween companionImage by Derek WalterYou’ve probably decorated your house with cobwebs, spiders, skeletons, and carved some pumpkins.But what about your phone? Yes, that ever-present companion of yours needs some attention as well when it comes to getting ready for All Hallow’s Eve. Your smartphone can keep track of where the kids are, zombify yourself, and keep the party going with some dark and delightful tunes.To read this article in full or
  
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• Are your marketing pros ready to handle big data?

  24-10-2016 12:39
  
  The role of a marketer is to help leverage brands, products and overall awareness of a business' core mission. That means analyzing data has become increasingly valuable to marketers, giving them real-time insights into trends, current campaigns and failed initiatives.
  "Marketers today are more in tune to numbers, figures and metrics than ever before -- they understand that the success of their marketing campaigns rely on the ability to analyze data and turn behaviors and actions of buyers and c
  
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• Better safe than sorry: 5 apps for encrypting and shredding files

  24-10-2016 12:30
  
  While safeguarding personal and business data has always been important, the necessity for maintaining digital privacy has become even more vital as more of our records are digitized.
  People are starting to realize that passwords alone aren't enough. Even with password protection, anything on your computer can potentially be viewed by an enterprising hacker. And if your computer is lost or stolen, its hard drive can be removed and connected to a new computer, revealing its secrets. To be safer,
  
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• Why is Apple letting Macs rot on the tree?

  24-10-2016 12:28
  
  Apple has been selling Macintosh branded computers for 31 years, but with its emphasis shifting to smartphones, watches, music and who knows what else, the company has neglected its Mac line, leaving the Apple faithful wondering if the company is still committed to it.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• Bots may be trumping online polls

  24-10-2016 12:27
  
  Politicians are fond of saying that the only poll that matters is the one on election day.
  That may be especially true this year, especially when it comes to online polls that, like anything in the digital, connected world, are vulnerable to mischief.
  The mischief is enabled by bots – hundreds to many thousands of computers under the control of an attacker that are more typically used to send out spam, create Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks and commit various kinds of fraud &
  
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• How to choose the right project management tools

  24-10-2016 12:26
  
  The right tool for the right job goes the old adage, but knowing exactly what criteria you should consider and how to go about evaluating each of the project management (PM) tools at your disposal can be time-consuming and even frustrating. So we've taken some of the legwork out of it by offering some key considerations, broken down into three primary categories that should be included in your evaluation.We'll start with the business model, strategy and needs.Category 1: The business
  The busines
  
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• Step-by-step guide to setting up dual boot on your PC or laptop

  24-10-2016 12:12
  
  Are you tired of your operating system dictating what you can and can’t do with your PC or laptop? Need more control over your computing environment? Dual boot might be the answer. I have a dual boot dream machine running both Windows 10 and Linux Mint 18. What I can’t do with one OS, I can do with the other.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• Frightening technology trends to worry about

  24-10-2016 12:10
  
  SpookyImage by Universal StudiosWith Halloween just around the corner, what better time to reflect on technology scares in their organization – and, just as importantly, how to combat them. From internal threats to vendor overload, Warren Perlman, CIO of Ceridian, a global human capital management technology company, explains how to confront your “technology fears.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• With IBM's Watson, GlaxoSmithKline tackles sniffle and cough questions

  24-10-2016 12:01
  
  If you start feeling a cold or flu coming on this season, you will be able to reach out to IBM's artificial intelligence-fueled Watson to find some answers to your sniffly, coughy questions.
  GlaxoSmithKline, (GSK) the world's sixth-largest pharmaceutical company, is teaming up with IBM to use Watson to better connect with customers.
  The London-based company plans to start using Watson Ads in November, enabling people to ask questions by voice or text right through GSK's online ads.
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• NPM 4 seeks to fix JavaScript package search

  24-10-2016 12:00
  
  NPM Inc. is offering version 4.0.0 of the NPM package manager for JavaScript, while NPM 2 and 3 are set for maintenance mode.
  The 4.0.0 version offers several breaking changes but is not considered as dramatic as its predecessor, having less impact on day-to-day operations than version 3, according to NPM. Both version 2 and 3 will move to the background with the release of NPM 4.[ Use JavaScript in your dev shop? InfoWorld looks at 17 JavaScript editors and IDEs and 22 JavaScript frameworks re
  
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• 5 strategies to reboot your IT career

  24-10-2016 12:00
  
  Technology changes faster than many of us can keep up with it. New paradigms like software-defined networks and the cloud emerge, and the old ones continue to hang around.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• WikiLeaks says it doesn’t collaborate with states

  24-10-2016 08:51
  
  WikiLeaks claims to have many thousands of sources but does not collaborate with states in the publication of documents, its editorial board said late Sunday.The statement by the board of the whistleblowing site assumes significance after the  administration of U.S. President Barack Obama charged that it and other sites had released allegedly hacked emails under the direction of Russia. WikiLeaks has leaked mails from the Democratic National Committee that showed that the Democratic Party&r
  
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• AT&T, Time Warner deal under scrutiny from politicians, consumer groups

  24-10-2016 07:16
  
  The plan by AT&T to acquire Time Warner for US$85.4 billion has come under the microscope of U.S. politicians and public interest groups that are concerned about the antitrust implications of the mega-deal.On Saturday, Randall Stephenson, AT&T chairman and CEO, said the deal would let it combine premium content with the networks to deliver it to every screen, including mobile displays.But many politicians including Democratic party presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her Republica
  
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