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• Ethernet consortia trio want to unlock a more time-sensitive network

  10-11-2016 23:05
  
  The demand from Internet of Things, automotive networking and video applications are driving changes to Ethernet technology that will make it more time-sensitive.
  Key to those changes are a number of developing standards but also a push this week from the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory to set up three new industry specific Ethernet Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) consortiums – Automotive Networking, Industrial Networking, and ProAV Networking aimed at developing d
  
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• 35% off Oster Cordless Electric Wine Bottle Opener with Foil Cutter - Deal Alert

  10-11-2016 23:05
  
  This cordless electric wine opener from Oster removes the cork in seconds with one-button operation, and opens up to 30 bottles before needing to be recharged. It features a foil cutter for easily removing seals and a comfortable soft-grip handle. Currently averages 4 out of 5 stars from over 4,000 people (read reviews). It's discounted 35% on Amazon, so you can get it right now for just $12.99. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• Facebook hits 20Gbps in testing for internet drone data transmission

  10-11-2016 22:53
  
  Facebook has succeeded in transmitting data at almost 20Gbps between two towers in Southern California in tests of a technology key to its plans to deliver internet service to rural areas using drones.The tests were conducted earlier this year and made use of frequencies in the so-called E-band, a group of millimeter wave frequencies between 60 and 90GHz.Such signals are capable of high-bandwidth data transmission but are susceptible to attenuation from distance, weather, and obstacles, so they
  
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• BrandPost: CIO interview with Sorabh Saxena, Senior VP at AT&T

  10-11-2016 22:52
  
  What is your main focus at AT&T? 
  This is an epoch marked with incredible change. The technology and the customer demands are evolving at a breakneck pace. We are charting the course for the industry by proactively transforming our technology landscape. My focus is both external and internal, as we change into a software and platform-focused company.
  To support these initiatives, internally, the most important focus area is to re-skill our large workforce. Externally, we’re are e
  
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• What's the Mac mean to Apple, the Surface to Microsoft?

  10-11-2016 22:16
  
  The Mac's contribution to Apple's revenue has shrunk in the last two years, while the Surface's share of Microsoft's revenue has increased during the same time, data provided by each company shows.
  Declines in the percentage that the Mac contributed to total revenue reinforced the complaints of some that Apple had ignored the personal computer in favor of the iPhone, by far the firm's biggest money maker.
  Those complaints climbed in number and volume following Apple's introduction of new MacBoo
  
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• A CIO rejects, for now, university’s IT offshoring plan

  10-11-2016 21:52
  
  There are reservations within the University of California system about a plan to move IT work offshore and lay off employees.
  After Computerworld wrote in September about the layoff plan at the university's San Francisco campus, Larry Conrad, the associate vice chancellor for IT and CIO at the Berkeley campus, wrote a memo to IT staff about it.
  He noted that some on his IT staffhad seen the story and he wanted to respond.
  "The UCSF effort is indeed an ambitious undertaking," wrote Conrad in a
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Why CIOs need to take the lead on digital transformation in 2017

  10-11-2016 21:46
  Technology has been changing the world as we know it, and in a quite fast pace. Companies that were born with a digital DNA are now taking over the market, and there are no signs that this will change in a near future. For the past 30 years, the so-called “creative destruction” has been a source of fascination for many professional, researchers and universities. The almost obsessive interest is not surprising, given the ever-changing, never-ending list of transformative threats, whic
  
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• 40-plus eye-popping Black Friday 2016 tech deals

  10-11-2016 21:24
  
  Black Friday frenzySome have begun referring to this month as Black November since Black Friday sales have stretched far beyond Thanksgiving Day and Nov. 25. But who’s complaining when hundreds of dollars are being lopped off the prices of the hottest smartphones, tablets, PCs and gaming systems. Here’s a look at some of the best deals.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: What a Trump presidency could mean for healthcare IT

  10-11-2016 20:48
  
  One of the implications of Republicans being in control of the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives its that it's almost certain that there will be an attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) as we know it. While the political battle plays out on this in the short term, it is worthwhile looking at the long-term implications for healthcare IT.Where we are today in healthcare IT
  In a recent report to Congress, the Office of the National Coordinator for Healthcare I
  
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• Suspected Russian hackers target US think tanks after election

  10-11-2016 20:46
  
  Hours after Donald Trump won the presidential election, a suspected Russian cyberespionage team was blamed for targeting several U.S. think tanks with phishing emails designed to fool victims into installing malware.On Wednesday, the phishing emails landed in the inboxes of dozens of targets associated with U.S. think tanks and non-governmental organizations, said security firm Volexity.A hacking group called APT 29 or Cozy Bear was behind the attack, according to Veloxity. This is one of the sa
  
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• Instagram brings Boomerangs, links, and mentions to its Stories

  10-11-2016 20:33
  
  Instagram’s addition of Snapchat-style Stories has proven to be a welcome new feature—according to Instagram’s data, more than 100 million people create Stories every day. So it’s no surprise that Instagram is building up Stories even more: On Thursday, the app rolled out an update that adds Boomerang compatibility, mentions, and links to Instagram Stories. 
  Boomerang is a standalone tool built by Instagram that lets you create a quick video that loops forward and b
  
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• PayPal lets you send and request money using Siri in iOS 10

  10-11-2016 20:28
  
  “Neither a borrower nor a lender be,” some guy told his son once in a play. It’s good advice—if someone floats you a few dollars, you should pay them back right away, before you forget. Now PayPal users can settle up without even launching the app, sending payments to friends via Siri in iOS 10.
  Version 6.7 of PayPal’s iOS app lets users both send and request money with Siri commands. The app joins Square Cash and Monzo in adding Siri support for sending and receiv
  
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• Samsung is prepping a ginormous 6.2-inch curved screen for the Galaxy S8

  10-11-2016 18:53
  
  Samsung is a major believer in the adage “go big or go home.”
  According to several reports the company is building two phablet-sized phones with dual-edge screens for the upcoming Galaxy S8 line. Venturebeat says one model will come in at an eye-popping 6.2 inches, with the smaller variant at 5.7 inches.
  At least the bigger model, to be called the Galaxy S8 Plus, will also reportedly ditch Samsung’s long-standing home button and capacitive keys for on-screen navigation.&n
  
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• Hacker shows how easy it is to take over a city’s public Wi-Fi network

  10-11-2016 18:37
  
  In a perfect example of how public wireless networks can be dangerous for privacy and security, an Israeli hacker showed that he could have taken over the free Wi-Fi network of an entire city.On his way home from work one day, Amihai Neiderman, the head of research at Israeli cybersecurity firm Equus Technologies, spotted a wireless hotspot that he hadn't seen before. What made it unusual was that it was in an area with no buildings.It turned out that the hotspot he saw, advertised as "FREE_TLV,
  
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• BrandPost: Cloud ERP Scalability: Manufacturer Expands Production by 60%

  10-11-2016 18:19
  
  Let’s say your company wants to expand production, tripling your inventory and product lines and increasing lead times for overseas production. As much as you want to seize the opportunity, you’re concerned. After all, your business system simply isn’t set up to support this growth.FloraCraft, manufacturer and supplier of Styrofoam brand foam products for the craft, floral, display, and event industries, found itself in this position. The company’s legacy ERP system could
  
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• BrandPost: The 5 Hidden Economic Benefits of Cloud ERP

  10-11-2016 18:10
  
  The cloud has been a major topic of conversation among manufacturers over the past few years. With good reason too: it has definitively proven its financial value. Obviously, the cloud offers compelling ways for manufacturers of all sizes to reap cost savings, especially when it comes to capital spend. But cloud ERP promises even more economic win falls that aren’t quite as obvious. Just consider the following:1.    Less Capital OutputWith traditional, legacy on-premise ERP,
  
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• BrandPost: The Evolving Insider Threat

  10-11-2016 17:53
  
  Trusted employees have always posed a threat to business. Not long ago the theft of intellectual property meant simply walking out of a factory with a proprietary part or blueprint.Today, the insider threat is much more insidious, and it’s on the rise. According to the Insider Threat Spotlight Report, 74% of organizations feel vulnerable to insider threats, and 56% of security professionals say insider threats have become more frequent in prior 12 months.What’s causing this new dynam
  
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• Tech groups push policy priorities for the Trump administration

  10-11-2016 17:41
  
  Technology trade groups are already pushing out their policy priorities for President-elect Donald Trump's administration, even though his campaign rarely touched on IT issues.With Silicon Valley largely opposed to Trump during the campaign and his tech policy agenda paper thin, policy recommendations from tech trade groups may be an exercise in wishful thinking. Still, several tech groups congratulated Trump on his unexpected victory and expressed optimism about this presidency.One point of opt
  
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• European Parliament clears drone regulations for takeoff

  10-11-2016 16:25
  
  Regulations to protect people from falling drones moved a little closer to takeoff at the European Parliament on Thursday.Ensuring drone safety took on a new urgency this week, with GoPro's recall of its Karma drone after unexplained mid-air power failures caused a number of them to drop out of the sky.Under the European Union's proposed regulations, drones will have to be registered so that their owners can be identified. While that won't in itself stop drones from falling, it could lead pilots
  
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• 64% off Vansky Bias Lighting for HDTV USB LED Multi Color Strip Accent Lighting - Deal Alert

  10-11-2016 16:24
  
  This bias lighting strip, currently discounted by 64% on Amazon from $49.99 down to just $17.99, reduces eye-strain caused by differences in picture brightness from scene to scene in movies, shows and games, by adding a subtle backlight to your monitor or TV.  The LED lights can be changed with up to 20 color selections customizing and setting the mood of your workspace. The strip is easy to install and can be cut to size and plugs directly in the USB port of the TV or monitor.  Just P
  
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• Pixel XL with Google Daydream provide premium mobile VR

  10-11-2016 16:12
  
  The Daydream mobile virtual reality experience proves critics who call VR a fad wrong. Google’s new platform will attract many new apps and experiences and create new business models.
  Daydream VR combined with the Pixel hardware’s powerful performance and thoughtful design of the headset will create a market of hundreds of millions of VR-capable phones. The Pixel is expensive, but the relentlessly declining price performance of mobile components will quickly bring affordability into
  
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• Is Apple Watch Series 2 or Fitbit Flex 2 better for swim tracking?

  10-11-2016 15:08
  
  I recently left the gym in San Francisco and ran into my friend Bob. Bob has competed in (and won) international swimming championships, and he was on his way to swim laps. I told him I'd just done the same thing, in an effort to test the new Apple Watch Nike+ swim tracking features. (Apple Watch Nike+ is the functional equivalent of all Apple Watch Series 2 smartwatches, but it has a proprietary Nike sports band and some different clock faces.)To read this article in full or
  
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• Cisco/Ericsson: Assessing the mega-deal a year later

  10-11-2016 14:58
  
  When it was announced a year ago, the Cisco/Ericsson partnership was hailed as “the right move for us right now,” according to Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins to create the networks of the future.
  While the partnership has done well – the companies say they have closed 60 deals together -- Ericsson is being battered financially this year and the impact that will have on the partnership could change it in the future.
  +More on Network World: Cisco CEO Robbins: Wait til you see what&rsqu
  
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• 17% off Nest Cam Indoor Security Camera - Deal Alert

  10-11-2016 14:33
  
  Look after your home 24/7 in crisp 1080p HD. With Nest Cam Indoor, you can check in, even when you’re out, and even at night with its built-in high-quality night vision. Nest Cam features a versatile magnetic stand that lets you put it anywhere. See who’s there, listen in and speak up to get their attention. With Nest Aware, you can get a special alert if Nest Cam sees a person, and save 10 or 30 days of continuous video history in the cloud. Then speed through it in seconds and
  
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• InfiniBand will reach 200-gigabit speed next year

  10-11-2016 14:30
  
  InfiniBand is set to hit 200Gbps (bits per second) in products that were announced Thursday, potentially accelerating machine-learning platforms as well as HPC (high-performance computing) systems.The massive computing performance of new servers equipped with GPUs calls for high network speeds, and these systems are quickly being deployed to handle machine-learning tasks, Dell’Oro Group analyst Sameh Boujelbene said.So-called HDR InfiniBand, which will be generally available next year in t
  
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• How to pick the right cloud storage service

  10-11-2016 14:00
  
  Cloud storage is an indispensable tool in today's hyper-connected world. But unlike the early days of cloud storage, when vendors regularly rolled out new capabilities and routinely bumped up storage limits, the market has matured in terms of capabilities and storage norms. Here are some key factors to consider before choosing a new cloud storage service.Getting started with the cloudOne of the first things you should do when choosing between cloud services is compare storage options, features
  
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• How to maintain data and document security with a mobile workforce

  10-11-2016 14:00
  
  Pragmatic approachImage by ThinkstockData and document security with today’s mobile workforce can be a difficult challenge. This is not a “one-size-fits-all” problem; one needs to weigh the risks to ensure that you are operating within a tolerable risk level or the opposite in which you put significant controls around devices, hamper productivity for no benefit. Take a pragmatic approach – you want the ability to clearly and justly answer the organization's question of, &
  
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• Visibility, security top concerns for cloud computing adoption

  10-11-2016 13:00
  
  Enterprises considering adopting public clouds are concerned about where their data is located and how it's protected, according to a new survey by IDG.
  Companies will have about 60 percent of their IT environment in public, private, or hybrid clouds, according to a survey of about 1,000 IT decision makers.
  Of those considering public cloud deployments, the top concerns were where data is stored, at 43 percent of respondents, and security, with 41 percent of respondents.
  And with all the high-p
  
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• 15 hot hybrid smartwatches for the holidays

  10-11-2016 13:00
  
  The best hybrid smartwatches of 2016Image by Fossil Group, Michael Kors, Movado Group, WithingsIf you haven't yet heard of "hybrid smartwatches," or "smart analog watches," you soon will.A hybrid smartwatch provides, in theory, the best of both the smartwatch and traditional-watch worlds. It has the face of a traditional watch and the brains of an activity tracker. Are smart analog watches as good as dedicated activity trackers from Fitbit, or smartwatches from Apple or Android Wear watch makers
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Here's why your EHR doesn't work

  10-11-2016 12:30
  
  Tell me about your processes
  “I hope you’re not going to show me a bunch of flowcharts. At the last place I worked, they flowcharted everything.” Thus spoke a client in a consultation about his troubled EHR (electronic health records) project. It wasn’t difficult to figure out where the project went off track; it was doomed from the beginning.My inner Jeff Lebowski wanted to shout, “Dude! You didn’t map your processes. No wonder your EHR doesn’t work.&rd
  
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• Recruiting and retaining female IT talent: 8 concrete steps

  10-11-2016 12:28
  
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• What will Trump do with the H-1B visa?

  10-11-2016 12:00
  
  President-elect Donald Trump, working with Congress, may try to make it harder and more expensive to hire H-1B workers. His intent would be to change the economics of visa usage and encourage employers to hire U.S. workers.
  Trump could do this by working with a bipartisan group in Congress committed to reform. But Trump also has executive power levers and could impose changes on his first day in office. He also can prod various federal agencies to launch investigations into visa use.
  Ron Hira,
  
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• IBM’s Watson to use genomic data to defeat drug-resistant cancers

  10-11-2016 12:00
  
  IBM's Watson artificial intelligence platform has joined forces with researchers at MIT and Harvard to study how thousands of cancers mutate to become resistant to drug treatments that initially worked to beat back the disease.
  By discovering how cancers adapt to overcome drug therapies, researchers at MIT's and Harvard's Broad Institute genomics research center hope to develop a new generation of therapies that cancers cannot circumvent.
  While a growing number of treatments can hold cancers in
  
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• Nederlands ICT-advocatenkantoor Whitebridge ontvangt internationale award

  10-11-2016 11:32
  Lawyer Monthly, een vooraanstaande wereldwijde publicatie voor de advocatuur, heeft het Nederlandse advocatenkantoor Whitebridge Advocatuur uitgeroepen tot Law Firm of the Year 2016 in de categorie IT en Communications. 
   
  “We zijn ontzettend blij te weten dat we de enige ontvanger van deze award in... lees meer
  
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• Yahoo investigating if insiders knew of hack

  10-11-2016 05:41
  
  Yahoo said investigators into the late 2014 theft of information of at least 500 million user accounts are looking into the possibility that some people within the company knew about the security incident at the time.Law enforcement authorities on Monday also “began sharing certain data that they indicated was provided by a hacker who claimed the information was Yahoo user account data,” the company said in a regulatory filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Yaho
  
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• Worries and uncertainty cloud outlook for digital privacy under President Trump

  10-11-2016 01:37
  
  When President-elect Donald Trump officially takes office, he’ll inherit a powerful U.S. surveillance apparatus, including the National Security Agency, that’s already been accused of trampling over privacy rights.This has some legal experts worried, but like almost every other aspect of a Trump presidency, there are more questions than clarity over what exactly he plans to do.Over the course of his presidential campaign, Trump has only offered snapshots on his views about various U.
  
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