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• Obama vows to punish Russia over election-related hacks

  16-12-2016 23:25
  
  U.S. President Barack Obama pledged to punish Russia for hacking of Democratic groups and figures during the election season with actions that’ll occur in secret and others that’ll be made public.“Our goal continues to be to send a clear message to Russia or others not to do this to us because we can do stuff to you,” Obama said in a press conference.The President stopped short of explicitly blaming Russian president Vladimir Putin for directing the alleged hack
  
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• Zinc launches new tools for putting workers on blast

  16-12-2016 21:58
  
  Zinc, a messaging platform for businesses, announced Friday that it is launching a set of new features aimed at helping desk-less workers get the most out of enterprise instant messaging.
  First off, the company is launching Broadcasts, a way for businesses to send employees rich notifications that block out all of the other messages and force users to close then before they can resume messaging. Administrators will be able to see which employees have seen and dismissed the notification.
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• First look: IBM's Watson Analytics comes to the iPad

  16-12-2016 21:48
  
  IBM today announced Watson Analytics Mobile for iPad -- an app that can be used along with a free personal or paid enterprise Watson account.
  The app can import data from a cloud-based Watson account into a spreadsheet or CSV format, as well as use apps such as OneDrive and Dropbox to import files. In addition, Twitter hashtags can be entered directly into the app for analysis.
  Most features are available to free-account users -- except for analyzing Twitter hashtags, although if you're new to
  
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• Vine will live on as ‘Vine Camera’ for recording six-second videos to post on Twitter

  16-12-2016 21:42
  
  Vine has been revived, sort of.
  After Twitter announced that it was shutting down Vine, the company now has decided to turn the video-sharing app into a camera app. Instead of pulling Vine from the App Store, Twitter will relaunch it as Vine Camera in January.
  The new pared-down app will let users record and edit six-second videos, but they will only be able to save them to their camera roll or post them directly on Twitter.
  In addition, Twitter is hoping to be able to migrate the Vine communit
  
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• Samsung tricks out Gear S3 smartwatch with a 64-bit chip

  16-12-2016 21:39
  
  If Apple was the first to bring 64-bit to the iPhone, Samsung is among the first to bring it to smartwatches.
  The recently launched Samsung Gear S3 has some of the most advanced circuitry found in wearables, according to a teardown of the device by Linley Group.
  Inside, engineers found a dual-core 64-bit ARM Cortex-A53 processor running at 1.0GHz combined with high-definition graphics, memory, power management and LTE connectivity. That makes it roughly equivalent to a low-cost smartp
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: What banks can learn from fintech startups

  16-12-2016 21:20
  
  Today, a company can spring up in a matter of weeks. Perhaps a new idea is planted overnight during a hackathon and germinated in a garage over a couple of weeks using unlimited cloud computing power, free developer tools and open APIs. Then, the startup might get watered by incubators and accelerators like Idealab and Y Combinator, helping to direct the young company toward the sunlight while sprinkling it with occasional funding to grow its products and team.   Fintech startups Bette
  
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• GM to be the first to deploy self-driving cars on Michigan roads

  16-12-2016 20:42
  General Motors announced it will be the first company to begin testing fully autonomous cars on Michigan's roads after the state passed legislation that allowed self-driving vehicles on all public roadways.
  GM said it will test versions of all-electric Chevrolet Bolts equipped with self-driving technology that it said will begin rolling out of a Michigan plant in January.
  "Revolutionizing transportation for our customers while improving safety on roads is the goal of our autonomous vehicle tech
  
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• Android device updates: OnePlus pushes out updates, Samsung tries to kill off the Note7

  16-12-2016 19:43
  
  The OnePlus 3 and 3T are the big winners in the world of updates this week. The former is getting another taste of Nougat thanks to the company’s beta software program. The 3T isn’t there yet, but it’s the recipient of another update that promises several improvements. 
  Each week, we round up all the major software updates to hit the Android ecosystem, including phones and tablets on U.S. carriers, unlocked phones, smartwatches, and Android TV devices. Making sure your de
  
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• Outsource Magazine Dinershow: 40.000 euro aan prijzen uitgereikt

  16-12-2016 19:24
  Pepijn Karsmakers (Heijmans), FrieslandCampina, Wipro en de Global Workspace Alliance hebben donderdagavond tijdens de Outsource Magazine Dinershow in de Sint Olofskapel te Amsterdam, de TOMMIES gewonnen. Er was een eervolle vermelding voor IT-dienstverlener levinine. François van Heurn en Dirk van Sichem... lees meer
  
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• What CEOs can learn from President-elect transition process

  16-12-2016 18:52
  
  Recently I wrote about how you’d measure Trump if he were CEO of the U.S. rather than President-elect, and suggested that many of the same metrics applied. However, there is one big difference where the incoming U.S. President has an advantage over a typical incoming CEO, particularly an external candidate in a turnaround. That advantage is the period of time when the incoming U.S. President has no authority or responsibility, but can hold meetings on the strength of his, or her, eventual
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: What to check for before accepting that newly created role

  16-12-2016 18:30
  
  "Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing." – Warren Buffett
  They want me?!?
  When the recruiter first contacted you about her client’s search, you might have been feeling a bit dubious: “It’s a newly created job running the IT organization for a rapidly expanding services company!” You said to yourself, “Hmmm. Sounds risky but they’re looking for their very first CIO and this is my big chance for a seat at the table.”
  The interview proc
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 7 best industries for content marketing

  16-12-2016 18:00
  
  Content marketing is an incredibly useful marketing strategy, and because of its practicality, almost any business can reap the benefits. The premise is simple; use interesting, unique, in-demand and well-written content to naturally attract more people to your brand and website. Because customers of any business will need at least some information related to that business, there’s demand for content everywhere. However, some industries measurably benefit from content marketing more than
  
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• Worm on the sensor: What happens when IoT data is bad?

  16-12-2016 17:57
  
  Enterprises trying to use the internet of things already face a deluge of data and a dizzying array of ways to analyze it. But what happens if the information is wrong?Bad data is common in IoT, and though it’s hard to get an estimate of how much information streaming in from connected devices can’t be used, a lot of people are thinking about the problem.About 40 percent of all data from the edges of IoT networks is “spurious,” says Harel Kodesh, vice president of GE&rsqu
  
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• Chrome OS is coming to Lenovo's radically creative Yoga Book

  16-12-2016 17:50
  
  Lenovo plans to have three flavors of the Yoga Book—its innovative typing, writing, and drawing mash-up of a computer—in 2017. The company’s Android and Chrome chief, Jeff Meredith, recently confirmed to Laptop Magazine that a Chrome OS version would arrive next year after the website Chrome Unboxed reported in October that a “Yoga Book Chromebook” appeared to be in the works.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• ARM tackles server compatibility issues with Allinea acquisition

  16-12-2016 17:44
  
  ARM has a big problem -- it rules in smartphones and tablets but hasn't broken into servers and supercomputers. ARM servers are devalued partly because many applications don't work with the chips.But ARM has acquired Allinea Software with the hope of partially resolving the compatibility issue. Allinea provides software development, debugging, and porting tools, which should make it easier for people to write applications for ARM-based servers and supercomputers.The acquisition will "provide a c
  
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• Businesses eye cloud for big data deployments

  16-12-2016 17:36
  
  As 2016 draws to a close, a new study suggests big data is growing in maturity and surging in the cloud.AtScale, which specializes in BI on Hadoop using OLAP-like cubes, recently conducted a survey of more than 2,550 big data professionals at 1,400 companies across 77 countries. The survey was conducted in conjunction with Cloudera, Hortonworks, MapR, Cognizant, Trifacta and Tableau.[ Analytics 50 winners for 2016 ]AtScale's 2016 Big Data Maturity Survey found that nearly 70 percent of responden
  
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• Apple's macOS file encryption easily bypassed without the latest fixes

  16-12-2016 16:21
  
  Without the macOS update released this week, Apple's disk encryption can be easily defeated by connecting a specially crafted device to a locked Macbook.The attack is possible because devices connected over Thunderbolt can access the computer's RAM directly before the OS is started through the direct memory access (DMA) feature. The DMA mechanism is typically used by disk drive controllers, graphics cards, network cards, and sound cards because accessing the memory through the CPU would oth
  
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• Evernote CEO: 'We let our users down' with privacy policy change

  16-12-2016 16:16
  
  Evernote CEO Chris O'Neill has had a long couple of days. The company he runs recently ignited a firestorm among its users when it announced a privacy policy change that would have required users to open up all their notes for analysis in order to take advantage of forthcoming machine learning features. "We let our users down," he said in an interview. "We really tactically communicated in about as poor a way as we could."Evernote is going back to the drawing board and reversing course on t
  
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• Google Home expands its mind with more than 30 new services

  16-12-2016 16:03
  
  If you’ve been itching to talk to your Google Home about current events, travel, and pizza, you’re in luck. The voice-activated speaker just added nearly three dozen new services that will expand its knowledge of what happening in your house and the world.
  Earlier this week, Google Home gained the ability to play Netflix shows through a Chromecast and display pictures stored in the Google Photos app, but these new actions are conversational, meaning you can talk to the specific serv
  
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• Grading our 2016 IT outsourcing predictions

  16-12-2016 15:15
  
  Earlier this year, CIO.com and its outsourcing experts made several bold (and a few slightly less daring) predictions for IT services in 2016. We suggested that this year, IT organizations would operationalize their vendor management approaches. (Not exactly.) We said that security would be top of mind, and integration challenges would increase. (It was, and they did.) And we envisaged the arrival of a faster, more flexible contracting process and a kinder, gentler vendor approach. (Neither, ala
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 21st Century Cures Act's impact on healthcare interoperability

  16-12-2016 15:00
  
  The 21st Century Cures Act, or H.R. 6, reauthorizes the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and provides other funding to the agency through FY 2020. We are walking away from disease treatments and actively searching for cures — methods to resolve the root problem. New efforts rip off the band-aids of temporary relief to unmasking problems. Lifesaving and life-improving therapies have the potential to transform our quest for faster cures.Genesis of the bill
  To accelerate the discovery
  
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• Limited Time $40 Discount On Kindle Paperwhite Bundle - Deal Alert

  16-12-2016 14:56
  
  Amazon has activated a limited time discount on its popular Kindle Paperwhite e-reader, when you buy it bundled with a few essential accessories. The bundle includes the latest Kindle Paperwhite 6" E-Reader in black with Special Offers ($119.99), an Amazon Leather Cover ($39.99), and Amazon 5W Power Adapter ($19.99), all for $139.97, for a limited time, saving you $40. See the bundle on Amazon.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• Top 10 business collaboration stories of 2016

  16-12-2016 14:00
  
  In 2016, a battle started to heat up in the enterprise collaboration market. The stalwarts of business, as well as consumer tech giants and a set of new entrants, were all in the mix. In this increasingly crowded market, the varying apps and other services targeted businesses from many different angles.Here are our picks for the most significant collaboration developments of the past year.1) Facebook at Work (finally) launches as 'Workplace'
  Facebook already owns consumer social networking, and
  
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• 49% off CyberPower Surge Protector 3-AC Outlet with 2 USB (2.1A) Charging Ports - Deal Alert

  16-12-2016 13:43
  
  The Professional Surge Protector CSP300WUR1 safeguards common home and office devices, such as computers and electronics, by absorbing spikes in energy caused by storms and electrical power surges. Designed for convenience, the portable CSP300WUR1 is ideal for travelers. It provides 600 joules of protection, has three surge-protected outlets, and a folding wall tap plug. Two USB ports (2.1 Amp shared) charge personal electronics, including smartphones, digital cameras, MP3 players, and othe
  
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• HTTP/2 promises better performance -- but with security caveats

  16-12-2016 13:39
  
  The new Internet communication protocol, HTTP/2, is now being used by 11 percent of websites -- up from just 2.3 percent a year ago, according to W3Techs.
  The new protocol does offer better performance, but there is no particular rush to upgrade, and it's backwards-compatible with the previous protocol, HTTP/1.1.
  No security problems have been found in the protocol itself, but there are vulnerabilities in some implementations and the possibility of lower visibility into internet traffic, so it'
  
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• BlackBerry hands its brand to TCL, maker of its last smartphones

  16-12-2016 13:30
  The BlackBerry smartphone is dead: Long live the BlackBerry smartphone.A week after it officially pulled out of the smartphone market, BlackBerry has agreed to license its brand to handset manufacturer TCL.The Chinese company will make and market future BlackBerry handsets worldwide except for India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal, where BlackBerry has already struck local licensing deals.This is hardly new territory for TCL, which manufactured BlackBerry's last two handsets, the And
  
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• Hackers get around AI with flooding, poisoning and social engineering

  16-12-2016 13:15
  
  Machine learning technologies can help companies spot suspicious user behaviors, malicious software, and fraudulent purchases -- but even as the defensive technologies are getting better, attackers are finding ways to get around them.
  Many defensive systems need to be tuned, or tune themselves, in order to appropriately respond to possible threats.
  Smoke alarms that go off each time someone microwaves popcorn get replaced with less sensitive ones, or are moved farther away from the kitchen.
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• Apple's new TV app has some sad shortcomings

  16-12-2016 13:03
  
  For those of us who pine for a future in which we can watch whatever we want, whenever we want, on any device we want, Apple's new TV app is a step in the right direction, albeit a small one. Unfortunately, the TV app mostly shows just how far away from that idyllic future we still are.TV is part of Apple's iOS 10.2 software update, which was released earlier this week, as well as tvOS 10.1 for Apple TV devices. On iOS, TV replaces the old Videos app, but on Apple TV, it's a new brand app.TV is
  
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• Be on high alert for this holiday spam

  16-12-2016 12:47
  
  A giftScam artists see the holidays as an opportunity to rip people off. This year is no different. PhishMe’s Chief Threat Scientist Gary Warner has caught a few to share.Paypal: Suspicious activityImage by PhishMeTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• Tech Forecast 2017: Facts and figures for the year ahead in IT

  16-12-2016 12:30
  
  IT sharpens its focusImage by ComputerworldWhat's the outlook for the tech year ahead? In general, IT executives are feeling optimistic as they head into 2017. According to the results of Computerworld's Tech Forecast 2017 survey, enterprises plan to continue on the path to digital transformation, deepening their commitment to big data and analytics, as well as cloud computing and software as a service (SaaS).To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Can I capitalize my system implementation or get tax advantages?

  16-12-2016 12:30
  
  Until recently, most organizations that purchased and implemented a new accounting system would capitalize the costs associated with the application development stage of implementing the new system.They could do this if the organization physically bought the software via a multiyear license and support arrangement. For book purposes, this allowed an organization to recognize the cost of the implementation (which could be in the millions) over many years, reducing the project’s cost on any
  
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• Dyn attack highlights 2016 security woes

  16-12-2016 12:07
  
  This has been another eventful year in the realm of cyber security—with a number of high-profile data breaches that affected large numbers of people and technological developments that promise to impact the market for years to come.
  Here are some of the more notable developments, according to security and IT executives.DNS incident shuts down internet sitesIn late October, many organizations across the internet including some of the largest Web sites disappeared after an attack was launch
  
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• Netflix open-sources its microservices orchestrator

  16-12-2016 12:00
  
  Netflix has developed a microservices orchestrator called Conductor and is now offering it via open source.
  Inspired by the company's need to run business processes for streaming titles worldwide, Conductor was built as a cloud-based orchestration engine. It manages workflows, can pause and restart processes, and uses a JSON DSL-based blueprint to define execution flow. It also features a user interface to visualize process flows and can scale to millions of concurrently running process flows.[
  
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• Evernote backs off from privacy policy changes, says it 'messed up'

  16-12-2016 07:47
  
  Evernote has reversed proposed changes to its privacy policy that would allow employees to read user notes to help train machine learning algorithms.CEO Chris O’Neill said the company had “messed up, in no uncertain terms.”The move by the note-taking app follows protests from users, some of whom have threatened to drop the service after the company announced that its policy would change to improve its machine learning capabilities by letting a select number of employees, who wo
  
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• Hacker allegedly stole logins from a US election agency

  16-12-2016 02:34
  
  A Russian-speaking hacker has been found selling stolen login credentials for a U.S. agency that tests and certifies voting equipment, according to a security firm.The hacker was attempting to sell more than 100 allegedly compromised login credentials belonging to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC), the security firm Record Future said in a Thursday blog post. The company said it discovered online chatter about the breach on Dec. 1.Some of these credentials included the highest admini
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Top 20 female entrepreneurs to watch in 2017

  16-12-2016 02:11
  
  Every year, female entrepreneurs take their ideas and change the world around us and 2017 is going to be no different. CIO’s Top 20 list of female entrepreneurs to watch in 2017 employs thousands of workers and collectively have raised tens of millions of dollars for their companies. After the jump: CIO’s list of 20 female entrepreneurs you’ll want to watch in 2017:1. Julia Taylor Cheek
  Julia Taylor Cheek isn’t new to business but the Harvard Business grad&
  
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• BrandPost: Getting Down to the Cores of Server 2016

  16-12-2016 01:37
  
  Windows Server 2016 has been the most anticipated Microsoft release this year. However, rather than focusing on the latest and greatest features being added to the new version of the operating system, a lot of anticipation has been around the major licensing model changes. With Microsoft announcing early in the year that Windows Server 2016 would be moving to a core-based model, it raised a lot of questions. How will this new model work exactly? How will it affect my organization’s data ce
  
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