IT Executive news

• Amazing pictures from CES history

  23-12-2016 22:14
  
  Amazing pictures from CES historyImage by Consumer Technology AssociationThe annual Consumer Electronics Show, now simply "CES," is upon us once again. Over the last 50 years, CES has grown along with the industry it serves to become one of the world's major showcases for new technology. Halls that are now filled with autonomous cars, 4K flat-screen TVs, and advanced wireless devices were once home to record players, cassette tapes, and black-and-white TVs. Here's a look at CES in its early deca
  
  Read more

• Microsoft CMO: Forced Windows 10 upgrade was 'painful' at one point

  23-12-2016 21:54
  
  This year, Microsoft pushed users on taking advantage of its offer to upgrade their PCs to Windows 10 for free. That meant the company used a variety of tactics to get people to install an updater and run it to replace their old operating systems with the new one. Overall, Microsoft got the balance right between being too aggressive and getting users to upgrade, Microsoft Chief Marketing Officer Chris Capossela said in a Windows Weekly interview. But he did admit that Microsoft st
  
  Read more

• Oracle survey: Java EE users want REST, HTTP/2

  23-12-2016 21:44
  
  In September and October, Oracle asked Java users to rank future Java EE enhancements by importance. The survey's 1700 participants put REST services and HTTP/2 as top priorities, followed by Oauth and OpenID, eventing, and JSON-B (Java API for JSON Binding).
  "REST (JAX-RS 2.1) and HTTP/2 (Servlet 4.0) have been voted as the two most important technologies surveyed, and together with JSON-B represent three of the top six technologies," a report on the survey concludes. "Much of the new API work
  
  Read more

• Facing layoff at Carnival, IT employee makes bold counteroffer

  23-12-2016 21:12
  
  In early December, Carnival Corp. told about 200 IT employees that the company was transferring their work to Capgemini, a large IT outsourcing firm. The employees had a choice: Either agree to take a job with the contractor or leave without severance.
  The employees had until this week to make a decision about their future with the cruise line.
  By agreeing to a job with Paris-based Capgemini, employees are guaranteed employment for six months, said Roger Frizzell, a Carnival spokesman. "Our exp
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• What fake news means for IT—and how IT security can help fight it

  23-12-2016 19:43
  
  When the story broke a week before the election about Macedonian teenagers creating fake pro-Trump news stories in order to harvest ad clicks, it triggered a serious feeling of déjà vu among those who work in cybersecurity.
  Scrappy bands of shady Eastern Europeans entrepreneurs taking advantages of weaknesses in our tech infrastructure to make a buck, and maybe fulfill sinister more designs? The debate over fake news is roiling the political world, but elements of it look very fam
  
  Read more

• Globalstar gets FCC approval after backing away from Wi-Fi

  23-12-2016 19:37
  
  The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has approved satellite operator Globalstar’s plan for a land-based wireless service using its own spectrum.The approval on Friday came just a few weeks after Globalstar made the modified proposal, but the agency had spent years weighing the company’s original plan, which would have used part of the unlicensed 2.4GHz band that is mostly devoted to Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and other popular technologies.Globalstar owns a license for 11.5MHz of spectr
  
  Read more

• Tesla forces hard speed limits on its Autopilot self-driving system

  23-12-2016 17:40
  
  A general rule of the road is that as long as you only go about 5 miles over the speed limit there’s little chance you’ll end up getting a speeding ticket. Sticking to that driving convention, Tesla allows drivers to set their car’s Autopilot feature to hum along slightly faster than the posted speed limit in certain situations. But that’s ending, as Electrek recently discovered. 
  Tesla confirmed that it's rolling out an update to stop autopilot from exceeding the s
  
  Read more

• Hoe voer je een lastig gesprek over cybersecurity met het senior management?

  23-12-2016 16:35
  Door Greg Day en Peter English – In 2018 treden er twee nieuwe EU-wetten in werking, gericht op het melden van datalekken, databescherming en het voorkomen van cyberincidenten die gevolgen hebben voor essentiële diensten. Nu de maatschappij steeds afhankelijker wordt van digitale middelen, wordt er van... lees meer
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Apple's App Transport Security extension should concern IT

  23-12-2016 16:27
  
  When Apple in July announced it would require all iOS apps to use a technology called "App Transport Security" by the start of 2017, the move was widely regarded as a positive one for user privacy. Now, just barely a week before the deadline, Apple pulled back and extended the deadline indefinitely. The requirement, if implemented, would fill a significant security hole on iOS devices, according to experts. 
  Apple takes a strong and public position in favor of protecting its users' privacy
  
  Read more

• Firefox's ready to supercharge browser speed with major multi-process push

  23-12-2016 15:46
  
  Mozilla is getting closer to rolling out a faster, more responsive browser to all its users since introducing multi-process Firefox to a select few in August. Soon a much wider swathe of users will be able to experience the performance gains that multi-process Firefox offers. Mozilla says the new Firefox design is offering a 400 percent increase in responsiveness and a 700 percent improvement when webpages load. 
  The multi-process version of Firefox operates similar to Chrome. The ide
  
  Read more

• De 4 succesfactoren van Smart Industry

  23-12-2016 15:39
  Door Jeroen van der Lugt – Uit onderzoek van de Kamer van Koophandel naar de adoptie van Smart Industry blijkt dat ondernemers in Nederland veel kansen zien voor Smart Industry: onderling verbonden apparatuur in fabrieken, bij verschillende bedrijven en partners, die op slimme wijze – door de inzet van... lees meer
  
  Read more

• IDG Contributor Network: What makes Red Hat the king of Linux?

  23-12-2016 15:32
  
  I call Red Hat the king of Linux for a reason. The second oldest Linux company just reported quarterly revenues of $615 million, an impressive growth of 18 percent over last year in the same period. If I round that up, it means Red Hat should be making somewhere around $2.4 billion in 2016. That’s a billion with a ‘b’ and that’s really incredible for a company that only offers pure open source solutions that anyone can copy and redistribute.
  Open source does limit Red Ha
  
  Read more

• 30% off Veepeak USB Rechargeable LED Motion Sensor Light for Closet with Magnetic Mounting - Deal Alert

  23-12-2016 14:57
  
  The Veepeak Rechargeable Motion Sensor Light offers a simple solution to lighting any area inside your home. The portable and detachable design makes it versatile enough to be used as a night light in hallways and bedrooms or as a cabinet or closet light for dim areas. Installation is a breeze, the magnetic strip with 3M adhesive allows you to quickly mount wherever you need extra light.  This light is motion activated and will automatically turn on once it detects motion; when no move
  
  Read more

• Apple gives iOS app developers more time to encrypt communications

  23-12-2016 14:25
  Apple has backtracked on a plan to force iOS developers to encrypt their app communications by the end of the year.The company had previously announced at its Worldwide Developers’ Conference in June that all apps submitted to the App Store will need support the App Transport Security (ATS) feature starting January 1st, 2017. It has not yet set a new deadline.ATS is a feature first introduced in iOS 9 that forces apps to communicate with internet servers using encrypted HTTPS (HTTP over SS
  
  Read more

• IDG Contributor Network: 4 steps to doing clould ROI calculations right

  23-12-2016 14:01
  
  I know of a company that had forecasted and budgeted for $2,000 a month cost with their cloud service provider when they moved to the cloud. Instead, about once every quarter, their bill edged over $5,000.Why were they so far off on their budgeting?Their cloud vendor’s pricing was fixed up to a maximum level of network bandwidth usage. Beyond that, the company had to pay incremental costs. When the company had built a profile of their performance and utilization requirements to use in atta
  
  Read more

• Fitbit's best activity tracker just got even better

  23-12-2016 14:00
  
  In my September review of Fitbit's Charge 2 [Find it on Amazon] ($150), I called it "the best fitness wearable money can buy." Nearly three months later, a firmware upgrade released Dec. 20 made the activity tracker even better — though it's still a few steps shy of perfect.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
  Read more

• Everything you need to know to cut the cord and ditch cable

  23-12-2016 14:00
  
  If you've wanted to "cut the cord" and ditch your expensive cable or satellite TV service in favor of streaming video, or at least move in that direction, now is a great time to start. Many big screen TVs and streaming devices are on sale, major streaming service providers are offering promotions, and thanks to the holidays you likely have some free time to try out new devices and programming options.Streaming, as you probably know, lets you buy channels, movies and shows on an à&nbs
  
  Read more

• IDG Contributor Network: How Zuckerberg became Fortune's businessperson of the year

  23-12-2016 13:53
  
  He had to buy his way into the mobile domain. Next was a fundamental misunderstanding of the India market. And then, this year: fake news. A critic might ask if that was one misstep too many for Mark Zuckerberg to earn Fortune’s businessperson of the year.A better question might be: is a misstep really a misstep when it connects to a vision?I make no claim to cataloging the quality of Facebook’s every move or to being an expert on its CEO. But my own research and experience support t
  
  Read more

• The tech we didn’t talk about in 2016, but should have

  23-12-2016 13:00
  
  Looking back at this year in technology there were a number of things we should have, but didn’t, talk about. In some cases, we were distracted by other things, in other cases no one wanted to say something negative about a strategy that promised a lot of success, and, finally, in some cases it probably just didn’t occur to us that we were missing the big picture.  Let me go through each.U.S. cybersecurity is a bad joke
  We focused like a laser on Hillary Clinton’s ema
  
  Read more

• New accounting standards change the rules of IT leasing

  23-12-2016 13:00
  
  The Financial Accounting Standards Board’s new lease accounting standards announced earlier this year will require public companies to recognize assets and liabilities from operating leases on their balance sheets for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018.The changes — a response to a growing need to provide more transparency to off-balance sheet leasing obligations, estimated at some $1.2 trillion dollars — will impact not just accounting policies but lease vs. buy de
  
  Read more

• Give back this holiday season with these great Android charity apps

  23-12-2016 13:00
  
  The holiday season rightly makes people think about how they can give to others. Charitable organizations are emulating the ease at which you can shop from your phone by offering their donation services right from their mobile apps. So you really have no excuse not to help people who need it.
  But navigating the world of charity can sometimes feel uncertain, as you want to make sure that your money is going to a reputable cause and not a fraudulent scheme. If you’re unsure of where to star
  
  Read more

• AI tools came out of the lab in 2016

  23-12-2016 12:50
  
  You shouldn't anthropomorphize computers: They don't like it.
  That joke is at least as old as Deep Blue's 1997 victory over then world chess champion Garry Kasparov, but even with the great strides made in the field of artificial intelligence over that time, we're still not much closer to having to worry about computers' feelings.
  Computers can analyze the sentiments we express in social media, and project expressions on the face of robots to make us believe they are happy or angry, but no one
  
  Read more

• The history behind NORAD's Santa tracker

  23-12-2016 12:00
  Need to find Santa? Who you gonna call? How about NORAD?
  Since 1955, the aerospace defense organization has been tracking Jolly Saint Nick as he darts around the globe to deliver presents before children wake up on Christmas morning. The tradition actually started by mistake. A department store ad posted in a local paper had provided a phone number where children could call up Santa. However, thanks to a misprint, children ended up calling NORAD instead. NORAD staff stayed up all night answering
  
  Read more

• Python 3.6 is packed with goodness

  23-12-2016 12:00
  
  Debuting a little more than a year ago, Python 3.5 hinted at how the language could become faster and more powerful without sacrificing the convenience and ease of use that characterize Python -- without forcing everyone to toss out existing Python code and start over.
  Python 3.6 picks up where many of those improvements left off and nudges them into new realms. Python 3.5 added syntax used by static type checking tools to ensure software quality; Python 3.6 expands on that idea, which could ev
  
  Read more

• Microsoft's ChakraCore adds WebAssembly support

  23-12-2016 12:00
  
  ChakraCore, the open source core of the JavaScript engine powering Microsoft's Edge browser, has been upgraded with experimental support for the WebAssembly portable code format for browsers and cross-platform JIT compilation capabilities.
  WebAssembly, which has been backed by browser vendors like Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, and Apple, is a highly touted portable bytecode technology intended to improve web performance.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
  Read more

• 9 Alexa tips and tricks

  23-12-2016 12:00
  
  Siri had a good run, but its time in the spotlight is over. Alexa has arrived, and it's way smarter than Siri. Alexa, of course, is the voice-activated "smart" assistant lurking inside the Amazon Echo, Amazon Echo Dot and Amazon Tap products. (It recently made its way to select Amazon Fire tablets as well.)To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
  Read more

• US collects social media handles from select visitors

  23-12-2016 06:34
  
  Visitors to the U.S. under a visa waiver program are being asked by the Department of Homeland Security for information on their social media accounts, a plan that had drawn criticism from civil rights groups for its potential encroachment on privacy.The U.S. Customs and Border Protection unit of the DHS asked for written comments earlier this year on its proposal that would add to the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) and to a form called I-94W the following entry: “Please
  
  Read more

• IDG Contributor Network: Holiday gift guide for the techie guy in your life

  23-12-2016 02:55
  
  Christmas is only a few days away, but if you haven't finished your shopping yet -- or even started it -- don't panic! There's still plenty of time to find the perfect gift for the men in your life. Whether it's a co-worker or a relative, technology is always a hit.It's not a secret that 2016 has been a great year for tech, so there are a lot of options to choose from. Click through for the most highly-anticipated gifts of the season.Jessica Naziri1. Onyx: $199
  Onyx is a wearable communication a
  
  Read more

• Analytics 50 proves the power of a good partnership

  23-12-2016 00:04
  
  We write a lot about collaboration and partnerships at CIO.com. After all, it has never been more important for IT leaders to partner — whether that means working with the growing number of vendors that provide critical competencies once firmly rooted on-premises or, perhaps more importantly, partnering with CMOs and other C-level executives in departments that command their own technology budgets.While our primary role as technology journalists is to provide information to help you do you
  
  Read more

Follow @ITExecutiveNews on Twitter!