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• Daimler to supply Uber with self-driving cars

  31-01-2017 23:42
  
  Uber today announced it has signed a deal to have Daimler supply and operate its own self-driving cars on Uber's ride sharing network services.
  "Auto manufacturers like Daimler are crucial to our strategy because Uber has no experience making cars — and in fact, making cars is really hard. This became very clear to me after I visited an auto manufacturing plant and saw how much effort goes into designing, testing and building cars," Travis Kalanick, CEO and co-founder of the peer-to-peer
  
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• Google has open-sourced Chrome for iOS

  31-01-2017 23:34
  
  Google has finally figured out how to open-source Chrome for iOS.
  On Tuesday, Google announced that developers could now modify and compile the iOS version of Chrome. Previously, developers could compile open-source versions of Chrome for the web and Android. With this new update, Chrome for iOS is now joining Google’s open-source Chromium project repository. 
  Chromium started as an initiative for desktop web development, and in May 2015 Google incorporated Android mobile web browser
  
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• How to make PC security alerts better? Make them twirl, jiggle

  31-01-2017 23:29
  
  Have you ever ignored a security alert on your PC? You’re not the only one.The warnings are designed to save us from malware infections and hacking risks, but often times we’ll neglect them. It could be because we’re too busy or we’ve seen them too many times, and we've become conditioned to dismiss them -- even the most serious ones, according to Anthony Vance, a professor at Brigham Young University.Vance has been studying the problem and he’s found that introduci
  
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• Apple’s Q1: iPhone 7 slays in a record-setting $78.4 billion quarter

  31-01-2017 22:59
  
  One year ago, in the first quarter of 2016, Apple reported a record-breaking profit: $18.4 billion on $75.9 billion in revenue. That was great news, but setting the bar so high was a mixed blessing—Apple’s huge uptick in growth ended there, with declining iPhone sales and profits in the three quarters since.
  But the company turned that around with the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, Apple CEO Tim Cook said in Apple’s Q1 earnings report on Tuesday. The company broke its own record with $7
  
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• BrandPost: The business case for continuous delivery

  31-01-2017 22:24
  
  Originally posted on the Puppet blog, and republished here with Puppet's permission.We’re often so focused on crafting code that we forget the reason why: to deliver a better experience for our users and help our business grow. Let's take a step back and look at how continuous delivery can help your organization reach its goals. And when you’re done here, make sure to get even more details on continuous delivery in the full ebook.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, pl
  
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• 5 Common tech hiring mistakes to avoid

  31-01-2017 22:17
  
  This contributed piece has been edited and approved by Network World editors
  Finding the right hire for IT can be a chore, and if you get it wrong, the consequences can be substantial. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, a bad hire costs at least 30% of the initial annual salary, but that number is believed to be much higher. It’s a mistake that companies simply can’t afford to make in today’s increasingly competitive marketplace.To read this article in full or to leave
  
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• Meet the $114,725 Ubuntu server with eight Nvidia Tesla P100 GPUs

  31-01-2017 22:05
  
  The Ibex Pro is one supercharged machine that will probably hurt your electric bill.System76's fastest Ibex Pro with Ubuntu Server 16.10 packs some crazy horsepower with Intel's latest 22-core Xeon E5 v4 chips and eight Nvidia Tesla P100 graphics processors.It's got the same number of GPUs as Nvidia's superfast DGX-1, which is being used for deep learning. System76 is targeting the Ibex Pro -- which is a rack server -- at the same market as the DGX-1. The server has fewer, but newer, CPUs,
  
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• Apple missed deadline to pay €13 billion in Irish back taxes

  31-01-2017 22:05
  
  Apple is behind with its taxes, but the tax inspector doesn't mind.Last August, the European Commission closed a three-year investigation of Apple's tax affairs with an order to the Irish government that it should recover about €13 billion (US$14.5 billion) in taxes that it believed Apple had underpaid over the last decade.Ireland has missed the deadline for recovering the billions, but Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, who gave the Irish government four months to collect the tax
  
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• Trump immigration halt casts dark cloud over next IETF gathering

  31-01-2017 22:04
  
  The Internet Engineering Task Force’s upcoming meeting in Chicago might have fewer attendees than usual, thanks to the Trump administration’s broad immigration ban.
  Several lengthy discussions on the group’s mailing list highlight the fact that some regular attendees at the IETF’s meetings could have trouble attending IETF 98, which is scheduled for Chicago in March.
  +ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD: Busted: Federal Reserve employee mined bitcoin using government server + Trump to
  
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• Trump stresses cybersecurity but postpones executive order

  31-01-2017 21:59
  
  U.S. President Donald Trump called on government agencies to better protect their networks, but he delayed signing an executive order to kick-start a government-wide review of cybersecurity policy.
  A draft copy of the order, leaked earlier, would give the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security 60 days to submit a list of recommendations to protect U.S. government and private networks. 
  Trump had been scheduled to sign the executive order Tuesday b
  
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• Juniper battles Cisco, Huawei with new cloud infrastructure software, switches

  31-01-2017 21:59
  
  Helping customers transform their enterprise environments to the cloud is the driving strategy behind new software, switches and services introduced this week from Juniper Networks.
  The networking company is introducing what it calls the third pillar of its Unite architecture – the previous two focusing on enterprise and branch office networking. Unite Cloud combines Juniper’s switches and software to simplify management and growth of corporate cloud computing.
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• Tech companies come out swinging against immigration ban

  31-01-2017 21:51
  
  Some tech companies are taking a stand against President Donald Trump's immigration ban.
  The order, issued on Friday, temporarily bars citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries, as well as all refugees from entering the United States.
  The Trump administration has said the ban is temporary and has been put in place to protect the country from terrorist attacks.
  The executive order, though, has been met with protests around the country and around the world, with religious leaders taking a sta
  
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• Fitbit to lay off 6% of its work force, cut expenses after soft holiday sales

  31-01-2017 21:04
  
  Fitbit on Monday announced cost reductions and layoffs of 6% of its global workforce after experiencing softer-than-expected holiday demand for fitness trackers.
  The company and analysts said despite the negative news, there is still a future market for wearable devices as well as for smartwatches made by Apple, Samsung and, soon, Fitbit itself.
  In its preliminary financial results for the fourth quarter of 2016, Fitbit said it sold 6.5 million devices, with revenues expected to reach up to $58
  
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• If you want privacy you need to run Linux

  31-01-2017 20:52
  
  I recently bashed Windows for being too darn snoopy, but you know what? It’s not just Windows. Ever since Yosemite came out, Apple’s macOS has been just as untrustworthy. As for Chrome OS, Android and iOS, come on! They’re all built around cloud services; by design, they share everything you do with third-party services. What’s the answer? Desktop Linux.
  With President Trump considering asking foreign visitors to disclose all websites and social media sites they visit an
  
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• Application monitoring becomes table stakes in the digital age

  31-01-2017 20:31
  
  Bill Hineline had two requirements as he was searching last year for a new tool to keep tabs on the hundreds of interconnected applications that keep United Airline's planes flying. It had to ensure critical flight operations software was working and it had to meet customers' demands for accessing information from smartphones and tablets. The airline's director of application performance management also wanted a cloud application rather than another on-premises tool to manage internally.United A
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Is naked truth part of your business model?

  31-01-2017 20:30
  
  Data, facts and interpretation
  Are managers and employees on your team comfortable with absolute truth and honesty? Are your organizational processes and management decisions transparent? Can you and your team discuss data, facts and interpretation without anyone’s hair catching on fire? I am not talking about ad hominem attacks, although members of an organization may take the presentation of facts personally. I am talking about the ability to rationally and objectively discuss subjects s
  
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• Cisco: Spam is making a big-time comeback

  31-01-2017 20:10
  
  Spam is making a surprising resurgence as a threat to corporate security and becoming a more significant carrier of attacks as varied as spear phishing, ransomware and bots, according to Cisco’s 2017 Annual Cybersecurity Report.
  The company’s 10th such report says spam is way up. It accounts for 65% of all corporate email among customers who opted in to let the company gather data via telemetry in Cisco gear.
  Whereas spam had been knocked down as a threat in 2010 and kept at relativ
  
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• Financial analysts forecast flat Mac sales

  31-01-2017 20:03
  
  Although Wall Street expects Apple to report increased iPhone sales later today, a group of financial analysts predicted there will not be a similar boost in Mac numbers.
  According to the average forecast of 26 analysts polled by the Apple 3.0 website, Apple sold fewer than 5.3 million Macs in the December quarter. Their prediction posited a year-over-year decline of approximately 30,000 units, which would represent a slip of six-tenths of a percentage point from the same period in 2015.To read
  
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• Apple's commitment to diversity faces test at shareholder meeting

  31-01-2017 19:57
  
  Apple celebrates diversity, but a big test to its commitment to being inclusive will come at next month's shareholder meeting.The company is encouraging a vote against a proposal by shareholders to implement an accelerated hiring policy "to increase the diversity of senior management and its board of directors."But Apple's senior management and board, who are mostly white, fails to represent the company's "diversity and inclusion," argued shareholders Zevin Asset Management and Antonio Avia
  
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• What P4 programming is and why it’s such a big deal for Software Defined Networking

  31-01-2017 19:37
  
  P4The dawn of software defined networking (SDN) ushered in an era of disaggregation of the networking control plane from the data plane; management of the network was no longer bound to the networking hardware it ran on.
  This created a market of overlay control-plane software from companies like Nicira, which was sold to VMware and is now NSX; Cisco ACI and others followed suit. But at the data plane – where network packets are actually forwarded - there has been less innovation, says IDC
  
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• Report: Samsung is bringing an updated Galaxy Tab S to Mobile World Congress

  31-01-2017 19:35
  
  While 2016 might not have been a great year for tablets, things are starting to look up for 2017. According to a new report from South Korea-based Naver News, Samsung is prepping the release of a new Galaxy Tab S, the first update to its high end Android tablet in nearly a year and a half.
  So, while Samsung won’t be bringing the Galaxy S8 to next month’s Mobile World Congress, it reportedly won’t be arriving empty handed. According to the publication, the new tablet will be th
  
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• IoT network builders sign up partners for small devices

  31-01-2017 19:15
  
  There’s a land grab happening now between networks to link small, battery-powered IoT devices.If countless forecasts are true, there will soon be a lot more tiny, low-power devices like sensors out in the world. The 2G networks that connected many of these to the cloud are gradually going away and newer, more specialized networks are emerging. Vendors are pushing different LPWANs (low-power, wide-area networks) to do the job and trying to get more users and network operators on their side.
  
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• Slack finally launches its enterprise edition

  31-01-2017 19:00
  
  After a long wait, Slack has announced the version of its popular work chat application that is designed for enterprises. On Tuesday in San Francisco, the company unveiled its new Enterprise Grid product, aimed at helping companies administer and connect multiple chat instances.Grid allows business administrators to set up each team inside their organization with their own centrally managed Slack instance. Those workspaces can then be linked together using shared channels, and all of the people
  
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• Google upgrades G Suite with tools for IT pros

  31-01-2017 19:00
  
  Google today bolstered its G Suite of productivity apps with new controls and tools for IT professionals. G Suite administrators now have more access to control security key enforcement, data control with data loss prevention (DLP) for Google Drive and Gmail, and additional insights by connecting Gmail to BigQuery, Google’s enterprise data warehouse designed to enable SQL queries, according to Google.All of the changes, which are live today, are designed to elevate G Suite for the enterpri
  
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• A CIO’s guide to driving digital transformation

  31-01-2017 18:55
  
  At CVS Health, digital innovation is the top priority of Executive Vice President and CIO Stephen Gold. Under Gold, the retail pharmacy and healthcare corporation is transforming many digital operations, from behind-the-scenes systems to the customer experience.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• SAP adds new enterprise information management

  31-01-2017 18:48
  
  SAP yesterday renewed its enterprise information management (EIM) portfolio with a series of updates aimed at helping organizations better manage, govern and strategically use and control their data assets."By effectively managing enterprise data to deliver trusted, complete and relevant information, organizations can ensure data is always actionable to gain business insight and drive innovation," says Philip On, vice president of Product Marketing at SAP.[ Analytics 50 winners for 2016 ]The add
  
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• Easy-to-exploit authentication bypass flaw puts Netgear routers at risk

  31-01-2017 18:26
  
  For the past half year Netgear has been working on fixing a serious and easy-to-exploit vulnerability in many of its routers. And it's still not done.
  While Netgear has worked to fix the issue, the list of affected router models increased to 30, of which only 20 have firmware fixes available to date. A manual workaround is available for the rest.
  The vulnerability was discovered by Simon Kenin, a security researcher at Trustwave, and stems from a faulty password recovery implementation in the f
  
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• Trump to sign cybersecurity order calling for government-wide review

  31-01-2017 18:02
  
  President Donald Trump is due to sign an executive order Tuesday that gives each cabinet official more responsibility for the safety of data within their agency.It will be accompanied by a government-wide review of cybersecurity by the Office of Management and Budget, looking at the technology in place that guards U.S. government systems from cyberattacks, according to a White House official.The results of that review could lead to a government-wide upgrade of federal cybersecurity systems.The U
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Super Mario Run brings in big bucks for Nintendo on iOS!

  31-01-2017 17:07
  
  Many people questioned the wisdom of Nintendo when the company released its Super Mario Run game for iOS with a $9.99 price tag for the full game. Unlike many other developers, Nintendo didn't want to nickel and dime gamers by releasing a game full of annoying in-app purchases.Well it turned out that Nintendo was quite right to release Super Mario Run with its flat $9.99 price. So far the company has pulled in more than $53 million dollars with around 5 percent of users paying for the full game.
  
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• RSA Conference Topic: Endpoint Security

  31-01-2017 16:50
  
  As the calendar shifts from January to February, cybersecurity professionals are gearing up for the RSA Security Conference in a few short weeks.  Remarkably, the management team is expecting more than 50,000 attendees this year! 
  So, what can we expect from RSA 2017?  Well, cybersecurity is being driven by dangerous threats, digital transformation, and the need for massive scalability.  This means innovation and change in just about every aspect of cybersecurity technology
  
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• Razer brings Robin phone into its nest with Nextbit acquisition

  31-01-2017 16:43
  
  Mergers and acquisitions are nothing new in the tech world, but every now and again, one comes along that makes us raise our eyebrows. The news that gaming company Razer was purchasing Android phone maker Nextbit certainly falls into that category.
  While the exact terms of the deal haven’t been disclosed, Nextbit will continue to function as a standalone business under Razer, which will reportedly retain all of the Android phone maker's 30 employees. Nextbit wrote in a forum post tha
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Five ways to beat the project transition blues

  31-01-2017 16:35
  
  Transitioning any complex work from one group to another has been an age-old problem.  In IT consulting, it is no different. Consider the transition of a sales pursuit team to a delivery team. The sales pursuit team is often firing up if not fully involved in the next pursuit when the transition commences, and the typical result is "throwing the ball over the wall" to delivery to figure it out. Delivery has smart people, so they will manage, right?Wrong. Do not fall into this frequently enc
  
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• How to find the right payment service for your ecommerce business

  31-01-2017 15:48
  
  Today’s ecommerce business owner has a multitude of choices when it comes to online payment solutions. There’s PayPal, credit cards and mobile payment solutions, such as Apple Pay and Android Pay. But offering a variety of payment options to customers can be pricey, especially for smaller ecommerce businesses. Here are six tips for picking the right payment solution(s) for your business – and your customers.[ Related: 6 ecommerce categories that will take off in 2017 ]1. Vet pr
  
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• Save 14% Plus Another $20 on ASUS Dual-Fan Radeon Rx 480 4GB OC Edition Gaming Graphics Card - Deal Alert

  31-01-2017 15:36
  
  Deploy into the VR rebellion with the Dual-fan Radeon RX 480 with 1-click overclocking. Auto-Extreme manufacturing technology with Super Alloy Power II components ensures premium quality and reliability while dual fans provide a quieter and cooler gaming environment. GPU Tweak II with XSplit Gamecaster delivers ultimate monitoring and streaming control. Patented Wing-Blade Fans for max air flow with 105% more air pressure. ASUS Dual-fan RX480 graphics cards have two HDMI ports for conn
  
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• Broadband, encryption and privacy top State of the Net agenda

  31-01-2017 15:27
  
  WASHINGTON -- Tech-minded lawmakers intend to take up a host of issues closely watched by the industry in the new congress, including broadband infrastructure, encryption and privacy protections in the era of cloud computing.In remarks in various sessions of the recent State of the Net conference, senators and representatives outlined an array of tech issues they plan to consider, beginning with efforts to expand the capacity and reach of fixed and wireless broadband networksAlready this year, t
  
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• Office 365 could give Microsoft Teams an advantage over Slack

  31-01-2017 15:15
  
  Slack's full-page ad in the New York Times welcomed Microsoft Teams to the enterprise chat market in somewhat patronizing tones. Clearly, the messaging company thought that market was its to lose. But a new Spiceworks survey of IT pros at 450 companies across EMEA and North America shows a different reality.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• Gaat KI ons verlossen van fake news?

  31-01-2017 15:14
  Twintig jaar geleden versloeg IBM’s Deep Blue de toenmalige wereldkampioen schaken Garry Kasparov. Vorig jaar moest de wereldkampioen van het Aziatische bordspel Go er aan geloven. Hij werd verslagen door AlphaGo, een op kunstmatige intelligentie gebaseerd algoritme van DeepMind. AlphaGo kan betere beslissingen... lees meer
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Microservice ecosystems for healthcare

  31-01-2017 15:00
  
  Google, Amazon and Soundcloud all have successfully deployed microservices. Let’s modernize healthcare applications with microservices.Microservice architecture transfers healthcare providers and payers from one large application into smaller applications. These little applications or “micro” applications provide specialization using service-oriented architectures (SOA) by building dependent and flexible components. These micro pieces are not simple CRUD (create, read, update,
  
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• Report: Attack numbers fell last quarter, but attacks were more targeted and sophisticated

  31-01-2017 14:30
  
  The total number of cybersecurity attacks fell by 35 percent in the last quarter of 2016, according to a new report, but the attacks became more targeted and sophisticated.
  "We were kind of surprised," said Jon Heimerl, manager of the threat intelligence communications team at NTT Security, which produced the report.
  Instead of general-purpose exploit kits and broad scanning, the attackers are zeroing in on specific targets, he said.
  "If I can get access to your systems and start doing things t
  
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• Report: Passwords not going away any time soon

  31-01-2017 14:18
  
  The number of passwords in use will grow from about 75 billion today to around 100 billion in 2020, according to a new report from Cybersecurity Ventures.
  Meanwhile, the number of passwords used by machines, such as IoT devices, will grow even faster, from around 15 billion in 2015 to around 200 billion in 2020, the report said.
  And these numbers don't include one-time passwords, SSL encryption keys and other short-term credentials, said Joseph Carson, head of global strategic alliances at Thyc
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: APIs, microservices and the changing role of IT in 2017

  31-01-2017 14:05
  
  To succeed in today’s digital economy, organizations need to drive at a very different clock speed and embrace change in their customer’s market, competitive landscape and products. Below are five technology trends that I predict will have a major impact on businesses in 2017.1. The changing role of IT
  With new digital disruptors knocking down the door and competition growing fierce across all industries, I predict 2017 will see an uptick in organizations making an effort to cha
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: IT certifications that can boost your business’s marketing efforts

  31-01-2017 13:58
  
  Technology is always evolving and for businesses to remain relevant, they need to evolve with it. When technology supports a business’s marketing efforts, those certifications must meet today’s latest trends. By investing in the certifications necessary to achieve your marketing goals, your business can satisfy end users and ensure your team is a valued part of your business moving forward.But many IT departments can’t afford to hire workers with the latest skills. Professional
  
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• Obama’s cybersecurity legacy: Good intentions, good efforts, limited results

  31-01-2017 13:02
  
  President Obama is only a couple of weeks out of office, but his legacy on cybersecurity is already getting reviews – mixed reviews.
  According to a number of experts, Obama said a lot of good things, did a lot of good things and devoted considerable energy to making cybersecurity a priority, but ultimately didn't accomplish the goal of making either government or the private sector more secure.
  The most recent, stark illustration was the series of leaks, enabled by hacks that US intellige
  
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• The new Google Voice isn’t quite ready to be your only number

  31-01-2017 13:00
  
  Google Voice was recently sprung from a long stay in digital purgatory. Google unveiled a refreshed design for the mobile apps and website that updated the look and dropped in a few new features.
  It was long overdue. Google Voice was so old and neglected, the last version right before the update looked like this:Google Play
  Google Voice looked like it had been abandoned by Google for a long time.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• Security execs voice concern over Trump travel ban

  31-01-2017 13:00
  
  Senior security industry professionals were dismayed about the travel ban imposed this weekend by President Trump, and worried that the repercussions could go far beyond the handful of countries singled out so far.
  The nation's cybersecurity posture would be hurt in numerous ways, they said, citing increased anti-American sentiment spurring more hacking attacks, hurting international cyber enforcement cooperation efforts, discouraging foreign students from coming here to study, hurting recruitm
  
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• SonicWall CEO talks of life after Dell spinout

  31-01-2017 12:41
  
  SonicWall has been through it all. The San Jose, CA-based security company began as a hot start up, went public, then private, was acquired by Dell and then spun off to a private equity firm as part of the massive Dell/EMC merger in 2016. In the wake of that change, SonicWall also got a new CEO, Bill Conner, a long-time security and tech industry leader, who took the helm in November.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 4 signs your content marketing strategy needs a makeover

  31-01-2017 12:30
  
  As most marketers know, there is an unbelievable amount of potential in the realm of content marketing. It’s perhaps one of the most advantageous marketing strategies brought forth by the digital era. This is due to the fact that, if done correctly, it can work like magic to bridge the gap between brands and consumers while incorporating other marketing strategies such as conversion optimization, social media and SEO.However, the path to a successful content marketing strategy is far from
  
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• January's powerful new PC hardware: Next-gen chips, wild cases, exotic laptops, and more

  31-01-2017 12:07
  
  Hardware, hardware everywhereImage by Jon PhillipsThanks to CES, January was a monumental month for new PC hardware. This year’s show birthed all sorts of exotic laptops, the first details about AMD’s enthusiast-class Radeon Vega graphics cards, a brewing processor war, HDR on PCs, and much, much more—the most wild of which we’ll detail here.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• Meteor JavaScript reworks PaaS, data layer connection

  31-01-2017 12:00
  
  Meteor, a JavaScript Web framework for quick app-building, will gain faster build tools and features like per-module code-splitting this year. The company Meteor will also rework the relationship among the Meteor framework, Meteor's Galaxy platform as a service, and Meteor's Apollo data layer project.
  The Meteor team will focus on improvements designed to work well across the two products, including the addition of IP whitelisting to the Galaxy platform as a service. Meteor wants Galaxy-ba
  
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• CIOs list the top hiring priorities for 2017

  31-01-2017 11:50
  
  U.S. CIOs will focus their recruiting and hiring efforts on security and upgrading existing systems for the first half of 2017, according to the Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Forecast and Local Trends Report, released last month.
  The survey polled more than 2,500 CIOs from 25 major U.S. markets who were asked to provide a six-month hiring outlook. It revealed a stable tech hiring market, though some challenges remain.
  [ Related story: 5 tech jobs that will boom (and 2 that will bust) in 2017
  
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