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• State of the CIO 2017: More challenging, still complicated

  20-02-2017 22:15
  
  Any CIO worth his or her C-suite executive office space knows that the job is more complex than ever. Moving apps and workloads to the cloud, ensuring legacy software can talk to off-premises apps, and keeping networks and systems secure remain core functional tasks of the CIO role. At the same time, boards of directors, CEOs and business colleagues are turning to the CIO to lead digital transformations, win customers and drive revenue.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please
  
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• Apple, Microsoft and Amazon offer fairer deal on cloud storage

  20-02-2017 17:33
  
  Apple, Microsoft and Amazon have agreed to give cloud storage subscribers fairer contracts after intervention by the U.K.'s Competition and Markets Authority.Such cloud storage services are typically used to store photos, videos, music or digital copies of important documents.If the services shut down or vary their capacity or prices without notice, customers can lose their data, or be held hostage.The CMA asked the storage service providers to give adequate notice before closing, suspending or
  
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• 7 project management tools any business can afford

  20-02-2017 17:06
  
  The time has never been better for startups to access well-tested, feature-rich, affordable project management product previously offered only to larger companies. Here are just some of web-based options that a startup can license to manage its activities right out of the gate.If your startup is considering making the leap to a project management tools, these affordable options can make light work of collaboration and manual tracking of project tasks, time and budgets.It’s important to not
  
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• Hackers behind bank attack campaign use Russian as decoy

  20-02-2017 16:00
  
  The hackers behind a sophisticated attack campaign that has recently targeted financial organizations around the world have intentionally inserted Russian words and commands into their malware in an attempt to throw investigators off.Researchers from cybersecurity firm BAE Systems have recently obtained and analyzed additional malware samples related to an attack campaign that has targeted 104 organizations -- most of them banks -- from 31 different countries.They found multiple commands and str
  
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• How to develop an internet of things strategy

  20-02-2017 15:53
  
  The internet of things (IoT) may present the biggest opportunity to enterprises since the dawn of the internet age, and perhaps it will be bigger. Research firm Gartner predicts there will be nearly 20 billion devices on the IoT by 2020, and IoT product and service suppliers will generate $300 billion+ in revenue.Successfully leveraging that opportunity — bringing together sensors, connectivity, cloud storage, processing, analytics and machine learning to transform business models and proc
  
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• Understanding the attack surface to better allocate funds

  20-02-2017 13:30
  
  In the last few years, the attack surface has changed from defending the perimeter to protecting applications in the cloud, leaving CISOs wondering how they can best allocate funds to stay ahead of attacks.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 5 hardware hacks that can help eliminate your marketing spend

  20-02-2017 13:00
  
  To make money, businesses must first spend money to get the word out. However, until they create a robust revenue stream, they’re limited on how much they can spend on marketing. This puts pressure on small businesses that know they have to put an effort into marketing in order to be successful. But busy entrepreneurs are short on time and resources, as well as money.Fortunately, there are tech tools in place that can help you get the word out about your business. These tools will help you
  
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• Three technologies that could demolish slow internet

  20-02-2017 12:24
  
  Broadband internet has opened up almost unlimited possibilities for commerce, distance learning, civic participation, and knowledge sharing. But we are only scratching the surface of what's to come.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• Visual Studio’s cloud IDE gets smarter about builds

  20-02-2017 12:00
  
  Microsoft's Visual Studio Team Services cloud-based application development platform is improving pull requests, package management, and GitHub build integration.
  Upgrades will make it easier to work with pull requests assigned to teams, Microsoft said in a bulletin discussing improvements planned for rollout during the next few weeks. "When a PR is created or updated, email alerts will now be sent to all members of all teams that are assigned to the PR," the company said in release notes on Te
  
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• Nowhere to hide: 9 new hacks coming to get you

  20-02-2017 12:00
  
  Securitywise, the internet of things is going as badly as most computer security experts predicted. In fact, most vendors don’t fully appreciate the potential threats IoT devices pose. Anything connected to the internet and running code can be taken over for malicious purposes. Given the accelerating proliferation of internet-connected devices, we could be hurtling toward catastrophe. Personal security cameras, for example, are being used to conduct the largest denial-of-service attacks t
  
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• Data visualization tools: The features users love and hate

  20-02-2017 12:00
  
  Data visualization used to be a nice-to-have skill for specialists, but today data visualization is a key part of business decision-making for every manager, the Harvard Business Review notes. "New software tools mean this type of visualization is easier than ever before: They're making data analysts of us all," the journal says.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• Columbus, Ohio, region boosts smart mobility research

  20-02-2017 12:00
  
  The 11-county region that includes Columbus, Ohio, is pushing ahead with smart city tech research, including funding focused heavily on smart mobility and driverless vehicle testing.
  Last month, the State of Ohio and Ohio State University (OSU), based in Columbus, announced $45 million in funds for a new 540-acre Smart Mobility Advanced Research and Test Center, as an expansion of an existing 4,500-acre Transportation Research Center (TRC).To read this article in full or to leave a comment, ple
  
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• Microsoft eyes Indian startups for cloud services

  20-02-2017 11:41
  
  Microsoft is targeting Indian startups with its cloud services, and has signed up more than 2,000 such customers in the country in the last 12 months, the company’s CEO Satya Nadella said Monday at an event for startups in Bangalore.A large opportunity ahead for the company is the large number of developers who are building their services around a biometric database, consisting of fingerprints and iris scans, which the country has created of over 1 billion of its people.Under a new program
  
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• New Zealand High Court clears Kim Dotcom extradition to the US

  20-02-2017 05:30
  
  Megaupload website founder Kim Dotcom and three associates were on Monday cleared by a court in New Zealand to be extradited to the U.S. where he faces a variety of charges including copyright infringement and racketeering.Holding that copyright infringement by digital online communication of copyright protected works to members of the public is not a criminal offense under New Zealand’s Copyright Act, the High Court found that a conspiracy to commit copyright infringement amounts to a bid
  
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• Uber orders investigation into employee's charge of sexual harassment

  20-02-2017 04:38
  
  Uber Technologies said Sunday it had ordered an urgent investigation after a former engineer triggered an uproar on social media, alleging sexual harassment, politics and discrimination at the ride-hailing company.In a blog post, Susan J. Fowler, who joined Uber in November 2015 and quit in December last year to join Stripe, alleged that her former manager in the company had said in messages over company chat that he was looking for women to have sex with.“It was clear that he was trying t
  
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