Wednesday, March 28, 2012

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWorld) 3/28/2012





Apple's CEO meets with Beijing's mayor, calls for cooperation
Apple's CEO Tim Cook met with Beijing's mayor on Monday, and called for increased cooperation with China's capital city along with market expansion, according to a report from Chinese state-run press.

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HTC to shut Sense backup services
HTC plans to shut down its HTCsense.com cloud backup services on April 30 in preparation for the launch of "new and improved services," it said on its website.

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Many Office Live Small Business users fret over Office 365 transition
Many companies that rely on Office Live Small Business (OLSB) for their e-mail and website hosting are complaining that a required transition to Office 365 or to a third-party hosting provider is too complicated for them to carry out and that Microsoft could be doing more to help them out as OLSB's closure date fast approaches.

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AT&T to sell Lumia 900 for $100, starting April 8
The first real test for Nokia in North America will come April 8, the day AT&T announces it will start selling the Lumia 900.

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Securing your Board of Directors' communication portal
Imagine that criminals broke into headquarters and bugged your executive offices for insider information--and then made millions trading on that information. That's what can happen if you jump into a Board Communication Systems too quickly. It has already happened: They silently monitor your Board of Directors communications until they hear insider information that they can use to strike it rich on the stock market.

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Latisys: Customers want off-premises private clouds
The public cloud doesn't work for everyone, says Pete Stevenson, CEO of Latisys, a cloud, managed hosting and colocation service provider that announced an expansion of its offerings and facilities today.

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IBM CIO discusses Big Blue's BYOD strategy
IBM CIO Jeanette Horan has plenty of IT projects and systems to worry about, but perhaps one of the most pressing and timely is Big Blue's ongoing BYOD (bring your own device) rollout, which is aimed at including all of the company's 440,000 employees over time.

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Apple criticized for omitting factory workers from cash pile
A watchdog group issued a renewed call for Apple to address what this group considers poor working conditions for factory workers in China, criticizing the company for not assigning any of its US$98 billion cash pile to address the issues.

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Late May claim for Windows 8 RC jibes with expected timetable
Microsoft will launch the "release candidate" of Windows 8 in late May or early June, according to a Saturday report by a Dutch blog.

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