Tuesday, February 26, 2013

IT News Head Lines (InfoWorld) 27/02/2013







Firefox OS 'too late' to shake up mobile
Analysts today were skeptical that Mozilla's push into mobile with Firefox OS would meaningfully change the game.

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CEO Mayer calls in all Yahoo telecommuters
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is reportedly tossing conventional business thought aside and calling in telecommuters. Mayer, who became CEO last year, has been working to turn around the struggling company. Now she wants to get employees working more efficiently and creatively by forcing them to work in the office, instead of at home.

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Privacy group: Google sharing too much personal info with developers
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the California Office of the Attorney General should investigate Google's Wallet service for sharing app buyers' personal information with app developers, a privacy group said.

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ZTE premiers Open, its first Firefox OS phone
ZTE's first phone based on Mozilla's Firefox OS will go on sale in the middle of the year in Spain, Venezuela, and Columbia, where its maker hopes to boost smartphone penetration. Firefox OS is being pitched as a better alternative for low-end smartphones in developing markets and is built around applications written using HTML5. For example, in Latin America smartphone penetration only averages 18 percent, according to Telefónica, which will sell the ZTE smartphone.

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Samsung finally makes Galaxy S IV official
After months of rumor and speculation, Samsung finally confirmed this weekend that the Galaxy S IV would be rolled out at a March 14 press event in New York. The news first broke on South Korean news site EDaily, according to Reuters, with Samsung mobile chief JK Shin confirming the planned New York launch. The news agency also noted that this will be Samsung's first U.S. Galaxy launch since the original Galaxy S in 2010.

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Box aims to create more secure environment for users, devices, data
Box is rolling out several new security features aimed at making its 150,000 business customers feel more confident in its cloud storage and file sharing service. The new capabilities address end-users, devices, and content.

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HP sells WebOS to LG for smart TVs
Hewlett-Packard has sold some of the rights to its WebOS mobile operating system to LG Electronics for use in Internet-connected "smart" TVs made by the South Korean electronics firm. LG has agreed to acquire the source code, WebOS engineering team, and other assets from HP, in a deal announced today. LG will also license HP patents related to WebOS and cloud technology, the companies said. Financial terms of the deal weren't disclosed, bit both said there would be no material effect on their finances.

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9 top threats to cloud computing security
Cloud computing has grabbed the spotlight at this year's RSA Conference 2013 in San Francisco, with vendors aplenty hawking products and services that equip IT with controls to bring order to cloud chaos.

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With Windows 'Blue' rumored, the Windows 8 fire sale begins
The mainstream media has picked up Mary Jo Foley's report about a public preview of Windows "Blue" -- the

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SAP adds to supply-chain tech with SmartOps acquisition
SAP has acquired SmartOps in a move the company says will allow it to develop real-time supply chain applications that take advantage of SAP's HANA in-memory database. Terms of the deal, which was announced late Friday, were not disclosed. It is expected to close in the first quarter.

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Hortonworks brings Hadoop to Windows
Hortonworks is bringing the popular open-source Apache Hadoop data processing platform to Microsoft shops. The company has released a beta version of its Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) Hadoop distribution for Windows and expects to release the final, enterprise-ready version in the months to come.

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HP unveils big data security strategy
HP today took the wraps off its Big Data Security strategy, describing how combining the enterprise search and knowledge management resources from its Autonomy subsidiary with its ArcSight security-event and information management (SIEM) can yield new ways to detect cyber attacks or rogue-employee behavior.

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Mobile operators, GSMA work to simplify integration of apps with mobile networks
Mobile operators are hoping to make it easier for developers to integrate network-based features with their applications using a new platform called OneAPI Exchange.

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