Saturday, May 4, 2013

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWorld) 05/05/2013






A telecom landmark gets wired for the cloud
The Pacific Bell tower in San Francisco, the high-rise headquarters of the phone company through eight decades and several name changes, was a monument to copper.

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Facebook gets to keep its 'Timeline' following trademark settlement
Facebook has reached an agreement with the company Timelines Inc. to settle a trademark infringement lawsuit over the social network's use of the name Timeline.

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Wall Street Beat: Tech stocks jump as market indexes hit milestones
On the back end of an earnings season that by many accounts could have been worse, tech investors appeared to be in the mood to celebrate on Friday, sending shares of IT companies higher as key stock-market indexes hit milestone highs.

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MIT envisions future of talking cars that can plan driver's day
You wake up in the morning and your robot starts the coffee maker and then sends your daily calendar to your car, which then chooses alternate routes to work so you can avoid major construction on your normal path.

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Google bares Chrome's Trojan strategy with native-style packaged apps
Google's move this week to make it easier for Chrome browser users to find "packaged apps" is part of a strategy to turn any Internet-capable device into a Chromebook wannabe loyal to the company's ecosystem, an analyst said today.

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Accused SpyEye virus creator extradited to the U.S.
An Algerian man accused of helping to develop and distribute the SpyEye computer virus has been extradited from Thailand to the U.S. to face criminal charges, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.

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Space shots: Android phones beam back Earth pix
NASA released photos taken by three smartphones as they orbited Earth.

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Microsoft to grow Office 365's capacity to import contacts from third-party tools
Office 365 users will increasingly be able to import contacts from external applications after the suite's initial rollout of this capability for Facebook and LinkedIn.

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Google Glass apps start to hit. Wink! Wink!
Now that developers have Google Glass in hand, the first apps are starting to come out.

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