Tuesday, July 16, 2013

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWorld) 7/17/2013





Bill Gates vows the return of Microsoft Bob
Though roundly ridiculed when it debuted in 1995, Microsoft Bob, or something resembling the short-lived on-screen assistant, will ultimately return, vowed Bill Gates, co-founder and chairman of Microsoft.

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Apple-Samsung phone battle to hit appeals court in August
A court's decision not to prevent multiple Samsung handsets from being sold in the U.S. despite their being found to infringe Apple patents will go before an appeal's court in early August.

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Bill Gates gets serious about Microsoft Bob
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates today briefly took attendees at a company-hosted research conference back decades to the failure of Microsoft Bob and the loathed "Clippy" to talk about preemptively helping tech users.

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It's getting warmer in some data centers
With major parts of the U.S. under an intense heat wave, opting for less cooling may seem like a bad idea. But it isn't.

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Sprint outage affects customers in some parts of U.S. for several hours
Sprint on Monday experienced network outages affecting voice communications for several hours in various regions nationwide, the wireless carrier confirmed.

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Top Artificial Intelligence system is as smart as a 4-year-old
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago wanted to know how smart a top artificial intelligence system actually is. So they gave it an IQ test.

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Putin suggests Snowden may stop leaking documents
Edward Snowden, the leaker of U.S. National Security Agency surveillance activities, may have changed his position about disclosing more information in the future, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday, according to news reports.

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Sprint kicks off tri-band device sales
Sprint will begin selling two LTE hotspots and an LTE USB modem on Friday -- the first tri-band LTE devices the carrier has offered.

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Apple probes iPhone 5-related death in China
Apple promised to investigate a report that a young Chinese woman was electrocuted when she answered her iPhone 5 while it was plugged into its charger.

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Ad networks agree to take steps against online piracy
A group of U.S. companies operating Internet advertising networks has pledged to bar websites trafficking in pirated goods from using their services and to take other steps to fight online copyright infringement.

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