Wednesday, July 24, 2013

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWorld) 7/25/2013





AT&T's Q2 revenue, profit gained on mobile growth
AT&T posted higher revenue and profit in the second quarter, with gains in its mobile unit offsetting flat wireline revenue.

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LinkedIn selling more marketing content into users' feeds
LinkedIn is giving companies the ability to place their marketing content into users' feeds, in a move that expands the site's revenue opportunities.

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U.S. cloud firms face backlash from NSA spy programs
Non-U.S. clients of American cloud hosting companies are clearly rattled by revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency collects huge amounts of customer data from Internet Service Providers and telecommunication companies.

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MIT looks to movie CGI to make 3D printing easy
MIT has created OpenFab, an open source, programmable pipeline architecture for 3D printers that was inspired by RenderMan, the software used to design computer-generated images in movies.

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Apple's profit drops 22% as iPad sales slow; iPhone sales remain strong
Apple reported a drop in profits on roughly flat revenue for the April to June quarter, though the results were ahead of analysts' expectations, providing something of a silver lining for the company.

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Surveys show that enterprises tablet use is on the rise
One in three U.S. adults now owns a tablet computer, up from 18% last year, according to a June 2013 study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. So what about professional use? Are tablets standard-issue employee equipment? To find out, CDW surveyed professionals from midsize and large business, healthcare, higher education and state and local government to see how these devices are affecting day-to-day productivity.

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Cut-rate iPhones? They're already here
Calls for Apple to start selling a lower-priced iPhone just don't make sense, an analyst said today, because Apple already sells millions of discounted smartphones.

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Intel aims for longer tablet battery life with Haswell chips
Intel says it will increase the battery life of tablets and hybrid PCs that use its microprocessors, with new low-power Haswell chips that will start shipping later this year.

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Self-driving cars could create 1GB of data a second
While self-driving cars may be safe and efficient, they certainly won't be economical in terms of data storage, according to one big data strategist.

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Android spyware infections on the rise
An increasing number of Android phones are infected with mobile malware programs that are able to turn the handsets into spying devices, according to a report from Kindsight Security Labs, a subsidiary of telecommunications equipment vendor Alcatel-Lucent.

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