Tuesday, October 1, 2013

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWorld) 10/2/2013





Symantec seizes part of massive P2P botnet ZeroAccess
The cybercriminals behind ZeroAccess, one of the largest botnets in existence, have lost access to more than a quarter of the infected machines they controlled because of an operation executed by security researchers from Symantec.

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Seagate, TDK show off HAMR to jam more data into hard drives
Seagate Technology will demonstrate HAMR, a technology it's counting on to fit more data onto hard disk drives, at the Ceatec show this week.

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DoCoMo shows 'touch display' for computer glasses
Head-mounted computers like Google Glass are a useful way to view content and interact with the world on the move, but one drawback is the lack of a physical interface on which the user can click, drag or navigate content.

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DRAM prices up 35% since China fab plant fire
After a recent fire at its memory plant in Wuxi, China, Hynix's DRAM supply is now not expected to be restored until the first half of 2014.

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Obamacare could help fuel a tech start-up boom
The arrival of Obamacare on Tuesday may make it easier for some employees to quit their full-time jobs to launch tech start-ups, work as a freelance consultant or pursue some other solo career path.

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After getting star billing, Oracle's Fusion Applications take a supporting role
Last week's OpenWorld conference made on thing clear: Oracle remains committed to its next-generation Fusion Applications but massive growth in the product line is probably not around the corner.

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Dumping a Surface? eBay averages double the return of a buyback vendor
First-generation Surface owners have complained that Microsoft won't buy their used tablets to help them buy the new editions shipping in three weeks, but other markets can actually return more cash.

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BMC puts Hadoop on the company timesheet
Now that many organizations see the utility in big data, BMC Software has provided a way to incorporate jobs from the Hadoop data processing platform into larger enterprise workflows.

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Dead Drops offline P2P file sharing network goes global
What started as an expression of art by Berlin Artist Aram Bartholl to explore the relationship between the online and offline worlds, has caught on and become an enormous file sharing network based on thumb drives embedded in buildings and other objects.

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Tech firms push Congress for transparency on NSA surveillance
The U.S. Congress must act quickly on legislation that would make electronic data collection efforts by the U.S. National Security Agency more public, a group of tech firms, civil liberties groups and other organizations said Monday.

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