Wednesday, November 20, 2013

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWorld) 11/21/2013





Supercomputing's big problem: What's after silicon?
In a little booth tucked in the corner of the SC13 supercomputing conference here this week may be the next Intel.

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Court shuts down online business listing operation
A U.S. judge has shut down an online business listing operation that allegedly bilked more than US$14 million from U.S. small businesses and churches.

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Samsung denied mistrial on racial bias claim in Apple case
Samsung requested a mistrial be declared in its trial with Apple over remarks made by an attorney working for Apple in the final moments of closing arguments in the case on Tuesday.

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Cryptolocker: The evolution of extortion
The Cryptolocker Trojan is an evolution of "ransomware," not a revolutionary change from past criminal attempts to extort money from PC owners, a security expert said today.

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Cray brings Hadoop to supercomputing
Helping scientific supercomputing take advantage of emerging big-data technologies, high-performance computing manufacturer Cray is releasing a set of packages promising to optimize the process of running Hadoop on the its XC30 machines.

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Google wants you walkin' in its Winter Wonderlabs
Google opened gadget showrooms in six U.S. cities as the holiday shopping season quickly approaches.

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Warning! Targeted Internet misdirection on the rise
Unknown attackers have successfully hijacked and redirected Internet traffic belonging to financial services companies, VoIP providers and governments many times over the past year.

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Apple's $380M case against Samsung goes to jury
A jury in California will begin deliberating over how much money Samsung should pay to Apple for the infringement of several patents in multiple models of Samsung smartphones. Apple wants just under $380 million, but Samsung argues it shouldn't pay more than $52 million.

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In role reversal, Ballmer stays composed, Gates chokes up, in shareholder meeting
In his last appearance at a Microsoft shareholder meeting as CEO, Steve Ballmer said he's completely certain the company is in very good shape to succeed in the next decade under someone else's captainship.

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Retina iPad Mini's 'secretive' launch continues, shortages persist
The Retina iPad Mini's "secretive" launch was driven by severe shortages, which have not improved since Apple started selling the smaller tablet a week ago, a financial analyst said today.

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