Sunday, November 24, 2013

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWorld) 25/11/2013





Are we giving up on mobile payments already?
Mobile payments have still not caught on as U.S. users stick with their credit cards. Now the innovation is coming in the form of new debit cards.

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FCC's in-flight cellphone plan carries a lot of baggage
Anyone who dreads hearing one end of a loud phone call all the way from Anchorage to Miami, take heart: The plan to allow cellphones on planes could fail in more ways than an overbooked flight at a snowbound airport on Christmas Eve.

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Why the U.S. may lose the race to exascale
In the global race to build the next generation of supercomputers -- exascale -- there is no guarantee the U.S. will finish first.

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HealthCare.gov to double capacity by end of month
HealthCare.gov, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' troubled insurance-shopping website, will double its user capacity by the end of the month in an effort to eliminate sluggish response times when thousands of people are on the site at the same time, officials said.

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California sues SAP over failed payroll software project
SAP has been slapped with a lawsuit by California's state controller over a payroll software implementation the office says cost taxpayers a vast sum of money, but has never worked correctly.

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HP to ship $89 Android tablet with Intel chip
Retailer Walmart will sell on Black Friday an US$89 Hewlett-Packard Android tablet, one of many tablets available at massive discounts this holiday season in the U.S.

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Google rival says proposal to avoid an EU antitrust fine make matters worse
The leading complainant against Google in a European Union competition case said Friday that the search giant's proposed solutions will "entrench, extend, and escalate its abusive practices".

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Facebook's Sandberg says teen decline exaggerated
Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg said rumors that the social media company is falling out of favor with teenagers have been greatly exaggerated.

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Scroogled swag sells out as some buyers go for the gag
Microsoft upped the ante this week in its long-running Scroogled campaign as it started to sell merchandise, including mugs, hats and t-shirts, that took new digs at its rival Google.

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HTC One Max deep-dive review: With this phone, size matters
The new HTC One Max Android smartphone has a gorgeous 5.9-in. display and outstanding speakers -- but be ready to deal with some serious smartphone bulk.

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