Wednesday, December 4, 2013

IT News Head Lines (InfoWorld) 05/12/2013





JetBrains builds on Google Android collaboration for new IntelliJ IDEA
Building on a collaboration with Google, software vendor JetBrains has updated its IntelliJ IDEA Java IDE (integrated development environment) to offer more capabilities for creating applications to run on Android devices. IntelliJ IDEA 13 also features a number of improvements in how it supports the Java Spring framework, which is an essential component for Pivotal's newly launched business intelligence PaaS (platform as a service).

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Experimental malware uses inaudible sound to defeat network air gaps
In a development likely to concern those who believe that a system that's not connected to a network is safe from surveillance, researchers have demonstrated that microphones and speakers built into laptops can be used to covertly transmit and receive data through inaudible audio signals

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BlackBerry upgrades BES to improve Android, iOS management
BlackBerry has upgraded its management platform Enterprise Server 10 (BES10) with more features for managing Android and iOS smartphones and has also improved scalability to lower overall costs. BlackBerry's problems are well documented, but the company is soldiering on. On Monday, the company posted an open letter from CEO John Chen that emphasized its renewed focus on the enterprise market.

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Microsoft's Desktop Optimization Pack gets Win 8.1 management capabilities
The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) suite of IT management tools has been updated with support for Windows 8.1 device and application management and Office 2013 virtualization.

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D-Link issues fixes for firmware backdoor in routers
D-Link published patches on Monday for a firmware coding goof that could allow attackers to remotely change the settings of several of its router models.

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CareerCloud app aims to find job openings before they're advertised
CareerCloud's Hidden Jobs app tracks what it calls "hidden jobs leads," which are primarily news stories, press releases, blog posts and other sources of information that describe a firm's expansion plans, relocations, a new product line or other news indicating plans to hire.It's information that can be useful in finding a job, since a company may announce an expansion, relocation or some other action well before it begins advertising jobs.

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Google Compute Engine goes live
After running the service in preview mode for over a year, Google is making its IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) Google Compute Engine (GCE) available as a full-fledged commercial service. The company has established a service level agreement (SLA) where it guarantees GCE to be available 99.95 percent of the time. It has also cut prices and increased the number of options the service offers.

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Apple buys Topsy for at least $200 million, gaining deep access to Twitter
Apple has acquired Topsy, a social media analytics company that analyzes a range of data from Twitter, according to a recent Wall Street Journal report.

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Look for the Windows 8 Grinch this holiday season
IDC is out with its latest PC shipment prognostications for 2013, and the number's aren't good.

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PC shipments: Still nowhere but down
We all knew the PC market was contracting, but the statistics continue to be revised down, down, and down.

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Oracle to limit backward compatibility from Java 9 to Java 8
With developers ready to move from building Java Development Kit (JDK) 8 to JDK 9, Oracle's chief Java executive proposes to

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Salesforce.com completes hackathon review, awards second $1 million prize
Salesforce.com has completed a review of the judging process for the hackathon it held at last month's Dreamforce conference, and as a result it will award a second $1 million prize to the initial runner-up.

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Windows XP migration window is closing fast
The end is near for Windows XP. Microsoft will cease supporting the venerable -- and still highly popular -- operating system on April 8, 2014.

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