Monday, January 13, 2014

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWorld) 14/01/2014





Dropbox works to resolve service hiccups, says files are safe
Dropbox said Sunday it was making progress in restoring service after the popular file storage service went offline on Friday.

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Neiman Marcus notifies customers after card data breach
Neiman Marcus has been notifying customers of a data breach after hackers stole merchant card information for an undisclosed number of shoppers.

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Three big trends converge at CES
Lifelogging and lifestreaming got a boost from wearable computing and the quantified self at International CES this week. Welcome to the future.

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Supreme Court to hear case on Aereo's broadcast TV streaming
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a battle between TV broadcasters and Aereo, a startup that streams television over the Internet, as the final step in a case that could have broad implications for the future of online TV services.

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Update: Breach exposes data on 110 million customers, Target now says
A data breach at U.S. retailer Target will affect up to 70 million people, 30 million more than what the company first estimated in mid-December.

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Now you can get a Thunderbolt 2 cable that's 30 meters long (and costs $899)
Optical cables that connect peripherals to Thunderbolt 2 ports in Apple Macs are getting longer, but also more expensive.

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Reddit, Mozilla, EFF to hold day of protest, activism in memory of Aaron Swartz
A broad coalition of well-known organizations announced today that it will stage an online protest against wide-ranging government surveillance of Internet users on Feb. 11, in memory of activist Aaron Swartz.

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Feds to dump CGI from Healthcare.gov project
The Obama Administration is set to fire CGI Federal as prime IT contractor of the problem-plagued Healthcare.gov website, a report says.

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Wall Street Beat: Cautious optimism for tech this year
After a year in which tech stocks boomed but overall IT spending barely eked out single-digit growth, market forecasters are adopting an air of cautious optimism for 2014.

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Oracle preps 147 security patches, including 36 for Java
Oracle is about to release one of its largest security patch batches in recent memory, with some 147 fixes coming Tuesday for vulnerabilities in Java SE, its flagship database, business applications and assorted other products.

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