IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (I4U News) 05/02/2014

Floyd Mayweather Jr. to Tackle Khan or Maidana

It was a foregone conclusion. Floyd Mayweather Jr. has opted to let his rabid fans choose which of the two rivals he is to fight in the next world boxing championship. Mayweather took to his Facebook...

What Is Starbucks Brewing For Mobile Payments?

Why do we still have credit cards? With all the advances in technology, and all the things our smart phones do, why aren’t we paying for everything using a mobile app? Why are you signing a paper...

Disney layoffs will reach hundreds

Disney's Interactive unit is planning to layoff several hundreds of employees, according to the Wall Street Journal.The news wasn't expected, considering Disney Interactive's successful launch of "...

Visa And SAP Want To Reduce Checks In E-Commerce

Corporations, apparently trying to catch up with personal banking, are trying to ditch checks for electronic payments. Visa has announced that it will provide corporations with a way to pay through...

DOT: Takes One Small Step Toward "Intelligent" Vehicles That Prevent Crashes

Transportation advocates are applauding action by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to promote the development of “intelligent” vehicles, which can communicate with one...

SIA: Semiconductors Finally Break $300 Billion Barrier

The semiconductor industry finally broke through a barrier that it has been struggling to overcome since the middle 1990s: Annual revenues surpassed $300 billion. That’s the finding released today by...

Meet The Russian Who Wanted Two Screens On His Smartphone

You don’t expect your first smartphone to walk away from CES with a ‘Best in Show’ award. Nor do you expect to have a commercial release of the CES prototype on sale eleven months from the Las Vegas...

Kia Sold 37,011 Vehicles in January

Kia Motors America (KMA) announced today that it has sold a record number of vehicles during January 2014. Kia sold 37,011 vehicles in January. The U.S.-built Optima midsize sedan tops this...

AWS And IBM: Fighting for Cloud Computing Leadership

Last Saturday morning (at least in my time zone) I received an email from IBM’s cloud PR team breathlessly announcing that “The numbers don’t lie — IBM Beat Amazon in 2013; AWS Revenue is Cloudy at...

Maserati Ghibli Super Bowl Ad Worked

The Seattle Seahawks won the Super Bowl 2014. The Seahawks smashed the Broncos with 43 to 8. The Budweiser Super Bowl Ad Puppy Love won the most important Super Bowl 2014 Ad ranking. Watch all Super...

A World Without Drivers: No Accidents. No Traffic. No Fun?

These are truly exciting times in the auto industry. Semi-autonomous vehicles are already available – most popularly seen with slow-speed braking (to avoid children when backing up) and park...

Lower iPhone Sales Seen with New Plan From AT&T

T-Mobile (TMUS) got the ball rolling with no contract plans and much cheaper plans than AT&T, something it publicized in the Tim Tebow Super Bowl commercial Sunday evening. Today AT&T...

Apple's iPad Losing To Samsung And Lenovo

Apple’s iPad share of the tablet market has slipped from just over 50% in the December 2011 quarter to a third in the most recent quarter. Samsung has solidified its second place position with Amazon...

Zuckerberg's Embrace Of Anonymity Marks Shift In Tech Industry Attitudes

In a recent interview with Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that he thought it was “somewhat of a burden” if you are “always under the pressure of a real identity.” If...

Secure Your POS and Avoid a Target-Style Disaster

An estimated 70 million consumers were affected by a data breach impacting Target’s POS systems over the holidays. For Target, this signals the beginning of a gradual rebuilding of trust between...

Intel SDI: One Datacenter Architecture to Rule Them All?

I attended the Open Compute Summit last week in San Jose, where industry leaders in the scale-out datacenter industry gathered to discuss and attempt to get some kind of alignment on future...

Internet firms: How much Spying does Government do thru NSA spy

Freed by deal with government, Internet firms release new data on NSA surveillance requests WASHINGTON (AP) — Freed by a recent legal deal with government lawyers, major technology firms released new...

Looks Like Nobody Won The SuperBowl This Year

I live in France. I don’t know much about US football, but I occasionally try to watch, because I really care about rugby and US football is like rugby’s demented cousin. But like everybody else, I...

After Ten Years: Facebook's Users Pet Peeves

Facebook turns 10 years old this week. That means that about 1.2 billion people now spend an average of more than 8 hours a month doing something that wasn’t even an activity a decade ago. It’s been...

Google told to move SF Bay 'mystery' barge

Google ordered to move San Francisco Bay 'mystery' barge that drew attention, speculation SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google does not have the proper permits for a mystery barge at a construction site on an...

The Mormon Who Creates Billions of Fake Identities Every Month

Suspicious NSA and FBI agents have contacted Jacob Allred about his websites, and Social Security Administration investigators, waving badges, have showed up at his door. Businesses have cursed him....

State: Google must move 'mystery' barge

State: Google must move 'mystery' barge from island construction site in San Francisco Bay SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google must move its mystery barge from a construction site on an island in the middle...

Pension Funds Face New Era of Disclosure On Climate Risks

For more than a decade, as part of the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), investors have been asking the companies they invest in to disclose their carbon emissions, in theory so that they could get a...

IBM, Actifio Partner For More Efficient Data Storage

IBM sees big opportunity in helping big enterprises and Small and Medium Sized Businesses (SMBs). It’s investing $1.5 billion to boost its cloud storage services. And as of February 4, IBM is...

Twitter Wins over Facebook in Real-Time Super Bowl Marketing

Facebook has been working hard to convince users and advertisers that it’s a venue for real-time conversations, not just a place for talking about something before and after the fact.On the...

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Tuesday, February 4, 2014

IT News Head Lines (I4U News) 05/02/2014

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