Tuesday, March 18, 2014

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWorld) 19/03/2014





Sally Beauty admits to payment card data breach
Sally Beauty Holdings confirmed Monday that it fell victim to a data breach, an incident that may have coincided with a project to update point-of-sale terminals at its U.S. stores, a recent regulatory filing shows.

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Storage spending is growing again, but not quickly
Enterprises finally started opening their pocketbooks for external storage systems in the final quarter of last year, but economic uncertainty and the appeal of public cloud services continue to hold back the market, according to research company Gartner.

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Dell replacing displays on XPS 12 hybrids with 'burn-in' issues
Dell has admitted that some of its XPS 12 convertible laptops have "burn-in" issues with the display and is offering to replace affected screens for free, even on systems that are out of warranty.

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Court approves first-of-its-kind data breach settlement
Courts have generally tended to dismiss consumer class-action lawsuits filed against companies that suffer data breaches if victims can't show that the the breach directly caused a financial hit.

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Isis CTO accuses retailers of turning off NFC and smartcard payment tech
A powerful group of retailers plans to roll out mobile payments in 2014 by scanning barcodes from smartphones, a move that sets up a potential battle with backers of NFC and Google Wallet.

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Microsoft's OneNote strategy: Battle Evernote, or something bigger?
Microsoft today began offering Mac users its OneNote application free of charge, making rumors last week about a release a reality.

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Google Hangouts, Talk, Sheets all crash on Monday
Don't panic, Google's Talk and Hangouts services crashed this morning, but now appear to be returning for more and more users.

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Embarcadero unifies iOS and Android development with its Appmethod tool
With a new integrated development environment (IDE), Embarcadero Technologies is hoping to ease the burden of application developers who must prepare their creations for more than one operating system (OS).

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How to Use Social Media to Improve Your IT Recruiting Strategy
Social media is ubiquitous in today's digital world, so you can bet your next star employee is out there sharing, liking and tweeting. Here's how to leverage social networking technology to effectively target and recruit IT candidates.

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Ron Miller: NSA can track every email, but it can't find a plane
When a world that's characterized by ubiquitous data collection and surveillance can lose sight of a jumbo jet, you start to question the worth of all that spying on us.

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