Tuesday, April 8, 2014

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWorld) 09/04/2014





AT&T cites power problem in U-verse outage
A power problem caused a widespread outage on AT&T's U-verse broadband service Monday that some customers said affected both TV and Internet service.

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Windows XP: The end is nigh
When Microsoft ends support for Windows XP on Tuesday, a security sinkhole will likely open and gradually widen, threatening hundreds of millions of PCs worldwide in homes, companies, government agencies and schools.

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Intel's Thunderbolt 2 supports peer-to-peer Mac connections
Intel is bringing peer-to-peer computer networking capabilities to Thunderbolt 2 with a feature that allows Macs -- and soon, PCs -- to connect directly for high-speed data transfers.

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Hynix reveals world's first 128GB DDR4 memory module
SK Hynix said it has developed the world's first 128GB DDR4 memory module, with twice the capacity of the company's current 64GB module.

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HP touts speedy Z Turbo Drive PCI-Express SSDs
Hewlett-Packard's new Z Turbo Drive solid-state drives will be faster than conventional SSDs that plug into hard-drive slots, the company said.

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Supreme Court takes a pass on NSA surveillance case
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a lawsuit challenging the U.S. National Security Agency's collection of U.S. phone records filed by a conservative activist, despite a lower court's ruling that the program may be illegal.

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U.S. hits H-1B cap with 'high number' of petitions
The U.S. government said today it has reached the H-1B cap, and if this year is similar to previous years, 70% of applicants are under the age of 35, and a major portion will take jobs at offshore outsourcing companies.

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ICANN delays uncorking .wine and .vin domains
European lawmakers are concerned that cyber-squatting could undermine the entire wine industry and welcomed a decision to put the allocation of new top level domains on hold.

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Low adoption rate of HSTS website security mechanism is worrying, EFF says
Almost a year and a half after the HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) mechanism was established as a standard, its adoption rate by websites remains low because developers are not aware of its benefits and Internet Explorer still doesn't support it, according to advocacy group the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

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Law Firm CIO Makes the Case for Microsoft Lync
Law firm Holland & Knight already had a who's who of best-of-breed communications products deployed when the firm's IT team decided it needed to replace the tangled mess of PBX systems that provided voice lines at its many offices. It chose to jettison them all in favor of an infrastructure built on Microsoft Lync Server 2013.

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