Wednesday, April 30, 2014

IT News Head Lines (InfoWorld) 30/04/2014





Privacy-centric Blackphone to run Nvidia Tegra 4i processor
The privacy-focused Blackphone, which starts shipping in June for $629, will run an Nvidia Tegra 4i mobile processor, the phone's makers announced Monday.

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Google's self-driving cars are cruising through neighborhoods
Google is taking its self-driving cars off the highway and onto city streets -- safely, it claims. Google on Monday announced that its cars have now logged thousands of miles on the streets of Mountain View, Calif., improving the cars' software to automatically handle a range of situations that previously would have stumped the Internet company.

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IBM banks on developers to expand cloud services
IBM is banking on developers and its global business reach in its efforts to catch up with more established cloud providers. At the IBM Impact conference, underway in Las Vegas Monday, the company announced the IBM Cloud online marketplace, a BlueMix developer garage to be based in San Francisco, expansion of MobileFirst expertise services in 18 countries, and the opening up of Watson to enterprise developers.

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US CERT and KB 2963983: Don't use drive-by-enabled Internet Explorer
The Department of Homeland Security's US-CERT team has issued an

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Samsung readies shipments of SSDs pitched at data center
Samsung Electronics has begun mass producing a more affordable SSD, seeking to help drive the technology deeper into the corporate data center. The PM853T will start shipping before the end of June and is based on Samsung's 3-bit MLC (multi-level cell) technology, the company said Monday. That stores three bits per memory cell, which increases storage density compared to SLC (single-level cell) or 2-bit MLC drives, and helps lower the cost per bit.

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Emergency update for Apache Struts fixes incomplete patch for critical flaw
The Apache Software Foundation rushed last week to update the popular Apache Struts framework after a previous security patch for a high-risk vulnerability proved to be incomplete. The newly released Struts 2.3.16.2 strengthens the protection against a ClassLoader manipulation issue through the ParametersInterceptor feature that was thought to have been resolved in March in Struts 2.3.16.1.

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Michael Dell: On SDNs and networking for the masses
Dell is synonymous with home and business PCs, and data center servers. Yet Dell also has an ambitious software-defined networking activity underway called the Open Networking Initiative, where it partners with SDN software companies like Cumulus Networks and Big Switch Networks to bundle operating systems and applications on Dell switches.

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Losses mount for Microsoft's Surface tablet line
Economies of scale continued to elude Microsoft's Surface line as the tablet lost more money in the March quarter than in the preceding three-month period, regulatory filings showed.

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Microsoft confirms Internet Explorer zero-day
Late Saturday evening, Microsoft issued a public advisory confirming the existence of a new vulnerability in Internet Explorer that's being used in targeted attacks online. The vulnerability was disclosed by researchers at FireEye, who observed attacks against Internet Explorer versions 9 though 11. While criminals seem to be focused on the later releases, all versions of Internet Explorer are affected.

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IBM puts all its cloud services in online marketplace
IBM has assembled a vast array of hosted cloud services, and now it has somewhere to show them off. On its IBM Cloud online marketplace that goes live on Monday, enterprises can find the full range of IBM's offerings behind a single gateway.

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Hacker claim about bug in fixed OpenSSL likely a scam
Security experts have expressed doubts about a hacker claim that there's a new vulnerability in the patched version of OpenSSL, the widely used cryptographic library repaired in early April. A group of five hackers writes in a posting on Pastebin that they worked for two weeks to find the bug and developed code to exploit it. They've offered the code for the price of 2.5 bitcoins, around $870.

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What's your real Office usage? Making the case for Google Apps
Are Microsoft Office users getting what they paid for, or might they be better off switching to a cloud offering like Google Apps?

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