Sunday, May 4, 2014

IT News Head Lines (InformationWeek) 05/05/2014





India ranks No. 3 on U.S. Green Building Council List of top 10 countries for LEED
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has released its list of the top 10 countries for LEED outside of the United States, on which India ranked No. 3. The list demonstrates the global reach of the movement...



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Identity-based security solution improves employee productivity for Yokogawa India

A provider of enterprise technology solutions, with strong expertise in the process automation industry, Yokogawa India was looking for a comprehensive security solution that would help it monitor and...



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Hacker market: Why black is not the way to go

In the world of hacking, we have the notion of ‘black hats’ (cybercriminals who do the illegal stuff with code); ‘white hats’ (the good guys who find and fix vulnerabilities in technology) and ‘grey hats’...



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Post-Heartbleed: When not to change your password
Even if you’ve been hiding under a rock or vacationing on Mars you’ve heard about the Heartbleed bug. It wasn’t only prominent in the tech journals and blogs, but was blared forth in the general media....



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Microsoft issues emergency patch for IE, covers XP
That was fast: Microsoft today released an emergency patch for a previously unknown Internet Explorer vulnerability revealed over the weekend that was discovered being exploited by a cyber espionage group...



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Microsoft Office for iPad gains printing
Microsoft released its first batch of Office for iPad updates on Tuesday, only 33 days after the highly anticipated software suite launched. Key additions include the ability to print directly from the...



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What not to do in a cyberattack
Detecting an attack can be difficult enough, but the chances of a quick cleanup and lockdown in the aftermath of an incident dramatically diminish if there's no official incident response plan and no incident...



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Emerson report forecasts massive changes in data centers of future brought about by increased cloud and renewable energy usage
Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson and a global leader in maximizing availability, capacity and efficiency of critical infrastructure, today released “Data Center 2025: Exploring the Possibilities”...



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Indian SMEs to increase cloud adoption at a CAGR of 20 percent between 2012 and 2016, says EY report on SMAC
SMEs will play a leading role in the adoption of SMAC in India, given the huge opportunity it opens up, not only to grow revenues by increased marketing to new customers, but also by bringing in operational...



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Digital marketing budgets will increase by 10 percent in 2014: Gartner survey
Digital marketing budgets will rise by 10 percent in 2014, following a double-digit percentage increase in 2013, according to a survey of marketing executives by Gartner, Inc. The survey found that, on...



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Adopting an integrated approach to mobile security — An imperative for today’s organizations

On April 8, 2014, the world woke up to a new scare called the Heartbleed bug. The bug is a severe flaw in a software library used by millions of websites to encrypt sensitive communications. This simply...



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New IE zero-day prompts more calls to ditch Windows XP
It has been a rough few days for Internet Explorer.
A vulnerability affecting IE versions 6 through 11 was reported over the weekend that allows an attacker to remotely execute code in the context...



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How to attract and retain millennial workers
As tech companies battle to attract and retain millennials, they would be wise to step back and consider how this generation is both similar -- and uniquely different -- to Baby Boomers and Gen X.
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Google self-driving cars get smarter
Google's quest to build and deploy cars that drive themselves has been going well. On Monday, Chris Urmson, director of Google's self-driving car project, said the company's autonomous vehicles have logged...



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Public Internet is broken: It’s time we look for some alternatives

A few years ago a friend and I were joking about how advertising based revenue models would evolve. We laughed at the thought that one day we may be able to “purchase” cars for free if only we allowed...



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Microsoft's mobile first, cloud first strategy, explained
After laying low during the first seven weeks of his tenure, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made four high-profile appearances in April: the Office for iPad introduction, the company's Buildconference; the...



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