Sunday, May 18, 2014

IT News Head Lines (InfoWorld) 19/05/2014





Apple and Google agree to drop all patent suits
Two giants of the mobile phone industry, Apple and Google, have agreed to drop all current patent infringement lawsuits between them, they said Friday.

"Apple and Google have also agreed to work together in some areas of patent reform," the companies said in a joint statement. They have not agreed to cross-license each other's patents, however.

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Microsoft acknowledges more errors, 80070371 and 80071A91, when installing Windows 8.1 Update/KB 2919355
The Windows 8.1 Update blowout continues.

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Red Hat brings OpenShift closer to the enterprise
Red Hat continues to enhance its software portfolio for helping organizations run and manage cloud services in their own data centers, adding more features to its OpenShift Enterprise software package to accommodate enterprise requirements such as policy orchestration and multiregion availability. OpenShift Enterprise 2.1, available now, also includes new releases of the latest open source software used in the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) hosting package, such as PHP and MySQL.

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Adobe Creative Cloud crash shows that no cloud is too big to fail
A problem with Adobe Creative Cloud locked users of Adobe's software out of their programs -- and a good deal else on top of that -- for more than 24 hours starting Wednesday night.

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Google readies automated tool for those wanting to disappear from search results
People will be able to use an online tool to ask Google not to display search results about them, according to a German data protection commissioner.Google will create the tool following a decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), which ruled on Tuesday that Google and other search engines can be ordered to delete links to outdated information about a person published on the Internet.

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New PostgreSQL guns for NoSQL market
Embracing the widely used JSON data-exchange format, the new version of the PostgreSQL open-source database takes aim at the growing NoSQL market of nonrelational data stores, notably the popular MongoDB. The first beta version of PostgreSQL 9.4, released Thursday, includes a number of new features that address the rapidly growing market for Web applications, many of which require fast storage and retrieval of large amounts of user data.

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Google Apps users getting encrypted messaging that goes beyond Gmail
Google is making available a service to allow its enterprise customers to send and receive encrypted email to users of non-Google mail systems, including Yahoo and Microsoft Exchange. Google Apps Message Encryption (GAME) was designed specifically for Google Apps by Zix Corp, which for over a decade has enabled subscribers to send encrypted email to recipients, who in turn must enroll to be notified of and access such messages.

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Son of SOPA: The Internet under siege
The fight to preserve an open Internet more and more resembles a giant game of Whac-A-Mole.

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Google, Microsoft, Apple get perfect scores on user privacy report
Credit: Chad Baker

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Microsoft posts tips for overcoming Windows 8.1 Update KB 2919355 errors
It only took six weeks, but Microsoft Technical Advisor

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React: Making faster, smoother UIs for data-driven Web apps
Credit: Pete Hunt

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What the FCC's Net neutrality proposal really means
First, the facts.

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FCC moves forward with controversial Net neutrality proposal
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has voted to release a hotly debated proposal to reinstate Net neutrality rules, asking whether it should move forward a proposal allowing broadband providers to engage in "commercially reasonable" traffic management or whether it should regulate broadband as a common-carrier utility.

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