Tuesday, May 20, 2014

IT News Head Lines (InfoWorld) 21/05/2014





Google looks to unite work and pleasure by acquiring Divide
Google could gain a stronger position in businesses by acquiring Divide, an enterprise software company focused on the bring-your-own-device to work model. Divide said Monday that it was being acquired by Google, and that its members would be joining Google's Android team.

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Bandwidth-sipping IoT steers clear of Net neutrality debate -- for now
If you're worried about an Internet "fast lane" squeezing out all the futuristic connected devices you're hoping to use around your home, fear not.

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GitHub rolls out the red carpet for scientists
Credit: GitHub

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U.S. charges Chinese Army members with cyber espionage


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Microsoft's money pit: Surface has lost $1.2 billion
Microsoft has lost more than $1.2 billion so far on its Surface tablet business, an expensive experiment that makes tomorrow's revelations of new hardware an important milestone for the "devices" side of its corporate-refashioning strategy. On Tuesday, CEO Satya Nadella is expected to step on a New York stage and unveil one or more new Surface tablets, and outline his direction for the in-house hardware project birthed by his predecessor, Steve Ballmer.

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OpenStack 101: The parts that make up the project
At its core, OpenStack is an operating system that builds public or private clouds. But OpenStack is a platform, it's not just one piece of software that's downloaded and installed to "voila!" build a cloud.

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H-1B cap hike could mean a grim future for workers
If Congress approves comprehensive immigration reform, it will likely more than double the cap on H-1B visas. What would happen then? Some of the leading academic critics of the H-1B program gathered Friday to talk about the problems the visa program is creating, and what will happen if the cap grows from 85,000 to 180,000, as set in the Senate's immigration bill.

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Cisco CEO tells Obama: NSA spying impacts technology sales
Cisco Systems' CEO John Chambers has written to U.S. President Barack Obama, asking for his intervention so that U.S. technology sales are not affected by a loss in trust as a result of reports of surveillance by the U.S. National Security Agency.

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IDC cuts IT spending forecast on mobile slump, emerging market uncertainty
A slowdown in the growth rate for tablet and mobile phone sales and economic uncertainty in emerging markets are putting a damper on global IT spending, according to IDC. Worldwide IT spending will increase 4.1 percent in constant currency this year, to $3.7 trillion IDC said Friday. That's down from last year's 4.5 percent growth and from IDC's prior forecast of 4.6 percent growth.

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SAP apps heading to Microsoft Azure cloud
Microsoft and SAP's long-standing partnership is being strengthened with the pending certification of SAP's ERP (enterprise resource planning) and other software for deployment on the Azure cloud infrastructure service. By the end of the second quarter, SAP's Business Suite, Business All-in-One, mobile platform, Adaptive Server Enterprise database, and the developer version of the Hana in-memory computing platform will be certified for Azure, the companies said Monday.

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PayPal payment option added to Google Play Store
Looking to streamline the Google Play payment process, Google this week expanded payment options to include PayPal and more carrier billing in a multitude of countries.

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User survey: Ubuntu is the top OpenStack OS
A survey of OpenStack users,

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