Wednesday, June 11, 2014

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWorld) 12/06/2014





HP assembles 'federation' of Helion cloud providers
Hoping to get a hand from partners, Hewlett-Packard is assembling a network of service providers that will offer hosted services based on the company's Helion software.

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Food chain, PF Chang's, investigates possible card breach
A large batch of stolen credit card numbers for sale on an underground forum may have come from a breach at P.F. Chang's China Bistro, a restaurant chain that said on Tuesday it is investigating.

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Blackphones coming in three weeks, will ship in millions, backers say
The Blackphone security-focused smartphone will go on the market in three weeks and "a few thousand" have already been sold through pre-orders, executives from the device's makers say.

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Stretchable electronics could lead to robotic skin, computerized clothes
Researchers at Purdue University have made an advance in stretchable electronics that could lead to computerized clothing and robots with humanlike skin that can "feel."

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday brings a bounty of IE fixes
For this month's round of software patches, Microsoft has issued a record 59 fixes for its Internet Explorer (IE) browser, including one critical vulnerability that had remained unpatched since it was made public May 22.

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Smartphone-controlled SSD firm launches its Kickstarter campaign
SoSecure has created a solid-state drive that is controlled remotely via a smartphone app, which monitors everything from backups to battery power and can delete all data from the drive.

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Microsoft withholds monster IE update from Windows 8.1 dawdlers
Microsoft refused to give Windows 8.1 customers another reprieve, requiring most to upgrade their devices to April's Windows 8.1 Update before the firm's Windows Update would serve up today's mammoth patch slate.

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Google buys satellite company for Maps, Internet access
Google is signing a deal to buy Skybox Imaging, a California-based satellite company, for $500 million in cash.

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Most U.S. credit cards will have microchips by end of 2015
The long expected migration of the U.S. payment system to the Europay MasterCard Visa smartcard standard finally appears to be gathering steam.

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