Tuesday, June 24, 2014

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWorld) 25/06/2014





Hadoop analysis now tackling IoT to improve transit
For the Internet of Things, collecting data is only half the battle, and public transit agencies know that as well as anyone.

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AskMen.com website redirects to Caphaw malware, WebSense says
AskMen.com, a popular website with millions of monthly visitors, was redirecting visitors to other domains that delivered the Caphaw malware, according to security vendor WebSense.

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Experimental 36-core chip spurs speed test at MIT
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a 36-core processor in an effort to find new ways to eke more performance out of chips.

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Microsoft Lync service out for some North America customers
Some North American Office 365 customers are without Lync service this afternoon due to an unexplained outage that started about 7a.m., Eastern time.

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New software targets hard-to-understand privacy policies
Have you ever tried to read a website's privacy policy only to give up after slogging through paragraphs and paragraphs of dense, lawyerly language? Privacy-focused companies Disconnect and TRUSTe have released a new browser add-on that attempts to translate those policies into easy-to-understand terms.

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Microsoft wants MacBook Air owners to trade up to a Surface Pro by trading in
Microsoft has launched a buyback program to try to get MacBook Air owners to part with their laptops and replace them with new Surface Pro 3 devices.

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Oracle says Oregon governor spiked Obamacare site for political reasons
The battle between Oracle and Oregon officials over the state's Cover Oregon health insurance exchange site is raging on, with the vendor now claiming the exchange was functional in February, but Governor John Kitzhaber decided to dump it for political reasons.

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Yahoo launches Aviate app for a 'smarter' Android home screen
Yahoo has released an Android personalization app that could give the company a stronger foothold in mobile contextual search.

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ISC: Cray makes Lustre palatable for storage administrators
Supercomputer vendor Cray is trying to make the Lustre file system easier to work with, allowing users to copy material from the file system into a multilayered storage archiving system.

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Could robots walk on stage at Google I/O?
Will Google CEO Larry Page walk out with a 330-lb. robot when he takes the stage this week at Google I/O, his company's developers conference? With Google's purchase of eight robotics companies, it could happen.

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