Tuesday, July 1, 2014

IT News Head Lines (InfoWorld) 02/07/2014





Facebook's big problem: Ethical blindness
When you agreed to Facebook's terms and conditions, did you know you were agreeing to become a subject in a psychology experiment?

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New Docker-enabled Linux distro wants to rival Red Hat
CoreOS, a newly minted Linux distribution that uses Docker containers to manage both applications and the system as a whole, ha

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Oracle hopes to entice mobile developers with new framework
Oracle is hoping it can attract more developers with MAF (Mobile Application Framework), which aims to simplify the development of cross-platform enterprise apps for smartphones and tablets. As a result of the growing number of smartphones and tablets employees have, software vendors are increasingly focusing on how to make enterprise applications more mobile friendly. On Monday, Oracle announced updates to its Mobile Suite, which aims to do just that.

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Google terminates Quickoffice apps on Android, iOS
As Google last week introduced new features for its online and Android productivity apps, it also quietly announced that it has halted development on Quickoffice and would soon pull the free software from the Google Play and Apple App Store.

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Flash storage faces challenge from Crossbar's RRAM
The hunt for memory technology to replace NAND flash storage within the next 10 years is under way, and startup Crossbar is planning to bringing its version of RRAM (resistive random-access memory) technology to market next year. RRAM, a form of nonvolatile memory that is not available commercially yet, will be cheaper, smaller and more power-efficient than NAND flash, which is being used in solid-state drives and mobile flash drives, said Tanmay Kumar, vice president of device engineering at Crossbar.

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Facebook researcher defends controversial psychology experiment on users
A Facebook researcher behind a controversial psychology experiment on users has defended it, stating that the research aimed to investigate a common concern that seeing friends post positive content on the social networking website leads people to feel negative or left out.

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IT spending growth to be slower than expected in 2014, Gartner says
IT research firm Gartner has cut its forecast for global IT spending by about one-third for this year, blaming a tougher competitive environment and subsequent pressure on vendors to lower prices. Spending will rise 2.1 percent to $3.7 trillion in 2014, down from the 3.2 percent growth rate Gartner had predicted for 2014.

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How much is Hadoop worth? For Google, $80 million
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Oops! Surface Pro 3 firmware and driver update causing sluggish Wi-Fi


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Google Dart upgrade zooms in on mobile app dev
Although struggling against JavaScript, Google continues to plow forward with Dart, sprucing up the language with mobile development capabilities.

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