Wednesday, August 13, 2014

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWorld) 8/14/2014





Oracle's Sparc M7 chip to supercharge in-memory computing
Oracle has given the first peek at its upcoming Sparc M7 processor, promising big performance gains for customers who use the in-memory compute features of its 12C database.

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Rivalry between Uber and Lyft gets ugly
Two of the hottest startups for requesting rides from your smartphone are accusing each other of dirty tricks.

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Google packs Classroom off to school
Just in time for the new school year, Google has launched a tool called Classroom that aims to make teachers' harried lives a little easier.

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Microsoft to speed up Bing with FPGAs next year
It started off as an experiment, but Microsoft now wants to speed up and return more accurate Bing search results with the help of reconfigurable chips called FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays) in data centers.

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Google tightens Gmail spam filtering
Google is boosting Gmail's ability to detect and block malicious emails from spammers and scammers that exploit similarities among Unicode characters to dupe users into clicking on bad links.

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Microsoft's Patch Tuesday updates focus on Internet Explorer
Microsoft has issued 29 patches for its Internet Explorer browser, including one fixing a critical vulnerability that would allow a remote attacker to gain access to a computer from over the Internet.

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Mac sales so far in '14 may signal share push
The Mac is poised to break Apple's annual sales record this year, according to an analysis of past sales trends as well as Wall Street projections.

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Accused Obamacare spammer settles FTC charges, will pay $350K
A company accused of sending unsolicited and deceptive email before the roll out of the U.S. Affordable Care Act will pay US$350,000 to settle a complaint from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

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White House's new IT engineer is sharp, witty, and blunt
If the White House learned one thing from the Healthcare.gov debacle, it was that the government needs clear-thinking people who can see a problem for what it is. Mikey Dickerson may just be that person.

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