Saturday, August 16, 2014

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWorld) 8/16/2014





Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Patent trolls under attack, but not dead yet
The patent wars keep going and going and we keep paying and paying.

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Microsoft: Give IE another chance
In a wide-ranging "Ask Me Anything" chat on Reddit, developers and program managers from the Microsoft Internet Explorer team urged users to give the browser another chance.

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Rimini Street downplays impact of adverse ruling in Oracle lawsuit
Rimini Street has put on a brave face following a federal judge's determination that it stole Oracle's intellectual property in the course of providing software support to its customers.

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Grocery stores in multiple states hit by data breach
A data breach at Supervalu Inc., one of the largest grocery wholesalers and retailers in the U.S., could affect thousands of people who shopped at the company's stores in June and July.

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What failure looks like in Microsoft's cloud-first world
Continuous delivery, company-wide hackathons, growth hacking, features driven by user feedback through sites like user voice: The new face of Microsoft is all about moving faster and being more responsive. Moving faster can also mean things breaking. But failure, and what you do when things go wrong, look rather different in a cloud-first mobile-first world.

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Sprint plans price cuts and eventual layoffs, new CEO tells workers
Sprint's new CEO Marcelo Claure addressed employees for the first time Thursday and promised price reductions as soon as next week, according to a report.

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Heartbleed software flaw exposes weaknesses in hardware design
Heartbleed may have been a software bug, but it highlighted glaring weaknesses in existing hardware architectures, which remain vulnerable to memory-bound attacks, a university researcher said this week.

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Liberty Reserve official pleads guilty to money laundering
An official with Liberty Reserve, a popular digital currency service that was based in Costa Rica, has pleaded guilty to money laundering and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business.

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6 Things to Know About Choosing a New IT Vendor
We tend to approach new vendors based on the products they sell and choose vendors largely based on what we believe the products do. Unfortunately, this leads us to buy solutions that we often never fully deploy or that often fail to meet our expectations. What's more, we rarely conduct a causal analysis of the problems.

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