Sunday, August 24, 2014

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWorld) 8/25/2014





How to understand Twitter's bad new direction
Twitter this week made two small changes that indicate a big shift in direction for everybody's favorite microblogging service

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Amazon building ad system to compete with Google's
Amazon plans to expand its small online ad delivery business enough to take on Google's AdWords, according to The Wall Street Journal.

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US warns 'significant number' of major businesses hit by Backoff malware
More than 1,000 major enterprise networks and small and medium businesses in the U.S. have been compromised by a recently discovered malware package called "Backoff" and are probably unaware of it, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a cybersecurity alert on Friday.

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Google acquires Gecko Design for next-gen products
Google has acquired Gecko Design, which will become part of the Internet company's unit developing cutting-edge products like Glass and balloons for Internet access.

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Oregon sues Oracle over troubled health insurance website
Oregon has filed a long-expected lawsuit against Oracle over its role developing the state's troubled health insurance exchange website.

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Trade-in volume signals 'tremendous' sales for iPhone 6
Early sales of Apple's iPhone 6 will likely be 'tremendous,' buyback vendors said today, basing their predictions on recent activity by consumers locking in prices for their old smartphones.

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SAP takes steps to simplify pricing and licensing
It took some time and considerable internal effort, but SAP says it has made good on a pledge to simplify its software pricing and licensing model.

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Cyborg moths could act like living drones in search and rescue
By electronically manipulating the flight muscles of moths, scientists are one step closer to creating biobots that could fly over a disaster area and spot survivors or hazards.

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Inexpensive Windows PCs hit the market with help from Microsoft
Microsoft is helping hardware makers build low-priced Windows PCs to combat Chromebooks, and the early results of that effort are hitting the market.

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Study disputes predictions of coming spectrum crunch
Widely accepted projections of a shortage of mobile spectrum may not be as dire as many analysts in the mobile and tech sectors are making it out to be, according to a new study.

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