Thursday, May 14, 2015

IT News Head Lines (TechWeb) 5/15/2015





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The Old BYTE Returns
BYTE is starting a new series, to bring back the issues you loved in print from 1975 to 1998. Initially we have the first two issues and four others from 1984, 1985 and 1986.

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4 Lessons From MongoHQ Data Breach
Security experts urge companies to implement two-factor authentication, VPNs, and graduated permission levels to better protect customer data from hackers.

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Microsoft May Encrypt All Server-To-Server Communications
Microsoft admits that it doesn't encrypt all server-to-server communications, opening the way for the NSA and others to access the data flow.

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Obamacare Website Suffers Few Hack Attacks
Affordable Care Act site has faced a relatively low volume of attacks, compared with other federal websites.

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Google Improves Gmail For iPad
Google's Gmail app for iPad and iPhone gets new features and iOS 7's design language.

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Amazon Adds PostgreSQL, Big C3 servers
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels announces PostgreSQL database service, new instance types, use of solid state disk to speed I/Os.

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APIs: Why You Need A Strategy Now
As software eclipses hardware, it's dawning on enterprises that they need API programs. Here's where to begin.

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Google Wins Book Scanning Case
Authors Guild's claim of copyright infringement gets shot down in a surprise ruling.

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IEEE, Continua Collaborate For Device Interoperability
The goal is allow home monitoring devices and mobile health apps communicate more easily healthcare providers.

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Google Now Update Improves Voice Commands
Google's personal assistant software gets upgraded to better manage owners' lives and understand natural language requests.

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Isis Launches Mobile Payments Venture
Android smartphones owners can now pay for goods and services by tapping their device to Isis terminals at 1.3 million locations nationwide.

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LinkedIn Adds Pulse For News
LinkedIn pushes customized content with the integration of news curation app Pulse for desktop and mobile versions.

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MacRumors Hacker Promises Stolen Passwords Are Safe
Hacker grabbed 860,000 passwords for fun, but promises not to leak or use them to harm people.

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Amazon Launches 'WorkSpaces' For Desktop Users
VMware wants to move into cloud computing? Guess what, Amazon's moving into desktop virtualization.

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Google Brings Portable Native Client To Chrome
Developers can now compile native C and C++ code to run in Chrome across different hardware architectures.

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Kelihos Botnet Thrives, Despite Takedowns
Fast flux infrastructure and Windows XP infections continue to keep the botnet alive.

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Motorola's Moto G Targets Emerging Markets
Motorola thinks the Moto G can win over smartphone buyers who want more performance at a lower price point.

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IBM To Buy Fiberlink For Mobile Management
IBM is set to expand its BYOD capabilities through a deal for Fiberlink, a cloud-based mobile-management and security services provider.

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Facebook Forces Some Users To Reset Passwords
Facebook is asking users whose passwords may have been exposed on other sites to change passwords to access the social website.

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Google Pushes Android KitKat To Nexus Tablets
Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 tablets will be upgraded to Android 4.4 KitKat in the coming days.

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Pivotal Launches Cloud App Development Platform
Pivotal One Platform, based on VMware's open source Cloud Foundry, comes with four application services on top.

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White House Unveils Big Data Projects, Round Two
White House announces dozens of new government-business-nonprofit collaborations to use big data for medical research, economics and more.

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Feds Praise Open Data Health Cloud Launch
Taking advantage of more-open data standards in other countries, MedRed BT Health Cloud will provide public access to 50 million de-identified UK records.

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NASA, Amazon Launch Earth Data Repository
NASA has uploaded terabytes of earth-science satellite data to Amazon Web Services, with more to come to aid researchers and developers.

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