Tuesday, October 22, 2013

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWorld) 10/23/2013





Despite bright, shiny rivals, good old Office still rules at work
In the office, people still prefer Microsoft Office.

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Yahoo to reinvent small-business services unit
Yahoo, in its crusade to reinvent itself, is adding another item to the agenda: revamping its small-business Web hosting unit.

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AT&T looks 28 years into the future of cell towers
What will you be doing over a mobile network in 28 years? Whatever it is, AT&T and cell-tower company Crown Castle want a piece of it.

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Google brings Maps to business owners with Maps Engine Pro
Google wants to turn business owners into cartographers with a new mapping tool designed to visualize their companies' data.

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Apple needs 22% of TV set market to stay on top
While the iPod, iPhone and MacBook catapulted Apple into the ranks of the Fortune 50, sales have leveled off somewhat and for the company to continue being a cash-generating machine, it will need new technologies -- a key one being an industry-changing flat-screen TV.

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Passing PCI firewall audits: Top 5 checks for ongoing success
If you are an information security professional whose organization handles credit card information, then unless you have been living under a rock since PCI DSS was first introduced in 2004, PCI compliance is a fact of life. Many love to bash the standard as the "low bar" for security, but when it comes to "Requirement 1: Install and maintain a firewall configuration to protect cardholder data," special attention to these five components (out of 21 outlined in Requirement 1), will a set a high, sustainable standard (yes&really!) for both security and PCI compliance.

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Healthcare.gov website 'didn't have a chance in hell'
A majority of large IT projects fail to meet deadlines, go over budgets and don't make their users happy. Such is the case with Healthcare.gov.

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Google closes in on mastering mobile
Google may be the Internet company getting closest to figuring out mobile -- with a slew of mobile YouTube users and increasing smartphone ad clicks -- but it still hasn't quite mastered it yet.

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BlackBerry Messenger relaunches for Android, iPhone after month delay
Nearly a month after problems delayed release of its BlackBerry Messenger apps for iPhone and Android, BlackBerry said it had relaunched the app on Monday.

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IBM's do-it-yourself kit makes Internet of things accessible
IBM and hardware partner Libelium hope to cut through the complexities of the so-called "Internet of things" through a do-it-yourself kit allowing users to test and deploy sensor networks.

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