Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/microsofts-office-live-small-business-closes-today-192116
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Monday 30 April 2012
Microsoft's Office Live Small Business closes today
Microsoft is sticking to its plan to shut down its Office Live Small Business (OLSB) suite of cloud-based services on Monday, even though it seems many customers are either unaware of the deadline or are having difficulties migrating. Many OLSB customers are still posting questions and reporting problems related to the migration in discussion forums, social media sites and blogs, as the clock ticks.
Microsoft invests in new Barnes & Noble unit, settles litigation
Microsoft will invest $300 million in a new Barnes & Noble subsidiary, which will include the digital Nook and College businesses of Barnes & Noble, the companies said in joint statement on Monday. The formation of the new subsidiary and the relationship with Microsoft are important parts of Barnes & Noble's strategy to try to capitalize on the growth of the Nook business, it said.
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Thinking in a Foreign Language Makes Decisions More Rational
To judge a risk more clearly, it may help to consider it in a foreign language: A series of experiments on more than 300 people from the U.S. and Korea found that thinking in a second language reduced deep-seated, misleading biases that unduly influence how risks and benefits are perceived.
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/04/language-and-bias/
Bad stats sink cyber crime costs claims
If you follow computer security and have a good memory, you might remember a story from early 2009 that claimed cyber crime costs businesses as much as $1 trillion in just one year -- that's "trillion" with a "t." The version I saw was by Cnet writer Elinor Mills, whom I've always considered quite reliable. Somehow, her reporter's BS detector didn't go off, and she regurgitated that wild assertion by McAfee, a company that makes a living selling security products and services.
Firefox 12 Banishes the Endless Firefox Updates [Updated]
Out-of-date browsers are insecure, but constantly applying updates is annoying. The latest version of Firefox solves this dilemma by moving everything to the background where most users won't be bothered by it, making Firefox up-to-date, secure and less annoying.
Source: http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/04/firefox-12-banishes-the-endless-firefox-updates/
Q&A: A power user's view of SCCM 2012
Microsoft's System Center suite is getting a major overhaul this year, and it's now been released. Ronald Barrett, a technical architect at the Gotham Technology Group and Windows admin expert, is one of the early power users of the System Center Configuration Manager component. In this interview, he shares his experience in using SCCM 2012.
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Thinking in a Foreign Language Makes Decisions More Rational
To judge a risk more clearly, it may help to consider it in a foreign language: A series of experiments on more than 300 people from the U.S. and Korea found that thinking in a second language reduced deep-seated, misleading biases that unduly influence how risks and benefits are perceived.
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/04/language-and-bias/
Trust me, I'm a consultant
To customers looking to upgrade their technology, a piece of advice: It's OK to be cheap. But if you pay a consultant good money for their expertise, you'll save yourself time and aggravation in the long run by heeding their recommendations.
Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/it-jobs/trust-me-im-consultant-191072?source=rss_infoworld_blogs
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Sunday 29 April 2012
Now accepting applications for Internet Hall of Shame; inquire within
All the major professional and college sports have one. Rock and roll has one. Heck, even cowboys, robots, and burlesque performers have one (er, separately, not with each other). I'm talking of course about a hall of fame.
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The Borders We Create
Over at The Atlantic Cities, I have an article about a data visualization project of mine. Working with my collaborators, DeDe Paul of AT&T, Vincent Blondel of Belgium’s Université catholique de Louvain, and Dominik Dahlem of IBM, we set out to examine the complex borders that divide people, separate from all the geopolitical borders: When [...]
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/04/the-borders-we-create/
Godzilla’s Got Nothing on Live Monster Wrestling
Kaiju Big Battel is a conflict of epic proportions. Think Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah in the WWE with scaled-down papier-mâché buildings. It's so awesome.
Source: http://www.wired.com/playbook/2012/04/monster-wrestling/
Web Series Goes Inside the Drama of Eighth-Grade Elections
A new documentary series, The Council, premiers on the web today. It follows three eighth-graders through the hopes and challenges of their student council election. The filmmakers, Catherine Orr and Elena Rue, are also using the release of the first episode, out of three, to launch their promising new production company, StoryMineMedia.
Source: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/04/web-series-goes-inside-the-drama-of-eighth-grade-elections/
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Steer clear of these BYOD boondoggles
The carpetbaggers are coming! As most companies have now opened up their environments to mobile devices beyond the BlackBerry -- indeed, the BlackBerry is fast disappearing as the corporate mobile standard -- vendors, consultants, and some media outlets are preying on IT pros not sure how to deal with the heterogeneity of devices and users' insistence that IT not get in their way.
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Professional Mermaids Are Lost Treasure of Florida Park
The mermaids of Weeki Wachee Springs were one of Florida's main attractions in the '60s. Celebrities like Elvis would join nearly a million other visitors a year to take in their show. Today, while not as well-known as they used to be, the mermaids still perform.
Source: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/04/professional-mermaids-are-lost-treasure-of-florida-park/
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Justice Department Clears Google in Wi-Fi Sniffing Scandal
The Justice Department has cleared Google of wiretapping violations in connection to the company secretly intercepting Americans' data on unencrypted Wi-Fi routers for two years ending in 2010, Google said. The development means that at least three government agencies -- the FCC, Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department found Google committed no wrongdoing in the so-called Street View debacle.
Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/04/doj-google-streetview/
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Best practices for selecting storage services for big data
Disk storage is a lot like closet space -- you can never have enough. Nowhere is this truer than in the world of big data. The very name -- "big data" -- implies more data than a typical storage platform can handle. So where exactly does this leave the ever-vigilant CIO? With a multitude of decisions to make and very little information to go by.
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Saturday 28 April 2012
Oracle vs. Google: Who owns the Java APIs?
What if you owned the copyright on the French language? Or Swahili? That's essentially the claim Oracle is making when it says it owns the copyright to the Java language and its associated APIs. If Oracle gets its way, it could change software development forever.
The issue looks to be decided in the lawsuit between Oracle and Google, which began with testimony in a San Francisco courtroom this week. The trial is expected to last up to 10 weeks.
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Privacy abuses could kill cloud storage
Did you hear? Some employers are asking for your Facebook and Twitter passwords before they offer you employment. This issue caused so much of a stir that Maryland passed legislation to ban employers from such requests.
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Not doing these 8 things? Then you need a bigger budget
Every IT shop has its own way of doing things, but one thread ties them together: They all feel as though they have more work to do than can possibly be accomplished in the allotted time. Experts seem to think the economy is thawing out a bit, and some IT departments are starting to increase headcount, but in most cases staffing levels are just now starting to reach levels they should have hit years ago, falling short of current needs.
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The M Machine Builds iPad-Controlled Light Show From Scratch
Out near the piers in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood, electronic band The M Machine records and lives with other artists in a warehouse where 1980s rockers Journey used to practice. The band's latest project: A massive, glowing M that the band will use on tour to support new EP Metropolis Pt. 1. The sophisticated stage prop is a central character in the album's narrative and also in the band's iconography.
Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/04/m-machine-artist-collective/
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With Earthbound, CopperWire Creates a Soulful Sci-Fi Space Opera
Hip-hop moves beyond bling for a more planetary perspective in Earthbound, the latest record from soulful sci-fi trio CopperWire. The musical space opera's cosmological bounce is built to last for listeners who are as plugged into NASA and SETI as they are into Digable Planets and Sun Ra.
Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/04/copperwire-earthbound/
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Yammer to upgrade enterprise social networking software
Yammer will announce a series of enhancements to its enterprise social-networking software on Tuesday, including updates in areas such as search, groups and mobile, as well as expanded integration with third-party products, such as the Microsoft Dynamics enterprise applications.
A new Universal Search feature allows users to search through Yammer content from within pre-integrated third-party software, including Salesforce.com, SAP and Microsoft SharePoint. The new search function also comes with an API (application programming interface) for custom integrations.
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Evernote to offer idea- and note-capture tool for businesses
Evernote will launch a business program in the coming months, allowing administrators to better control security and data, company CEO Phil Libin said on Friday.
Evernote is a popular multiplatform tool for organizing notes and photographs with the aim, the company said, to "remember everything" and allow users to quickly search through their uploaded documents. The company had 20 million users last December and is now close to breaking the 30 million mark, adding about 100,000 users a day, Libin said in an interview during the Next Web conference in Amsterdam.
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Ex-Sun Boss Defends Google’s Right to Java on Android
Taking the stand during the ongoing court battle between Google and Oracle over the use of the Java programming language on Google's Android mobile operating system, Jonathan Schwartz -- the former CEO of Sun Microsystems, the creator of Java -- said that Java has always been free to use and that although Sun didn't necessarily like the way Android used Java, it had no intention of stopping it.
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/04/schwartz/
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Friday 27 April 2012
Why Mac users should care about Windows malware
A Sophos researcher stirred up the Mac masses this week when he reported that 20 percent of Mac computers carry Windows malware.
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G-Forces in a Looping Water Slide
Physicist Rhett Allain couldn't help himself. He had to analyze the forces of a crazy loop-de-loop water slide. See just how dangerous the forces get in Allain's latest Dot Physics blog post.
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/04/g-forces-in-a-looping-water-slide/
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Oracle upgrades standard Java, JavaFX
Oracle on Thursday is releasing updates to the standard edition of Java and the JavaFX rich client application platform, including the first delivery of the Java Development Kit and JavaFX Software Development Kit for Mac OS X. The latest enhancements for Java garbage collection and the Java Virtual Machine are featured as well.
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Storage software sales hit all-time record highs
The sales of storage software last year produced record revenues of more than $14 billion in 2011, according to market research firm IDC.
During the calendar fourth quarter of 2011, storage software sales increased 10.5 percent year over year to almost $3.8 billion. That made the quarter the biggest sales quarter on record and helped push the full year revenue total up 11.6 percent over 2010 to a record high of $14.16 billion.
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HTML5 Offers ‘Scoped’ CSS for Precision Styling
Developer builds of Google's Chrome web browser now support HTML5's 'scoped' attribute for targeting your styles on specific HTML elements. Scoped is a very useful, but potentially hazardous tool for web developers.
Source: http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/04/html5-offers-scoped-css-for-precision-styling/
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Privacy abuses could kill cloud storage
Did you hear? Some employers are asking for your Facebook and Twitter passwords before they offer you employment. This issue caused so much of a stir that Maryland passed legislation to ban employers from such requests.
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Best practices for selecting storage services for big data
Disk storage is a lot like closet space -- you can never have enough. Nowhere is this truer than in the world of big data. The very name -- "big data" -- implies more data than a typical storage platform can handle. So where exactly does this leave the ever-vigilant CIO? With a multitude of decisions to make and very little information to go by.
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Jet Stream Damages Country’s Highest Astronomical Observatory
Sometime after October, violent winds over Colorado’s Front Range blew the 15-year-old Myer-Womble Observatory’s dome to pieces.
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/04/jet-stream-observatory-damage/
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Thursday 26 April 2012
VMWare Source Code Leak Follows Alleged Hack of Chinese Defense Contractor
Source code belonging to VMWare has leaked to the internet after apparently being stolen by a hacker who claims to have obtained it from a Chinese firm's network.
Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/04/vmware-source-code-leaked/
Spoiler alert: Your TV will be hacked
Last week you may have read a headline that blared "100 million TVs will be Web-connected by 2016." Regular readers of this blog know I'm always on the lookout for new threats, so the question naturally arises: Will Internet TVs will be hacked as successfully as previous generations of digital devices?
Of course they will!
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Trust me, I'm a consultant
To customers looking to upgrade their technology, a piece of advice: It's OK to be cheap. But if you pay a consultant good money for their expertise, you'll save yourself time and aggravation in the long run by heeding their recommendations.
Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/it-jobs/trust-me-im-consultant-191072?source=rss_infoworld_blogs
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Professional Mermaids Are Lost Treasure of Florida Park
The mermaids of Weeki Wachee Springs were one of Florida's main attractions in the '60s. Celebrities like Elvis would join nearly a million other visitors a year to take in their show. Today, while not as well-known as they used to be, the mermaids still perform.
Source: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/04/professional-mermaids-are-lost-treasure-of-florida-park/
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How to run your business on four rack units
For the past eight months or so, I've been running a de facto virtualization test in the lab. I took a variety of lab boxes and internal servers, virtualized them on VMware vSphere 4.1, and ran them all on two physical servers. It may not seem impressive, but it indicates what's possible for small to medium-size corporate computing. And for those looking to consolidate, it's highly relevant.
Amazon offers cloud apps at hourly rates from IBM, SAP, others
Amazon Web Services on Thursday announced a new online marketplace that allows customers to buy software and services from a variety of vendors at hourly rates through its cloud infrastructure platform.
Commercial software vendors including IBM, Microsoft, SAP, and CA Technologies are offering products for sale on the site. A variety of open-source software is also available, including the Drupal content management system, SugarCRM and a number of application development stacks.
Google good; Apple and Facebook bad. Any questions?
This just in: Apple and Facebook are bad guys out to steal your precious Webbernet freedoms. Google? Just a cuddly widdle bear, waiting for a hug. Or so says Sergey Brin in an interview published yesterday in the U.K.'s Guardian.
Perhaps that is a wee bit of an oversimplification. What Brin really said was this:
Users: Oracle Exadata's speed comes at a price
Few Oracle products in recent years have received as much hype as the Exadata database machine, with the vendor attempting to use it as a standard-bearer for a series of appliances that combine its software with storage, networking equipment, and Sun servers.
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Wednesday 25 April 2012
New SkyDrive rivals Dropbox, mimics Megaupload
Just in time for the widely anticipated Google Drive, expected to launch today, Microsoft has released a http://www.infoworld.com/t/cloud-storage/new-skydrive-rivals-dropbox-and-mimics-megaupload-191653?source=rss_infoworld_blogs
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EMC gives Oracle admins backup control, deduplication
EMC today announced it has qualified its Data Domain Boost software for use with Oracle Recovery Manager, allowing data deduplication to take place on Oracle backup servers prior to crossing a storage network.
The Data Domain Boost software also allows Oracle database administrators to have direct control of backups and disaster recovery operations.
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4 things every storage admin should know
The evolution of tech is all about replacing manual tasks with automation, which enables you to perform tasks that were impossible or impractical before. You're suddenly freed from mind-numbing manual configuration -- only to face a fresh load of complexity, as you confront shiny new buttons to push.
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How to run your business on four rack units
For the past eight months or so, I've been running a de facto virtualization test in the lab. I took a variety of lab boxes and internal servers, virtualized them on VMware vSphere 4.1, and ran them all on two physical servers. It may not seem impressive, but it indicates what's possible for small to medium-size corporate computing. And for those looking to consolidate, it's highly relevant.
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NASA Needs New Plan to Avoid Contaminating Other Worlds
Space could be much more hospitable to life than anyone thought, but probes sent looking for it might transfer an Earth-based extremophile to the new world -- and ruin everything. A recent National Academies of Science report tasked with evaluating NASA's protocols found them lacking.
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/04/nasa-planetary-contamination/
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Review: SQL Server 2012 stands tall
As we've come to expect from new SQL Server releases, SQL Server 2012 has so many new features that it's impossible even to mention them all.
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SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott explains his five-market focus
If you think SAP equals ERP, Bill McDermott would like a few minutes to set you straight about the 2012 version of the software giant, which he claims is in the midst of "an intellectual renewal." McDermott has been co-CEO -- along with Jim Hagemann Snabe -- of SAP since 2010 and has helped broaden the company's strategy beyond traditional applications and analytics to the cloud, mobile, big data and a bet-the-business focus on real-time computing with the HANA in-memory database at the forefront.
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Tuesday 24 April 2012
There’s Nostalgia in the Waters of Lake.js
Remember the days of Java applets, reflecting "lake" image effects and "under construction" banners? A Javascript library replicating the lake effect from the days of Geocities serves as a reminder of just how far the web has come since then.
Source: http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/04/theres-nostalgia-in-the-waters-of-lake-js/
Perfect fit: The cloud and SOA -- but don't call it that
The phone rings. "We're looking for a path to cloud computing for our enterprise that will reduce risks and cost, but also raise our ability to be flexible and agile," the voice on the phone pleads.
"How about using SOA as an architectural pattern to drive the movement to cloud computing?" I respond.
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Motorcycle Club’s Attorney Scoffs at FBI Assessment
A lawyer representing an alleged crime syndicate is crying foul over a Federal Bureau of Investigation assessment that a motorcycle gang trademarked its patch to prevent infiltration by undercover officers.
Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/04/fbi-vagos-assesment/
Tech Billionaires Plan Audacious Mission to Mine Asteroids
A group of wealthy, adventurous entrepreneurs will announce on Apr. 24 a new venture called Planetary Resources, Inc., which plans to send swarms of robots to space to scout asteroids for precious metals and set up mines to bring resources back to Earth, in the process adding trillions of dollars to the global GDP, helping ensure humanity's prosperity and paving the way for the human settlement of space.
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/04/planetary-resources-asteroid-mining/
The Surprising Truth About Antarctic Biodiversity
The dry valleys of Antarctica have earned the reputation as the coldest, driest place on the planet. But astrobiologist and Extremo Files blogger explains how this chilly desert at the bottom of the world is host to a surprising array of life.
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/04/the-surprising-truth-about-antarctic-biodiversity/
Why Jakob Nielsen Is Wrong About Mobile Websites
Web usability guru Jakob Nielsen suggests developers should build separate websites for mobile devices. Here's why that's just plain wrong.
Source: http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/04/why-jakob-nielsen-is-wrong-about-mobile-websites/
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