Source: http://www.wired.com/playbook/2012/08/lance-armstrong-doping-allegations/
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Friday, 31 August 2012
How Armstrong Could ‘Get Away With Stuff With Everybody Looking’
How a man who passed (almost) every drug test could be labeled a drug cheater and stripped of seven Tour de France titles.
Ryan Gosling Set to Direct Underwater Sci-Fi Flick How to Catch a Monster
They only spent a few on-screen minutes together during last year's bloody heist film Drive, but geek heartthrob Ryan Gosling evidently got a good vibe going with Christina Hendricks: He's picked the Mad Men bombshell to star in his directorial debut, a sci-fi fantasy called How to Catch a Monster.
Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/08/how-to-catch-a-monster/
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Worried you'll be forced to buy Windows 8? Relax!
I've heard from several people who are concerned they won't be able to find new PCs with Windows 7 this holiday season.
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Wave good-bye to VMware's unloved vSphere vRAM 'vTax'
After what may be considered a failed, year-long licensing experiment, EMC VMware is ready to tear down a virtual wall it created for itself with the institution of a new licensing model introduced with VMware vSphere 5.0 in July 2011.
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Parallels launches Desktop 8 for Mac
Parallels on Thursday announced the launch of Parallels Desktop 8 for Mac, the latest generation of its applications that lets users run Windows on Mac computers.
Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/virtualization/parallels-launches-desktop-8-mac-201352
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Researchers Hack Brainwaves to Reveal PINs, Other Personal Data
Don’t you dare even think about your banking account password when you slap on those fancy new brainwave headsets. Or at least that seems to be the lesson of a new study which found that sensitive personal information, such as PIN numbers and credit card data, can be gleaned from the brainwave data of users wearing popular consumer-grade EEG headsets.
Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/08/brainwave-hacking/
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Veeam eases SAN snapshot restoration
In the lead-up to EMC VMware's closely followed VMworld conference, many infrastructure vendors are taking advantage of the spotlight to roll out their latest goods. One such announcement from Veeam caught my eye: It will show a new capability called Veeam Explorer for Snapshots that will be released with Veeam Backup and Replication 6.5, due by 2013.
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Twitter's fake followers: Influence for sale
Mine is bigger than yours -- my Klout rating, that is. Yeah, it's pretty juvenile, but social media is turning into an adolescent measuring contest as the number of friends, followers, and tweets becomes a new digital status symbol. It shouldn't be a surprise then that the most popular measure of clout (and Klout) -- followers on Twitter -- is for sale. And it's not even that expensive.
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Thursday, 30 August 2012
Adobe releases six critical patches for Flash, AIR
Adobe Systems released fixes on Tuesday for six critical vulnerabilities affecting its Flash multimedia application and AIR runtime, five of which could allow for remote code execution on a system.
The updates affect Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Google Chrome, and users of Android 2.x, 3.x and 4.x devices, Adobe said in its advisory.
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Observation Deck: What Happens When Cars Start Talking to Each Other?
The cars: They will drive themselves, and they'll talk to each other, too. What will that look like on the highway?
Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/08/observation-deck-cars/
Does Samsung's Book Case beat the iPad's Smart Cover?
The Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 released today is a slick tablet, one that competes strongly with Apple's iPad.
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Observation Deck: What Happens When Cars Start Talking to Each Other?
The cars: They will drive themselves, and they'll talk to each other, too. What will that look like on the highway?
Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/08/observation-deck-cars/
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AT&T to customers: Net neutrality is whatever we say it is
It appears that, like the pigs in Orwell's "Animal Farm," some AT&T customers are more equal than others.
Today's complaint? AT&T is allowing some of its iPhone-wielding customers to use Apple's FaceTime video chat over its wireless voice network, but not others. Specifically, users of newer shared data plans can FaceTime to their heart and wallet's content via the cellular network, while those on older and cheaper data plans are forced to remain in a Wi-Fi ghetto when FaceTiming with their iPhone and iPad buddies.
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VMware Horizon Suite brings virtual desktop into post-PC era
At VMworld today, VMware offered a peek at its forthcoming VMware Horizon Suite, a technology bundle designed to provide mobile users secure, consistent, 24/7 access to their desktop, applications, and data from any device.
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Windows 7 forever! Why Windows 7 is the next XP
We love Windows 7: That's the message loud and clear from people this week at the TechMentor Conference held at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Wash. With Windows XP reaching end of life for support in April 2014, the plan for most organizations is to upgrade -- to Windows 7.
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Landmark California Location-Privacy Bill Nears Governor’s Desk
California lawmakers have approved legislation that would require the state's authorities to obtain a probable-cause warrant signed by a judge to obtain any location information from an electronic device -- from tablets and mobile phones to laptops. The measure, however, faces an uncertain fate before Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat who last year vetoed legislation demanding a court warrant for cops to seize cell phones from anybody arrested.
Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/08/california-locational-privacy/
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Wednesday, 29 August 2012
Apple v. Samsung and the broken patent system
Everyone has an opinion about the verdict in the Samsung-Apple case, including InfoWorld's Galen Gruman and Robert X. Cringley.
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Astronomers Discover Millions of New Black Holes and a Rare Type of Galaxy
NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Telescope (WISE) has uncovered millions of supermassive black holes in our universe as well as a strange new type of galaxy, called hot DOGs, or dust-obscured galaxies.
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/millions-of-black-holes/
Firefox for Android Goes Tablet-Native
Mozilla has released a new, speedier version of Firefox for Android phones and tablets.
Source: http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/08/firefox-for-android-goes-tablet-native/
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HP aims three-part effort at network virtualization
Hewlett-Packard is readying three new software capabilities that are designed to help enterprises pool their computing and storage resources across a network.
The advances should make it easier for IT departments to link data centers spread around the world, shield multiple tenants' virtual machines from each other, and control storage from virtualized appliances.
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EMC rolls out Symmetrix disk library for mainframes
EMC Monday unveiled a high-capacity mainframe disk archive based on its flagship VMAX Symmetrix storage array.
The new DLm8000 Disk Library follows three earlier versions of "disk libraries" or disk archive arrays -- the DLm1000, DLm2000, and DLm6000. The earlier disk libraries were built using either EMC's Data Domain virtual tape library or its midrange VNX storage array.
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Twitter acquires intellectual property from iOS app testing firm
Twitter has acquired intellectual property from app testing firm Clutch.io and its team is joining the social networking company, it said on Monday.
It did not disclose the terms of the deal, nor is it clear whether Twitter acquired the company. A Twitter spokesman said he could only confirm that the Clutch.io team has joined Twitter and it had acquired their IP.
Prepare for the era of the data center in a box
While several of the largest storage vendors, such as EMC, Hewlett-Packard and NetApp, have entered into agreements with server, software and networking vendors to offer bundled products, purpose-built products are just beginning to emerge.
For example, last year startup Nutanix unveiled a virtualized server that is clustered together with solid-state and hard drive storage, all of which can be managed under a single console view.
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Salesforce Communities mixes business with social
Salesforce.com today revealed Salesforce Communities, a platform that lets companies create social networks with Facebook-esque features for employees to engage with customers, business partners, and one another.
Tuesday, 28 August 2012
Review: Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 shines bright
For years we've been reading about the alleged iPad killer, a mythical device that never arrives. There have been impressive Android tablets in recent months, but on the whole, it's been clear to everyone but the most ardent Android fanboy that Apple's iPad is the superior tablet in almost every way.
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Splunk Storm brings log management to the cloud
Splunk announced today the general availability of Splunk Storm, a cloud-based version of the company's log-management software aimed at helping companies more easily monitor, diagnose, and troubleshoot complex cloud-based applications running an array
Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/managed-services/splunk-storm-brings-log-management-the-cloud-201098
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Salesforce.com to debut Work.com at Dreamforce
Salesforce.com is planning to up its stake in human resources software with the unveiling of a new service called Work.com next month during the Dreamforce event in San Francisco.
The news first emerged in a Bloomberg profile of the company published on Thursday. A Salesforce.com spokeswoman confirmed the story's accuracy but declined to provide additional details.
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LG launches LTE smartphone with quad-core processor
LG Electronics has launched an LTE smartphone with a quad-core processor, the Optimus G, which it hopes will set it apart from the competition as the smartphone market starts to ramp up for the holiday season. The next month will see plenty of competition, with the expected launch of a new iPhone, Nokia's first Windows Phone 8-based smartphones, and the successor to Samsung Electronics' Galaxy Note.
Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobile-technology/lg-launches-lte-smartphone-quad-core-processor-201125
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Video: How Copper Takes Us Back in Time to a Gritty New York City
BBC America's Copper is a nasty crime drama set in a nasty time -- 1864 in New York City's rough-and-tumble Five Points neighborhood -- and that grittiness suits the show's star just fine. In this Wired video, we talk to Tom Weston-Jones about his starring role as detective Kevin Corcoran.
Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/08/copper-tom-weston-jones/
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Google builds stronger Flash sandbox in Chrome
Google today announced it had wrapped up work on a stronger Flash sandbox in the Windows version of Chrome, and would soon ship the same for its OS X browser.
Chrome 21, which launched July 31, completed efforts to ditch the aged NPAPI (Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface) Flash plug-in for one built to Google's own PPAPI (Pepper Plugin Application Programming Interface) standard.
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How Microsoft was forced to open Office
In a blog post earlier this week, Microsoft's manager for Office standards Jim Thatcher described upcoming changes to Office:
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Microsoft Office 2013 embraces Web development
With the upcoming release of Microsoft Office 2013, Microsoft is encouraging developers and administrators to use open Web technologies like JavaScript, CSS, and HTML to build their add-on apps.
Microsoft wanted to "modernize the way the platform is accessed by developers," said Richard Riley, a Microsoft director in the Office division. "We have made some of the most significant changes on the developer side of Office in the last 15 years."
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Monday, 27 August 2012
Armstrong Throws in the Towel, Loses Titles to Doping Allegations
One of the most celebrated cyclists in history finally ends a war of attrition with doping police, who on Friday vacated every race he'd ever ridden.
Source: http://www.wired.com/playbook/2012/08/lance-armstrong/
The odds are your next PC will be an iPad
I'm a big fan of the iPad, for both personal enjoyment and work use. Though I can do a lot with it, I still need a PC (in my case, a Mac) for heavy-duty jobs or simply to command multiple screens as I multitask and move data among apps and services. So I was surprised this last week by how many people asked me if an iPad could be their next PC, as they contemplated not adopting Windows 8 when their current (usually Windows 7) PCs got too old.
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Most firms have no big data plans
A majority high-level IT managers and data storage professionals have no plans to deploy big data analytics, according to a new data storage survey by market research firm TheInfoPro.
Fifty-six percent of respondents indicated they will not be deploying big data analytics applications even beyond 2013, the survey of 255 IT professionals found. Half of those surveyed were data storage professionals at the analyst level; the other half comprised IT mangers, vice presidents and CIOs.
Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/storage/most-firms-have-no-big-data-plans-198997?source=rss_storage
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America’s Cup Brings Beautiful Big Cats to the Bay
The America’s Cup has come to San Francisco … a year early. The race for the Cup starts next summer, but the America’s Cup World Series -- essentially a dress rehearsal -- is on now, and it’s awesome.
Source: http://www.wired.com/playbook/2012/08/americas-cup-world-series/
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David Cronenberg’s Novel Mantra for Cosmopolis? ‘Let It Express Itself’
A vampire capitalist haunts New York in the film adaptation of Cosmopolis, Don DeLillo's sci-finance novel that focuses on a Wall Street billionaire named Eric Packer who trades, converses, theorizes, kills and screws his way through New York in a single day. Cronenberg talks about bringing the movie to the screen.
Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/08/cosmopolis-cronenberg-delillo/
Mozilla sets end of Firefox for OS X Leopard
Mozilla will drop support for Apple's OS X 10.5, or Leopard, after it ships Firefox 16 in October, according to company developers.
"We are not planning to support Mac OS X 10.5 with Firefox 17," said Josh Aas, who works on the Firefox platform group, in a message last month on Bugzilla. "The builds will fail to run on anything less than Mac OS X 10.6."
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July 11, 1975: Unearthing Qin Shi Huang’s Terra-Cotta Army
Archeologists excavate a magnificent army of life-size statues, exact in detail and assembled to protect China's powerful emperor.
Source: http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2012/07/july-11-1975-unearthing-qin-shi-huangs-terra-cotta-army/
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Sunday, 26 August 2012
Windows 8: Yes, it's that bad, part 2
I'm overwhelmed by the quantity and quality of comments attached to my InfoWorld Test Center review of Windows 8.
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Review: HP Virtual SAN Appliance teaches dumb storage new tricks
Since Hewlett-Packard acquired LeftHand Networks in 2008, it has continued to develop LeftHand's complete line of software-based iSCSI storage under the HP LeftHand P4000-series moniker. Based on the feature-rich SAN/iQ 9.5 software platform, the currently available P4000 G2 series includes a range of different physical form factors based on HP's ProLiant server line, as well as the virtualized P4000 VSA (Virtual SAN Appliance), which runs on VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V.
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Mozilla sets end of Firefox for OS X Leopard
Mozilla will drop support for Apple's OS X 10.5, or Leopard, after it ships Firefox 16 in October, according to company developers.
"We are not planning to support Mac OS X 10.5 with Firefox 17," said Josh Aas, who works on the Firefox platform group, in a message last month on Bugzilla. "The builds will fail to run on anything less than Mac OS X 10.6."
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When to cut bait on old IT
If there's one constant to working in this business, it's that nothing stays the same. On the bright side, new solutions arrive on an almost daily basis -- but not all change is positive. If it hasn't happened to you already, chances are good that someday soon a solution you've depended upon for years will suddenly fail to keep up its end of the bargain.
Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-explosion/when-cut-bait-old-it-199850?source=rss_infoworld_blogs
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Review: Google Compute Engine rocks the cloud
You're sitting around. You have some computing to do. Ten years ago, you would ask your boss to buy a rack or two of computers to churn through the data. Today, you just call up the cloud and rent the systems by the minute. This is the market that Google is now chasing by packaging up time on its racks of machines and calling it the Google Compute Engine.
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Superman and Wonder Woman: DC Comics’ New Power Couple
Superman and Wonder Woman share a supersmooch on the cover of Justice League No. 12. The upcoming issue will cement the superheroes’ relationship after a mysterious event pushes the two immortals to “seek solace” in each other, according to Entertainment Weekly. “This is the new status quo,” Geoff Johns, DC’s chief creative officer, told EW, [...]
Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/08/superman-wonder-woman/
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July 10, 1962: Swedes Set to Belt Us All … Safely
Swedish engineer Nils Bohlin receives a U.S. patent for the three-point, lap-and-shoulder, vehicle safety belt.
Source: http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2012/07/july-10-1962-swedes-set-to-belt-us-all-safely/
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'Shadow IT' can be the cloud's best friend
"Shadow IT" -- where users acquire and manage IT resources outside the control of corporate IT -- is the bane of many IT organizations. We've seen numerous instances of this over the years, including the use of PCs, the Web, the iPhone, and now cloud computing resources without a formal policy and support from corporate IT.
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Saturday, 25 August 2012
South Korean Weapon Expos Are Fun for the Whole Family
Young girls with fingers on machine-gun triggers, old ladies staring down rifle scopes and crowds enraptured by simulated firefights. These are strange scenes for many Western eyes, but for a country like South Korea that's spent its whole existence in a state of military high alert, they are commonplace.
Source: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/08/suntag-noh/
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Terry Brooks’ Strange Tales Aren’t Limited to the Realm of Shannara
In his 35-year writing career, novelist Terry Brooks has written 23 New York Times bestsellers and seen a lot of strange things -- even for somebody who's filled out his epic fantasy stories with warlocks, elves and magic trees.
Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/08/geeks-guide-terry-brooks/
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Diseases, Cities And The Coming Crowded Future
I’ve been away on assignment, and while I was gone, wow: Suddenly a ton of public important public health news. While I catch up, a quick placeholder, on the importance of cities to the spread of disease. Recently I was in Dublin, where I gave a talk at the Science Gallery as part of their [...]
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/diseases-cities-crowds/
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The Arting Life: Topographic Light Painting Maps Rooms and People in 3-D
For years Janne Parviainen worked as a painter, happy with two-dimensions, until he came across light painting photography. He realized the technique could bring out that third, illusive dimension of depth in a way paint and canvas could not.
Source: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/08/topographic-light-painting/
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AT&T’s App-Blocking Defense Is Weak and Anti-Consumer
AT&T says it's okay to block FaceTime over 3G and 4G because the app comes installed by default. Free Press' research director S. Derek Scott calls that argument laughable and a plain attempt to undermine net neutrality.
Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/08/att-facetime/
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Pro-Israel hacker tells how he brought down dozens of Iranian sites
A hacker going by the name You-r!-k@n claims to have hacked, defaced, and then deleted 91 Iranian websites belonging to various government agencies, educational institutions, and businesses in the name of protesting the Iranian government for "supporting terrorism and developing nuclear weapons to destroy Israel."
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Tech Law: Java Judge Orders Google to Recheck Drawers for Sock Puppets
Try again. That's what a San Francisco judge ordered Google to do on Monday, just three days after Google's lawyers told him the company hadn't paid anyone to blog about the company's contentious legal battle with Oracle over the Java programming language.
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/08/try-again/
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Android becomes the latest platform to drop Flash support
As of today, Adobe's Flash media infrastructure is no longer supported on the Android mobile platform, marking a further shift of momentum toward the alternative HTML5 standard.
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Friday, 24 August 2012
Deploying to a public cloud? Deal with data integration first
If your organization has moved past all the excuses to use the public cloud, congratulations! But did you think through your data-integration strategy before deployment? If not, you'll find it difficult to maintain your corporate data in a public cloud.
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Blue Sky Project Will Use Drones to Deliver 3-D Portraits
A nonprofit called ReAllocate is developing an art project — called Blue Sky — for Burning Man that will scan people and 3-D-print a model of them before delivering it by drone using GPS tracking.
Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/08/blue-sky-reallocate/
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Bring better search to SharePoint
You've overcome your concerns about dropping all your files into SQL. SharePoint is now your primary means of collaboration in your organization. You've invested a tremendous amount of time and money to connect your employees and their data to improve workflow. If only SharePoint's search capabilities were better. If only users weren't spending so much time searching for relevant data or the appropriate personnel in the company. If only users weren't re-creating data they already have "somewhere."
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How a bad buyout killed a good company
A satisfying IT job that directly contributes to a company's growth is certainly one to hold onto. But all too often business decisions beyond IT's control can kill a good organization and drive off faithful employees. I witnessed a maddening example of this tragedy early in my career, when I was hired to help a small computer firm expand its PC business.
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Behind the headlines: What next-gen IT really needs to know
These days, the business and IT trade press seems to be missing some basic and obvious questions. From the Microsoft Surface to Yahoo to cloud break-ins to the ongoing demise of the personal computer, tech news or analysis has been leaving a lot of fundamental stones unturned.
Some of the currents and concerns behind these stories are integral to the changing face of IT, so missing key questions does you a disservice. To that end, here are the missing questions and how they're relevant to next-generation IT (except for a few that aren't, but annoyed me too much to ignore).
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‘Uncertain Rainbow’: Twitter Sans Ego
Imagine Twitter without usernames or even avatars. That's precisely what Uncertain Rainbow offers, your timeline reduced to "just colors, words and uncertainty."
Source: http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/08/uncertain-rainbow-strips-the-ego-from-twitter/
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The Arting Life: Early 1900s Postcards Show Off Primitive ‘Photoshopping’ Skills
Before Photoshop, cruder photo manipulation techniques were used to bend viewers' realities, like multiple exposure, forced perspective, combination printing, overpainting, and retouching negatives and prints.
Source: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/08/primitive-photoshop-postcards/
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Video: Making Wildfire, Dragons and Direwolves for Game of Thrones
Those cute little dragons on Daenerys Targaryen's shoulder proved to be some of the trickiest special effects on Game of Thrones yet.
Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/08/game-of-thrones-vfx/
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Thursday, 23 August 2012
Microsoft revamps Skydrive cloud storage service
Microsoft has given a makeover to its SkyDrive cloud storage service, including a new Web interface, as well as improvements to its desktop applications and developer API, the company announced on Tuesday.
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Amazon Glacier: Back Up All Your Data for Pennies a Month
Amazon's new Glacier web service is a dirt-cheap way to back up data you don't need to get to very often. What's more, the service claims it will store your data for centuries, quite possibly keeping it around longer than actual glaciers.
Source: http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/08/amazon-glacier-backup-all-your-data-for-pennies-a-month/
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Chip sales falter in Q2 as weak market looms, IHS iSuppli says
Weak economies in the U.S. and Europe together with a slowdown in manufacturing in China hurt semiconductor sales during the second quarter this year, and the market will deteriorate further in the coming quarters as issues continue to plague chip suppliers, IHS iSuppli said in research released on Thursday.
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HP reports $8.9B Q3 loss on writedowns, weak sales, lowers full-year forecast
Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday announced a $8.9 billion loss for its third quarter ended July 31 due to writedowns and weak hardware sales and also said full-year results would be at the low end of its previous guidance. Earlier this month, HP said it would take an $8 billion "impairment of goodwill" writedown against its services division. "Goodwill" refers to less tangible assets, such as brand strength, that are considered when figuring out a company's total value. HP's $13.9 billion acquisition of services provider EDS has been roundly criticized as too costly.
HotLink extends virtualization heterogeneous management to Amazon EC2, CloudStack
HotLink, a server virtualization management startup that came out of stealth mode a year ago at VMworld 2011, is on a mission to transform real-world IT with the industry's first true heterogeneous data center system management platform for virtual, cloud, and physical computing infrastructures.
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Unless They’re Zombies, Fossils Don’t Live
I hate the phrase “living fossil.” The term should be eradicated from the vocabulary of science writers, and anyone who employs it should be promptly encased in Carbonite. “Missing link” is the only slogan that pisses me off more. My acute allergic reaction to the idiom may be a little overwrought, I admit. But, to [...]
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/a-rant-about-living-fossils/
Review: 6 AirPrint solutions for iPhones and iPads
It's amazing how much you can do digitally these days. More and more, documents stay digital, moving from person to person over email, file shares, and cloud storage, never to see a sheet of paper.
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New video compression technology will cut bandwidth use in half, says Ericsson
HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) will revolutionize delivery of TV services to all types of devices including smartphones and tablets, according to Ericsson, which will launch what it says will be the first live TV encoder compatible with the technology at the IBC trade show next month. The compression technology promises to reduce the bandwidth requirements for video delivery by over 50 percent compared to the best H.264/MPEG-4 AVC implementations, according to Ericsson.
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Wednesday, 22 August 2012
Superman and Wonder Woman: DC Comics’ New Power Couple
Superman and Wonder Woman share a supersmooch on the cover of Justice League No. 12. The upcoming issue will cement the superheroes’ relationship after a mysterious event pushes the two immortals to “seek solace” in each other, according to Entertainment Weekly. “This is the new status quo,” Geoff Johns, DC’s chief creative officer, told EW, [...]
Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/08/superman-wonder-woman/
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Rackspace boosts cloud offerings with monitoring service
Rackspace has released Cloud Monitoring, which includes an API designed to give users flexibility in monitoring websites and Web applications that run on a variety of platforms, the company said on Wednesday. Cloud Monitoring is based on the technology from Cloudkick, a company Rackspace acquired in 2010. Since then the Cloudkick team has been working to incorporate its monitoring system into Rackspace's product portfolio, according to John Engates, CTO at Rackspace.
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Robo-Pitcher Throwing in Detroit Has 100 MPH Fastball
As much as we love baseball, the coolest thing about tonight's game between the Detroit Tigers and the Toronto Blue Jays won't be the action on the field at Comerica Park, but the robot throwing the first pitch.
Source: http://www.wired.com/playbook/2012/08/cy-ber-young-baseball-robot/
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Lenovo and EMC join forces on storage, servers
Lenovo and EMC will team up to develop and sell server and storage technology, with an eye to the Chinese market, the companies said on Wednesday.
The partnership will improve Lenovo's standing in the server and storage space, while giving EMC greater access to China and other high-growth markets, the companies said in a statement.
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Observation Deck: Books, Artifacts and Sending Information Across Time
Books aren't books anymore. Or rather, they're more and less than they used to be, because now they come as bits or as atoms. They still have the information inside them, but now you can buy that information essentially separate from the container.
Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/08/observation-deck-books/
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From England to Ecuador: Assange's excellent adventure
We are all Ecuadorians now. Or maybe just Tralfamadorians.
After months of hiding out in Ecuador's London embassy, eating empanadas and learning how to play the rondador, Julian Assange has officially been granted asylum in his newfound home of Ecuador.
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Finding the Sources of Epidemics
Given only sparse information about a disease's wild spread, can its source be pinpointed? Mathematician and Social Dimension blogger Samuel Arbesman describes new, network-focused work that suggests the answer is "yes."
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/finding-the-sources-of-epidemics/
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Does Samsung's Book Case beat the iPad's Smart Cover?
The Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 released today is a slick tablet, one that competes strongly with Apple's iPad.
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Tuesday, 21 August 2012
Eruption Update for August 21, 2012: Cleveland, Tungurahua and More
It is that time of year again – the summer is ending and classes begin within a week. Now, I am on leave for the fall, but that doesn’t mean the pace of things isn’t picking up. I spent the end of last week blasting zircons with a laser up at Michigan State in order [...]
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/eruption-update-for-august-21-2012/
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July 23, 1962: Telstar Provides First-Ever TV Link Between U.S., Europe
President Kennedy is scheduled to be the first image beamed across the Atlantic but he's late, so Europe gets part of a Cubs-Phillies game instead.
Finding the Sources of Epidemics
Given only sparse information about a disease's wild spread, can its source be pinpointed? Mathematician and Social Dimension blogger Samuel Arbesman describes new, network-focused work that suggests the answer is "yes."
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/finding-the-sources-of-epidemics/
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LibreOffice to tackle critical bugs with HardHacks program
LibreOffice plans to more swiftly quash its toughest software bugs through a new program that aims to improve cooperation between its quality assurance team and developers.
The Dude Abides Big Lebowski Bowling
Who rolls on Shabbos? Anyone who has a deep love of The Big Lebowski, that’s who. Even Walter abides when Lebowski Fest is in town. The traveling celebration of the Cohen brothers classic comedy hit Seattle last weekend, drawing dozens of rabid fans who traded lines, downed caucasians and threw rocks. It’s like seeing Rocky Horror Picture Show but with better music.
Source: http://www.wired.com/playbook/2012/08/big-lebowski-bowling/
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LibreOffice to tackle critical bugs with HardHacks program
LibreOffice plans to more swiftly quash its toughest software bugs through a new program that aims to improve cooperation between its quality assurance team and developers.
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The Dude Abides Big Lebowski Bowling
Who rolls on Shabbos? Anyone who has a deep love of The Big Lebowski, that’s who. Even Walter abides when Lebowski Fest is in town. The traveling celebration of the Cohen brothers classic comedy hit Seattle last weekend, drawing dozens of rabid fans who traded lines, downed caucasians and threw rocks. It’s like seeing Rocky Horror Picture Show but with better music.
Source: http://www.wired.com/playbook/2012/08/big-lebowski-bowling/
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Data deduplication
Data deduplication -- the process of detecting and removing duplicate data from a storage medium or file system -- is one of those simple ideas that gets complex in the implementation. Duplicate data may be detected at the file, bit, or block level, and the deduplication may be done at the client (source deduplication) or on the storage device itself (target deduplication).
Source: http://images.infoworld.com/t/storage/data-deduplication-197656?source=rss_storage
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Monday, 20 August 2012
The One and Only: Olympians Who Won Their Country’s Sole Medal
The vast majority of Olympians go home with nothing more than great memories, and most countries win no more than a few medals. We look back at 20 Olympians who won their country's only medal.
Source: http://www.wired.com/playbook/2012/08/lone-medal-winners/
The Monitor Is Going Vigilante, Times Three
We're feeling righteous this week, people. Maybe it's the summer heat, maybe it's the fact that we watched Taxi Driver twice in a row yesterday, but one thing's for sure -- the flame of justice is leaving charbroiled marks on the Whoppers of our souls. So we're taking it to the streets!
Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/08/the-monitor-goesvigilante-x-3/
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Microsoft's branding woes threaten to undercut its progress
You may love Windows 8 and its new (formerly Metro) tiled Start screen. You may hate it. You may be withholding judgment until the final bits settle.
Pushing the limits of virtual networking
Recently, I was faced with an interesting virtual networking problem: how to allow a large virtualization environment to be failed over to a recovery data center and thoroughly tested, without impacting the production network. As is often the case, my quest for an elegant solution took me down the rabbit hole and led to consideration of several new virtualization networking technologies. In the end, I didn't achieve exactly what I set out to, but I did catch a glimpse of what the future might hold.
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Please, Microsoft, for the love of Windows
Up until Windows 8 was released to manufacturing on Aug. 15, I held out a slim hope that Microsoft would do the right thing: Make the interface tentatively known as Metro optional and bring back the Start menu. Obviously, that didn't happen.
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Colonial Luxury Hotel Now Colonized by Migrant Squatters
When Spanish photographer Héctor Mediavilla first walked into the remains of the Grande Hotel in Beira, Mozambique, he says he was immediately struck by the ghost-like quality of the building. The hotel, which originally opened in 1955 as one of, if not the most, luxurious hotels in Africa, has been decimated over the years and is now home to somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000 squatters who have nowhere else to live.
Source: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/08/grande-hotel-squatters-mediavilla/
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Lasers Make Modern Pentathlon More Modern
The only sport created specifically for the Olympics takes a big step into tomorrow with the addition of laser pistols.
Source: http://www.wired.com/playbook/2012/08/modern-pentathlon-laser-pistols/
500K Credit Cards Stolen in Australian Point-of-Sale Hack
Police in Australia are investigating a breach of half a million credit card numbers that reports say was conducted by the same gang that struck the Subway restaurant chain in the United States.
Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/08/500k-credit-cards-stolen/
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Sunday, 19 August 2012
Why I couldn't connect my Windows 8 tablet to Exchange
As Windows 8 approaches and we all wonder whether tablets like the Microsoft Surface running it will gain the upper hand in the battle for dominance with the iPad, it's easy to forget the so-called post-PC devices owe a huge debt of gratitu
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