Your quick guide to malware types

When it comes to security, people tend to play fast and loose with the terminology. But it's important to get your malware classifications straight because knowing how various types of malware spread is vital to containing and removing it.

Here's a quick malware bestiary. If nothing else, you'll have your malware terms right when you hang out with geeks.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/security/your-quick-guide-malware-types-205450?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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Two bad bosses do more than double the damage

Bad management decisions have a nasty habit of trickling down the business chain to ill effect. For example, when a corporate office sets policies that make no sense for those doing the actual labor, it should be no surprise to see these same guidelines complicate the lives of us working stiffs.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/it-jobs/two-bad-bosses-do-more-double-the-damage-205993?source=rss_infoworld_top_stories_

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Physics Students Make Zombie Movie Decay Deep Within the Bowels of CERN

This ghoulish indie flick could be really awesome. It will definitely be free. First-time director Luke Thompson talks about filming at the research center and explains why Decay will be released under Creative Commons.

Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/10/cern-zombie-movie-decay/

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Apple's former heir apparent to depart after Siri and Maps failures

Under the guise of "increasing collaboration across hardware, software, and services," Apple on Monday announced a massive management shakeup, punctuated by the departure of controversial figures Scott Forstall, senior VP of iPhone Software

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/technology-business/apples-former-heir-apparent-depart-after-siri-and-maps-failures-205968?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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Microsoft rolls out Windows Phone SDK 8.0 to egg on mobile development

Alongside the expected hype about the subjective greatness of Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, Microsoft used this morning's keynote session at Build to announce the availability of the new Windows Phone SDK 8.0, which includes 90 percent of the features most requested by developers, according to Kevin Gallo, developer platform general manager at Microsoft.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/microsoft-rolls-out-windows-phone-sdk-80-egg-mobile-development-206021?source=rss_infoworld_top_stories_

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Web-based conferencing comes of age

As more people telecommute, having a reliable way to connect via desktop video conferencing takes on greater importance. And for employees working in the office, Web-based meetings are a less expensive and less time consuming alternative to business travel.

Web-based conferencing services aren't new, but they have been getting better, easier to use and less expensive. The options range from one-on-one desktop screen sharing to group video chats to large-scale presentations such as Webinars or "virtual conferences."

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/web-based-conferencing-comes-of-age-205671?source=rss_infoworld_test_center_articles

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Microsoft rolls out Windows Phone SDK 8.0 to egg on mobile development

Alongside the expected hype about the subjective greatness of Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, Microsoft used this morning's keynote session at Build to announce the availability of the new Windows Phone SDK 8.0, which includes 90 percent of the features most requested by developers, according to Kevin Gallo, developer platform general manager at Microsoft.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/microsoft-rolls-out-windows-phone-sdk-80-egg-mobile-development-206021?source=rss_infoworld_top_stories_

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Apple loses ground to Android and Samsung in Q3

On both the smartphone and tablet fronts, Apple has lost ground to rivals this past quarter, according to the latest market data from Strategy Analytics and ABI.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/smartphones/apple-loses-ground-android-and-samsung-in-q3-205831?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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Apple's iPod Touch is fast becoming the new cash register

Every other day, it seems, someone has announced a mobile payments app or joined a mobile commerce consortium. We've seen a surge of such announcements in the last year, but I remember writing about a similar mobile payments wave a decade ago. Yet very little has changed in practice in day-to-day payments.

Source: https://www.infoworld.com/d/consumerization-of-it/apples-ipod-touch-fast-becoming-the-new-cash-register-204964?source=rss_applications

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Microsoft to acquire StorSimple for integrated cloud storage

To augment its own Azure cloud service, Microsoft is acquiring StorSimple, a company that provides appliances that back up enterprise data to cloud storage services. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Source: http://images.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/microsoft-acquire-storsimple-integrated-cloud-storage-205060?source=rss_storage

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Cisco, NetApp announce pre-configured platform for small businesses

NetApp and Cisco this week revealed ExpressPod, a new converged infrastructure for small and medium-sized organizations based on its predecessor, FlexPod.

ExpressPod fills out a mid-sized offering the partnership had been lacking.

Source: http://images.infoworld.com/d/storage/cisco-netapp-announce-pre-configured-platform-small-businesses-204782?source=rss_storage

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Alt Text: Political Polls Constitute Increasingly Crazy ‘War of Math’

I listened to a political podcast the other day where all they talked about was poll numbers. Then I listened to an entertainment podcast that just discussed box office take, and then a tech podcast that was just about market ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/10/alt-text-political-polls/

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'No free lunch' for businesses with Office on Windows RT

Microsoft confirmed Wednesday that owners of Windows RT hardware, including the company's own Surface RT, must acquire a commercial license for Office 2013 to use those devices' bundled Office apps at and for work.

The requirement isn't new, analysts said, and is consistent with current Microsoft policies related to Office versions designed for consumers.

Source: http://akamai.infoworld.com/d/applications/no-free-lunch-businesses-office-2013-windows-rt-205202?source=rss_applications

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The lesson from the Amazon outage: It's time to layer the cloud

The recent Amazon Web Services outage reminded us once again that cloud computing is not yet a perfect science. That said, perhaps it's also time we define formal methods, models, and approaches to make cloud computing easier to understand -- and more reliable.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/the-lesson-the-amazon-outage-its-time-layer-the-cloud-205661?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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Cloud storage specification gets ISO approval

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has ratified the Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI), a set of protocols defining how companies can safely move data between private and public clouds.

The Storage Networking Industry Association's (SNIA) Cloud Storage Initiative Group submitted the standard for approval by the ISO last spring. CDMI is the first industry-developed open standard specifically for data storage as a service.

Source: http://akamai.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/cloud-storage-specification-gets-iso-approval-205297?source=rss_storage

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Doc of the Dead Digs Into Zombie Culture (and Wants to Borrow Your Shovel)

The upcoming documentary from The People vs. George Lucas director Alexandre O. Philippe will feature interviews with zombie experts as well as crowdsourced fan videos

Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/10/doc-of-the-dead-kickstarter/

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Sharp Shooters: New Book Showcases the Best of Diving Dogs

Last time we caught up with Seth Casteel his underwater dog photos had gone viral across the globe and more than a 1,000 people had contacted him about shooting their personal K-9s. Earlier this week his 144-page book, Underwater Dogs, ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/10/new-book-showcases-the-best-of-underwater-dogs/

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NAS appliances: Not just raw storage anymore

When we did a roundup of network-attached sstorage devices seven years ago, the products boasted an amazing (for the time) 1TB of disk space. This time around, we're testing six units that sport 8TB or larger storage capacities. While the disk space has exploded, the investment remains modest, sometimes at a lower actual dollar figure than the first batch back in 2005.

Source: http://akamai.infoworld.com/d/storage/nas-appliances-not-just-raw-storage-anymore-204337?source=rss_storage

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People Lose Their Sh*t in Hilarious Haunted House Photos Part Two

Last year, a haunted house called Nightmares Fear Factory became an internet sensation when photos they took of people being scared out of their minds went über-viral, and this year they're at it again.

Source: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/10/nightmares/

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Found Contest: Imagine the Future of Hunting

This month we take inspiration from Bailey Hurt of North Carolina, who mocked up a glossy cover for an imagined magazine called Drones & Ammo. In the the not-so-distant future, have gun control laws and environmental regulations forced hunters to ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/10/ff-found-contest-future-of-hunting/

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Alt Text: Political Polls Constitute Increasingly Crazy ‘War of Math’

I listened to a political podcast the other day where all they talked about was poll numbers. Then I listened to an entertainment podcast that just discussed box office take, and then a tech podcast that was just about market ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/10/alt-text-political-polls/

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Scorecard: Office-compatible apps for the iPad

Of the tens of thousands of apps available for the iPad, only a relative few are must-have tools for business use. To help keep your iPad stocked with the cream of the crop, InfoWorld offers its fourth roundup of the best office apps for the iPad -- some are familiar, some are new, and some old choices are no longer needed.

Source: http://podcasts.infoworld.com/d/applications/scorecard-office-compatible-apps-the-ipad-201859?source=rss_applications

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Learn from Apple: Having fans means you're always forgiven

Mentioning Apple with anything less than admiration is like saying "Frau Blucher!" in "Young Frankenstein" -- the horses reflexively whinny. Last week's Apple/Blucher moment came when I suggested that the new Lightning connector for iPhone 5 calls into question Apple's credibility as an enterprise technology vendor.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/technology-business/learn-apple-having-fans-means-youre-always-forgiven-205346?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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License Plate Frame Foils Irksome Traffic-Light Cameras

An optical flash trigger detects the flash of the traffic-light camera and sets off xenon flashes in the sides of the frame, so when the traffic-light camera opens its shutter, there's too much light and the picture of your license ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/10/new-gadget-helps-foil-irksome-red-light-cameras/

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Cisco adds to cloud collaboration services its hosting partners can offer

Cisco on Tuesday announced that it is increasing the number of collaboration software products that its hosting partners can offer via the cloud, hoping to make the bundles more attractive to the partners and their customers.

At an announcement at its Collaboration Summit in Los Angeles, Cisco also said that it will provide its cloud-based WebEx web conferencing product for the first time as packaged software that customers can deploy on-premise or in a private cloud.

Source: http://podcasts.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/cisco-adds-cloud-collaboration-services-its-hosting-partners-can-offer-204995?source=rss_applications

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Creating cohesive storage management

For cash-strapped IT shops looking to get out from under manual storage management chores, storage orchestration software looks like a lifeline: It promises to let users choose from a catalog of predefined storage services and then handle the provisioning details behind the scenes.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/storage/creating-cohesive-storage-management-204283?source=rss_storage

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Oct. 25, 1671: Cassini Spots a Two-Toned Saturnian Moon

The strange coloring of the oddly shaped satellite discovered by Giovanni Cassini continues to baffle astronomers to this day.

Source: http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2012/10/oct-25-1671-cassini-spots-a-two-toned-saturnian-moon/

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Don't like Ubuntu's Unity? Try the new Gnome Remix instead

We've known for some time that a "pure Gnome" version of Ubuntu Linux was in the works, and following last week's release of Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal," the first Gnome Remix of the software has now made its debut as well.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/dont-ubuntus-unity-try-the-new-gnome-remix-instead-205794

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Oct. 25, 1671: Cassini Spots a Two-Toned Saturnian Moon

The strange coloring of the oddly shaped satellite discovered by Giovanni Cassini continues to baffle astronomers to this day.

Source: http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2012/10/oct-25-1671-cassini-spots-a-two-toned-saturnian-moon/

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Oct. 24, 1911: Birth of an Inventive Wyeth

Did you ever wish you could own a Wyeth? You probably own several already, and you've probably trashed or recycled lots of them.

Source: http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2012/10/oct-24-1911-birth-of-an-inventive-wyeth/

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SAP reveals policies, pricing for cloud integrations

SAP has laid out a set of pricing and policies for tying together its array of cloud-based and on-premises applications, providing some options at no charge, but others that will cost customers additional money. Application integration is a crucial question for SAP and its customers, particularly given the vigor with which the company has advocated for hybrid deployments that retain users' large investments in on-premises ERP (enterprise resource planning) and HCM (human capital management) software while adding new capabilities from the cloud.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/sap-reveals-policies-pricing-cloud-integrations-205828

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Oct. 23, 1995: First Computer-Network Wiretap

A federal judge for the first time authorizes a wiretap of a computer network. It leads to hacking charges against a young Argentine for breaking into sensitive U.S. government sites.

Source: http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2012/10/oct-23-1995-first-computer-network-wiretap/

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Miami Connection Destroys the Myth of ‘So Bad They’re Good’ Movies

Something's seriously amiss with the way we judge films these days. It's time to slap the crap out of a new type of predatory movie appreciation.

Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/10/opinion-miami-connection/

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Wired Video Series: Our Head Is in the Cloud This Week on The Monitor

That’s what happens when you spend nearly three hours watching the film adapatation of the most unfilmable book ever. Still, we’re especially amped this week, because we get to enjoy the long-awaited return of three very special things: the Wachoswkis, ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/10/the-monitor-cloud-atlas/

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5 signs you've been hit with an advanced persistent threat

Hackers who employ APTs (advanced persistent threats) are a different breed. A real and constant threat to the world's companies and networks, APT hackers tend to be well organized, working together as part of a professional team. Their goal, typically, is to steal valuable intellectual property, such as confidential project descriptions, contracts, and patent information.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/security/5-signs-youve-been-hit-advanced-persistent-threat-204941?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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Wired Video Series: Our Head Is in the Cloud This Week on The Monitor

That’s what happens when you spend nearly three hours watching the film adapatation of the most unfilmable book ever. Still, we’re especially amped this week, because we get to enjoy the long-awaited return of three very special things: the Wachoswkis, ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/10/the-monitor-cloud-atlas/

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Twitter Creator Believes You’re More Than Just a ‘User’

Twitter creator and Square CEO Jack Dorsey resurrects the old linguistic debate about one of the most pervasive words in software development -- the "user." There's no question the word "user" has largely negative origins, often being used to describing someone who wasn't creating anything, just "using" resources on the network. Unfortunately no one, including now Dorsey, has ever offered a compelling alternative.

Source: http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/10/twitter-creator-believes-youre-more-than-just-a-user/

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Sleepy Students More Likely to Get Hurt on the Field

Teen athletes who get more than eight hours of shut-eye each night are 68 percent less likely to be injured than those who sleep less, according to research presented this week at the American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference.

Source: http://www.wired.com/playbook/2012/10/sleep-and-sports-injuries/

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Unlocking the value of big data

My favorite buzz phrase associated with the big data trend is: "Data is the new oil." It implies that, at last, we can think of data almost as a natural resource, rather than simply a burden on data center infrastructure.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/big-data/unlocking-the-value-of-big-data-205382?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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4 key changes in Exchange 2013's high availability

This week, I'm attending (and speaking at) my first Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC), which was resurrected this year after being discontinued a decade ago and merged into Microsoft's TechEd conference. As an Exchange MVP, it's nice to rub shoulders with other Exchange folks, especially given the pending release of Exchange 2013 and its great features.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/microsoft-windows/4-key-changes-in-exchange-2013s-high-availability-203182?source=rss_storage

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SAP co-CEO: We're working to fix software licensing, pricing complexity

SAP is aware of widespread user discontent over the complexity involved with licensing rules and pricing for its software and is working to remedy the situation, co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe said in an interview Wednesday.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/sap-co-ceo-were-working-fix-software-licensing-pricing-complexity-205663?source=rss_applications

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iPhone jailbreaking still legal in U.S., but don't meddle with an iPad

Modifying Apple's iPhone software to install applications not approved by Apple will still be legal under new exemptions to take effect on Sunday in the U.S., but illegal for an iPad and other tablets.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobile-technology/iphone-jailbreaking-still-legal-in-us-dont-meddle-ipad-205776

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Doc of the Dead Digs Into Zombie Culture (and Wants to Borrow Your Shovel)

The upcoming documentary from The People vs. George Lucas director Alexandre O. Philippe will feature interviews with zombie experts as well as crowdsourced fan videos

Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/10/doc-of-the-dead-kickstarter/

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SAP reports strong third quarter, revises 2012 outlook

SAP reported Wednesday double-digit revenue growth in the third quarter, benefiting from a strong performance in the Americas and double-digit growth in the Asia-Pacific and Japan region, and high demand for its new technologies like HANA across all regions.

The company has also revised upwards its revenue guidance for 2012 which includes its October acquisition of Ariba, and expects to reach the upper end of the guidance if there isn't a deterioration in the macroeconomic environment.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/the-industry-standard/sap-reports-strong-third-quarter-revises-2012-outlook-205583?source=rss_applications

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IT: Watch who you're calling a fanboy

Fanboy: It's a derogatory term that platform fanatics love to toss at those who prefer other platforms. Use a Mac ior iPad? You're an Apple fanboy. Use a Droid or Galaxy? You're a Google fanboy (or "phandroid"). Use Ubuntu? You're a Linux fanboy. Use Windows? You're a rational person.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/consumerization-of-it/it-watch-who-youre-calling-fanboy-205320?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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Living By Numbers: A Wired E-Book

In the late 1980s, the American Heart Association launched a “Know Your Number” campaign, encouraging everyone to track the three figures measuring their blood cholesterol levels. At the time it was a radical idea — taking information previously germane only ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/playbook/2012/10/living-by-numbers-wired-ebook/

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How to get your first cloud computing job

Cloud computing is expanding rapidly, with an accompanying need for for cloud computing "experts" to make this technology work. That translates into many new jobs chasing very few qualified candidates. At the same time, many IT professionals are attempting to figure out how they can cash in on the cloud.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/how-get-your-first-cloud-computing-job-204626?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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Amazon's DRM drama: Whose Kindle is it anyway?

We interrupt today's endless cycle of election news, iPad Mini lovefests, and hate mail for the Microsoft Surface to bring you the tale of one tech firm behaving rather badly. That firm is Amazon, and this is far from the first time it's been caught acting like a bully.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/cringely/amazons-drm-drama-whose-kindle-it-anyway-205634?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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The lesson from the Amazon outage: It's time to layer the cloud

The recent Amazon Web Services outage reminded us once again that cloud computing is not yet a perfect science. That said, perhaps it's also time we define formal methods, models, and approaches to make cloud computing easier to understand -- and more reliable.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/the-lesson-the-amazon-outage-its-time-layer-the-cloud-205661?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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Alleged Cannibal Cop Faces Hacking Charge — The Computer Kind

A NYC cop arrested for allegedly plotting to kidnap a woman so she could be raped, cooked and eaten, also faces a computer crime charge for misusing an FBI database to find info on another potential victim.

Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/10/cannibal-cop-hacking/

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Cheat sheet: Windows 8 vs. Windows RT

To the naked eye, Windows RT looks just like Windows 8. But it's not. There are huge differences that could cause a lot of confusion for the people who buy Microsoft's Surface tablet that's launching tomorrow. Most people have no clue what Windows RT is, and that's Microsoft's fault for not making it clearer. Let's take a look at what we do know.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/microsoft-windows/cheat-sheet-windows-8-vs-windows-rt-205399?source=rss_infoworld_top_stories_

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Adapt agile to build a better business

As we discussed last week, when it comes to project portfolio management, the best approach is to get rid of the project governance process entirely. How? By eliminating projects as a class of activity altogether.

Instead, next-generation IT organizations should manage all activities as an ongoing stream of releases, doing so by embracing the agile variant scrum (last week's topic) -- with additional wrinkles (this week's topic).

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/agile-development/adapt-agile-build-better-business-204332?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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Facebook to use 'cold storage' to deal with vast amounts of data

Facebook is rethinking the way it stores data to cope with the 7 petabytes of new photos the social network's users upload every month. As the number of photos grows, Facebook needs find cheaper, less power-hungry ways to store them all, according to the company's vice-president of infrastructure engineering.

Source: https://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/facebook-use-cold-storage-deal-vast-amounts-of-data-205127?source=rss_storage

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Cloud storage specification gets ISO approval

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has ratified the Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI), a set of protocols defining how companies can safely move data between private and public clouds.

The Storage Networking Industry Association's (SNIA) Cloud Storage Initiative Group submitted the standard for approval by the ISO last spring. CDMI is the first industry-developed open standard specifically for data storage as a service.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/cloud-storage-specification-gets-iso-approval-205297?source=rss_storage

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Don't just blame the cloud for the Amazon Web Services outage

Amazon Web Services has once again found itself in the unenviable position of being the poster-boy-turned-whipping-boy for the cloud computing world due to another http://www.infoworld.com/t/cloud-computing/dont-just-blame-the-cloud-the-amazon-web-services-outage-205537?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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Megaupload Is Dead. Long Live Mega!

Megaupload's takedown by the U.S. government spurs Kim DotCom to build a filesharing replacement that relies on encryption so owners can't be blamed for knowing that copyright infringing files are on company servers. That, DotCom thinks, will probably keep the ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/10/megaupload-mega/

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9-Billion-Pixel Photo of Milky Way’s Center Is Full of Stars

Containing more than 84 million stars, this nine-gigapixel shot of the Milky Way's central bulge will help astronomers unravel the complex history of star formation in our home galaxy.

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/10/9-gigapixel-milky-way/

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Hacker Fight: Everything You’ve Been Told About Passwords Is Wrong

As someone who has studied millions of passwords and how they were constructed – I’ve spent most of my waking hours for over a decade obsessing about authentication methods – I say we can have both security and practicality. But ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/10/opinion-fighting-hackers-everything-youve-been-told-about-passwords-is-wrong/

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The Arting Life: Atomic Orbits Inspire 3-D Light Paintings Made From LEDs

Andrew Hall likes circles. In his orbs series, for example, he says he was inspired by the patterns created by, among other things, electrons circling an atom.

Source: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/10/andrew-hall-circles/

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How to take down the Internet from the inside

Breaking news: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is holding a domain name raffle. Can an IP address bake sale be far behind?

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/cringely/how-take-down-the-internet-the-inside-204925?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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War Reporters Train in the Bronx, Complete With Blood, Smoke and Gunfire

An organization founded by friends of Tim Hetherington simulates real war-injury scenarios at the Bronx Documentary Center, complete with pools of blood, contorted limbs and frenetic movement amid smoke-clad air, in order to train photographers and journalists in potentially life-saving ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/10/risc-training-bronx-documentary-center/

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Box seeks broad integration with third-party Web apps, sites

Box announced on Tuesday an HTML5 framework that makes it possible for customers and other vendors to fully integrate features of its file sharing and cloud storage software into websites and enterprise applications.

The framework, called Box Embed, is pre-built code that can be deployed on an iframe, bringing Box's functionality into the user interface of Web-based applications, intranets, extranets, wikis, blogs, and the like.

Source: http://akamai.infoworld.com/d/application-development/box-seeks-broad-integration-third-party-web-apps-sites-204391?source=rss_storage

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CYA: 3 rules to keep a systems crisis from taking down IT

These days, all but the smallest organizations spend mountains of money building redundancy into their infrastructures. As business depends more and more on those systems to function at even the most basic levels, the capital plowed into highly redundant disk arrays, bulletproof backups, and highly available virtualization infrastructures has become an expected cost of doing business.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-explosion/cya-3-rules-keep-systems-crisis-taking-down-it-204781?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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Creepy Close-Ups: Best Microscope Critter Photos

Spiders, weevils, wasps, lice, mites and mosquitoes are among the creepiest subjects of the winners of Nikon's Small World microscope photography competition this year. Super-close-ups of eyes, tongues and silk spinnerets are amazingly beautiful, but also gross enough to induce shivers.

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/10/nikon-creepy-close-ups/

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Why admins should know how to code

We've all been on the receiving end of that essentially unanswerable question, "What do you do?" I usually answer, "I work in computers," just to see where the questioner's mental association goes. I often get responses like, "Oh, you make websites?" or "Oh, you mean like you are a programmer?" or the dreaded "Oh really? Can you fix my laptop? It's been doing this strange thing where blah blah blah."

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-center/why-admins-should-know-how-code-205301?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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Creating cohesive storage management

For cash-strapped IT shops looking to get out from under manual storage management chores, storage orchestration software looks like a lifeline: It promises to let users choose from a catalog of predefined storage services and then handle the provisioning details behind the scenes.

Source: http://podcasts.infoworld.com/d/storage/creating-cohesive-storage-management-204283?source=rss_storage

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Review: 6 free email servers for small business

Even as social networking continues to gain in popularity, email remains the undisputed workhorse of messaging, far eclipsing all other forms of electronic communication. Email administration can be a costly function, especially for small to midsized organizations, and many administrators are looking for alternatives to enterprise-sized (and priced) commercial products.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/review-6-free-email-servers-small-business-202629?source=rss_infoworld_test_center_articles

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Oct. 23, 1995: First Computer-Network Wiretap

A federal judge for the first time authorizes a wiretap of a computer network. It leads to hacking charges against a young Argentine for breaking into sensitive U.S. government sites.

Source: http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2012/10/oct-23-1995-first-computer-network-wiretap/

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Sushi Chefs Battle Sea Creatures in Epic Short Film Monster Roll

Director Daniel Blank thought there weren't enough big action movies about sushi chefs battling giant sea creatures. So he decided to make one.

Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/10/monster-roll/

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Mozilla previews 'Metro'-ized Firefox for Windows 8

Mozilla last week released the first public preview of a Firefox browser that runs in Windows 8's touch-first "Modern" or "Metro" user interface (UI).

The Firefox app for Modern -- the UI dubbed "Metro" until Microsoft ditched the term over trademark issues -- will be partnered with the traditional desktop browser in a package that may appear in early January 2013 as Firefox 18.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/mozilla-previews-metro-ized-firefox-windows-8-204281?source=rss_applications

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Midnight mystery: The case of the 'weird' laptop

It has to be a corollary to Murphy's Law: Behind the most mysterious tech problems are perfectly explainable causes -- but good luck figuring them out. I experienced this firsthand in 2010 at a nonprofit company where I did some consulting on the side.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/it-jobs/midnight-mystery-the-case-of-the-weird-laptop-204426?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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Create More Accessible Color Schemes With ‘Contrast Ratio’

Making the web accessible to everyone has been central to the mission of the W3C since the dawn of the browser. Accessibility guidelines abound, but sadly, easy to use tools are less common. Developer Lea Verou's new color contrast ratio tool changes that by giving developers a simple way to test their color schemes and create more readable websites -- and that benefits everyone on the web.

Source: http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/10/create-more-accessible-color-schemes-with-contrast-ratio/

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Ericsson's Bowser lays groundwork for calls from mobile browsers

Ericsson has launched the world's first WebRTC-compatible browser for mobile devices, which will allow developers to integrate voice and video communications in their Web-based applications.

The WebRTC (real-time communication) specification and other technologies needed for the communication to work are currently being developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobile-technology/ericssons-bowser-lays-groundwork-calls-mobile-browsers-205299?source=rss_applications

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What's in a vote? Only your entire personal profile

You say you enjoy a lobster dinner with a fine wine accompanied by some light dinner jazz? You must be an Obama supporter. Would you rather drink beer, eat nachos, and attend the Fiesta Bowl? Then you are clearly a Romney fan.

If you think I'm being stereotypical, think again. I'm just taking advantage of modern political data mining techniques.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/cringely/whats-in-vote-only-your-entire-personal-profile-205149?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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Post of Note: Future Military Roles on the Space Frontier

Periodically I’ll post links to website and blog posts I find especially intriguing. Here’s the first: Smithsonian Curator Roger Launius, whom I’ve known for almost 20 years now (has it really been that long?), describes a possible role for the military in future spaceflight. I’m typically not impressed with historical analogies applied to the future, but [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/10/military-roles-on-the-space-frontier/

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Google’s Speed Tools for Apache Web Server Hit 1.0

After nearly two years of testing and improving, Google is removing the beta label from mod_pagespeed, the company's open-source effort to speed up websites running on the popular Apache web server. The Pagespeed Apache module automatically optimizes webpages on the fly, making sites load faster.

Source: http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/10/googles-speed-tools-for-apache-web-server-hit-1-0/

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Early SAP HANA customers separate reality from the hype

Anyone even loosely following SAP lately should know that the company's goal is to reorient its entire product family around the HANA in-memory database, which first became generally available last year. According to SAP, HANA provides a level of performance improvement that can be nothing short of dazzling.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/early-sap-hana-customers-separate-reality-the-hype-205262?source=rss_applications

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Oracle likely to announce Exadata sequel soon

Many signs suggest that Oracle is about to introduce a next-generation version of the Exadata database machine, the first and apparently most successful of its "engineered systems" that combine Oracle software with servers, networking, and storage.

For one thing, Oracle's OpenWorld conference kicks off Sunday with a keynote from CEO Larry Ellison, and contrary to prior years, this time Oracle has told the public a bit of what Ellison plans to say.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/oracle-likely-announce-exadata-sequel-soon-203259?source=rss_storage

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SDN and virtual networking seen as a key to growing hybrid clouds

If the OpenStack Summit held this week in San Diego is any indication, virtual networking is a hot IT topic.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/sdn-and-virtual-networking-seen-key-growing-hybrid-clouds-205245

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Cloud: Can Salesforce Kick Its Oracle Habit and Go Open Source?

In so many ways, Salesforce.com is the anti-Oracle. Whereas Oracle is determined to sell massive hardware systems loaded with expensive software, Salesforce only offers its business-centric applications over the net. And though Oracle has started offering "cloud" services as well, ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/10/salesforce-oracle/

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Eucalyptus CEO brings the cloud down to earth

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The whole idea of the private cloud is to borrow technology and techniques pioneered by public cloud providers and apply them to the data center. Eucalyptus took that idea literally. Back in 2007, six Ph.D.'s at UC Santa Barbara funded by the National Science Foundation set out to create a private cloud platform that essentially mimicked Amazon Web Services functionality and APIs.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/cloud-computing/eucalyptus-ceo-brings-the-cloud-down-earth-204671?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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Wired Video Series: It’s a Triple Creature Feature on The Monitor This Week

Peter Rubin takes a look at Argo, Bryan K. Vaughn's gloriously cryptozoologic comic book and a bizarre, alien-puppet-filled video from the best blue-eyed soul outfit working today.

Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/10/the-monitor-triple-creature-feature/

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Apple arrogance, Microsoft muddling, privacy problems -- the rants rain down

It's been a long time since I reached into the reader mailbag, and it's pretty darned full. Here's a sampling of what the residents of Cringeville had to say about topics like Apple, Steve Jobs, Windows 8 tablets, and data mining.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/cringely/apple-arrogance-microsoft-muddling-privacy-problems-the-rants-rain-down-205302?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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Afraid of BYOD? Intel shows a better way

In Twitter chats, conference halls, reader comments, and the interminable flow of vendor "scareware" white papers, I keep hearing about IT pros' fear of their companies falling apart because someone lost their smartphone or an employee copied and pasted the intellectual crown jewels in an email from their Mac. It's easy to deride these anxieties as paranoia, but it's hard to convince IT pros -- for whom securing information is what they get hired and fired for -- to relax.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/consumerization-of-it/afraid-of-byod-intel-shows-better-way-204123?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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CEO confessions: We're Apple fanboys (and fangirls) too

The tech industry is a bit like a sitcom. It's filled with absurd scenarios, wacky neighbors, and a prickly but ultimately lovable main character everyone secretly wants to be.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/cringely/ceo-confessions-were-apple-fanboys-and-fangirls-too-204757?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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AOL launches Alto cloud service to aggregate Gmail and others

AOL offered a limited preview Thursday of a new cloud-based email service that sorts content automatically to help combat "inbox fatigue" and doesn't force users to get a new address.

Getting users to change email provider is no mean feat, but AOL is hoping to do that with its Alto by making it easier for them to keep track of all their emails. Alto uses something called stacks to do that.

Source: https://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/aol-launches-alto-cloud-service-aggregate-gmail-and-others-205200?source=rss_applications

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The Google IQ test

Overview: 

Over the past 14 years, Google has grown from a simple search company into a multiplatform technology giant. Its reach now extends from phones and tablets to desktop operating systems and even driverless cars.

With all of its products, Google knows a lot about us -- so how much do you know about Google? Click through the following questions to test your Google knowledge. (Yes, it's considered cheating if you Google something to find an answer!)

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/technology-business/the-google-iq-test-204712?source=rss_infoworld_top_stories_

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Photo Galleries: The Most Wonderfully Ridiculous Movie Computers of All Time

Fronted by a wall of dials, switches, neon lights and incandescent lamps -- and often plugged into spinning tape drives stretching from floor to ceiling -- Hollywood's number crunchers make quite an impression.

Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/10/ridiculous-movie-computers/

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The New Coronavirus: Uncertainty, and How to Talk About It

Have we dodged a bullet? Or is the other shoe yet to drop? The uncertainty over the novel coronavirus which was recognized last month is captured in a research report and editorial just released this evening by the New England Journal of Medicine.

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/10/coronavirus-2/

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Apple's iPod Touch is fast becoming the new cash register

Every other day, it seems, someone has announced a mobile payments app or joined a mobile commerce consortium. We've seen a surge of such announcements in the last year, but I remember writing about a similar mobile payments wave a decade ago. Yet very little has changed in practice in day-to-day payments.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/consumerization-of-it/apples-ipod-touch-fast-becoming-the-new-cash-register-204964?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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Storyboard: In Search of Time Travel and an Atomic Clock

Musician Paul Buckley wants to stand on his head in front of an atomic clock on 11/11/11 at 11:11:11. His road trip turns into a deep dive into the world of atomic clocks, timekeeping and the nature of time itself.

Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/10/storyboard-time-travel/

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How to get your first cloud computing job

Cloud computing is expanding rapidly, with an accompanying need for for cloud computing "experts" to make this technology work. That translates into many new jobs chasing very few qualified candidates. At the same time, many IT professionals are attempting to figure out how they can cash in on the cloud.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/how-get-your-first-cloud-computing-job-204626?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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Photo Workshops Help Students Beat the Odds in Terrible Photojournalism Market

Philosophy majors have a better chance at employment and a good salary than photography majors, according to data from Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce(CEW). Only anthropology majors have it worse. Ouch.

Source: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/10/photo-workshops-help-students-beat-the-odds-in-terrible-photojournalism-market/

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Java-to-iOS just keeps getting easier

Java developers have long been on the outs with Apple when it comes to running their wares on iPhones and iPads. But thanks to a growing roster of third-party tools, developers can forget about Apple's Java ban and get cracking on porting their apps to iOS devices.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/java-programming/java-ios-just-keeps-getting-easier-204543?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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State-Sponsored Malware ‘Flame’ Has Smaller, More Devious Cousin

Researchers have uncovered new nation-state espionage malware with ties to two previous espionage tools known as Flame and Gauss, and that appears to be a "high-precision, surgical attack tool" targeting victims in Lebanon, Iran and elsewhere.

Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/10/miniflame-espionage-tool/

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Adapt agile to build a better business

As we discussed last week, when it comes to project portfolio management, the best approach is to get rid of the project governance process entirely. How? By eliminating projects as a class of activity altogether.

Instead, next-generation IT organizations should manage all activities as an ongoing stream of releases, doing so by embracing the agile variant scrum (last week's topic) -- with additional wrinkles (this week's topic).

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/agile-development/adapt-agile-build-better-business-204332?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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Ad industry to Web: Trust us, we're lying

The battle over the Do Not Track standard called for by the FTC last year and currently being wrangled over by privacy wonks and the ad industry apparently isn't going so well. Simple reason? Privacy wonks want Do Not Track (DNT) to actually let people avoid being tracked; the ad industry, not so much.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/cringely/ad-industry-web-trust-us-were-lying-204537?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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