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AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile face Net neutrality complaint

Top Tech Stories - Wed, 08/06/2014 - 20:55

Digital rights group Public Knowledge will file Net neutrality complaints against each of the four largest mobile carriers in the United States over their practice of throttling some traffic, in some cases on so-called unlimited data plans.

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It's official: Windows 8.1 Update 2 is a dud

Top Tech Stories - Wed, 08/06/2014 - 12:21

Windows 8.1 Update 2 will drop next week, and it's officially a nonevent.

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It's official: Windows 8.1 Update 2 is a dud

Top Tech Stories - Wed, 08/06/2014 - 12:21

Windows 8.1 Update 2 will drop next week, and it's officially a nonevent.

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Review: WordPress 4 plugs in, turns on, grows up

Top Tech Stories - Wed, 08/06/2014 - 11:00

Software often evolves to serve purposes beyond what its makers intended. WordPress stands as a classic example.

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The Azure-Active Directory connection just got easier

Top Tech Stories - Wed, 08/06/2014 - 11:00

On InfoWorld this week, Matt Asay questioned some of the bold comments from the Microsoft camp about Azu

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Overpromised, underdelivered -- and the joke's on them

Top Tech Stories - Wed, 08/06/2014 - 11:00

The rock-bottom bid price should've raised a red flag. The database issues should've made our company reconsider. Instead, we soldiered on, but no Band-Aid could save this IT project.

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Why your online identity can never really be erased

Top Tech Stories - Wed, 08/06/2014 - 11:00

One seemingly unshakeable truth about the online world since it began is this: The Internet never forgets. Once you post anything online, it is recoverable forever -- the claims of former IRS official Lois Lerner about "lost" emails notwithstanding. Even promises of photos disappearing after a few seconds have been shown to be bogus.

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Microsoft Azure, the world's biggest cloud? Someone's fudging

Top Tech Stories - Tue, 08/05/2014 - 16:18

Credit: iStockphoto

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5 reasons Internet crime is worse than ever

Top Tech Stories - Tue, 08/05/2014 - 11:00

I've been fighting Internet crime for more than 20 years. In the old days, the daily malware hot sheet was known as the Dirty Dozen -- because it listed only a dozen malware programs.

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5 reasons Internet crime is worse than ever

Top Tech Stories - Tue, 08/05/2014 - 11:00

I've been fighting Internet crime for more than 20 years. In the old days, the daily malware hot sheet was known as the Dirty Dozen -- because it listed only a dozen malware programs.

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Why you need to deploy DNSSec now

Top Tech Stories - Tue, 08/05/2014 - 11:00

The Domain Name System -- the distributed network of servers that reconciles the domain names in URLs and email addresses to numerical IP addresses -- is behind every successful Internet transaction. Unfortunately, due to a longstanding vulnerability, it's also behind some of the Internet's most dangerous hacks -- despite the fact that a fix, DNSSec (Domain Name System Security Extensions), has been available for years.

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6 job search hacks that will get you hired

Top Tech Stories - Tue, 08/05/2014 - 11:00
These six tricks can help you set yourself apart from other candidates and put you on the path to land your dream job Dek:  These six tricks can help you set yourself apart from other candidates and put you on the path to land your dream job External Source:  cio.com Redirect Unpublished Slideshow to:  http://www.cio.com/slideshow/160119
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The right cloud for the job: Multicloud database processing is here

Top Tech Stories - Tue, 08/05/2014 - 11:00

The idea is pretty simple and actually pretty old: Use a distributed architecture on large databases to quickly return the data requested. This approach runs the database query across many servers at the same time, then combines the results as they return from hundreds, perhaps thousands of servers in the cluster.

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Boost that battery! Tips and tricks for laptops

Top Tech Stories - Tue, 08/05/2014 - 11:00

Whether it happens with that key memo left unfinished, the last scene of a movie unwatched, or an epic gaming battle interrupted, it's likely that at one time or another, you've been left with a dead notebook battery at the worst possible moment. What can you do about it?

"Notebooks are not as efficient as they could be," says Robert Meyers, data center product manager for the Energy Star Program at the Environmental Protection Agency, "and they waste a lot of energy."

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5 big data projects that could change your life

Top Tech Stories - Tue, 08/05/2014 - 11:00

Most over-hyped technology trends wear out their welcome pretty quickly, which should make skeptics among us wary about Big Data. However, while Big Data is being touted as the latest trend that will change the world, the skeptics aren't as, well, skeptical as they were about cloud and social.

That's probably because Big Data is generating real-world wins for the companies embracing it. Already, Big Data analytics is starting to fundamentally change such disparate disciplines as pharmaceutical research, sales and marketing, and product development.

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Mercifully toothless Windows 8.1 Update 2 due next week

Top Tech Stories - Mon, 08/04/2014 - 12:11

Everything is on course for an August Black Tuesday release of the Windows 8.1 patch formerly known as Windows 8.1 Update 2, and now apparently code named "August Update," according to unnamed sources cited by

Mercifully toothless Windows 8.1 Update 2 due next week

Top Tech Stories - Mon, 08/04/2014 - 12:11

Everything is on course for an August Black Tuesday release of the Windows 8.1 patch formerly known as Windows 8.1 Update 2, and now apparently code named "August Update," according to unnamed sources cited by

Satya Nadella at six months: Grading Microsoft's new CEO

Top Tech Stories - Mon, 08/04/2014 - 11:00

Credit: Reuters/Robert Galbraith

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No interruptions! Technologist at work

Top Tech Stories - Mon, 08/04/2014 - 11:00

Credit: Federico Caputo

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Satya Nadella at six months: Grading Microsoft's new CEO

Top Tech Stories - Mon, 08/04/2014 - 11:00

Credit: Reuters/Robert Galbraith

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