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V is for Verizon, void of values

Tue, 07/29/2014 - 11:00

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The Tizen smartphone flopped -- and open source is to blame

Tue, 07/29/2014 - 11:00

You know the saying: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

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7 indispensable project management tips

Tue, 07/29/2014 - 11:00

In my role as a traveling computer security consultant, I meet with project managers every week.

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SAP embraces opens source -- sort of

Tue, 07/29/2014 - 11:00

At the annual OSCON (Open Source Convention) last week, those stuck in a worldview of open source from the previous decade would have suffered serious cognitive dissonance.

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Docker: The first true devops tool?

Tue, 07/29/2014 - 11:00

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V is for Verizon, void of values

Tue, 07/29/2014 - 11:00

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Amazon is right to grow AWS at the expense of profits

Tue, 07/29/2014 - 11:00

Last week, Amazon.com said its cloud business grew by 90 percent last year, but the company was significantly less profitable than the year before. Its AWS (Amazon Web Services) business makes up the majority of a balance sheet item that Amazon.com labels as "other." In the latest quarter, the "other" revenue from that line of business grew by 38 percent, its lowest rate in at least three years.

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Mobile security: A mother lode of new tools

Tue, 07/29/2014 - 11:00

Long, complex passwords that must be input on tiny screens, often while on the move: Such hassles make password-based security unworkable in a mobile world. But change is coming, thanks to an industrywide backlash that gave rise to a gold rush of new technologies.

Eventually mobile security may no longer hinge on whether a password is long enough, but on how well the device knows the user.

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Team of rivals: Hortonworks, Pivotal join up for Hadoop project

Mon, 07/28/2014 - 19:49

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Surface Pro 3 problems linger despite three firmware patches in a month

Mon, 07/28/2014 - 12:48

If you have a new Microsoft Surface Pro 3 and it's working fine, you're probably in the majority and I wish you well.

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Surface Pro 3 problems linger despite three firmware patches in a month

Mon, 07/28/2014 - 12:48

If you have a new Microsoft Surface Pro 3 and it's working fine, you're probably in the majority and I wish you well.

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Another botched Microsoft patch: Office 365 ProPlus says 'Something went wrong'

Mon, 07/28/2014 - 12:22

This is the second month in a row where we've seen a botched automatic Office patch. As is the case with so many Office patches these days, there's no KB number and no warning that a patch is being applied.

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Top 25 free tools for every Windows desktop

Mon, 07/28/2014 - 11:00
Whatever your poison -- Windows 7 or 8, updated or not -- there's a desktop tool begging to become part of your repertoire Dek:  Whatever your poison -- Windows 7 or 8, updated or not -- there's a desktop tool begging to become part of your repertoire External Source:  infoworld.com Redirect Unpublished Slideshow to:  http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/160168
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Why one developer switched from Java to Google Go

Mon, 07/28/2014 - 11:00

While Java may be a good choice for building business software, Google's Go language has advantages when it comes to building systems software, says a Java developer at Pivotal who has become a Go advocate.

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Top 25 free tools for every Windows desktop

Mon, 07/28/2014 - 11:00
Whatever your poison -- Windows 7 or 8, updated or not -- there's a desktop tool begging to become part of your repertoire Dek:  Whatever your poison -- Windows 7 or 8, updated or not -- there's a desktop tool begging to become part of your repertoire External Source:  infoworld.com Redirect Unpublished Slideshow to:  http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/160168
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Who's managing your managed services? You, ultimately

Mon, 07/28/2014 - 11:00

With all of the hubbub surrounding cloud services, application hosting, managed services, and the like, the reality of offloading the management and administrative burden of applications and business services is often overlooked.

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11 questions for MongoDB's CTO

Mon, 07/28/2014 - 11:00

NoSQL is the darling of the millennial tech community -- and MongoDB is the leading NoSQL database, with a valuation of more than $1.2 billion.

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The cellphone unlocking bill is about to become law -- but there's a catch

Mon, 07/28/2014 - 11:00

A bill to restore consumers' rights to unlock their cellphones is one step from becoming law now that it has cleared Congress.

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Why one developer switched from Java to Google Go

Mon, 07/28/2014 - 11:00

While Java may be a good choice for building business software, Google's Go language has advantages when it comes to building systems software, says a Java developer at Pivotal who has become a Go advocate.

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BYOD morphs from lockdown to true mobility

Mon, 07/28/2014 - 11:00

Many companies that have had BYOD policies for a while have matured their thinking. They've grown from looking at employees' personal devices as something to lock down to allowing them in a limited fashion to fully embracing them.

They have moved from allowing only company-provided phones to supporting "COPE" devices (which are corporate-owned, personally enabled tools) to sanctioning true bring-your-own device setups, says Chris Marsh, an enterprise mobility analyst at Yankee Group.

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