Wednesday, January 16, 2013

'Rogue clouds' giving IT staffs nightmares

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'Rogue clouds' giving IT staffs nightmares
Cloud computing is increasingly being adopted by companies around the world, but IT managers say "rogue cloud implementations" in which business managers sign up for services without getting IT approval is among their biggest challenges. Read More


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Presidential Inauguration: There's an app for that
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How Facebook built Graph Search and what it means to social media
In the summer of 2011 Facebook czar Mark Zuckerberg and former Googler Lars Rasmussen, who had joined the company about a year earlier, had a conversation about building a third "pillar" of Facebook. Read More

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Verizon worker outsourced part of his job to China so he could have more free time
A number of sources are reporting today that a software developer with Verizon had outsourced part of his job to a company in China so he could have more free time to hit up YouTube, Facebook and other sites. The employee - so far only identified as "Bob", reportedly paid just a fifth of his six-figure salary to a company based in Shenyang to do his job. Read More

7 Must-Have Project Management Skills for IT Pros
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Apple's diminishing 'cool' image is a serious problem
Conventional wisdom says there's no quicker way for something to lose its cool than for a teenager's parents to also like it. Whatever it is – music, a TV show, technology – when kids see their parents like something, it's over faster than you can say it's "so yesterday." Read More

Fusion-io takes its flash cards for Web giants to smaller companies
Fusion-io has taken the flash storage cards it's been making for its biggest customers and turned them into products that almost any company can buy. Read More

Google gives developers an early hands-on with Project Glass
Ever since debuting back in April of last year, developers and journalists alike have been clamoring to get their hands on Google's high-tech headwear, Project Glass. Google gave U.S.-based developers a chance to pre-order a pair of its glasses at the 2012 Google I/O, promising we would hear more about Project Glass in early 2013. Not more than two weeks into the new year and it looks like Google made good on its promise: On Tuesday the search giant announced hackathons in San Francisco and New York where select developers can get an early look at the glasses and the new "Mirror" API. Read More

Post-patch, US-CERT continues call to disable Java plug-in
Even though Oracle patched critical Java vulnerabilities on Monday, the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) is still urging users to disable Java browser plug-ins. Read More

25 crazy and scary things the TSA has found on travelers
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