Tuesday, March 19, 2013

JPMorgan Chase customers see zero balances after technical glitch

Products of the week 3.18.13

Medical search engine said to find 'zebras' better than Google

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March 19, 2013
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JPMorgan Chase customers see zero balances after technical glitch

Customers of JPMorgan Chase reported seeing zero balances in their accounts both online and on mobile, and speculated that the bank's systems had been hacked into.

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Issue highlights

1. Products of the week 3.18.13

2. Medical search engine said to find 'zebras' better than Google

3. Salesforce.com integrates mobile Chatter apps with its CRM software

4. Skype instant messaging in China is censored, spied upon

5. Z10 sales start Friday in U.S., but Blackberry's future still far from certain

6. H-1B reform bill bolstered by testimony of mostly male visas

7. FBI's National Security Letter gag orders violate 1st Amendment, ruled unconstitutional

8. Study exposes impact of second-hand cellphone use

9. Unified Communications needs specialty middleware more than ever

10. Internal-use SSL certificates pose security risk for upcoming domain extensions

11. Apple CEO Tim Cook's approval rating drops

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Products of the week 3.18.13

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Medical search engine said to find 'zebras' better than Google

"When you hear hoofbeats, think horses not zebras" - long a favorite expression - means that doctors are well advised to initially see common symptoms as evidence of common maladies, which is all well and good until the patient happens to be suffering from a rare disease. READ MORE

Salesforce.com integrates mobile Chatter apps with its CRM software

Salesforce.com will upgrade its Chatter enterprise social networking (ESN) application for iOS and release one for the first time for Android on Tuesday, delivering in both new capabilities to integrate them with its main CRM software. READ MORE

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Skype instant messaging in China is censored, spied upon

The Chinese version of Skype contains spyware that searches for blacklisted words and phrases, blocks instant messages that contain them, copies them to servers and captures the rest of IM chats that have been flagged in this way, according to researchers. READ MORE

Z10 sales start Friday in U.S., but Blackberry's future still far from certain

BlackBerry Z10 sales kick off this Friday in the U.S., but it is still unclear how popular the smartphone and its Q10 cousin running BlackBerry 10 will be, amid a number of contradictory predictions and indicators. READ MORE

H-1B reform bill bolstered by testimony of mostly male visas

U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley has re-introduced an H-1B reform bill that once again takes aim at offshore outsourcers, and on Monday he got more ammunition for that battle. READ MORE

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FBI's National Security Letter gag orders violate 1st Amendment, ruled unconstitutional

On Friday, a federal judge in the Ninth Circuit Court ruled that gag orders accompanying National Security Letters are unconstitutional! READ MORE

Study exposes impact of second-hand cellphone use

Those juicy tidbits gleaned from one-side cellphone conversations you happen to overhear are even more distracting than those juicy tidbits gleaned from accidentally overhearing conversations between two nearby people, according to University of San Diego researchers. READ MORE

Unified Communications needs specialty middleware more than ever

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Internal-use SSL certificates pose security risk for upcoming domain extensions

The practice of issuing SSL certificates for internal domain names with unqualified extensions could endanger the privacy and integrity of HTTPS communications for upcoming generic top-level domains (gTLDs), according to a security advisory from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). READ MORE

Apple CEO Tim Cook's approval rating drops

Apple CEO Tim Cook's approval rating fell in the last 12 months, dropping Steve Jobs' successor to the 18th spot on an annual ranking of American chief executives. READ MORE

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