Thursday, April 18, 2013

Americans spend 16 minutes of every online hour on social nets

US Bitcoin exchange BitFloor shuts down again

Microsoft may backtrack on Start button in Windows 8

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April 18, 2013
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Americans spend 16 minutes of every online hour on social nets

Americans are so fixated on social networks that they spend an average of 16 minutes out of every hour on them, according to a study by Experian Marketing Services.

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US Bitcoin exchange BitFloor shuts down again

The largest Bitcoin exchange in the U.S., BitFloor, has closed again, this time due to issues with its bank account, according to its founder. READ MORE

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Microsoft may backtrack on Start button in Windows 8

Microsoft may recant its Windows 8 design theology, bloggers reported Tuesday, by offering Windows 8 users an option to bypass the "Modern" UI and by restoring the Start button and menu to the beleaguered operating system. READ MORE

US House moves toward passage of CISPA

The U.S. House of Representatives moved closer Wednesday toward the passage of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), despite concerns that the cyberthreat information-sharing bill will allow Web-based companies to share a wide amount of customer information with government agencies. READ MORE

IT pro has a hair-raising hobby: competitive bearding

IT professional Chad Roberts shows how he puts his best faces forward READ MORE

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DNS continues to be a tempting target for attackers, and when they succeed in disrupting DNS, all external data center services are affected. This paper helps organizations confronting these growth and security challenges understand how a new, full-proxy architecture for DNS provides a complete solution for global, local, and cloud load balancing. Learn More.

Q&A with IT pro/competitive beardsmith

By day Chad Roberts, 35, is a Windows Server & Exchange administrator for Berkshire Hathaway Media Group. For play he's an award-winning competitive beardsmith and founder of the RVA Beard League. At right is his Spiderman beard that won a competition in New Jersey last month. READ MORE

When the PC is obsolete, how will you do this, and this, and this?

Last week, the PC industry was rocked by news that Q1 computer shipments had declined by as much as 14 percent, year on year. Analysts cite various factors, but they put most of the blame on a consumer shift toward tablets and other mobile devices. READ MORE

Nokia sees improving Windows Phone sales and shrinking loss in Q1

Nokia's sales of smartphones running Windows Phone continued to grow in the first quarter, and its net loss shrank year on year, even as overall revenue declined. READ MORE

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Overview of Virt & Cloud Market Vendor Landscape for SMBs

This executive summary evaluates virtual infrastructure and management, end user computing, and cloud service provider solutions from leading vendors, to enable senior decision makers in SMB organizations to decide which vendors in the market offer the best virtualization and cloud solutions. Read Now!

Google plans to set up gigabit-speed fiber in Provo, Utah

Google is acquiring iProvo, a fiber-optic network owned by the city of Provo, Utah, as part of a plan to introduce its high-speed broadband network called Google Fiber there. READ MORE

Google's Eric Schmidt still wants Google Maps on the iOS homescreen

Apple created quite a stir over in Mountain View last Summer when it announced at WWDC that it was releasing its own homegrown Maps app. In doing so, Apple kicked Google's map offering to the curb. Of course, things didn't go off so smoothly for Apple. You might remember that the launch of Maps on iOS 6 was marked by controversy amid poor user response and less than accurate mapping data. Indeed, things... READ MORE

Microsoft signs patent licensing deal with Foxconn covering Android, Chrome devices

Microsoft has signed up another major electronics manufacturer to its Android and Chrome patent licensing program, this time Taiwan's Foxconn, which will pay royalties to the U.S. software giant. READ MORE

IT supply-chain security standard aims to prevent counterfeits, tampering

The danger of counterfeit and tampered IT products is well known, and to fight it, the Open Group has published a technical security standard aimed at supply-chain safety. It's anticipated that by year-end there will also be an official process under way for accreditation so technology suppliers can prove adherence to the standard, according to some involved, which include IBM and Cisco. READ MORE

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Best Practices into Cloud Adoption

Cloud includes a variety of different delivery options as well as a lot of terms for those options. But, which is best for you? Learn More

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How to solve Windows 8 crashes

Like any computer operating system, Windows 8 can fall over. Luckily, there is an easy way to diagnose the cause of most crashes.

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