Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Chinese cyber-espionage rising, says Verizon annual report

Schmidt says Google Glass still a year away

Boeing technology offers secure, efficient way to tie together business, industrial nets

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April 23, 2013
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Chinese cyber-espionage rising, says Verizon annual report

Cyber-espionage originating from China has become a top source of data breach incidents, according to an annual report from Verizon. The report found Chinese spying and theft of sensitive corporate information, such as intellectual property, accounted for about 20% of the 621 data breach cases last year that Verizon analyzed.

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Schmidt says Google Glass still a year away

Google's Eric Schmidt said the company's wearable computer, Glass, is about a year from reaching the market. READ MORE

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Boeing technology offers secure, efficient way to tie together business, industrial nets

The Boeing Company is pioneering a way to securely bring together business IT networks with what ordinarily are entirely separate networks for industrial-control systems (ICS) in order to gain efficiencies and benefits in information-sharing in manufacturing. READ MORE

IBM researchers model human blood system to build solar power prototype

IBM today said its researchers are developing a solar power system that concentrates solar radiation 2,000 times by using a human-blood supply modeled way of cooling and coverting 80% of Sun's heat into useful energy. IBM says the system can also desalinate water and cool air in sunny, remote locations where such systems are often in short supply. READ MORE

Microsoft to bring the Start button to Win 8, reports say

Microsoft appears ready to concede what virtually every critic, user, and analyst knows about Windows 8: the new OS needs the Start button back, badly. READ MORE

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VMware Innovation Awards Call for Entries

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Senate takes major step toward Internet sales tax

The U.S. Senate has voted 74-20 to close debate and move to a final vote on a bill allowing states to collect sales tax from out-of-state Internet and catalog retailers. READ MORE

Reddit apologizes for 'online witch hunt' for Boston bombing suspect

In a testament to the issues surrounding the appropriate use of social media during a tragedy, Reddit is publicly apologizing for the role that it played last week in fueling an online witch hunt that led to identifying an innocent Brown University student as a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings. READ MORE

CA Technologies buys Layer 7 for API smarts

CA Technologies is acquiring Layer 7 Technologies, a purveyor of tools for managing and securing application programming interfaces (APIs). READ MORE

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Microsoft says Office 365 adoption accelerating, but questions remain

When Microsoft reported its third-quarter financial results last week, company officials trumpeted several metrics about sales and adoption of Office 365, the cloud subscription suite for email and collaboration. READ MORE

What's your favorite enterprise IT product?

It's time for Fave Raves, our annual call for the best products, as chosen by readers. Do you have a favorite enterprise IT product you can't live without? Tell us about it and we'll share your raves with our readers. READ MORE

Products of the week 4.22.13

Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as Symantec and Radware READ MORE

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