Thursday, May 30, 2013

Rude and overworked? Blame tech

There really is an app for that

The Moto X phone is real! It's really real!

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May 30, 2013
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Rude and overworked? Blame tech

IT execs say employees are getting ruder on the job, and they're blaming technology for the rise in bad manners.

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Issue highlights

1. There really is an app for that

2. The Moto X phone is real! It's really real!

3. Gartner security survey: McAfee up, Trend Micro down

4. University fined $400,000 after disabled firewall put medical records at risk

5. Rackspace beefs up cloud networking features with Brocade's Vyatta technology

6. Start menu isn't back in Win 8.1, but some key features are

7. Debunking Xbox One cloud myths

8. Western Digital ships its first rack-mount storage system

9. When malware strikes: How to clean an infected PC

10. IP Commission Report: Surprisingly clueful

11. Inside look at the Apple iWatch

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There really is an app for that

Some apps are useful, some apps are fun, but these apps just make you say, 'Wow, really?' READ MORE

The Moto X phone is real! It's really real!

It was going to show up at CES. It was going to show up at Mobile World Congress. It was definitely, definitely going to show up at Google I/O and be the hardware announcement that the rumor mill delved so deeply to find, and that wound up never materializing. Finally, however, the word went forth at the Wall Street Journal's D executive conference: The Motorola X phone, long the topic of speculation and rumor-mongering, is an actual device called the Moto X, and it will hit the market by October of this year. O frabjous day! Callou! Callay! He chortled in his joy. READ MORE

Gartner security survey: McAfee up, Trend Micro down

A Gartner report about the security software market out today shows that No. 2 ranked McAfee enjoyed the most overall growth last year, Trend Micro slipped but stayed No. 3, and Symantec held onto its top spot with 19.6% of the $19.1 billion market. READ MORE

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This paper examines how F5's market-leading ADC technology helps to meet these challenges and reduce the complexity of the citrix infrastructure, minimize deployment cycle time, improve scalability of VDI-related services, and enhance the mobility of users and operations alike. Learn More

University fined $400,000 after disabled firewall put medical records at risk

A medical facility run by Idaho State University (ISU) has been fined $400,000 (APS266,000) after thousands of patient records were left in an unprotected state when firewall monitoring was disabled. READ MORE

Rackspace beefs up cloud networking features with Brocade's Vyatta technology

Public cloud and managed hosting provider Rackspace has rolled technology from Vyatta into its services, allowing customers to set granulated network segmentation policies that dictate which users and what type of traffic have access to which hosted resources. READ MORE

Start menu isn't back in Win 8.1, but some key features are

Microsoft customers clamoring for the incorporation of the Start button and menu into Windows 8 will get their wish partially fulfilled in the upcoming update of the OS. READ MORE

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Enterprises can utilize Vblock Infrastructure Platforms technologies to deploy application and workload mobility for large-scale SAP databases, with no impact on business continuity. Learn More.

Debunking Xbox One cloud myths

Cloud computing enables a lot of unique practices, but beware overly generous promises, starting with the one coming from Microsoft for Xbox One. The overall messaging out of that launch was a confused mess, but some parts of it were just plain off the mark. READ MORE

Western Digital ships its first rack-mount storage system

Western Digital, a company well known for manufacturing consumer and enterprise hard drives, as well as small NAS boxes for the SMB market, is expanding its focus on the latter market with a new line of rack-mount storage systems. READ MORE

When malware strikes: How to clean an infected PC

You work hard to protect your PC from the malicious thugs of our digital world. You keep your antivirus program up to date. You avoid questionable Web sites. You don't open suspicious email attachments. You keep Java, Flash, and Adobe Reader up-to-date--or better yet, you learn to live without them. READ MORE

IP Commission Report: Surprisingly clueful

If one were to believe the blogs, the recently released 84-page report from The Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property is full of dumb ideas, proposed by people who have no idea about intellectual property. But the report is actually quite well done, specifically identifying real problems, including the inaccurate estimates of losses from the theft of copyrighted works, and proposing specific solutions, some of which might actually work. READ MORE

Inside look at the Apple iWatch

Apple patent filings offer hints of what the iWatch might look like READ MORE

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Best Practices for Cloud-based Information Governance

This paper explores the latest ideas on evaluating cloud deployment: public or private clouds, data location and privacy, data ownership and access, and cloud technology ownership. Read Now!

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The 20 best iPhone/iPad games of 2013 so far

Fish turn into money, sorcerers rule and things get creepy in these iPhone and iPad games.

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