47594387
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itwbennett writes
"Speaking at a cloud panel discussion hosted by Reuters on Wednesday, Terry Wise, head of global partner ecosystem for Amazon Web Services, explained how the company handles government requests for data stored on Amazon's cloud: 'If a U.S. entity is serving us with a legally binding subpoena, we contact our customer and work with that customer to fight the subpoena.' But Wise's best advice to customers is to encrypt their data: 'If the data is encrypted, all we'd be handing over would be the cypher text,' he said."Link to Original Source
47583445
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jfruh writes
"We've learned many lessons in the fallout from Edward Snowden's whistleblowing and flight to Hong Kong, but here's an important one: Never piss off your sysadmin. Even if your organization isn't running a secret, civil-rights violating surveillance program, you're probably managing to annoy your admins in a number of more pedestrian ways that might still have blowback for you. Learn to stay on their good side by going along with their reasonable requests and being specific with your complaints."Link to Original Source
47505493
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jfruh writes
"Samsung is one of South Korea's most prominent companies on the international tech scene. But it's looking for mobile innovation in a surprising place: The United States. The company is starting incubator spaces in Palo Alto and Manhattan aimed at cultivating startups working on software and services for phones, tablet computers and televisions. The hope is that Samsung will be able to cut deals with these companies and keep its tight grip on the Android market."Link to Original Source
47389029
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itwbennett writes
"The trend among CIOs to be seen as business strategists, and not technologists, is 'finding its way down the IT food chain and to all lower organizational levels,' writes IT management consultant Eric Bloom. This effect is most noticeable in IT hiring, where, says Bloom, for jobs from business analyst to software tester, if you don't have specific industry knowledge, you need not apply. And the reason you need this knowledge may have less to do with the job you are applying for than to bolster the CIO's business cred."Link to Original Source
47380235
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itwbennett writes
"You can make a decent living as a software developer, and if you were lucky enough to get hired at a pre-IPO tech phenom, you can even get rich at it. But set your sights above the average and below Scrooge McDuck and you won't find many developers in that salary range. In fact, the number of developers earning $200,000 and above is under 10%, writes blogger Phil Johnson who looked at salary data from Glassdoor, Salary.com and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. How does your salary rate? What's your advice for earning the big bucks?"Link to Original Source
47380555
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jfruh writes
"Frustrated by short battery life on your phone? One possible culprit: Twitter and Facebook's standalone apps, which poll constantly in the background for updates and direct messages in ways that are difficult to prevent. One simple solution is to just access these sites through your mobile web browser; it turns out that Twitter and Facebook maintain remarkably up to date and fucntional mobile-facing sites that are easier on your battery."Link to Original Source
47322909
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jfruh writes
"The average advanced attack on a computer system results in the attacker having access to the compromised machine for nearly eight months. Your security plan needs to determine not just how to keep bad guys out but how to detect and repulse those who get in. Sandra Henry-Stocker outlines the steps you need to make sure an attacker's stay on your Unix machine is short and unproductive."Link to Original Source
47307847
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itwbennett writes
"Next month, Intel will be rolling out Haswell for servers. But where the desktop message was clear and necessary, the server message is a little more complicated and very different, says blogger Andy Patrizio. It will be interesting to see how Intel plans to sell these chips that are only a shade faster than their Ivy Bridge predecessors. The answer, may lie in Haswell's improved graphics performance: 'According to Cisco, Internet video/TV/VoD and other video traffic will account for 80% to 90% of Internet traffic by 2017. Besides the fact that's a downright scary stat, something has to process all that video, and Haswell is far better equipped than any prior generation of Xeons to handle it.'"Link to Original Source
47217937
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jfruh writes
"With E3 only a week away, Microsoft is finally spelling out details on some of the Xbox One's most controversial rumored features: Yes, you'll need to be connected to the Internet, because the console "checks in" once every 24 hours. No, the Kinect isn't spying on you at all times; it's just listening for the phrase "Xbox on". And yes, you'll be able to resell your games — with restrictions."Link to Original Source
47187789
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itwbennett writes
"'Find My iPhone' is neat, but it's time for smartphone makers and carriers to stop pretending their anti-theft measures are anything more than minimum viable products, says blogger Kevin Purdy. He's not the first to point this out: As reported in Slashdot, 'NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg said overall crime in New York City was up 3.3% in 2012 due to iPhone, iPad and other Apple device thefts.' And now San Francisco and New York attorneys general are calling a 'Smartphone Summit' where representatives from Apple, Google, Samsung, and Microsoft are due to meet and discuss the implementation of a industry-wide 'kill switch' system."Link to Original Source
47184171
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jfruh writes
"Did you buy an Acer laptop with Vista and less than 1 GB of RAM? The company has a thumb drive it would like to send you. Did you get an unwanted text from Papa John's? The company would like to make it up with you with $50 worth of free pizza. These and other little rewards are available as a result of class action lawsuits that have wound their ways through the court systems and now, years later, are paying off for very large groups of tech users."Link to Original Source
47159629
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itwbennett writes
"The best programming fonts, it’s generally agreed, should, among other things, be monospaced (for code alignment), sans-serif, readable at a small size and clearly distinguish between certain common characters (e.g., zero from the letter O, lower case L from the number 1). Here are some of the most popular over the last 20+ years."Link to Original Source
47151051
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jfruh writes
"SoftLayer is a cloud services firm that was just scooped up for big money by IBM, who had to fight off bids from EMC and AT&T to get it. Why was Big Blue willing to pay so much for a fairly anonymous company? Well, it's moving into the cloud realm in a way that still allows customers to run their apps on bare metal. Oh, and it's already pretty profitable."Link to Original Source
47133279
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itwbennett writes
"The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) said in a final judgment released Tuesday that Apple infringed a patent involving 3G wireless technology used to transmit multiple services simultaneously and is necessary for device interoperability. The import ban affects AT&T models of the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad 3G and iPad 2 3G. The ITC also went a step further, issuing a cease-and-desist order so that Apple is forbidden from selling any inventory of those iPhones and iPads that it has already imported into the U.S. after the exclusion rder takes effect. The order now goes to President Obama for review."Link to Original Source
47117815
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itwbennett writes
"While Bateman is technically still an 'undeclared humanities' major, the former Family Ties star, now a college freshman, is intent on switching her major to computer science. She's posted bits of her code on her Tumblr so you can check on her progress. But she must be doing something right: she's scored a summer internship at Symantec."Link to Original Source