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Submission + - A serious proposal to fix Windows 8 (infoworld.com)

Submitted by GMGruman on Monday June 03, 2013 @11:17PM

GMGruman writes: Windows 8 is simply not selling, and everyone but Microsoft knows it's a mess of an OS. And the Windows 8.1 "Blue" that Microsoft revealed some details of late last week doesn't address the fundamental flaws. So a team at InfoWorld worked up a serious proposal to rework Windows 8 for both PCs and tablets that fixes those flaws and lets Microsoft's true innovations break free of today's Windows 8, complete with mockups of the proposed Windows "Red."

Submission + - Going all-Google to replace your PC and TV service (infoworld.com)

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on Friday August 31, 2012 @04:42PM

GMGruman writes: "James Curnow writes "Google's vision of computing involves tossing your PC or Mac and moving to a cloud-centric, all-Google ecosystem. Call it the Googleplex: a mix of the Chrome OS-based Chromebox PC or Chromebook laptop, one or more Android tablets — perhaps a 10-inch model for work and a 7-inch Nexus 7 for entertainment on the go — and a Nexus Q home entertainment system that you control via an Android device." So he takes the "Googleplex" for a test drive to see how well it delivers on the Android/Chrome OS vision."

Submission + - Is GPL Licensing in Decline? (infoworld.com)

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GMGruman

on Friday April 27, 2012 @11:38AM

GMGruman writes: "Simon Phipps writes, "As Apache licenses proliferate, two warring camps have formed over whether the GPL is or isn't falling out of favor in favor of the Apache License." But as he explores the issues on both sides, he shows how the binary thinking on the issue is misplaced, and that the truth is more nuanced, with Apache License gaining in commercially focused efforts but GPL appearing to increase in software-freedom-oriented efforts. In other words, it depends on the style of open source."

Submission + - Serious Oracle Flaw Revealed; Patch Coming (infoworld.com)

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GMGruman

on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @12:40PM

GMGruman writes: "A bug in Oracle Database that could take down large databases — or let a hacker do so — has been found, and Oracle promises a patch later today. When InfoWorld first heard of the bug two months ago, its investigation revealed how dangerous this bug could be, and after convincing Oracle to address the issue, InfoWorld held the news until a patch was available, so hackers could not exploit the bug in the meantime. Paul Venezia details just how this bug exposes companies to the possibility of databases going offline, and Eric Knorr asks Oracle users to help test the patch in their complex environments. (InfoWorld's tests in simpler environments show the patch works there.)"

Submission + - Sorry, IT: These 5 technologies belong to users (infoworld.com)

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on Friday December 23, 2011 @03:35PM

GMGruman writes: "The BYOD (bring your own device) phenomenon hasn't been easy on IT, which has seen its control slip. But for these five technologies, it has already slipped, and Forrester and others argue IT needs to let go of them. That also means not investing time and money in all the management apps that vendors are happy to sell to IT shops afraid of BYOD — as this post shows, many just won't deliver what IT hopes."

Submission + - Mozilla's 3 Big Bets to Keep the Web Open (infoworld.com)

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on Friday December 23, 2011 @12:21PM

GMGruman writes: "In his blog, Savio Rodrigues writes that Google's latest agreement with Mozilla will ironically fund three new areas of competition between Google and Mozilla — areas that users and open source advocates should cheer on as they will make the Web both better and more open. The alternative, he says, is more control by the likes of Google, Facebook, and Apple."

Submission + - How to Thwart the High Priests in IT (infoworld.com) 1

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on Saturday December 17, 2011 @02:31PM

GMGruman writes: "You know the type: They want to control and restrict any technology in your office, maybe for job security, maybe as a power trip. As the "consumerization of IT" phenomenon grows, such IT people are increasingly clashing with users, who bring in their own smartphones, use cloud apps, and work at home on their own equipment. These "enemies" in IT are easy to identify, but there are subtler enemies within IT that also aim to prevent users from being self-sufficient in their technology use. That's bad for both users and IT, as it gets in the way of useful work for everyone. Here's what to look for in such hidden IT "enemies," and how to thwart their efforts to contain you."

Submission + - The great Twitter-Facebook-Dropbox-Last.fm Mashup (infoworld.com)

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on Saturday September 17, 2011 @01:28PM

GMGruman writes: "Ted Samson reports on a new Web application dubbed ifttt.com that mashes up all those Web services we riutinely use. Today's Web is brimming with a staggering number of services where users can speak their mind (Twitter), grab vital information (any news or blog source), store important files (Dropbox or Box.net), collaborate with peers (Facebook or Google+), and much more. The dream has long been to devise ways to get these often disparate and siloed services to interact with one another, creating something greater than the sum of its parts. It serves as an excellent yardstick of how far we've come from the early days of specialized, single-purpose mashups, or more complicated SOA where services were cobbled together with complex tools and the coding equivalent of duct tape."

Submission + - HP moves WebOS from PC group: What is afoot? (infoworld.com)

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on Monday September 05, 2011 @02:08PM

GMGruman writes: "Over the weekend, HP execs posted statements announcing the transfer of WebOS from the PC group that produced the now-killed TouchPad tablet and other mobile devices to HP's Office of Strategy and Technology. Is that a new lifeline for WebOS? Or, as analyst Trip Chowdhry suggested, is WebOS a pawn in a Shakespearean corporate game by HP CEO Léo Apotheker in a battle with "lazy" HP execs? The signals point to the latter."

Submission + - The iPhone's Role in Crippling T-Mobile (infoworld.com)

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on Saturday September 03, 2011 @01:24PM

GMGruman writes: "The feds may be blocking AT&T's buyout of T-Mobile, but T-Mobile is in poor shape to continue as is. Parent company Deutsche Telekom's decision not to invest in U.S. spectrum a decade ago constrained T-Mobile's ability to grow, especially through 4G networks now finally emerging. But from a customer point of view, it was the iPhone that has threatened the company the most. Or, more precisely, its lack of iPhone."

Submission + - Java 7: What's in it for developers (infoworld.com)

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on Wednesday August 24, 2011 @12:37PM

GMGruman writes: "After five years of a torturous political process and now under the new ownership of Oracle, Java SE 7 is finally out (and its initial bugs patched in the Update 1 release). So what does it actually offer? Paul Krill surveys the new capabilities that matter most for Java developers, from dynamic language support to an improved file system."

Submission + - Zombie Cookies Just Won't Die; HTML5 Adds New Life (infoworld.com)

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on Monday August 22, 2011 @01:45PM

GMGruman writes: "Microsoft embarrassed itself last week when it got caught using "zombie cookies" — a form of tracking cookies that users can't delete, as they come back to life after you've "killed" them. Microsoft says it'll stop the "aberrant" practice. But Woody Leonhard says you ain't seen nothing yet. It turns out HTML5 offers a technical mechanism to give zombie cookies a new lease on life — and the Web browsers' private-browsing features can't stop them."

Submission + - The Dark Side of the Tech Patent Wars (infoworld.com)

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on Thursday August 18, 2011 @06:12PM

GMGruman writes: "Bill Snyder, in his InfoWorld column, warns that the tech patent wars are going nuclear, and could vaporize tech jobs in the process. He likens the situation to medicine, where so much money now goes to pay for insurance and "defensive medicine," rather than for actual care. In the tech world, he fears that the same will occur with patents, forcing companies to spend ever more money on patents and lawyers — and less on innovation and staff."

Submission + - After a Decade, Mac Sales Again Top 10% (infoworld.com)

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on Thursday July 14, 2011 @10:53AM

GMGruman writes: "The last time Apple's Mac sales account for more than 10 percent of the U.S. PC market was 1991. This spring, Apple finally returned to that market share high, with 10.7 percent of all U.S. PC sales, according to both IDC and Gartner. That's a major reversal from its 2004 share of under 2 percent. The sales report comes after some other good news this week for Apple: A third of big businesses now let employees choose a Mac as their PC — and more than half choose the Mac."

Submission + - How Apple's iOS went from insecure to most secure (infoworld.com)

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on Tuesday June 07, 2011 @11:13AM

GMGruman writes: "There's no such thing as a perfectly secure operating system, but security experts agree — somewhat grudgingly in some cases — that iOS, Apple's mobile operating system, is the most secure commercial OS today, mobile or desktop. It didn't start that way of course, and Robert Lemos explains what Apple did to go from insecure to most secure."

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