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Submission + - Tech in hot seat for 10/1 Obamacare launch (networkworld.com)

Submitted by bednarz
bednarz writes: In four days, the health insurance marketplaces mandated by the Obama administration's Affordable Care Act are scheduled to open for business. Yet even before the sites launch, problems http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/092713-obamacare-tech-glitches-274265.html are emerging. Final security testing of the federal data hub isn’t slated to happen until Sept. 30, one day before the rollout. Lawmakers have raised significant concerns http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/091113-lawmakers-question-security-of-health-273765.html about the ability of the system to protect personal health records and other private information. “Lots and lots of late nights and weekends as people get ready for go-live,” says Patrick Howard, who leads Deloitte Consulting’s public sector state health care practice.
Yahoo!

Submission + - First Yahoo, now Best Buy bans telework (networkworld.com)

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bednarz writes: "Is telecommuting the new scapegoat for poor performance? Best Buy, in the midst of a corporate restructuring, has canceled its flexible work program http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/030513-best-buy-telework-267403.html and expects corporate employees to put in traditional 40-hour work weeks at the retailer's headquarters (they used to be able to work whenever and wherever they wanted). The announcement comes on the heels of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's decision to end telecommuting, which ignited a http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/022813-yahoo-telework-267219.html firestorm of criticism. It also follows news of Best Buy's plans to lay off 400 corporate workers as part of a plan to cut $725 million in costs and restructure its business."
Google

Submission + - 2012 patent rankings: IBM on top, Google spikes (networkworld.com)

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bednarz
bednarz writes: "It’s official: IBM has dominated the U.S. patent race http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/011013-ibm-tops-patent-rankings-265697.html for two decades. IBM earned 6,478 utility patents last year, topping the list of patent winners for the 20th year in a row, according to data published today from http://ificlaims.com/index.php?page=misc_top_50_2012 IFI CLAIMS Patent Services. Samsung was the second most prolific patent winner, with 5,081 patents received in 2012, followed by Canon (3,174), Sony (3,032), Panasonic (2,769), Microsoft (2,613), Toshiba (2,447), Hon Hai Precision Industry (2,013), GE (1,652), and LG Electronics (1,624). Earning its first appearance among the top 50, Google increased its 2012 patent count by 170% to 1,151 patents and landed at 21 in IFI’s rankings, up from 65 in 2011. Google narrowly beat Apple, which earned 1,136 patents (an increase of 68%) and landed at 22 in the rankings."
IOS

Submission + - Apple to attend Black Hat Security Conference for the first time (networkworld.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: For the first time, Apple will officially be in attendance at the annual Black Hat security conference which is scheduled to run through Thursday of this week. This is a notable development for two reasons. First, Apple has never formally attended the conference. Two, many of the more prominent stories to emerge out of previous Black Hat events have centered on Apple security.

Representing Apple at the conference will be Apple platform security manager Dallas De Atley who is scheduled to deliver a speech on Thursday about the security technologies in iOS. Some have speculated that Apple's decision to attend the conference is rooted in their desire to make further inroads in the enterprise market while others believe it's a sign that Apple recognizes the growing importance of having a more open relationship with the hacker community at large.
Wireless Networking

Submission + - IETF attendees reengineer their hotel's Wi-Fi net (networkworld.com)

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alphadogg writes: What happens when a bunch of IETF super nerds show up in Paris for a major conference and discover their hotel's Wi-Fi network has imploded? They give it an Extreme Wi-Fi Makeover. Members of the Internet Engineering Task Force, who gathered for the outfit’s 83rd meeting this week in France, discovered earlier this week as they arrived at the toney Hotel Concorde Lafayette that the Wi-Fi was flakey and became flakier still as scores more attendees arrived and tried to connect, and the wired net was having issues of its own. Working behind the scenes, a team of IETF attendees negotiated with the hotel and were granted access to the wireless network, and began rigging up all sorts of fixes, which even included taping a Nexus S phone to a ceiling and turning off the radios on numerous access points to reduce noise.
Games

Submission + - 'The Art of Video Games' exhibition opens (networkworld.com)

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bednarz
bednarz writes: "“Video games allow us as human beings to explore our dreams, our fears, our thoughts, our morals, and engage with each other in a way that no other medium allows us to. I find that inspiring and beautiful, and I am so happy to be alive during this time. We are going to experience, I think, one of the greatest surges of artistic intent in human history, and I believe that the majority of it will come through video games.” — Chris Melissinos, former Sun exec, guest curator of the Smithsonian’s new exhibition, ‘The Art of Video Games,’ opening March 16 http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2012/games/gamefest/"
Education

Submission + - U.S. losing R&D dominance to Asia? (networkworld.com)

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bednarz
bednarz writes: "U.S. companies are locating more of their R&D operations overseas, and Asian countries are rapidly increasing investments in their own science and technology economies, the National Science Board said in a report http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind12/ released this week. The number of overseas researchers employed by U.S. multinationals nearly doubled from 138,000 in 2004 to 267,000 in 2009, for example. On the education front, the U.S. accounts for just 4% of undergraduate engineering degrees awarded globally, compared to China (34%), Japan (5%), and India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand (17% collectively). "The low U.S. share of global engineering degrees in recent years is striking; well above half of all such degrees are awarded in Asia," NSB said in its report."
IBM

Submission + - IBM wins most patents for 19th straight year (networkworld.com)

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bednarz
bednarz writes: "IBM retained its patent crown http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/011112-ibm-patents-254787.html for 2011, topping the list of patent winners for the 19th year in a row. The only other U.S. company to make the top 10, Microsoft fell from third place to sixth place, according to IFI Claims Patent Services’ list http://www.ificlaims.com/index.php?page=misc_Top_50_2011 of the top 50 U.S. patent assignees. HP and Intel fell out of the top 10 and landed 14th and 16th, respectively. Apple moved up to No. 39 after breaking into the top 50 for the first time http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/011011-patent-winners-ibm-apple.html last year. Asian firms account for 25 of the top 50, and U.S. firms hold 17 slots."
Apple

Submission + - Apple quietly drops iOS jailbreak detection API (networkworld.com)

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bednarz
bednarz writes: "Apple has disabled, without explanation, a jailbreak detection API in iOS less than six months after introducing it. Device management vendors say the reasons for the decision are a mystery, but insist they can use alternatives to discover if an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad has been modified so they can load and alter applications outside of Apple's iTunes-based App Store."

Submission + - Android phones get virtualization treatment (networkworld.com)

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bednarz
bednarz writes: "VMware is teaming with LG to sell Android smartphones that are virtualized, allowing a single phone to run two operating systems, one for business use and one for personal use. A user’s personal email and applications would run natively on the Android phone, while a guest operating system contains the employee’s work environment. The devices would also have two phone numbers."
Google

Submission + - Do we care that Google is #2 ISP? (networkworld.com)

Submitted by bednarz
bednarz writes: Google is now the second-largest carrier of Internet traffic, accounting for 6.4% of all web traffic, according to data released this week by Arbor Networks. But should IT execs care? Yes, says Craig Labovitz, Arbor's chief scientist, who argues that IT managers need to understand how macro Internet traffic trends will affect the design and management of their own network backbones. "This will affect how enterprises plan their services... whether they host their own services or whether they use cloud vendors," Labovitz says. "The enterprise needs to shift its thinking in terms of [service level agreements] and the way it measures, monitors and secures its networks. That all used to be focused on connectivity, but now it needs to be focused on content."
Piracy

Submission + - Android software piracy rampant (networkworld.com)

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bednarz
bednarz writes: "Pirating Android apps is a http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/45899 longstanding problem. But it seems to be getting worse, even as Google begins to respond much more aggressively. The dilemma: protecting developers’ investments, and revenue stream, while keeping an open platform. Some have argued that piracy is rampant in those countries where the online Android Market is not yet available. But a recent KeyesLabs research project suggests that may not be true: 'Over the course of 90 days, the [KeyesLabs] app was installed a total of 8,659 times. Of those installations only 2,831 were legitimate purchases, representing an overall piracy rate of over 67%.... The largest contributor to piracy, by far, is the United States providing 4,054 or about 70% of all pirated installations...'"
Social Networks

"David After Dentist" Made $150k For Family 234

Posted by samzenpus from the is-this-real-life? dept.
It turns out recording your drugged child pays pretty well. 7-year-old David DeVore became an overnight sensation when his father posted a video of his ramblings after dental surgery. To date that video has made the DeVore family around $150,000. Most of the money came from YouTube, but the family has made $50k from licensing and merchandise. From the article: "The one seemingly minor decision to make the video available all over the Internet set off a whirlwind of changes for the DeVore family. Within just four days, 'David After Dentist' received 3 million views on YouTube and the younger David quickly became an Internet celebrity. His father quit his job in residential real estate (did we mention they live in Florida?), and the family started selling T-shirts featuring cartoon drawings of their son post-dental surgery."
Microsoft

Submission + - Ballmer hits 10th anniversary as Microsoft CEO (networkworld.com)

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bednarz
" rel="nofollow">bednarz writes: "Ten years ago on Jan. 13, 2000, Microsoft's Bill Gates turned over the CEO reins to Steve Ballmer. Back in 2000, Microsoft was still under threat of being broken up by the Department of Justice. Today, Ballmer is trying to meld enterprise and cloud computing. He has spent the past decade working through lawsuits, mergers, acquisitions, competitive battles and, of course, new software including Windows 7, which could become the legacy of his leadership at Microsoft. Not that we'll ever forget Ballmer's 'developers, developers, developers' rant (and accompanying http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tX4N2oUa2Q YouTube video)."
Security

Submission + - XML library flaw; Sun, Apache, GNOME vulnerable (networkworld.com)

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bednarz
bednarz writes: "Vulnerabilities discovered in XML libraries from Sun, Apache Software Foundation, Python Software Foundation and the GNOME Project could result in successful denial-of-service attacks on applications built with them, according to Codenomicon. The security vendor found flaws in XML parsers that made it fairly easy to cause a DoS attack, corruption of data, and delivery of a malicious payload using XML-based content. Codenomicon has shared its findings with industry and the open source groups, and a number of recommendations and patches for the XML-related vulnerabilities are expected to be made available Wednesday. In addition, a general security advisory is expected to be published by the Computer Emergency Response Team in Finland (CERT-FI)."

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