Publication: Computerworld

First reported 9 hours ago - Updated 14 mins ago - 1 reports

Office Mobile for the iPhone enters an already-crowded field

If Microsoft is hoping to pick off some Apple users with its new iPhone, it'll find it's got a lot of competition already Computerworld - Microsoft released its first iOS version of Office on Friday. Officially dubbed Microsoft Office Mobile for Office ... [Published Computerworld - 9 hours ago]

Entities: iPhone, Microsoft Corporation, Quickoffice, Apple iOS, Microsoft Office 365

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 19 mins ago - 1 reports

NASA

NASA needs help hunting down killer asteroids

Space agency issues Grand Challenge to find asteroids that could threaten Earth Computerworld - NASA wants to find asteroids that could threaten Earth and figure out what to do about them and it wants your help doing it.The space agency today issued an ... [Published Computerworld - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Planetoid, NASA, Emerging Technologies, Threat

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 26 mins ago - 1 reports

Larry Page

Google Glass raises international privacy concerns

Officials in many countries ask Larry Page if they can test the frames and for details on how ogle will use the data the device collects IDG News Service - The Canadian privacy commissioner and 36 other data protection authorities on Tuesday raised privacy ... [Published Computerworld - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Data Protection, Google Glass, Larry Page

First reported 9 hours ago - Updated 56 mins ago - 1 reports

Huawei Technologies Co Ltd

Huawei's Ascend P6 smartphone has 5-megapixel front camera to watch you

Like Samsung, Huawei has chosen to put its own proprietary user interface layer on top of Android IDG News Service - Huawei Technologies' much-leaked Ascend P6 smartphone is the world's thinnest at 6.18 millimeters, and has the highest-resolution front-facing ... [Published Computerworld - 9 hours ago]

Entities: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, Smartphone, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

First reported 4 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 1 reports

IDC International Data Corp

IT capital spending rises, but not for PCs

Modest gains in IT hiring, but it's still flat at user firms Computerworld - While Windows 8 is getting blamed for dismal PC sales, upgrading laptops and desktop systems isn't a priority for business users, according to new research.Businesses are increasing ... [Published Computerworld - 4 hours ago]

Entities: Organism, IDC International Data Corp, Gartner Inc, Windows 7, David Daoud

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 1 reports

US National Security Agency

Expanded '2-person rule' could help plug NSA leaks

NSA, FBI, DOJ officials tell Congress secret programs are vital to U.S. security; outline ways to keep sysadmins from leaking classified data Computerworld - The National Security Agency is creating new processes aimed at making it harder for systems ... [Published Computerworld - 5 hours ago]

Entities: US National Security Agency, Two-Person Rule, Corroboration, FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation, data collection

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 1 reports

Kathleen Sebelius

Big Data Surge From Federal Agencies Will Drive Health IT

_ CIO - Marshaling technology to reshape the nation's healthcare system might be generously described as a gradual process, but top officials at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Monday spoke exuberantly about the transformative impact ... [Published Computerworld - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Big Data, Kathleen Sebelius, Federal

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 1 reports

The Microsoft break-up that never happened

'Baby Bills' would have been more agile, experts argue Computerworld - Thomas P. Jackson, the former federal judge who in 2000 ruled that Microsoft should be split into two companies as punishment for monopolistic business practices, died Saturday at ... [Published Computerworld - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Microsoft Corporation, Bill Gates, Invention

First reported 8 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 1 reports

Source code for Carberp financial malware is for sale at bargain price

Source code and components priced at $5,000; sale will likely lead to more Trojan programs targeting banks, say researchers at Group-IB IDG News Service - The source code for the Carberp banking Trojan program is being offered for sale on the underground ... [Published Computerworld - 8 hours ago]

Entities: Carberp, Source Code, Malware, Trojan Horse Malware

First reported 8 hours ago - Updated 8 hours ago - 1 reports

Google puts $7M into fighting child porn, abuse

al is to eradicate child pornography from the Internet Computerworld - ogle said it's spending $5 million to wipe images of child abuse off the Internet and another $2 million to create tools to find the images and eradicate them."We're in the business ... [Published Computerworld - 8 hours ago]

Entities: Child Pornography, Child Sexual Abuse, Abuse, National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, Google Inc

First reported 9 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 1 reports

The Large Hadron Collider shows its insides as upgrade work commences

The particle accelerator is scheduled to start up again in 2015 IDG News Service - Almost a year after the Higgs boson announcement, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is getting upgraded.The work will result ... [Published Computerworld - 9 hours ago]

Entities: Large Hadron Collider, Insider, Atom Smasher, Higgs Boson

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 2 reports

Jonny Evans: Woz says no to PRISM in the free world

With free people now gazing through PRISM, darkly, Apple [AAPL] has moved to quell fears concerning its customer's online privacy by revealing those details it is aware of regarding the US NSA's legitimately filed requests for that data -- but have we ... [Published Computerworld - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: PRISM (Surveillance Program), Apple Inc, Jonny Evans, Steve Wozniak

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"IT organizations are also striving to become more cost-efficient, and that means doing more with fewer people. As companies start investing in new technology, that is where you will see job growth" he said

IT capital spending rises, but not for PCs [Published Computerworld - 4 hours ago]

"One of the things we're doing to fuel more private sector innovation and discovery is to make vast amounts of America's data open and easy to access for the first time in history. And talented entrepreneurs are doing some pretty amazing things with it" Obama said in a statement

Big Data Surge From Federal Agencies Will Drive Health IT [Published Computerworld - 5 hours ago]

...Grand Challenge because finding asteroid threats, and having a plan for dealing with them, needs to be an all-hands-on-deck effort," Kalil said. "The efforts of private-sector partners and our citizen scientists will augment the work NASA already is doing to improve near-Earth object detection capabilities."

NASA needs help hunting down killer asteroids [Published Computerworld - 5 hours ago]

...ago, Microsoft had been broken into two very formidable companies? Eventually they would have started to compete with each other," said Lande. "In search, Microsoft was a day late and a dollar short. But with two Microsofts, maybe one of them would have pushed [into search], perfected the search engine, and now be serious competition for ogle." A breakup would also have put at least one of the resulting mini-Microsofts in the hands of someone other than Bill Gates, in 2000 still at Microsoft...

The Microsoft break-up that never happened [Published Computerworld - 7 hours ago]

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