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Camping out at AOL: Teen entrepreneur lives on AOL's couch for two months

Posted May 25, 2012 - 6:21 pm

SiliValley entrepreneur Eric Simons crashed on AOL's couches and ate its food for free after a four-month AOL-sponsored incubator session ended before Simons was ready to leave.
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Making history: Big data will change the IT org chart

Posted May 24, 2012 - 12:00 am

Taking the helm on a big data project could help make the case that a CIO should report to the CEO, not CFO.
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Mobile malware trick: Give users real apps, plus infection on the side

Posted May 23, 2012 - 1:29 pm

Unlike in most other malware markets, malware writers aiming at Android have always had a strong profit motive. Now they're going even more capitalist -- delivering the value they promised by wrapping good code in malware rather than just pretending
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Why cloud security is still a top concern for IT

Posted May 22, 2012 - 8:11 pm

Three quarters of cloud users don't do their own security on external clouds, according to a recent survey that shows IT's biggest worry about the cloud may be its own fault.
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Dog bites cop: Ironic use of force story of the day

Posted May 22, 2012 - 1:14 pm

Not every telling photo is accurate; not every accurate photo is telling. This one, which appears to be two trained police dogs restraining a Chicago cop in riot gear from attacking protesters, tells a more interesting story than the cops-punch-protesters headline image of the protest.
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BI careers stuck in doldrums; business ties, big data could put wind in sails

Posted May 22, 2012 - 8:00 am

BI analysts lag behind most other IT professionals in terms of pay, but there's anecdotal evidence that big data can boost careers and wages as projects proliferate.
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Money, not technology, drives cloud growth, IT shrinkage

Posted May 22, 2012 - 12:00 am

IT has been shoved to the side in many businesses in which business unit managers can get the technology they want with an Internet connection and a credit card, not a project-management team and a bunch of whiney geeks from IT.
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DEA wants to shoot every car passing through SW corner of Utah

Posted May 21, 2012 - 4:46 pm

If DEA gets its way it will be able to photograph, OCR and trace every license plate on every car that passes through the corner of Utah between Salt Lake and Vegas. Lawmakers worry about embarrassing constituents. They should worry about betraying them instead.
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Cell-phone snoopers: Privacy Eliminator turns police Do Want to Shouldn't Have

Posted May 18, 2012 - 5:10 pm

You have to admit the new generation of data-collection devices able to copy every byte of data from cell phones without even delaying the traffic ticket that became an excuse to steal personal data without a warrant. Cool, but still 3D, physical proof that come technology is so efficient it shouldn't be available even to (especially not to cops)
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ICANN domains .MIA; OpenNIC:Be a .pirate

Posted May 17, 2012 - 10:45 am

In 2008 ICANN announced it would add between dozens or millions of top-level domains to expand the virtual space available online.This week it again delayed the application deadline, again. OTOH, alternative registrar OpenNIC register as a .pirate (or anything else) for free.
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Courts quash copyright trolls; recognize IP address is not a person

Posted May 16, 2012 - 2:35 pm

A little technical understanding works wonders in court; even a very little bit, like knowing the difference between an IP address and a person, or that WLANs, poaching, wardriving and bad geolocation make accusations based on IP more random than righteous
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As time goes by: Analytics for the long haul

Posted May 16, 2012 - 1:17 pm

Don't dismiss the value of long-haul analytics. While they may not be as exciting as real-time analytics, they can help predict the future of projects with longer lifespans.
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Taking the measure of big data: More is more

Posted May 15, 2012 - 8:00 am

Some believe that 99.9% of big data is worthless, but I disagree. What you might discard as worthless today, may be useful to another analyst tomorrow. It depends on the questions you ask the data, how you ask them, and when.
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Where did 'cloud' come from?

Posted May 14, 2012 - 9:30 pm

Empowering users, threatening IT, making technology purchases a no-brainer? Why couldn't it have gotten here sooner? (Or why did it have to come at all, if you're among the naysayers in IT.)
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Overheated vote-counter automates election, places 60K votes itself

Posted May 10, 2012 - 1:48 pm

A relatively simple machine designed to read paper ballots and store the results broke new ground in New York gubernatorial elections by adding tens of thousands of extra votes to those cast by humans after warm polling place caused vote-counter to overheat.
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In-database analytics: The key to big data performance

Posted May 10, 2012 - 12:00 am

Analytical functions reside inside the database with in-database analytis, so it's no longer necessary for the queries to wait for data to load.
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Tell PirateBay (and lawmakers) what you think about file sharing, piracy

Posted May 9, 2012 - 12:19 pm

The Pirate Bay is teaming up with Swedish researchers who specialize in copyright-, file-sharing and enforcement on survey designed to provide more objective data than that supplied by RIAA and MPAA to help counter rabid anti-piracy plunder-and-pillage copyright enforcement rules.
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Why will IT STILL not support BYOD?

Posted May 8, 2012 - 4:08 pm

Despite years of experience showing cloud and mobile computing not only increase productivity, but make end users happier and reap otherwise-lost hours of work while employees are at home, many IT shops still won't support work using personal devices.
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Anonymous will leak UFO data, or was trolled again

Posted May 8, 2012 - 12:31 pm

Anonymous is disavowing knowledge of a YouTube video warning the collective will leak proof that aliens visit Earth, which is funny, but is just one of a growing list of trolling incidents that hold Anonymous up to ridicule.
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Real-time risk management: At decision time, every moment counts

Posted May 8, 2012 - 12:00 am

After the 2008 financial crisis, many risk professionals received the capital to invest in real-time risk management technologies. The lesson? Take advantage of an window of opportunity to improve risk tools.
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Unstructured insight

Posted May 3, 2012 - 8:00 am

Until recently, applying analytics to unstructured data was considered more theoretical than practical. For example, in 2008, 2% of firms in the capital markets used analytics on unstructured information, but in 2011, that number jumped to 35%. What's changed?
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Google snooped your Wi-Fi, but FCC is more angry about the coverup

Posted April 30, 2012 - 10:08 am

Google's Wi-Fi snooping didn't break federal wiretap laws because StreetView cars weren't in range long enough. It did cover up like Watergate afterward, though, refusing to let employees testify, release emails or post FCC report to avoid admitting purposeful privacy invasion
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Cloud services, recycled hard drives leak critical data; IT doesn't notice

Posted April 26, 2012 - 3:34 pm

Studies show a third to half of storage drives hold residual data from other users, much of it confidential, some of it enough to allow identity theft. Cloud services widen the hole by making it possible to leave lots of critical data behind with no chance to check whether you did or not.
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Romney holds softer position on pr0n than in video

Posted April 26, 2012 - 11:14 am

Mitt Romney's new viral video comes from a 2007 speech in which he promised to require filters on every new computer to block Internet pr0n. The video may be misleading. Romney opposed SOPA, has no official position on CISPA and hasn't gone into pron much recently.
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CERN, US, UK projects push big data limits

Posted April 26, 2012 - 8:00 am

Large-scale, multi-nation collaborative science, such as the Large Hadron Collider and Square Kilometer Array, are relatively small in number and confront Big Data problems on a scale few of us can imagine. But they bear watching because almost all of us can learn from their Big Data solutions.
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