The tech industry goes to the World Cup

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The tech industry goes to the World Cup

"Image by Shutterstock/Stephen SauerAs we hurtle towards the start of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, here's a look at some major tech players, along with their international soccer analogues. Just in case you were trying to decide whom to root for, or something.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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1. 5 techie World Cup predictions

2. Bing, algorithms claim United States is doomed in World Cup

3. Why database monitoring may, or may not, secure your data

4. Google open sources PDF software library

5. How to maximize storage space on your Windows tablet

6. A visual history of OS desktop environments

7. Amazon AWS continues to use TrueCrypt despite project's demise

8. Meet Pepper, the robot that understands human feelings

9. Why Mobile Strategies Are Stalling at Many Enterprises

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5 techie World Cup predictions

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Bing, algorithms claim United States is doomed in World Cup

World Cup predictions are like noses: almost everyone, it seems, has one. And even the algorithms like Microsoft's Bing are taking the field.Microsoft said Tuesday that it is busy collating all sorts of factors, from social to sport, to build a comprehensive picture of the results of the group stages. At this point, however, Microsoft isn't willing to go beyond the opening games. The World Cup itself kicks off Thursday with host Brazil taking on Croatia at 1 PM Pacific time.+ ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD The tech industry goes to the World Cup +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE

Why database monitoring may, or may not, secure your data

A majority of IT security pros believe that continuous monitoring of the database network is the best approach to prevent large-scale breaches like the ones that occurred at retailers Target, Michaels and Neiman Marcus, a study showed.[Organizations suffer SQL injection attacks, but do little to prevent them]Nearly two thirds of the 595 U.S. experts polled by the Ponemon Institute cited monitoring as the best form of database protection, a position other security experts challenged.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE

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Google open sources PDF software library

Google has started an open-source project for a PDF software library, which developers will be able to incorporate into applications designed for a variety of platforms.The project, called PDFium, will also be wrapped into Google's Chrome browser, replacing closed-source code, according to a post from Google's Chromium project evangelist, François Beaufort.Google Graveyard: Here's what Google has killed so far in 2014 The Chrome browser is mostly open source code, but parts of it have been closed for licensing reasons, such as Adobe Systems' Flash plugin and a plugin for PDF files, wrote Peter Kasting, senior software engineer for Chrome's user interface team.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE

How to maximize storage space on your Windows tablet

One of the unfortunate hallmarks of affordable Windows-based tablets is limited storage space. It is not uncommon for low-priced tablets to come with only 32GB or 64GB drives.A large chunk of that space is taken up by the Windows operating system and any preinstalled applications. Luckily, there are plenty of things you can do to rid Windows tablets of unneeded data to stretch that storage space as far as possible.Delete Temp File and Prefetch Data Windows accumulates temporary and cache files like it's in an episode of Hoarders, filling your limited storage with old items you probably don't need. Performing a disk cleanup will delete a good chunk of the junk data stored in the Windows temp folder. To get rid of it all though, you'll have to delete it manually.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE

A visual history of OS desktop environments

Do you ever look at your computer's screen and think, "How on Earth did we get here?" Windows, Mac, GNOME, KDE and Ubuntu's Unity are all born from a common history of desktop environment design stretching back to the 1960's. Let's take a visual voyage from the very beginning right up to the present, looking at the "1.0" releases – those very first versions – of the Desktop Environments and graphical computing platforms that made the biggest impact. (Or, at the very least, that I thought were coolest.)To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE

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Amazon AWS continues to use TrueCrypt despite project's demise

TrueCrypt remains the only option for securely importing and exporting data to and from the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) two weeks after the popular encryption software was abruptly discontinued by its creators, supposedly for security reasons. According to Amazon Web Services (AWS) online documentation, "TrueCrypt is the only device encryption supported by AWS Import/Export." On a separate page about AWS security, Amazon says that: "AWS only ships devices out of AWS facilities if the device is completely erased or the device only contains data encrypted by AWS. For import jobs, we erase devices after job completion. For export jobs, we will always encrypt the data being exported onto the device. We use TrueCrypt software for encryption."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE

Meet Pepper, the robot that understands human feelings

Meet Pepper, the robot that understands human feelings Meet Pepper the robot. It's in stores now, and will be in homes soon. Japan's Softbank says it's the world's first personal robot that can understand how people are feeling. From: Network World Views: 11 2 ratings Time: 01:41 More in Science & Technology READ MORE

Why Mobile Strategies Are Stalling at Many Enterprises

If your business hasn't heard about the mobile revolution by now, well, you might want to crawl out of your cave and enjoy the sunlight with everyone else. Mobility is what the business consultants call "transformative" technology that affects nearly every company in every industry.To be fair, the problem isn't that enterprises aren't aware of the impact of mobile technology. The problem is that many companies aren't doing mobility right. Only two out of five companies have made good progress in their mobility efforts, according to a recent Accenture survey of nearly 1,500 C-level executives. The rest, not so much.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE

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