Microsoft to support fewer IE versions

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Streaming rankings slam Verizon and AT&T's fiber Amazon introduces mobile card reader to compete with Square, PayPal Network World Daily News AM August 13, 2014 Share this email Microsoft to support fewer IE versions Microsoft has started a 17-month campaign to upgrade customers to the newest version of Internet Explorer that their operating systems will support, which should make it simpler for the company to keep the browser secure because it will have fewer versions to deal with. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Streaming rankings slam Verizon and AT&T's fiber 2. Amazon introduces mobile card reader to compete with Square, PayPal 3. US DOJ asks court to vacate stay in Microsoft email privacy case 4. Nonprofit to bring Sega game console chips back to life 5. AppliedMicro's 64-core chip could spark off ARM core war 6. Malware is less concerned about virtual machines 7. Microsoft to speed up Bing with FPGAs next year 8. Accused Obamacare spammer settles FTC charges 9. Homemade 3D printer goes both ways 10. 3 Cool Google cloud features WHITE PAPER: BMC Software Guide to Managing and Lowering Mainframe Software Charges Monthly license charges (MLC) are rising by 7% or more each year, and account for 30% of total mainframe costs. Yet managing MLC costs is an inexact science. This best practice guide provides a step-by-step process to reduce mainframe MLC costs up to 20% without compromising business critical services. Learn More Streaming rankings slam Verizon and AT&T's fiber The black-and-white days of radio chart show American Top 40 were when families would huddle around and listen to the singles that Billboard magazine had rated most popular. It was the beginning of our obsession with chart positions.More recently, the 45-rpm slab of vinyl has faced competition for our entertainment-consumable discretionary spending. That competition started with video tape and has progressed downloads and cord-cutting—the a la carte consumption of electronically delivered media.So it would make sense that about the most interesting chart for cord-cutters and future-media consumers is Netflix's ISP streaming rankings. Sorry, vinyl romantics.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Amazon introduces mobile card reader to compete with Square, PayPal The company is entering the U.S. market with a promotional offer on transaction fees READ MORE US DOJ asks court to vacate stay in Microsoft email privacy case The U.S. Department of Justice has asked a New York court to vacate a stay on an order that would require Microsoft to turn over to the government certain emails held abroad.The company, which had asked for the stay to pursue an appeal, may now have to refuse to comply with the order after the stay is lifted for its appeal to be acceptable by the appeals court, according to the plan outlined by DOJ to the court, citing a "jurisdictional defect."Judge Loretta Preska of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York rejected Microsoft's appeal of an earlier ruling requiring it to turn over the emails stored in the company's facility in Dublin, Ireland, but ruled that the company will not have to turn over the emails while it pursues an appeal.(To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WHITE PAPER: BMC Software 10 Steps to Reducing Mainframe MLC Costs Monthly license charges (MLC) are rising by 7% or more each year, and account for 30% of total mainframe costs. Yet managing MLC costs is an inexact science. Learn More Nonprofit to bring Sega game console chips back to life The chips could be used in small electronics or do-it-yourself projects READ MORE AppliedMicro's 64-core chip could spark off ARM core war AppliedMicro to cram 64 cores in X-Gene 3 chip to crank up performance READ MORE Malware is less concerned about virtual machines Many malicious software programs used to make a quick exit on virtual machines, a tactic designed to avoid a security check. But that isn't the case anymore, according Symantec research.As companies increasingly use VMs in operational environments, malware writers are largely trying other methods to avoid detection. It means that simply running VMs won't be enough to scare away malware.Symantec studied 200,000 malware samples submitted by its customers since 2012. It ran the samples on a VM and a non-VM machine to see which ones would stop working when a VM was detected.Just 18 percent of malware programs studied stop executing when a VM is detected, wrote Candid Wueest, a threat researcher, in a blog post Tuesday.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WHITE PAPER: IBM Forrester 2014 Dynamic Case Management Wave Forrester has released its 2014 Dynamic Case Management Wave, and for the second consecutive time, IBM is a leader. View Now>> Microsoft to speed up Bing with FPGAs next year It started off as an experiment, but Microsoft now wants to speed up and return more accurate Bing search results with the help of reconfigurable chips called FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays) in data centers.Next year, Microsoft will start installing FPGAs in its data centers, hoping to speed up and increase the accuracy and relevancy of search results."Increasing capabilities and reducing the cost of Microsoft cloud services relies on increasingly efficient hardware," said Andrew Putnam, a researcher at Microsoft, during the Hot Chips conference in Cupertino, California, on Wednesday.The FPGAs are intended to help Microsoft deliver text and image search results much faster. Their use will also reduce the number of servers for processing search requests in Microsoft's data centers.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Accused Obamacare spammer settles FTC charges The Florida company will pay $350,000 to settle charges it send misleading email spam READ MORE Homemade 3D printer goes both ways A homemade machine from Boston area Mebonics is a sort of all-in-one 3D printer, which can do both additive and subtractive manufacturing. READ MORE 3 Cool Google cloud features In the increasingly competitive cloud IaaS market Google is attempting to distinguish its platform by arming its cloud with unique features and cutting-edge technology that customers can't quite find anywhere else in the market. With competition amoung Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google being as intense as ever, Google is attempting to distinguish its cloud offering by appealing directly to developers. "We're not focusing on the way cloud has been done, but instead we're focusing on how Google thinks it will evolve over the next five to 10 years," said Dan Blecher, a product manager on the Google Cloud Platform at one of the company's 17-stop Google Cloud Platform Roadshow events being held around the country - last week's was in Boston.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WHITE PAPER: IBM Quintillion Case Study Hedge fund administration company Quintillion doubles its asset and investor portfolio while keeping staff levels almost flat, by working with Insight 2 Value to deploy an efficient content management solution, based on IBM Case Manager. Read Now SLIDESHOWS Black Hat 2014: How to crack just about everything From cell phones and cars to IPv6 security researchers have turned their skills against a world of technology. 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