What you'll love and hate about Windows 10

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VCE expanding beyond Cisco? Debian community splits over systemd, but fork still unlikely Network World Daily News AM October 23, 2014 What you'll love and hate about Windows 10 What Windows diehards will love and hate about Windows 10The buzz of Microsoft's leap to Windows 10 may be dimming, but the big, 640-million-user question remains: If you skipped Windows 8 because the initial two-face kludge left you cold, should you think about upgrading to Windows 10? Or has Microsoft gone down so weird a tiled rabbit hole that you should dig your heels into Win7 and kiss the new direction good-bye?To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. VCE expanding beyond Cisco? 2. Debian community splits over systemd, but fork still unlikely 3. INSIDER IT Resumes: Lies, Half-truths and Embellishments 4. Monumental day for Wikipedia in Poland 5. 4 security tips for Apple Pay users 6. 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Now that Cisco has sold most of its stake in VCE to EMC, expect Cisco's server and networking exclusivity in VCE products to erode.Cisco has an exclusive agreement to be the server, and network switch and fabric supplier to VCE's Vblock converged infrastructure platforms. Vblocks are expected to be a key channel and platform for Cisco's Application Centric Infrastructure fabric.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Debian community splits over systemd, but fork still unlikely The latest chapter in the ongoing furor over the software known as systemd threatens to split the Debian community, after a splinter group stated that it would create a fork of the well-known Linux distribution if systemd is included in an upcoming release. "We don't want to be forced to use systemd in substitution to the traditional UNIX sysvinit init, because systemd betrays the UNIX philosophy," a group of unnamed "veteran UNIX admins" writes at the campaign's website, debianfork.org. + ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD: Industry reacts to Cisco cutting stake in VCE, EMC taking control | Ubuntu turns 10: A look back at the desktop Linux standard bearer +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE INSIDER IT Resumes: Lies, Half-truths and Embellishments As the old saying goes, a lie may take care of the present, but it has no future. Nowhere is this truer than when conducting a job search. In a hyper-competitive talent market, it can be tempting to embellish your work history, exaggerate your IT skills or even claim to hold advanced degrees if it'll give you an edge over other job seekers. Unfortunately however, even if these lies manage to go unnoticed at first, they'll many times catch up with; potentially landing you back among the ranks of the unemployed with a bad reputation according to Tracy Cashman, senior vice president and partner of Information Technology Search at WinterWyman.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) READ MORE Monumental day for Wikipedia in Poland WIkimedians -- those people who contribute to the free Wikipedia website -- were recognized for their selfless work on Wednesday in Slubice, Poland with the unveiling of a monument.The fiber-and-resin sculpture, designed by Armenian Mihran Hakobyan, depicts the Wikipedia globe held up by four people. Consistent with the Wikipedia logo's globe, the world is shown as being unfinished, ready to accept more knowledge. The sculpture stands 5-and-a-half feet high in Frankfurt Square. Wikipedia The idea to create a monument came from Dr. Krzysztof Wojciechowski, director of Collegium Polonicum.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE 4 security tips for Apple Pay users Many security experts agree that Apple Pay and contactless payment systems like it are an improvement over traditional credit-card based systems. However, Apple Pay is still new and relatively untested, and it's wise to approach it strategically. [Related: Security, Payments Experts Talk Apple Pay] Peter Olynick, card and payments practice lead with Carlisle & Gallagher Consulting Group, a management-technology consulting firm, says the following four best practices are a great way to get started with Apple Pay.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Onapsis Inc. Protecting Your Company's Lifeblood Threats to mission-critical ERP data are sometimes overlooked, leaving systems exposed to potentially crippling attacks. Learn best practices for safeguarding your SAP ERP systems, including the use of automated assessment and audit solutions. Learn More Accused text-message spammers to pay $9 million in settlement A group of companies that allegedly promised mobile phone users supposedly free gift cards and electronic devices in a "massive" text-messaging spam operation will pay more than US$9 million to settle complaints from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.Many of the unwanted text messages promised free merchandise, including $1,000 gift cards to large retailers or Apple iPads, the FTC said this Wednesday in a press release. After mobile phone users clicked on links, many then received illegal robocalls or unauthorized charges on their mobile phone bills, the agency said.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Vintage Apple-1 sells for a record $905K A 38-year-old working Apple-1 personal computer sold Wednesday at auction for a record $905,000, almost double the auctioneer's high-end estimate. The aged Apple-1 -- the first pre-assembled personal computer, although it lacked such amenities as power supply, keyboard or display -- was sold by auction house Bonhams in New York to The Ford Foundation, which will put it on display at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich. (See what the 2013 auction brought in.) The final gavel price was $750,000, but including Bonhams' commission of $175,000 and taxes, the total was $905,000. That easily beat the record of $671,000 for another working Apple-1, set in May 2013.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE AT&T signed up 500,000 cars for its 4G network last quarter AT&T signed up half a million cars to its 4G network between July and September, the result of deals with Audi and General Motors to connect cars and offer in-vehicle hotspots for riders.The carrier began offering 4G service for GM vehicles in June, with pricing beginning at $5 per month for 200MB of data.For that, the carrier estimates users can stream about 6.5 hours of music, 13 hours of web surfing or thousands of emails. Prices rise to $50 per month for up to 5GB, and one-off daily data passes are also available.The GM service is offered through its OnStar subsidiary. The 4G signal is delivered to passengers via a WiFi hotspot that can support up to seven devices, according to the auto maker. The hotspot extends a short distance beyond the vehicle so that passengers can access it when the car is parked and they're nearby.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Chicago takes top spot in mobile performance ranking Chicago is the U.S. city with the best overall mobile performance ranking, according to tens of thousands of voice and data tests conducted in 125 cities by RootMetrics. The metropolis dubbed the Windy City originally got its nickname in the 1890s because of its reputation for bragging, and not just because of the fierce winter winds blowing off Lake Michigan. And so, it seems the bragging is bound to continue.MORE ON NETWORK WORLD: 12 most powerful Internet of Things companies "Chicago was the only city with top ranking in multiple performance categories," RootMetrics reported in its online analysis posted on Monday.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE IBM's chip business sale gets national security scrutiny IBM's plan to transfer its semiconductor manufacturing business to GlobalFoundries faces a government review over national security implications. It has the potential of being complicated because of IBM's role as a defense supplier.GlobalFoundries is based in the U.S., but is owned by investors in Abu Dhabi, which is part of the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.). IBM is paying the firm $1.5 billion to take over its semiconductor manufacturing operations. IBM says it isn't cutting back on R&D or its design of semiconductors, but will rely on GlobalFoundries for manufacturing.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WHITE PAPER: ForgeRock How to Forge a Future with Identity Relationship Management Identity and Access Management (IAM) services were traditionally built for a company's internal use, to assist with manual on and off boarding, and establishing access privileges to company data and systems behind the firewall. View Now>> IBM and Microsoft pledge to make their clouds compatible Although fierce rivals in the market for cloud computing services, IBM and Microsoft have pledged to make their technologies interoperable in the cloud for the sake of their users.On Wednesday, the companies jointly announced that many Microsoft enterprise products would run on IBM's infrastructure and platform services, and that many key IBM middleware products would be available for use on Microsoft Azure.MORE ON NETWORK WORLD: 10 Most Powerful IaaS Companies "The cloud is an interesting change in the technology landscape. In a lot of ways it opens everybody up to be your partner as well as your competitor, more so than on-premise software did in the past," said Michael Curry, IBM vice president of WebSphere product management. "The key element here is about offering choice for our customers -- to have the flexibility to deploy software in lots of different places."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Cashiers don't understand Apple Pay and it's totally adorable Apple Pay is so easy to use it's almost not worth writing about. It's laughably fast and stupidly simple. So simple it's confusing the heck out of clerks and cashiers nationwide!Here's how it works: You walk up to the kind of payment terminal where you would normally swipe your credit or debit card. You notice a little icon that looks like a sideways Wi-Fi symbol—that means you can also use contactless payments, like those tap-and-go Mastercards that no one uses. That's your clue!MORE ON NETWORK WORLD: 12 most powerful Internet of Things companies So instead of swiping a card, you hold your iPhone 6 or 6 Plus near the terminal, your default Apple Pay card pops up on the screen, you smugly put your thumb on the Touch ID button, and boom, transaction completed. It took me approximately 17 times longer to type this than it does to actually make a payment.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Future points to healthcare IT as a Service IT leaders today frequently mention the importance of bringing social, mobile, analytics and cloud technology – the so-called "SMAC stack" – into a single, integrated architecture.In healthcare, this type of architecture will do more than simply help the industry catch up to other verticals, says David Dimond, CTO of EMC's Global Healthcare Business. SMAC will help organizations demonstrate a return on investment in electronic health record (EHR) systems beyond meaningful use by providing IT as a service both within and outside hospital walls.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE At Austin airport, Wi-Fi predicts how long the security line will be The Internet can ease travel concerns in many ways, including flight-delay information, maps of road congestion, and ride-sharing apps. But a Wi-Fi network at the Austin, Texas, airport can now answer one of the great unknowns: How long will I have to wait in line at security?That information is available thanks to fairly simple technology implemented on a Cisco Systems network run by global Wi-Fi provider Boingo Wireless. It's an early example of how the so-called Internet of Things can make some parts of life easier.Austin-Bergstrom International Airport got the nation's first airport Wi-Fi network in 2000, according to Boingo, which has run the airport's Wi-Fi since 2008. Now it's become one of the first airports to implement Passpoint, the standard that lets users of some devices get on networks and roam between them without entering a username and password. The Cisco network that supports Passpoint can also use location technologies for additional services.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE OS X Yosemite tips and tricks you need to know Some tips to get the most out of Apple's new operating system. 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