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Analysis: Government's New Doctor Payments Website Worthy of a Recall Marriott must pay $600,000 for blocking personal Wi-Fi hotspots Network World Daily News AM October 05, 2014 World's craziest Halloween coffinsl From KISS caskets to lions and airplanes, a plethora of burial boxes populate the world READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Analysis: Government's New Doctor Payments Website Worthy of a Recall 2. Marriott must pay $600,000 for blocking personal Wi-Fi hotspots 3. Get More Network World Newsletters! 4. INSIDER Outgoing Commerce Department CIO pushed to shake up the federated model 5. Apple signals Oct. 21 as OS X Yosemite launch date 6. INSIDER 12 tips to tune your Wi-Fi network 7. Groups accuse FCC of helping net neutrality advocates file comments 8. 10 Tips to Ensure Your IT Career Longevity 9. A mixed eulogy for Lotus 1-2-3 10. Cisco bulks up branch routers for cloud WHITE PAPER: IBM Best Practices for Securing Hadoop Historically, Apache Hadoop has provided limited security capabilities, and most Hadoop implementations to date have been deployed with little thought given to security. To protect sensitive data being stored and analyzed in Hadoop, security architects should use a structured approach to security. Learn more! Analysis: Government's New Doctor Payments Website Worthy of a Recall This story was co-published by ProPublica with The New York Times' The Upshot. If the federal government's new Open Payments website were a consumer product, it would be returned to the manufacturer for a full refund. Open Payments is the government's site for publishing payments made to doctors and teaching hospitals by drug and medical device manufacturers. It includes 4.4 million payments, worth $3.5 billion, to more than half a million doctors and almost 1,360 teaching hospitals.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Marriott must pay $600,000 for blocking personal Wi-Fi hotspots Here's some payback for everyone who has felt gouged by hotel charges for Wi-Fi service: Marriott International has to pay US$600,000 following a probe into whether it intentionally blocked personal Wi-Fi hotspots in order to force customers to use its own very pricey service.The U.S. Federal Communications Commission looked into allegations that employees of Marriott's Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Convention Center in Nashville used signal-blocking features of a Wi-Fi monitoring system to prevent customers from connecting to the Internet through their personal Wi-Fi hotspots, the regulator said in its consent decree. The hotel charged customers and exhibitors $250 to $1,000 per device to access Marriott's Wi-Fi network.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Get More Network World Newsletters! We have a wide variety of newsletters to satisfy all sorts of IT pros READ MORE WEBCAST: Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Integrating Mobility with Unified Access Meeting mobility demands of 4500 students, faculty and staff at a university is no small task. Join this Webcast to hear the Director of Enterprise Infrastructure explain the steps Abilene Christian University took to deliver a new level of student-faculty interaction. Learn More INSIDER Outgoing Commerce Department CIO pushed to shake up the federated model When Simon Szykman was named CIO of the U.S. Department of Commerce, he inherited a federated IT organization that needed to improve its efficiency and effectiveness, so he applied his strategic vision and consensus-building skills in efforts to make progress in both areas. READ MORE Apple signals Oct. 21 as OS X Yosemite launch date Apple signaled that it will ship OS X Yosemite on Oct. 21; it has scheduled its third-quarter earnings call for the day before.Although Apple has not yet officially revealed the launch date for Yosemite -- which is also identified as OS X 10.10 -- the earnings call on Monday, Oct. 20, is a clue that the upgrade will appear in the Mac App Store the next day.In both 2011 and 2012, Apple used an earnings call to announce the availability of OS X Lion and Mountain Lion, respectively. In each of those years, the pertinent conference call with Wall Street analysts was for the second quarter, the one that ended in June, because Apple launched the upgrades the following month.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE INSIDER 12 tips to tune your Wi-Fi network More and more people are looking for Wi-Fi connectivity, especially at public venues -- on their laptops, smartphones and tablets -- to help conserve cellular data usage. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Ping Identity 5 Reasons It's Time For Secure Single Sign-On While cloud-based applications provide many business benefits including lowering capital expenditures, they can also drive up operational expenses by requiring more administration and lowering employee productivity due to more application login-ins, password resets and helpdesk calls. Learn More Groups accuse FCC of helping net neutrality advocates file comments The U.S. Federal Communications Commission engaged in the worst kind of "partisan politics" by working closely with net neutrality advocates to ensure their comments were filed with the agency, but not extending the same courtesy to the other side, a coalition of groups opposed to the regulations said in a sharply worded letter to the agency."Increasingly ... FCC staff appear to be disregarding arguments that do not fit a preconceived agenda; and worse, they may be actively manipulating media coverage around controversial issues," said the letter, sent Thursday by a dozen conservative groups, including TechFreedom, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and FreedomWorks. Instead of working as a bipartisan and collegial body, "the FCC appears to be engaging in the worst aspects of partisan politics," the letter added.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE 10 Tips to Ensure Your IT Career Longevity Many people say that IT and technology are a young man's game, and if you look at most influential tech companies you might agree. Most IT workers employed at those companies there are under 35 and male. However, these big name firms employ only a fraction of tech professionals and there are plenty of opportunities out there for everyone. IT has one of the lowest unemployment rates of any industry because in most organizations technology touches every part of the business.ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD: How to lure tech talent with employee benefits, perks Be Responsible for Your Own Career Achieving career longevity in the IT business takes time effort, time and resources -- and nobody but you can organize, facilitate and be responsible for all of it. To stay ahead of the learning curve you need to think about your goals and architect your future.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE A mixed eulogy for Lotus 1-2-3 Tuesday's post about IBM discontinuing support for the venerable Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet sparked an amusing discussion on the news aggregation site Fark.com. Here's a sampling:There was wonderment: "I'm surprised it was still supported. It's like finding out that Switzerland didn't allow all its female citizens to vote until 1990."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Cisco bulks up branch routers for cloud NEW YORK -- Cisco is fortifying its ISR branch routers to give users more options when accessing cloud services and backing up primary links.Cisco is expanding its ISR 4000 series devices with four more modular platforms that support hybrid WAN capabilities – the ability to turn up Internet and wireless 3G/4G links as backups or ancillary connections to primary MPLS circuits. The company is working with Vodafone to enable that European carrier to offer a 4G plus wired managed service bundle based on the ISR 4000s, Cisco officials said at the Interop New York exhibition here this week.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WHITE PAPER: XO Communications Clearing the Network Hurdle to Cloud Deployment Although enthusiasm is high among IT pros for cloud services, an IDG Research Quick Poll survey found that, in fact, the cloud is at a crossroads. Learn More SLIDESHOWS First Look: BlackBerry Passport The Passport is uniquely focused on being a device for work first and personal stuff second - take a look at how it's turned out. JOIN THE NETWORK WORLD COMMUNITIES As network pros you understand that the value of connections increase as the number of connections increase, the so called network effect, and no where is this more evident than in professional relationships. Join Network World's LinkedIn and Facebook communities to share ideas, post questions, see what your peers are working on and scout out job applicants (or maybe find your next opportunity). Network World on Facebook Network World on LinkedIn Join the IDG Contributor Network The IDG Contributor Network is a collection of blogs written by leading IT practitioners about the technology, business opportunities and challenges you face everyday. We invite you to participate by applying to be a contributor today. MOST-READ STORIES of 2014 1. Will Windows 10 address the operating system's biggest weakness? 2. Why Windows 10 isn't named 9: Windows 95 legacy code? 3. Startups look to eliminate routers, switches 4. Cisco bulks up branch routers for cloud 5. How the cloud is changing the security game 6. First look: Windows 10 7. 10 Tips to Ensure Your IT Career Longevity 8. Apple's worldwide market share stalls as consumers await the iPhone 6 9. 3 … 2 … 1 … That's all for Lotus 1-2-3 10. 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