A thorough field test of Apple Pay

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Best Tech-o-Lanterns 2014 Cloud migrations require big changes in IT staffing Network World Daily News PM October 31, 2014 A thorough field test of Apple Pay Apple Pay's eventful early days were full of highs and lows. Excited iPhone users rushed to test the mobile payment service on day one and found it super seamless. Cashier confusion, Bank of America's double-charging foul-up, and the NFC block at Rite Aid and CVS marred the rollout, but a major product launch is never smooth. And who knew CurrentC, a QR code-based app that isn't even on the market yet, would turn into such a huge thing?To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Best Tech-o-Lanterns 2014 2. INSIDER Cloud migrations require big changes in IT staffing 3. HP's radical new Machine could start computing by 2016 4. Number of new IT outsourcing deals hits all-time high 5. How Voxis makes stolen credit cards more valuable 6. Air Force envisioning swarms of tiny, inexpensive, almost disposable drones 7. Court rules cops can demand fingerprints, not passcodes, to unlock smartphones 8. BlackBerry upgrades BBM with timed messages 9. Why HP is laughing at Amazon's cloud 10. iOS 8 app crash rate falls 25% since release 11. Top Mac-o-lanterns from around the Web 12. INVESTIGATIVE: Secretive funding fuels ongoing net neutrality astroturfing controversy WHITE PAPER: Flexera Software Achieving Application Readiness Maturity Is your Application Readiness Process Ready for Change? Learn how to identify where you can make improvements, analyze the steps needed to move up in maturity, and prioritize which steps are most critical, resulting in faster and more reliable application delivery, lower costs and decreased risk. Learn More Best Tech-o-Lanterns 2014 Techie pumpkinsLeave it to techies to show off their passions on their pumpkins, whether it's paying homage to tech innovators, products or companies. Enjoy!Trust your neighbors?Image by YouTube.comTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE INSIDER Cloud migrations require big changes in IT staffing Three CIOs discuss how they have learned to handle the staffing and organizational changes caused by cloud computing.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) READ MORE HP's radical new Machine could start computing by 2016 Hewlett-Packard's efforts to usher in an entirely new computer architecture, one potentially much faster and simpler, may bear fruit by the end of 2016, when the company's lab expects to have the first prototype machine based on its design.Should HP's Machine architecture prove successful, everyone in the IT business, from computer scientists to system administrators, may have to rethink their jobs, judging by a talk HP Labs Director Martin Fink gave at the Software Freedom Law Center's 10th anniversary conference Friday in New York.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Number of new IT outsourcing deals hits all-time high When it comes to IT services, sourcing to multiple providers continues to be the predominant trend, according to the third quarter outsourcing index compiled by outsourcing consultancy Information Services Group (ISG).IT outsourcing contract counts in the Americas hit an all-time high through the first nine months of 2014, according to ISG, thanks to increased multisourcing. While more mature buyers in the U.S. and U.K. show greater adoption of multi-vendor environments, less mature markets that have traditionally relied on the single provider model are moving toward and increased use of multisourcing as well, according to ISG president John Keppel.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WHITE PAPER: NetApp Enterprise Tech: Pick Your Cloud, Control Your Data Find out how new hybrid cloud architectures enable you to take advantage of public cloud resources from Amazon, Microsoft, and others while keeping your enterprise firmly in the driver's seat. You'll learn how you can benefit from the elastic compute power of public clouds and still maintain control over your company's data. View now>> How Voxis makes stolen credit cards more valuable With a bountiful harvest of credit card data, cybercriminals built Voxis to increase the speed and efficiency of automated credit card fraud READ MORE Air Force envisioning swarms of tiny, inexpensive, almost disposable drones The Air Force is pondering what it would take to develop a small, low-cost unmanned aircraft that it could fly in swarms to handle a number of applications such as protecting a given area or quickly gathering intelligence.The idea is in the planning stages as the Air Force only issued a Request For Information this week for what it calls Affordable, Attritable Aircraft concepts.+More on Network World: What the drone invasion looks like+To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Court rules cops can demand fingerprints, not passcodes, to unlock smartphones If police suspect that you've committed a crime, the odds are pretty good that they'll want to search your smartphone for evidence. Whether they can actually search your phone depends on the security method you've picked—if any—to protect the device. Use Touch ID? Turn over those fingerprints. Have a passcode? You're home-free.A Virginia Circuit Court decided this week that cops can't make you cough up your smartphone passcode because it violates the 5th Amendment, which bars the state from forcing you to incriminate yourself. Fingerprints are a different story, The Virginian-Pilot reported. They're similar to DNA and handwriting, Judge Steven Frucci ruled.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE BlackBerry upgrades BBM with timed messages Taking a page from the Snapchat playbook, BlackBerry will let BBM messaging service users control how long messages and pictures can be viewed, hoping the feature, along with other new capabilities, will result in a new revenue stream.The BBM upgrade will be available for BlackBerry's own smartphones as well as for Android and iOS over the next couple of days. The company didn't say when the Windows Phone version would be updated.By setting a timer, users control how long messages and pictures can be viewed by their contacts. The new BBM message type is hidden until the recipient touches and holds on the chat. Then, once the timer has expired or when the recipient takes their finger off the screen, the message is gone, according to BlackBerry. The user also receives a notification if BBM detects that a screenshot of the image or message has been taken.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WHITE PAPER: NetApp Hybrid Clouds: Deriving the Biggest Business Impact According to a global base of respondents to a 2014 Gigaom research study,1 35 percent cited innovation or competitive advantage as a driver for adopting cloud computing, and 45 percent either want to or already run some applications for their companies in the cloud. View now>> Why HP is laughing at Amazon's cloud In a wide-ranging interview with Bill Hilf, HP's VP of Helion cloud product and services, Network World editor in chief John Dix and I asked him among other things about competition with Amazon Web Services - the leading public IaaS cloud computing vendor.Hilf says he found it amusing when he saw reports that AWS hired a head of enterprise strategy. "I kind of laughed at that," Hilf said, noting that HP's heritage is selling to enterprise customers. "We don't need one of those," he added. "That's all we do. We don't have a special enterprise guy."+ MORE AT NETWORK WORLD: Microsoft adds IoT, big data tools to Azure +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE iOS 8 app crash rate falls 25% since release In the six weeks since its release, iOS 8's app crash rate has declined more than 25% as app developers have adjusted to new APIs and issued updates, an app performance management developer said today.According to San Francisco-based Crittercism, iOS 8's crash rate as of Wednesday was 2.6%, or more than a quarter lower than the 3.6% on Sept. 22.Crittercism mines crash rate statistics from the approximately 20,000 mobile apps it monitors for clients, which include eBay, Groupon, Netflix, PayPal and Yahoo. Developers embed the company's framework in their apps to track a host of performance metrics, including crash causes and rates.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Top Mac-o-lanterns from around the Web Apple devotionA snapshot of Apple devotion expressed via carved vegetation.Not a fanboy, really?Poqua on Flickr says: I'm not an Apple fanboy, although I do have a Mac mini. I just like logos.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE INVESTIGATIVE: Secretive funding fuels ongoing net neutrality astroturfing controversy The contentious debate about net neutrality in the U.S. has sparked controversy over a lack of funding transparency for advocacy groups and think tanks, which critics say subverts the political process. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: BMC Software The New IT Explore enhanced productivity for IT staff, and seamless integration across IT operation management systems. Download now. 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