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New cruise ship a floating heaven for tech geeks
Walking up the gangway to board Royal Caribbean's tech-laden Quantum of the Seas, it was hard not to marvel. Across the harbor was Manhattan, and at 348 meters the new ship is almost as long as the Empire State Building is tall. But it's what the ship contains that made my inner geek salivate. While most passengers were ogling the food options I checked the speed of the satellite WiFi and tested the raft of other technology onboard—including robot waiters and virtual seascapes—that the company hopes will increase passenger convenience. Billed as a smart ship, the Quantum of the Seas will make trips from New York harbor (Cape Liberty in Bayonne, New Jersey, specifically) to the Caribbean until the middle of 2015, when it embarks on an odyssey to reposition to its new home port of Shanghai. As a tech reporter invited on board for a few days to check it out, I was determined to maintain a skeptical stance, but some of the futuristic services enticed me to capture footage of gadget after cool gadget.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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Top tech turkeys of 2014
Giving thanksIt's that time of the year again, when people all across America sit down with their families to a nice home-cooked meal and collectively laugh at the people who did more embarrassing stuff than them. Even if that's not how you celebrate Thanksgiving, you can at least be thankful that you're not one of these people.Ted Cruz declaring 'Obamacare for the internet'Republican Senator from Texas Ted Cruz swiftly responded to President Obama's recent call for the FCC to reclassify and regulate the internet like a utility by declaring on Twitter that "net neutrality is Obamacare for the internet." No one – probably Cruz included – quite knew what he meant by this, other than to pander to the people who already support him. If people think Obamacare is bad, then just call net neutrality Obamacare and they'll think that's bad, too. The worst part is, for some people, it'll probably work.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Walmart brings Black Friday early to iPhone, iPad fans
Apple Walmart has a Pre-Black Friday deal for you on the Apple iPad Air 2 Walmart, which already has leaked its Black Friday deals on Apple, Dell, HP and other tech products, just couldn't stand the lull between now and the day after Thanksgiving. So it has started promoting a Pre-Black Friday event for this Friday, Nov. 21, starting at 8am, that will also feature plenty of bargains on electronics.Walmart, which like other retailers is promising to match or beat competitors' offers, held a similar Pre-Black Friday campaign a year ago.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Ransomware: City of Detroit didn't pay, TN sheriff's office did pay to decrypt
At the North American International Cyber Summit, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan admitted that Detroit's entire city database was encrypted and held for a ransom of 2,000 bitcoins worth about $800,000. No, Detroit didn't pay back in April, as the database wasn't needed by the city, but Duggan described the wake up to ransomware as a "good warning sign for us."When he began his four-year term as mayor on Jan. 1, he said, "It was pretty disturbing what I found. I found the Microsoft Office system we had was about 10 years old and couldn't sync the calendar to my phone." The city is now in the "early stages of ramping up," improving security and updating technologies.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Debian general resolution against systemd coupling fails, sponsor steps down
Debian developers voted down a proposal that would have weakened the Linux distribution's integration with a controversial system software package on Tuesday, in a victory for systemd supporters.The proposal, promulgated by former Debian project leader Ian Jackson, called for all Debian software to be effectively init-system-agnostic – the aim being to limit just how tightly bound to and dependent upon systemd Debian could become.+ MORE ON NETWORK WORLD:Prominent developers pulling out of Debian as voting deadline nears | How does a Windows bug go undetected for 19 years? +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Court shuts down tech support 'scams' targeted by FTC
A Florida court has temporarily shut down two "massive" telemarketing operations that allegedly conned tens of thousands of consumers out of millions of dollars by tricking them into fixing nonexistent computer errors, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said.The tech support operations generated more than US$120 million since 2012 by using software designed to trick computer users into thinking their PCs had performance or security problems, the FTC alleged. Computer users typically downloaded a free trial version of software that supposedly scanned their systems, then identified numerous errors, even when the computers didn't have performance problems, the FTC and Florida authorities alleged.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Apple iOS App Store swaps out FREE for GET
Apple appears to be saying that "GET" is much more straightforward than "FREE" when it comes to figuring out the real price of offerings on its iOS App Store.The company today changed the buttons on previously designated Free apps to say "GET," perhaps an effort by Apple to avoid making "freemium" apps that include in-app purchases appear as though they are completely cost-free. The Candy Crush Soda Saga app, for example, is listed as GET on the front of the iOS App Store, but you can see in the details that the app does include the option of in-app purchases.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
The 10 mightiest supercomputers on the planet
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Why CIOs need to embrace new norms of the hybrid cloud
Forget viewing yourself as a cloud services broker. In today's hybrid cloud enterprise the CIO's truly high value role is the creation of seamless business flows that bridge cloud and on-premisec infrastructure to help the business operate better, says Intel CIO Kim Stevenson.Hybrid Cloud: The time for adoption is upon us For most CIOs, a hybrid environment — a combination of on-premise and cloud-based infrastructure and applications — is, or soon will be, a fact of life. The real trick, she says, is to understand that hybrid isn't about cost. It is about innovation cycles and where you, as a CIO, can deliver innovation faster at better value. Innovation that allows the business to get a product to market a quarter sooner is almost certainly of much higher value than saving some cost by choosing the cheapest cloud service.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
What it's like living on a Chromebook, Part 2
I spent a week living in a Chromebook, and I actually rather enjoyed it.But there were still some obstacles that prevented me from being able to use a Chromebook, and only a Chromebook, as the center of my computing world. Namely: video editing and audio editing. If I could find solutions to those, I'd be living the sweet life on this here Chromebook.See also: What it's like living on a Chromebook, Part 1 This last week I've dedicated myself to the proposition that overcoming these obstacles is possible – and I was determined to do it.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
SDN in action: Hands-on with Cumulus Linux
The stage is set for SDN (software-defined networking) to change the way we push data through our infrastructures, with the promises of more agile network provisioning and management, as well as more affordable network hardware. But for many, the SDN concept is still amorphous. What does SDN look like in practice? To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More
Fidelity peers into the future of investing by building customers virtual cities
Fidelity Investments today announced a cutting edge way for customers to check on the health of their investments – by donning 3D goggles and peering around a personalized city where the size of each building relates to the health of their various stock holdings, giving them a quick way to gauge change without poring over numbers. Sound like science fiction? It feels a bit like that when you don the Oculus Rift 3D goggles and experience StockCity firsthand, but that's OK, says Seth Brooks, director of product management for Fidelity Labs, which the company describes as its R&D think-tank. "This is an experiment. We can develop minimally viable products and get these early stage efforts in front of users to get feedback and see what is worth pursuing," (see a video at http://youtu.be/YQ2-8_2Vwpw). To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
20-plus eye-popping Black Friday 2014 tech deals
iPhone 6, iPad Air, Samsung Galaxy gear and big cheap TVs among the hottest electronic deals for Black Friday and Cyber Monday in 2014. Read More
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