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Google Shutting Down Orkut
Google's legacy social network will be retired in three months.
4 Facebook Privacy Intrusion Fixes
Facebook may control most of your data, but you can take protective steps. Here's what you need to know.
ICD-10 Delay: Organizations Prep For New Deadline
Healthcare organizations are taking advantage of the delay in a variety of ways, such as training more staff, improving documentation integrity, and conducting more robust testing, according to a survey.
Windows 9: Desktop Resurgence?
Next version of Windows will remove Live Tiles from traditional PCs and laptops but keep the Start screen for hybrids and tablets, according to reports.
Databricks Cloud: Next Step For Spark
Databricks, the company behind the hot Apache Spark project, announced new tools, new partners, and new funding to power a cloud service on Amazon Web Services.
Facebook Researchers Toy With Emotions: Wake Up
A study about the effect of posts on Facebook users' emotions outraged some people. I call it a public service: Now you understand what ill-informed consent means.
Big Data Innovation To Hit Legacy IT
Big data is coming to industries that have historically struggled to get started with data-driven initiatives. The best advice: Start small.
CoreOS Unveils Linux Containers As A Service
New version of Linux for the containerization of cloud servers is now available on a monthly subscription basis.
Google Kills Quickoffice
Google will no longer offer Quickoffice mobile productivity suite to new users, urging mobile owners to adopt Google Drive apps instead.
Will Spark, Google Dataflow Steal Hadoop's Thunder?
Apache Spark and Google's Cloud Dataflow service won't kill Hadoop, but they're aimed at the high-value role in big data analysis.
IT Salary: 10 Ways To Get A Raise
Do you deserve a bigger IT paycheck? Here's how to negotiate with bosses, navigate counteroffers, and avoid mistakes.
Apple Kills Aperture Photo App
Apple will replace Aperture with OS X Yosemite's built-in Photos app, but the company says it remains committed to its professional customers.
Microsoft Explains Exchange Outage
Microsoft pledges to do better after frustrating customers with last week's Exchange Online and Lync Online outages.
Internet Of Things: Current Privacy Policies Don't Work
Traditional ways to deliver privacy guidelines, such as online postings or click-through mechanisms, don't work with the Internet of Things.
You're Fast? Great. Are You Efficient?
Jumping hurdles at record speed doesn't mean much if you stroll between them. IT leaders must eliminate process-driven delays or trip on DevOps and SDN efforts.
Big Data Helps Insurer Pinpoint At-Risk Patients
Aetna and GNS Healthcare use analytics to predict patients at risk for metabolic syndrome.
IT Salaries: Looking For Love
We asked whether you felt fairly compensated for your IT role. More than half of you said no.
Google I/O 2014: 10 Big Developments
Google unveiled everything from Android to wearable news at its annual developers show. Here are the developments that matter most.
Facebook News Feed: 5 Changes
Gone are the days when Facebook showed you every post from every friend. Here's a look at Facebook's latest News Feed algorithm changes and how they affect the content you see.
BlackBerry Swipes At Android Security
In response to Google I/O announcements, BlackBerry criticizes Android's lack of security. On point, or sour grapes?
7 Surprising Technologies From World War I
WWI marked the first time technology was widely used in war. Look back 100 years at early drones, wearables, and other technologies that had lasting influence.
Philips Seeks Bigger Role In Healthcare Market
The Dutch company partners with Salesforce.com, introduces a cloud-based platform to expand its role in the healthcare market.
DARPA Robotics Challenge Gets Tougher
Robots competing in DARPA's disaster relief test must show some autonomy, will face surprise challenge.
What IT Can Learn From The Auto Industry
There's too much waste in IT. CIOs should look to the car industry for examples of efficiency and innovation.
Commerce Dept. Partners With Private Sector On Open Data
Commerce Department uses meetings with private sector to improve its open data infrastructure.
Geekend: The Great Wall Of Oz
Can giant walls stop tornadoes and bring an economic boost to the Midwest?
Google I/O: Hello Dataflow, Goodbye MapReduce
Google introduces Dataflow to handle streams and batches of big data, replacing MapReduce and challenging other public cloud services.
Microsoft Surface Pro 3: Customers Speak
Early adopters of Microsoft's Surface Pro 3 say the Windows device is working well as a tablet and an ultra-light laptop.
Apple Swift: Should CIOs Bite?
Swift, Apple's new programming language, has developers buzzing. Should IT execs turn their dev teams loose?
Hadoop Jobs: Key Skills For Advancement
Many people want lucrative Hadoop jobs right now. Do you have the Hadoop expertise and experience necessary to keep your career moving forward?
Open And Social: New Path For Government Agencies
Agencies such as DoD are adopting social business, digital technologies, and open standards in surprising ways.
Surescripts Taps AppDynamics To Scrutinize Apps
Surescripts expects AppDynamics application performance management to improve app performance and reliability, free engineers to pursue innovation.
Hortonworks Certifies Spark On YARN, Hadoop
Hortonworks catches up to Cloudera with YARN-managed implementation of Spark in-memory framework for machine learning on Hadoop.
Lockheed Consolidates DISA Network Centers
Defense tech firm plans to streamline DISA's global network by closing two European operations and technology centers.
Mobile Security Action Plan
Consumerization means CIOs must grant personal devices access to corporate data and networks. Here's how to avoid loss and corruption.
Dell Focuses On Security
Dell made a flurry of security-minded announcements this week, highlighted by improvements to its Dropbox for Business integration.
Internet Of Things: New Architecture Needed
Today's Internet architecture isn't ready for the scale of what the IoT should become. Here's a proposal for something better.
Google Wear Smartwatches Compared
LG and Samsung announce first devices with Android Wear, Google's platform for wearables. Understand the differences.
Warrantless Cellphone Searches Illegal, Supreme Court Rules
Supreme Court bars police from searching data on an individual's cellphone without a warrant.
Salesforce.com, Philips Launch Digital Healthcare Platform
Salesforce1 cloud platform will serve as development platform for patient-care apps using Philips health monitoring devices.
Google I/O: Android Interface, Cloud Advances Star
Day one of Google I/O lacked skydivers but delivered new APIs, tools, and connectivity to push Google's mobile device and cloud capabilities forward.
Electronic Health Records: First, Do No Harm?
EHRs are commonly promoted as boosting patient safety, but are we all being fooled? InformationWeek Radio investigates.
Redmond's Remarkable Reversal With Developers
Microsoft, facing significant risks in the post-PC era, has made surprising changes to the way it works with developers.
Montana Health Department Hacked
State of Montana notifies 1.3 million patients of breach to Department of Public Health and Human Services server.
Google I/O: A To Z
Google reveals new features coming to Android, as well as several platforms for TV, fitness, and connected cars.
WLAN Design: Learning From Our Mistakes
Our expensive campus WLAN upgrade didn't account for the growing number of wireless devices per student. Here's what we learned from our mistakes and how we turned them into teaching opportunities.
Cloud Improves SEC's Bottom Line
Move to cloud helps Securities and Exchange Commission collect, analyze, and report on financial data more efficiently.
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The State of Cloud Computing - Fall 2020
Download this report to compare how cloud usage and spending patterns have changed in 2020, and how respondents think they'll evolve over the next two years.
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