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Friday, June 19, 2015

10 questions, 10 answers for Windows 10

Computerworld Wrap-Up
June 19, 2015

10 questions, 10 answers for Windows 10

Windows 10's launch is less than six weeks away, but questions -- lots of questions -- still remain about the new operating system. We've got answers. READ MORE

 

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1. 1 in 3 data center servers is a zombie

2. Apple Watch expected to take a big chunk of smartwatch market

3. NOW ON CIO: 7 tips to get recruiters to look at your LinkedIn profile

4. INSIDER Bart Perkins: IT funding potholes

5. Windows 8 users face patch spigot shutoff in 7 months

6. Apple quietly dumps the original iPad Mini

7. NOW ON CSO: Akorn Inc. has customer database stolen, records offered to highest bidder

8. Google's foes have 4 weeks to comment on antitrust charges

9. Oracle taps former HP exec Donatelli for key hardware role

10. Kris Hammond: How artificial intelligence explains analytics

11. Jonny Evans: Did Google's Eric Schmidt just call Apple's Tim Cook a liar?

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1 in 3 data center servers is a zombie

A new study says that 30% of all physical servers in data centers are comatose or are using energy but delivering no useful information. READ MORE

Apple Watch expected to take a big chunk of smartwatch market

The Apple Watch is expected to snag nearly two-thirds of the smartwatch market for all of 2015, according to a new forecast from IDC. READ MORE

NOW ON CIO: 7 tips to get recruiters to look at your LinkedIn profile

LinkedIn profiles equate to the modern-day virtual resume, but what makes a recruiter click on your LinkedIn profile over another? There are a few simple tricks you can use to make sure you get noticed by recruiters and hiring managers. READ MORE

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Bart Perkins: IT funding potholes

Organizations should know how to budget and pay for IT products and services; they've been doing so for more than 50 years. This is not rocket science. Unfortunately, many organizations continue to make the same mistakes year after year. READ MORE

Windows 8 users face patch spigot shutoff in 7 months

Windows 8 users have a little less than seven months to move to Windows 8.1 or be severed from Microsoft's security updates. READ MORE

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Apple quietly dumps the original iPad Mini

Apple today quietly stopped selling the original iPad Mini, the 7.9-in. tablet that debuted in 2012. READ MORE

NOW ON CSO: Akorn Inc. has customer database stolen, records offered to highest bidder

Akorn Inc., a niche pharmaceutical company, has had a customer database with more than 50,000 records compromised by a hacker who is offering to sell the data to the highest bidder or back to the company, whichever comes first. READ MORE

Google's foes have 4 weeks to comment on antitrust charges

The European Commission is almost ready to file final antitrust charges against Google: It has shared a redacted copy of charges with complainants and given them four weeks to provide additional evidence and comments. READ MORE

Oracle taps former HP exec Donatelli for key hardware role

Oracle named former Hewlett-Packard executive David Donatelli as executive vice president for converged infrastructure. READ MORE

Kris Hammond: How artificial intelligence explains analytics

How are artificial intelligence systems going to interact with us? What are the ways we can partner with them? Are we going to be regulated to the role of simply looking at their output and just doing what we are told? READ MORE

Jonny Evans: Did Google's Eric Schmidt just call Apple's Tim Cook a liar?

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt just took time out to tell the BBC that Apple's claims about Google privacy are "largely false." READ MORE

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Building a Multi-Tenant Big Data Environment

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