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Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Some users will fight paying with slower chip cards

Computerworld Wrap-Up
June 23, 2015

Some users will 'kick and scream' at paying with slower chip cards

Major U.S. banks have been rolling out new, secure smart chip debit and credit cards for months, but the real end-user impact hasn't yet been felt. That will soon change. READ MORE

 

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1. The rise of SSDs over hard drives, debunked

2. Apple's costs for bowing to Taylor Swift's demands will be peanuts

3. NOW ON CIO: Top 10 cities for IT pros looking to make a move

4. Separating science fact from science fiction in robotics (with video)

5. Apple sticks to schedule, releases second El Capitan beta

6. Gmail now lets users retrieve career-ending rants

7. INSIDER What does the future hold for Microsoft Dynamics?

8. NOW ON CSO: Practical guidance for CISOs from former federal security adviser

9. Google goes after Apple with its own free music service

10. BlackBerry touts enterprise software sales

11. US Navy paid millions to stay on Windows XP

12. INSIDER Banks get attacked four times more than other industries

13. JR Raphael: Lenovo's new Moto-inspired Android UI, coming soon to a tablet near you

14. Jonny Evans: 5 reasons you're going to want Apple's next iPhone

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The rise of SSDs over hard drives, debunked

In spite of a recent report to the contrary, solid-state drives will not surpass hard disk drives in either price or capacity any time soon. READ MORE

Apple's costs for bowing to Taylor Swift's demands will be peanuts

Apple's quick decision to pay artists royalties during the three-month trial of its new streaming service could set it back more than a half billion dollars, or less than a hundred million, a rounding error on the Cupertino, Calif. company's books. READ MORE

NOW ON CIO: Top 10 cities for IT pros looking to make a move

Business is booming in 2015, and across the country IT organizations are loosening the purse strings and shelling out big bucks for critical IT talent. Here's a look at the 10 hottest cities for IT pay based on percent increase in salary, area home prices and median salary. READ MORE

Separating science fact from science fiction in robotics (with video)

Science-fiction movies often show robots freely running across the screen, either wreaking havoc or saving the world. But many roboticists competing in the finals of the DARPA Robotics Challenge earlier this month said they are backing away from autonomy in order to make their robots work faster and more efficiently. READ MORE

Apple sticks to schedule, releases second El Capitan beta

Apple today released the second developer preview of OS X 10.11, El Capitan, matching the pace of last year's Yosemite to the day. READ MORE

Gmail now lets users retrieve career-ending rants

Google yesterday added an "undo send" option to Gmail from a browser, letting users retract messages they wish they'd never sent. READ MORE

INSIDER

What does the future hold for Microsoft Dynamics?

Alongside the news that the Microsoft teams that make devices like Surface and Surface Hub will now be in the same division that makes the OS on which they run, Microsoft's latest reorg moves Dynamics to the Cloud & Enterprise group. READ MORE

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Join IXP and IBM in this webinar and learn how intelligent video analytics can be a force multiplier for police, security, and risk officers. Learn More

NOW ON CSO: Practical guidance for CISOs from former federal security adviser

In this edition of the Irari Report, Ira Winkler and Araceli Treu Gomes interview Howard Schmidt, who served as the cybersecurity adviser to both President George W. Bush and President Barrack Obama, and was Chief Information Security Officer of Microsoft and eBay, among other senior and operational roles in industry and government. READ MORE

Google goes after Apple with its own free music service

Google is launching a free music service in a move that pits it against Apple, Pandora and Spotify. READ MORE

BlackBerry touts enterprise software sales

BlackBerry's revenues from licensing software and technology to enterprises have become a bright spot in the company's continuing financial recovery. READ MORE

US Navy paid millions to stay on Windows XP

The U.S. Navy is paying Microsoft millions of dollars to keep up to 100,000 computers afloat because it has yet to transition away from Windows XP. READ MORE

INSIDER

Banks get attacked four times more than other industries

Modern-day criminals are still following Willie Sutton's example of going after banks "because there's where the money is." READ MORE

JR Raphael: Lenovo's new Moto-inspired Android UI, coming soon to a tablet near you

When news first broke that Lenovo was buying Motorola, plenty of people worried the company might push its heavy-handed approach to Android onto Motorola's devices. Well, surprise, surprise: Here we are, more than a year later -- and it appears the exact opposite is happening. READ MORE

Jonny Evans: 5 reasons you're going to want Apple's next iPhone

Apple is cooking up such an iPhone upgrade path, with a wave of rumors warning the next iteration will be faster, thinner, and possibly even curvier than before. READ MORE

Webcast: IBM

Use Analytics to Find the Insights Buried in Video

Join IXP and IBM in this webinar and learn how intelligent video analytics can be a force multiplier for police, security, and risk officers. Learn More

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