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Thursday, July 02, 2015

Beach reads for techies 2015

Computerworld First Look
July 02, 2015

Beach reads for techies 2015

IT pros share their reading plans for the summer and recommend their all-time favorite books for technologists. Elon Musk or Malcolm Gladwell, anyone? READ MORE

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Issue highlights

1. A look at California's effort to build an H-1B firewall

2. Google's A.I. system gets its snark from humans

3. Microsoft's Office 2016 preview gets real-time editing in Word and more

4. Toyota, Nissan and Honda to back hydrogen fuel cell infrastructure

5. Wi-Fi password-sharing feature in Windows 10 raises security concerns

6. HP officially files to spin off its enterprise division

7. Facebook tests a new way to show video - and make money from it

8. PayPal to acquire money transfer service Xoom for $890M

9. DEA agent pleads guilty to accepting Silk Road funds

10. Intel's first Skylake chips coming in August

11. Vandalized fiber optic cable slows West Coast Internet

12. Want an IPv4 address? Get in line

13. ITblogwatch: Chicago: My kind of taxing town (where The Cloud costs 9% more)

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A look at California's effort to build an H-1B firewall

California lawmakers are considering a bill that would make it difficult for state-regulated utilities to replace U.S. workers with H-1B workers. It may be one of the most significant anti-offshoring measures in years. READ MORE

Google's A.I. system gets its snark from humans

A Google computer recently made headlines for appearing to become agitated and verbally lashing out at the human working with it. READ MORE

Microsoft's Office 2016 preview gets real-time editing in Word and more

New features also include support for hand-written equations and providing information through Bing. READ MORE

Toyota, Nissan and Honda to back hydrogen fuel cell infrastructure

The three Japanese car makers have agreed to work together to get more fuel cell vehicles on the road and pledged to put money toward building more hydrogen fueling stations. READ MORE

Wi-Fi password-sharing feature in Windows 10 raises security concerns

The option would allow anyone with a network's password to share access to it with all their friends. READ MORE

HP officially files to spin off its enterprise division

Hewlett-Packard has filed paperwork to register HP Enterprise as an independent company, an official step on the path to splitting in two. READ MORE

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Facebook tests a new way to show video - and make money from it

Called Suggested Videos, a new feed will appear first on iOS, showing both partner content and ads. READ MORE

PayPal to acquire money transfer service Xoom for $890M

PayPal is acquiring Xoom, an international money transfer service, in a deal that lets PayPal break into a new market worth an estimated $600 billion a year, the companies said. READ MORE

DEA agent pleads guilty to accepting Silk Road funds

A Drug Enforcement Administration agent intimately involved in the Silk Road investigation admitted that he secretly accepted bitcoins from the underground website's operator and illegally took other funds. READ MORE

Intel's first Skylake chips coming in August

Fancy a Mac or Windows 10 PC with Intel's new Skylake processors? Good news: Intel will launch its first chips based on the new architecture in the first week of August. READ MORE

Vandalized fiber optic cable slows West Coast Internet

Someone hacked through yet another fiber optic cable in the San Francisco Bay area early Tuesday. READ MORE

Want an IPv4 address? Get in line

The stockpile of unused IPv4 addresses in North America has fallen so low that there's now a waiting list. READ MORE

ITblogwatch: Chicago: My kind of taxing town (where The Cloud costs 9% more)

If you live or work in Chicago, get ready for some new cloud taxes. You'll be paying an extra 9% on media streaming and business cloud services. READ MORE

Webcast: Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.

Digital Financial Transactions Flying High in the Clouds

This webinar reviews cloud infrastructure trends and solutions for the financial services industry. Learn More.

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