7 Biggest Stories of the Week: Feb. 17-20
Is it me, or do the short weeks seem longer and the long weeks seem shorter? While you ponder that, take a look at the seven biggest stories for the week ending Feb. 20.
February 20, 2015
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Is it me, or do the short weeks seem longer and the long weeks seem shorter? While you ponder that, take a look at the seven biggest stories for the week ending Feb. 20.
After years of seemingly doing everything right, Lenovo surprisingly stepped in a big pile of you-know-what, pre-installing Superfish adware on some of its consumer laptops from last September to December and opening an uber-invasive superhighway for attackers to steal users’ encrypted Web data or stored online passwords.
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Big Blue set its sights on revolutionizing big data storage today with the launch of IBM Spectrum Storage. Designed to deliver optimized, software-defined storage through the cloud, the product is the first move in what IBM (IBM) says will be a $1 billion investment in next-generation storage software over the next five years.
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Axcient is looking to change the notion that software as a service (SaaS) is not a viable option for traditional VARs with a new upfront channel compensation model.
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A relatively small addition Microsoft (MSFT) has made to its Office feature set may pay larger dividends as the vendor continues to open its services to a wider range of platforms.
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More people than ever are contributing code to the Linux kernel, more of them are professionals who are paid to do it and more of them are women. That’s according to the latest survey of development trends for the open source operating system from the Linux Foundation.
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With not much time left before free support for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 expires on July 14, a preview of new survey of 200 IT professionals conducted by Spiceworks finds that a lack of time, budget constraints and applications compatibility issues are the top three reasons that many IT organizations won’t make the deadline.
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Business is booming in the U.S. tech industry, with a recorded 129,600 jobs added between 2013 and 2014, according to CompTIA. Last year’s round of new hires bring the total number of IT jobs in the United States to 6.5 million, with tech industry jobs accounting for 5.7 percent of the entire private sector work force.
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Business is booming in the U.S. tech industry, with a recorded 129,600 jobs added between 2013 and 2014, according to CompTIA. Last year’s round of new hires bring the total number of IT jobs in the United States to 6.5 million, with tech industry jobs accounting for 5.7 percent of the entire private sector work force.
Read the story here.
Is it me, or do the short weeks seem longer and the long weeks seem shorter? While you ponder that, take a look at the seven biggest stories for the week ending Feb. 20.
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