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1 / 11 04.09.2015 14:25 @ 14:25Rotlender Adrian
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Posted on: 04.09.2015 09:56
Author: John Ribeiro
Subject: Microsoft, US face off again over emails stored in Ireland
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A dispute between Microsoft and the U.S. government over turning over emails stored in a
data center in Ireland comes up for oral arguments in an appeals court in New York on
Wednesday.

Microsoft holds that an outcome against it could affect the trust of its cloud customers
abroad as well as affect relationships between the U.S. and other government s which have
their own data protection and privacy laws.

Customers outside the U.S. would be concerned about extra -territorial access to their user
information, the company has said. A decision against Microsoft could also establish a
norm that could allo w foreign governments to reach into computers in the U.S. of companies
over which they assert jurisdiction, to seize the private correspondence of U.S. citizens.

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2 / 11 04.09.2015 14:25 @ 14:25Rotlender Adrian
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Posted on: 04.09.2015 04:02
Author: Josh Fruhlinger
Subject: 8 of the most unsettling things you'll find on the darknet
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Enter the dark Stairs to the dark
net<http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2015/09/dark_stairs -100611444 -orig.jpg >

Image by BlueEyes94/Flickr < https://flic.kr/p/nbS mUF>

Back in the 1970s, "darknet" wasn't an ominous term: it simply referred to networks that
were isolated from the mainstream of ARPANET for security purposes. But as ARPANET became
the Internet and then swallowed up nearly all the other computer netwo rks out there, the
word came to identify areas that were connected to the Internet but not quite of it,
difficult to find if you didn't have a map. Naturally, unsettling content and activity
flourished in the shadows. "You can find pretty much anything you can think of in the
darknet," says Loucif Kharouni, Senior Threat Researcher at big data security firm
Damballa < https://www.damballa.com/ > .

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3 / 11 04.09.2015 14:25 @ 14:25Rotlender Adrian
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Posted on: 04.09.2015 04:00
Author: Paul Krill
Subject: Project Oxford: Microsoft serves up APIs for intelligent apps
Full article link: http://www.cio.com/article/2980203/application-development/project-oxford-microsoft-
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Microsoft this past spring announced Project Oxford < https://www.projectoxford.ai/ > , a
set of SDKs and APIs that allow developers to build “intelligent” applications without
having to learn machine learning . Using Oxford’s face, speech, and vision APIs, developers
can create applications that recognize facial features, analyze images, or perform speech –
to-text or text -to-speech translations.

In an interview with InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill, Microso ft’s Ryan Galgon, senior
program manager responsible for the Project Oxford platform and technologies, talked about
the goals behind Oxford, emphasizing its potential in the Internet of things.

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4 / 11 04.09.2015 14:25 @ 14:25Rotlender Adrian
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Posted on: 04.09.2015 03:43
Author: Zach Miners
Subject: Firefox coming to iOS this year, Mozilla says
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Mozilla hopes to have its version of Firefox for iOS devices out by year's end as part of
its push to grow its share of mobile traffic.

Mozilla already offers F irefox on Android, but the OS makes up just a sliver
<http://www.broken -links.com/2015/08/26/mobile -browsing -around-the-
world/?utm_source=mobilewebweekly&utm_medium=email > of total Web traffic on mobile,
easily surpassed by Google's Chrome browser and App le's Safari, according to data from
StatCounter.

Overall usage of Firefox across desktop and mobile has fallen in recent years, according
to Web analytics company W3Counter < http://www.w3counter.com/trends > .

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5 / 11 04.09.2015 14:25 @ 14:25Rotlender Adrian
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Posted on: 04.09.2015 02:08
Author: Katherine Noyes
Subject: Amazon snaps up Elemental to boost video on AWS
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Amazon will acquire Elemental Technologies in a bid to enrich the video capabilities of
its AWS cloud service, the company announced Thursday.

Elemental makes sof tware to help media and entertainment companies take live and on -demand
video intended for traditional purposes such as cable, satellite or over -the-air broadcast
and reformat it for digital distribution to PCs, smartphones, tablets and TVs. The Oregon
company was founded in 2006.

Amazon Web Services plans to use the technology in new integrations and infrastructure
offerings, it said. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter of this year;
terms were not disclosed.

Elemental claims more than 70 0 media franchise customers and powers over -the-top TV
applications including the BBC’s iPlayer, CNNGo, ESPN ScoreCenter, HBO GO, MSNBC Shift,
Sky Go and Sky Now. It also supports 4K Ultra HD services, including those delivered by
the BBC during the 2014 W orld Cup.

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6 / 11 04.09.2015 14:25 @ 14:25Rotlender Adrian
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Posted on: 04.09.2015 01:50
Author: James Niccolai
Subject: Ex-Tesla engineer could face prison for hacking former manager's email, FBI says
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A former Tesla engineer could spend six years in prison for allegedly accessing his former
boss's email account and pilfering employee evaluations, which he shared with other
workers.

Nima Kalbasi, a 28 -year-old Canadian citizen, also accessed a report about a customer
complaint and posted it online, along with disparaging comments about the quality of
Tesla's cars, the FBI says.

He was arrested in Vermont last month as he crossed the border into the U.S., the FBI said
Thursday. He was charged with two counts of felony computer intrusion, with a maximum
sentence of five years, and a misdemeanor charge that carries a maximum one -year sentence.

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7 / 11 04.09.2015 14:25 @ 14:25Rotlender Adrian
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Posted on: 04.09.2015 01:15
Author: Blair Hanley Frank
Subject: Microsoft will release its hackathon help tool to the world
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Microsoft is planning to bring its internal tool for running hackathons to the public next
year, starting by allowing a few select colleges to test drive it at their own events.

It's part of a plan by the company's Garage division to help other organizations get
better at handling the administrative side of organizing maratho n hack sessions like the
three-day-long bonanza < http://blogs.microsoft.com/firehose/2015/07/27/oneweek -hackathon –
2015-heard-around-the-world/> Microsoft held in July as part of its Oneweek employee
team-building session. Known inside Microsoft as the "Ha ckathon interactive project site,"
it was built to help 13,000 employees and interns work on 1,700 projects during the
Oneweek hackathon.

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8 / 11 04.09.2015 14:25 @ 14:25Rotlender Adrian
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Posted on: 04.09.2015 01:02
Author: Grant Gross
Subject: DOJ tightens policies on use of simulated cells for surveillance
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The U.S. De partment of Justice will regularly delete extra data collected in a
controversial cellular surveillance tool called a stingray, the agency said Thursday.

A new DOJ policy < http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice -department -announces -enhanced –
policy-use-cell-site-simulators > on the use of stingrays, or cell -site simulators,
requires the agency to delete all data as soon as a mobile device is located through the
technology, and data must be deleted no less than once daily when DOJ investigators are
targeting a known device.

The new policy covers DOJ divisions such as the FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration.

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9 / 11 04.09.2015 14:26 @ 14:26Rotlender Adrian
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Posted on: 04.09.2015 00:43
Author: Matt Kapko
Subject: 3 new Google Docs features enterprises will appreciate
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Google this week released a set of new features
<http://googleforwork.blogspot.com/2015/09/new -season-new-ways-to-get-work-done-with-
Google-Docs.html > that merge more of the company's core strengths and other legacy
products with the Google for Work portf olio. Including the six new features announced this
week (only three of which are detailed here), the company says it made more than 100
improvements to Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and Forms since the beginning of the year.

Google Docs gets voice -to-text

Voice input in Google Docs is the most important of the new features released for
enterprise users, according to Forrester analyst David Johnson. The new speech -to-text
capability supports more than 40 languages and must be activated via Google Chrome's To ols
menu. The feature is available only in Chrome browsers and there’s no word from Google on
when other browsers might be supported.

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10 / 11 04.09.2015 14:26 @ 14:26Rotlender Adrian
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Posted on: 04.09.2015 00:17
Author: Brand Post
Subject: BrandPost: How the IT Skills Gap Hits Your Bottom Line
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More than half of all enterprise CIOs expect to struggle with a shortage of IT skills over
the next year, according to IDG’s 2015 State of the CIO survey
<http://www.cio.com/article/2862760/cio -role/2015 -state-of-the-cio.html > . That percentage
rises from 5 6% to 62% for larger enterprises – perhaps because those organizations are
actively pursuing emerging technologies that require more advanced skills such as cloud
computing < http://www.pcconnection.com/it -services/cloud -computing -solutions > ,
virtualizatio n, and big data analytics.

A skills gap is more than a mere annoyance to enterprises: it affects the bottom line. A
CareerBuilder survey
<http://www.careerbuilder.com/share/aboutus/pressreleasesdetail.aspx?sd=3%2F6%2F2014&id=pr
807&ed=12%2F31%2F2014 > published in March 2014 concludes that, “on average, a company
loses more than $14,000 for every job that stays vacant for three months or longer.”

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11 / 11 04.09.2015 14:26 @ 14:26Rotlender Adrian
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Posted on: 04.09.2015 00:00
Author: Steven Max Patterson
Subject: How Comcast is changing tactics in response to cord cutters
Full article link: http://www.cio.com/article/2980279/internet/comcast-cord-cutters-stream-unlimited-
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Reddit user demian87 recently posted a letter from Comcast
<https://www.reddit.com/r/WarOnComcast/comments/3j8uob/comcast_makes_unlimited_limmited_to
_300gb_or_pay/ > notifying him or her of a new Comcast Internet access pricing plan being
trialed in Fort Lauderdale, the Keys, and Miami, Florida. According to this letter,
Comcast will set a limit beginning on October 1 of 300 GB per household per month.
Customers who exceed this limit will have to pay $10 for every additio nal 50 GB needed
after that, or sign up for an unlimited data plan for an additional $30 per month.

Comcast spokesman Charlie Douglas confirmed that the letter is authentic, along with the
company's new unlimited pricing plan < http://customer.xfinity.com/ help-and-
support/internet/exp -unlimited -data> . Douglas explained that "the company has trialed
three other pricing plans since 2012 when Comcast had a static limit of 250 GB per month."

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