Thursday, August 29, 2013

US court finds file-hosting service Hotfile infringed copyright, says MPAA

New York Times site hack shifts attention to registry locks

Nintendo surprises us with new 2DS gaming handheld, Wii U Deluxe price cut

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August 29, 2013
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Issue highlights

1. New York Times site hack shifts attention to registry locks

2. Nintendo surprises us with new 2DS gaming handheld, Wii U Deluxe price cut

3. US court finds file-hosting service Hotfile infringed copyright, says MPAA

4. Former Google executive to help Xiaomi to expand outside China

5. IBM starts restricting hardware patches to paying customers

6. First week on the job? Be a geek

7. 3 ways to pimp your BASH console

8. Jealous much? 8 techy things that can spark office envy

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The move to app-centric policy management

Organizations are finding that an application-centric firewall policy is superior to traditional zone-based policy when ther is concern for manageability, performance, and granularity. View Now

New York Times site hack shifts attention to registry locks

One way that owners of major websites can mitigate the risk of their domains being hijacked like The New York Times' site was on Tuesday is to apply what is known as a registry lock on the domain, security researchers say. READ MORE

Nintendo surprises us with new 2DS gaming handheld, Wii U Deluxe price cut

The Wii U definitely needed a price cut in order to compete with the PS4 and Xbox One, but this Nintendo 2DS slab handheld came out of left field. READ MORE

US court finds file-hosting service Hotfile infringed copyright, says MPAA

A U.S. federal court has found file-hosting website Hotfile liable for copyright infringement, according to movie industry body Motion Picture Association of America. READ MORE

Former Google executive to help Xiaomi to expand outside China

Up-and-coming Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has hired Hugo Barra, former Google vice president for Android product management, to lead its expansion worldwide. READ MORE

White Paper: HP

Know the Big Three

According to Morgan Stanley Research, the smart phone will become the dominant computing platform by the end of 2013, with more units being sold than desktop and laptop computers combined. Learn more.

IBM starts restricting hardware patches to paying customers

Following through on a policy change announced in 2012, IBM has started restricting availability of hardware patches to paying customers, spurring at least one advocacy group to accuse the company of anticompetitive practices. READ MORE

First week on the job? Be a geek

5 easy ways to get off to a great start and have a productive first week. READ MORE

3 ways to pimp your BASH console

If you spend a lot of time around a linux console, you're familiar with the vast color emptiness that is BASH. The default color scheme and text layouts for BASH can be pretty lame. Luckily the terminal is pretty customizable and you can do some modding to improve the experience. READ MORE

Jealous much? 8 techy things that can spark office envy

From telecommuting to extra monitors, technology has given us new reasons to be jealous of our co-workers READ MORE

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