DOJ continues scrutiny of underground market sellers, arrests arms vendor

Federal Agencies on Track to Consolidate Data Centers Google bans Windows Chrome extensions found outside the Chrome Web Store IT News Daily November 08, 2013 Share this email DOJ continues scrutiny of underground market sellers, arrests arms vendor The U.S. Department of Justice is scrutinizing sellers on underground online marketplaces, and on Thursday said federal agents had arrested one person for alleged illegal weapons sale on underground market "Black Market Reloaded" in an elaborate sting operation. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Federal Agencies on Track to Consolidate Data Centers 2. Google bans Windows Chrome extensions found outside the Chrome Web Store 3. Hallelujah! Apple issues update for Mail in Mavericks 4. Apple fixes trackpad and graphics issues on new Retina MacBook Pros 5. Nvidia's Tegra 4i certified for AT&T, first products due in early 2014 6. Twitter rides high on IPO in stark contrast to rival Facebook WHITE PAPER: CDW Cloud Storage and Backup The proliferation of cloud computing options has begun to change the way storage is thought about, procured and used. IT managers and departments need to think through how cloud options might fit into and complement their onsite data infrastructures. Read Now Federal Agencies on Track to Consolidate Data Centers Congress looks to reduce the footprint of the government's IT infrastructure as agencies shift toward cloud computing, shared services and detailed reporting of government IT spending. READ MORE Google bans Windows Chrome extensions found outside the Chrome Web Store The sad march towards tribal fiefdoms continued Thursday, as Google announced that it will only allow Chrome for Windows users to download extensions hosted by Google's own Chrome Web Store starting in January. READ MORE Hallelujah! Apple issues update for Mail in Mavericks The complaints of Gmail users using Mail 7.0 in OS X Mavericks have been well documented, and it looks like Apple has finally come out with a fix. The company on Thursday released Mail Update for Mavericks 1.0. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: CDW DCIM: Total Management Insight The pace of change in the data center continues to accelerate. At the same time, organizations are demanding more from IT. The ever-growing stores of data they collect equate to more storage requirements as well as faster and more agile servers and networking equipment to process and transmit the information. Read Now Apple fixes trackpad and graphics issues on new Retina MacBook Pros Owners of the newly release 13- and 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro models may want to fire up Software Update for something even more important than a fix for Mail in Mavericks. Firmware updates for both models also released on Thursday take care of some potentially big problems with these latest laptops. READ MORE Nvidia's Tegra 4i certified for AT&T, first products due in early 2014 Nvidia's Tegra 4i processor, the first of its chips with integrated support for LTE cellular data, is on course to appear in products early next year, the company's CEO said Thursday. READ MORE Twitter rides high on IPO in stark contrast to rival Facebook Twitter's first day of trading as a public company sits in sharp contrast to Facebook's troubled and disappointing IPO a year and a half ago. READ MORE WEBCAST: Iron Mountain Datacenter Transformation and Business Innovation Date: Wednesday, October 16, 2013, 2:00 PM EDT Join this Live InfoWorld webinar to discuss why enterprise CIOs and IT professionals are changing their people, processes and technologies in order to stay competitive. Learn More. Follow IT News Share this email You are currently subscribed to itnews_daily as garn14.tech@blogger.com. Unsubscribe from this newsletter | Manage your subscriptions | Subscribe | Privacy Policy If you are interested in advertising in this newsletter, please contact: sean_weglage@itworld.com To contact IT News, please send an e-mail to online@itworld.com Copyright (C) 2013 IT News, 492 Old Connecticut Path, Framingham, MA 01701 ** Please do not reply to this message. To contact someone directly, send an e-mail to online@itworld.com. **