Remembering Pat McGovern, the technology media tycoon you never knew

Mt. Gox finds $116m worth of bitcoins Turkey appears to have blocked Twitter IT News Daily March 21, 2014 Share this email Remembering Pat McGovern, the technology media tycoon you never knew He was the media tycoon who flew beneath your radar. And yet Pat McGovern, who died Wednesday night at the age of 76, is the reason PCWorld--along with hundreds of other technology-oriented websites, publications and events--is here today. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Mt. Gox finds $116m worth of bitcoins 2. Turkey appears to have blocked Twitter 3. Lenovo buys mobile-related patents for $100 million 4. Talk is not cheap: Microsoft adds $23B to market cap on rumors of Office for iPad 5. Impact of EA Games hack on Apple shows ripple effect of attacks 6. World Tech Update: Sony enters VR gaming with Project Morpheus, Google's new Android Wear Mt. Gox finds $116m worth of bitcoins Mt. Gox has said it found 200,000 of the bitcoins it claimed may have disappeared as a result of a software flaw. READ MORE Turkey appears to have blocked Twitter Twitter offered workarounds to Turkish users on Thursday following reports by users that the service was facing interruptions and possibly a block in the country. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: BonitaSoft Develop a First Business Process Application This technical paper addresses the challenges of how to turn an existing process into an application, step by step, through a concrete example: how to model and automate an employee leave management process. Learn more>> Lenovo buys mobile-related patents for $100 million China's Lenovo is buying up patents related to 3G and 4G technologies from U.S.-based Unwired Planet for US$100 million, as the company sets about expanding with its proposed Motorola Mobility acquisition. READ MORE Talk is not cheap: Microsoft adds $23B to market cap on rumors of Office for iPad Microsoft's share price cracked $40, setting an 11-year high in trading on Thursday. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: VMware Automated Provisioning and Deployment Today's IT organizations are under increasing pressure to deploy private or hybrid clouds and become a service provider to their business users. In many cases, this change is motivated by the increasing prevalence of business users going outside of corporate IT to procure IT services direct from external cloud vendors. Learn more! Impact of EA Games hack on Apple shows ripple effect of attacks The recent hacking of an EA Games server demonstrates how the compromised system of one company can be used to bypass the strong security of another, in this case Apple. READ MORE World Tech Update: Sony enters VR gaming with Project Morpheus, Google's new Android Wear This week on World Tech Update, our weekly tech news video review, we take a closer look at Sony's new Project Morpheus. READ 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) 2014 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. **