Monday, April 21, 2014

3D printing will transform these five industries

Open source pitfalls -- and how to avoid them

Free OS X Mavericks now powers half of all Macs

IT News Daily
April 21, 2014
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3D printing will transform these five industries

The 3D printing world is currently in limbo – the technology is developed enough to attract some attention in the real world, but not enough to bring about change on a substantial scale. New stories emerge everyday of 3D printing breakthroughs, be it through research or the development of actual products.

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Issue highlights

1. Open source pitfalls -- and how to avoid them

2. Free OS X Mavericks now powers half of all Macs

3. The past and promise of the Apple TV

4. Hundreds of medical professionals targeted in multi-state tax scam

5. Most but not all sites have fixed Heartbleed flaw

6. Even the most secure cloud storage may not be so secure, study finds

Open source pitfalls -- and how to avoid them

It's hard to imagine a company these days that isn't using open source software somewhere, whether it's Linux running a company's print and web servers, the Firefox browser on user desktops, or the Android operating system on mobile devices. READ MORE

Free OS X Mavericks now powers half of all Macs

OS X Mavericks powered half of all Macs that went online in March, the largest percentage of any individual version of Apple's operating system since 2009's Snow Leopard. READ MORE

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Optimize Cost and Performance for your Data Center

In this recorded webinar, discover how you can take advantage of new business value as data centers evolve and modernize with revolutionary technologies such as Symantec's SmartIO and Flexible Storage Sharing capabilities in Storage Foundation 6.1. Learn more!

The past and promise of the Apple TV

The Apple TV is like that old friend from college--pretty cool, but always crashing in your living room. Its inconsistent stability, frustratingly anemic content offering, and lack of rich input methods have kept it from becoming what Apple enthusiasts long swore it would be: the iPhone of TV set-top boxes. Though its interface and hardware continue to evolve, the little black box faces real competition from faster-moving players that are offering more, like the Roku 3 and the new Fire TV from Amazon. READ MORE

Hundreds of medical professionals targeted in multi-state tax scam

Medical professionals in ten states have become victims of identity theft, after someone used their personal information, including Social Security Number, to file fraudulent tax returns. READ MORE

WHITE PAPER: Symantec

Tame Data Center Challenges with Intel SSDs & Symantec

This solution brief covers how Symantec and Intel empower you to mitigate data center challenges leveraging Symantec software with Intel solid state drives. Learn how you can utilize these solutions to increase performance and efficiency in your data center. Learn more!

Most but not all sites have fixed Heartbleed flaw

The world's top 1,000 websites have been patched to protect their servers against the "Heartbleed" exploit, but up to 2% of the top million were still vulnerable as of last week. READ MORE

Even the most secure cloud storage may not be so secure, study finds

Some cloud storage providers who hope to be on the leading edge of cloud security adopt a "zero-knowledge" policy in which vendors say it is impossible for customer data to be snooped on. But a recent study by computer scientists at Johns Hopkins University is questioning just how secure those zero knowledge tactics are. READ MORE

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