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Cloud

Submission + - Mexican hotel chain outsources IT to US (computerworld.com)

cweditor writes: Grupo Posadas has five data centers supporting more than 100 hotels and other lines of business, but it's moving almost all of those operations to a service provider in Texas. Could cloud service providers help the US become a destination for tech outsourcing instead of an exporter of tech jobs? One stumbling block: The US finds itself on the receiving end of protectionist legislation in other countries that discourages use of non-domestic IT service providers, says the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation.
Security

Submission + - Corporate boardrooms open to eavesdropping

cweditor writes: One afternoon this month, a hacker toured a dozen corporate conference rooms via equipment that most every company has in those rooms: videoconferencing. Rapid7 says it could 'easily read a six-digit password from a sticky note over 20 feet away from the camera' and 'clearly hear conversations down the hallway from the video conferencing system.' With some systems, they could even capture keystrokes being typed in the room. Teleconferencing vendors defended their security, saying the auto-answer feature that left those sytsem vulnerable was an effort to strake the right balance between security and usability.
Privacy

Submission + - What Web surfers can find out about you (computerworld.com)

cweditor writes: "How much private information is easily available about you online? Social Security numbers are just the beginning. Writes Rob Mitchell in What the Web Knows About You: "Our conversation had barely started when privacy activist Betty Ostergren interrupted me to say that she had found my full name, address, social security number and a digital image of my signature on the Web." And there a lot more."
Portables

Submission + - Hello, gorgeous! Meet the laptop of 2015 (computerworld.com)

cweditor writes: "Like concept cars at auto shows, the computer industry designs "concept notebooks" to imagine what the machines of the future. The "concepts" may not come to market as-is, but it's likely some of their ideas, components and features will. Take a look at systems you might be using in 7 years. In one, a touch-sensitive screen acts as the system's keyboard and mouse, allowing you to slide your finger across the screen to immediately shut off the display and keep what you're working on confidential. Image gallery includes a prototype for a dual-screen laptop."
Security

Submission + - Sysadmin gets 30 months for planting logic bomb (computerworld.com) 1

cweditor writes: "A former Medco Health systems administrator was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $81,200 in restitution for planting a logic bomb on a network that held customer health care information, Computerworld reports. The code was designed to delete almost all information on about 70 company servers. This may be longest federal prison sentence for trying to damage a corporate computer system, although Yung-Hsun Lin faced a maximum of 10 years."
Enlightenment

Submission + - The 5 Users You'd Meet in Hell (computerworld.com)

cweditor writes: "The Know-It-All. The Finger-Pointer. The Whiz Kid. "Just as a zookeeper cares for his monkeys one way and his rhinos another (we kid — sort of), so too should IT tailor its responses to fit the individual styles of its end users," according to this Computerworld "rogue's gallery of users (and one angel)".

Includes advice on how to best deal with the most common types of users, without having to run screaming into the night. Expect sometime soon to also see reader feedback offering other ideas (and, oh, perhaps some disagreement with the article's)."

Power

Submission + - Extreme energy makeover: Home technology edition (computerworld.com)

cweditor writes: "Step by step, tech writer Rob Mitchell shows how he measured energy use of all his home office equipment, and then targeted the energy pigs for replacement. With better equipment choices, he'd save $90/year. If you've got more than a couple of computers and printers at home (and if you're a Slashdot reader, you probably do), the savings would be a lot higher. Includes detailed formulas as well as a spreadsheet on monitor energy usage."

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