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ITworld Today Jul 04, 2016 New products of the week 7.4.16 Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as CA and IBM Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • New Satana ransomware encrypts user files and master boot record • Firmware exploit can defeat new Windows security features on Lenovo ThinkPads • PCWorld Show Episode 21: The Windows 10 upgrade gets serious, AMD's RX 480 is fast and cheap, and suing Apple is easy, right? • Microsoft squanders browser dominance in record time • Second man pleads guilty of hacking entertainment industry celebrities • Use Apache Spark? This tool can help you tap machine learning • Why wearables will replace your smartphone • 23% off Segway miniPRO Personal Transporter, Now Shipping - Deal Alert • 55% off DinoFire Wireless 2.4GHz Presentation Remote - Deal Alert • These solar road panels could turn our world into Tron • How to contract for outsourcing agile development • This company hopes the road ahead is paved with solar panels • Hillary Clinton's tech agenda draws cheers from IT industry White Paper: Pegasystems Inc Transforming the Client Lifecycle: Bringing Customer and Product Onboarding into the Digital Age: ITworld White Paper This paper explores the challenges banks face in the area of onboarding, the opportunities created by CLM technology to help them address these challenges, improve customer experience and protect and grow their businesses, and the next steps they can take to move forward. Read More ▶ New Satana ransomware encrypts user files and master boot record Attackers are developing an aggressive new ransomware program that encrypts both user files and the computer's master boot record (MBR), leaving affected machines unable to boot into the OS. Read More ▶ Firmware exploit can defeat new Windows security features on Lenovo ThinkPads A newly released UEFI exploit for Lenovo ThinkPad laptops could disable low-level Windows security features like Secure Boot, Virtual Secure Mode and Credential Guard. Read More ▶ Video PCWorld Show Episode 21: The Windows 10 upgrade gets serious, AMD's RX 480 is fast and cheap, and suing Apple is easy, right? The PC world is popping in Episode 21 of the PCWorld Show. Windows 10's free upgrade ends soon, and Microsoft settles one user's beef for $10,000. AMD's $200 graphics card is a steal and a half. Finally, a Florida man seems to think getting $10 billion out of Apple will be a piece of cake. Editor in chief Jon Phillips, executive editor Melissa Riofrio, and senior editor Brad Chacos hash it out here. Watch Now ▶ Microsoft squanders browser dominance in record time An estimated 33 million users deserted Microsoft's browsers last month, pushing the company's browser strategy closer to the edge of irrelevancy. Read More ▶ Second man pleads guilty of hacking entertainment industry celebrities A second man has pleaded guilty to using a phishing scheme to get access to private and sensitive videos and photographs of people in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles. Read More ▶ Use Apache Spark? This tool can help you tap machine learning Finding insight in oceans of data is one of enterprises' most pressing challenges, and increasingly AI is being brought in to help. Now, a new tool for Apache Spark aims to put machine learning within closer reach. Read More ▶ Why wearables will replace your smartphone Smartphones are about to change completely, then fade away. Here comes the distributed, invisible user interface. Read More ▶ 23% off Segway miniPRO Personal Transporter, Now Shipping - Deal Alert The next evolutionary step of two-wheeled, self-balancing personal transporters is here, and currently discounted $300. Read More ▶ 55% off DinoFire Wireless 2.4GHz Presentation Remote - Deal Alert This simple, effective remote has a long rage and works with MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, ACD See, website, iWork (Keynote & Numbers & Pages) Google Slides, and more. Read More ▶ These solar road panels could turn our world into Tron Soar Roadways has developed a modular system of solar panels which the company says can make roads safer and much more efficient. Read More ▶ How to contract for outsourcing agile development The buttoned-up contracting approaches used for traditional software won't work for outsourced agile projects. Here's how to implement different protections for agile development agreements. Read More ▶ Video This company hopes the road ahead is paved with solar panels Solar Roadways is an Idaho startup that's developed a system of modular solar panels, which they hope will one day power cities, recharge your car, and make roads safer. Watch Now ▶ Hillary Clinton's tech agenda draws cheers from IT industry Presumptive Democratic nominee calls for investments in STEM education, cybersecurity and job training, pledging to make an open Internet a cornerstone of her administration's diplomacy. Read More ▶ White Paper: Pegasystems Inc Taking the Constituent-Centric Perspective to Improve Government Services: ITworld White Paper Governments are charged with the exceptional responsibility of representing public interests. This requires continuous improvement of constituent services for very complex and unique requirements. The concept of government customer service represents a new paradigm posing significant benefits. Read More ▶

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