Campaign 2012: Mining for voters

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	Campaign 2012: Mining for voters Big data, analytics and mobile apps are enabling smaller political campaigns and advocacy groups to be more effective in winning over voters and raising money. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Google Google Apps for Business Do more for less with your team using Google Apps. Custom web-based email, calendars, and documents to easily share & work together in the cloud. Start with a free 30-day trial! In this Issue Moving beyond Hadoop for big data needs New York, New Jersey financial sector well prepared for Hurricane Sandy South Carolina breach exposes 3.6M SSNs 7 new Windows 8 Ultrabooks Google cancels Monday Android event because of storm National lab boosts U.S. supercomputing power with 20-petaflop Titan IBM moving to replace silicon with carbon nanotubes in computer chips Q&A: Statistician Nate Silver talks big data, sports analysis 10 useful new features in Office 2013 Coming soon: Cameras that never stop taking pictures Where is cloud computing heading in 2013? Video: Apple opens new store in Palo Alto Opposition to Google's Safari privacy settlement to be heard next month Michael Horowitz: What to tell your mother about Windows 8 Windows Store has enough apps to prevent Windows RT flop, say analysts Richi Jennings: Hurricane Sandy path kills events by Google, Facebook, WSJ (update) RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: EMC IT's Next Transformation To remain competitive organizations need to manage the relationship between IT and the business. Megatrends like virtualization, consumerization, cloud computing, and mobility are forcing a new model for operating IT. Read the interactive guide to learn more. Moving beyond Hadoop for big data needs Hadoop and MapReduce have long been mainstays of the big data movement, but some companies need new and faster ways to extract business value from massive -- and constantly growing -- datasets. Read More New York, New Jersey financial sector well prepared for Hurricane Sandy Lessons from 9/11 have helped ensure the financial services sector in New York and New Jersey is prepared for disasters, and even shorted the time to recover when regional events happen. Read More South Carolina breach exposes 3.6M SSNs In the biggest data compromise of the year, Social Security Numbers belonging to about 3.6 million residents in South Carolina have been exposed in an intrusion into a computer at the state's Department of Revenue. Read More 7 new Windows 8 Ultrabooks The introduction of MIcrosoft Windows 8 has spawned a variety of new and exciting devices. Here are 7 Ultrabooks that have been developed especially for the new operating system. Read More Google cancels Monday Android event because of storm Sorry, Android fans, looks like you'll have to wait a little longer to hear more about the Nexus 4 and the Nexus 10. Google canceled its Monday morning event in New York City because of safety concerns related to Hurricane Sandy, which is expected to hit the island in the next few days. Read More National lab boosts U.S. supercomputing power with 20-petaflop Titan The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory on Monday completed the deployment of a 20-petaflop supercomputer called Titan, which the lab hopes will give the U.S. an edge over China and Japan in the race to build the world's fastest computers. Read More IBM moving to replace silicon with carbon nanotubes in computer chips IBM has hit a milestone in its quest to come up with a successor to silicon computer chips. Read More Q&A: Statistician Nate Silver talks big data, sports analysis New York-based political statistician and author Nate Silver was a special guest speaker at IBM's Information On Demand conference. Big data, algorithms and sports analysis were among the topics of discussion. Read More WEBCAST: APC by Schneider Electric Strategies for Managing Distributed IT Environments Protecting your network architecture continues to be extremely critical. Distributed networking and computing spaces often times go unmanaged. Learn more about the importance of managing these distributed IT spaces including strategies for maintaining availability and energy cost savings opportunities. Learn more. 10 useful new features in Office 2013 See how Microsoft's popular applications are changing along with the Windows OS. Read More Coming soon: Cameras that never stop taking pictures Soon, we will reach a time where pictures are as easy to take as they are not to take, and they will be infinitely disposable. When that happens, says Mike Elgan, the default mode for most cameras will be to never stop taking pictures. Read More Where is cloud computing heading in 2013? Analysts have predicted a trend toward moving IT from on-premise to off-premise, new cloud applications and an increase in spending on cloud services next year. Read More Video: Apple opens new store in Palo Alto Apple's newest store, in the heart of Silicon Valley, opened Saturday to cheers, clapping and a queue of several hundred people. Read More Opposition to Google's Safari privacy settlement to be heard next month A court in San Francisco will hear arguments next month against a proposed $22.5 million privacy settlement between Google and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, over Google's use of cookies to track the Web movements of users running Apple's Safari browser. Read More Michael Horowitz: What to tell your mother about Windows 8 Techies will inevitably be asked by friends and relatives about upgrading older Windows machines to the just-released Windows 8. Weigh in on what you'll do when the time comes. Read More Windows Store has enough apps to prevent Windows RT flop, say analysts The apps available for Microsoft's new Windows operating systems are good enough to entice early buyers of tablets and other touch devices, analysts said. Read More Richi Jennings: Hurricane Sandy path kills events by Google, Facebook, WSJ (update) The Hurricane Sandy path causes Google, Facebook, and the Wall Street Journal to cancel events planned for this week. And Google's philanthropic arm offers updates on the storm's progress and emergency information. Also, how much do our cloud-computing needs rely on that part of the county? In IT Blogwatch, bloggers hunker down and hope for the best for the denizens of the East. Read More
	VOTE NOW: WHAT'S ON YOUR 2012 HOLIDAY SHOPPING OR WISH LIST? Computerworld wants to know: What type of tech gear do you most want to give or receive as a holiday present this year? Let us know by taking our quick poll. We'll focus on the most popular product types in our upcoming 2012 holiday gift guide. BEST PLACES TO WORK -- CALL FOR NOMINATIONS Is your IT department a great place to work? Our 20th annual Best Places to Work in IT report will honor 100 organizations that offer great benefits, salaries and opportunities for training and advancement, as well as interesting projects and a flexible and diverse work environment. Nominate an organization now through Dec. 13, 2012. SHARK TANK OF THE DAY Aha! This pilot fish is responsible for the firewall, so it makes sense when his supervisor asks if fish has stopped any Internet traffic going to a particular workstation. No, says fish -- but there's clearly a problem. CAST YOUR VOTE IN THIS WEEK'S QUICKPOLL Microsoft's pricing of its Surface RT tablet was called 'aggressive' by some analysts, 'mystifying' by others, even as they remained skeptical that it's low enough to make inroads on the dominant player, Apple's iPad. What do you think -- is Microsoft's Surface tablet pricing competitive with the iPad? NEW COMPUTERWORLD JOB BOARD Search multiple listings now and get new job alerts as they are posted.
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