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ITworld Today Jan 29, 2016 Verizon told to remove huge Super Bowl ad in San Francisco Verizon has been told it must remove huge ads that are blanketing two sides of a building in downtown San Francisco a stone's throw from the city's Super Bowl celebration. Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • Microsoft's revenue falls, but cloud remains a bright spot • OpenSSL patches a severe but not widespread problem • ISS astronauts remember Challenger disaster • Storied Xerox to split its hardware and services businesses into two companies • LG patches data theft bug affecting millions of Android phones • Facebook is shuttering the Parse developer platform • Amazon's cloud is flying high, but profits disappoint overall • No agreement as deadline to replace Safe Harbor nears • Increasingly popular update technique for iOS apps puts users at risk • Naysayers forced to eat words as Google's AI masters ancient game of Go • The PCWorld Show Episode 1: Surfacegate, spec leaks and teeny-tiny phones • Get set for a choice of flagship smartphones with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 chip eGuide: Silver Peak Systems Inc eGuide: The Software-Defined WAN Today's hyper-connected, cloud-based envrionments demand greater agility and efficiency. Enter the software-defined WAN, which can address this shortcoming in traditional WAN architectures by putting an overlay on top of them. Read More ▶ Microsoft's revenue falls, but cloud remains a bright spot Microsoft is betting on reinventing itself as a cloud company, and the financial results it released Thursday show that its push is paying off despite an overall decline in revenue. Read More ▶ OpenSSL patches a severe but not widespread problem The OpenSSL project has patched a problem in the cryptographic library but one that likely does not affect many popular applications. Read More ▶ Video ISS astronauts remember Challenger disaster Astronauts on the International Space Station remember the loss of seven colleagues on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster 30 years ago on Jan. 28, 1986. Watch Now ▶ Storied Xerox to split its hardware and services businesses into two companies Over 50 years ago, Xerox's founder Chester Carlson introduced photocopiers based on a dry process called xerography that largely did away with the requirement of carbon copies of documents. So popular was the concept and the technology that in many markets users didn't ask for a photocopy but a 'xerox' of a document. Read More ▶ LG patches data theft bug affecting millions of Android phones LG has patched a security flaw in an application preinstalled on millions of its Android G3 smartphones that researchers found could be used to steal a variety of data. Read More ▶ Facebook is shuttering the Parse developer platform Facebook has just given developers a year to stop relying on its hosted Parse services, announcing it will shut down the services it acquired when it purchased the company of the same name in 2013. Read More ▶ Amazon's cloud is flying high, but profits disappoint overall Profits from Amazon's cloud division jumped 69 percent last quarter, but the rest of its business fared less well. Read More ▶ No agreement as deadline to replace Safe Harbor nears No replacement has yet been found for the transatlantic data-transfer agreement overturned last year by the European Union's top court, just days away from the deadline EU data protection authorities gave negotiators to come up with a new deal. Read More ▶ Increasingly popular update technique for iOS apps puts users at risk An increasing number of iOS application developers use a technique that allows them to remotely modify the code in their apps without going through the official app store's review process, an action that poses security risks for users. Read More ▶ Naysayers forced to eat words as Google's AI masters ancient game of Go They said it couldn't be done, but this week Google's AI technology proved them wrong by mastering the ancient Chinese game of Go roughly a decade earlier than anyone expected. Read More ▶ Video The PCWorld Show Episode 1: Surfacegate, spec leaks and teeny-tiny phones Welcome to the first installment of PCWorld's first long-form video show! Florence Ion, Gordon Mah Ung and Jon Phillips discuss, analyze and goof on the most interesting news of the week. Watch Now ▶ Get set for a choice of flagship smartphones with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 chip Smartphones will get 4K video playback and unprecedented LTE and wireless speeds with Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 820. Many flagship handsets with that chip will be announced soon. Read More ▶ White Paper: BlueWolf 2015-2016 The State of Salesforce The State of Salesforce is Bluewolf's annual report of how the best companies use Salesforce. With data collected from over 1,500 Salesforce customers, this year's report uncovers trends and opportunities specific to each Salesforce cloud. Read More ▶

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