How to recover data from your memory card or USB or hard disk partition by using software Recova

To day our topic is How to recover data from your memory card or USB or hard disk partition by using software Recuva. So i will discuss on data that are lost by mistake. Data recovery is not a difficult task but if data is overwrite from where you want to recover data then you cannot recover it. For example if data is deleted or format from USB and you copy data other data on USB then you cannot recover your old data. But if you didn't copy ay data on your USB then you can recover data from your USB.

Now question is that how to recover data from USB or memory card or from hard disk? There are some simple steps to recover your data are given below.

1: Download and install Recuva in your system. Download link is given below

Download Link

2: Now open Recuva software and click Next Button

3: Choose your own option that you want like pictures music etc or if you want to recover all files then check All Files and then click on Next

4: Now select directory from where you want to recover your data. Click on Browse Button.

5: Choose directory from where you want to recover data. In my case i am recovering data from my USB device. and then click OK and then click on Next button.

6: Now check "Enable Deep Scan" and then click on Start Button.

7: Scanning of your device is start as you are watching below

8: All files that are found shown in the below dialog box.

9: Check files that you want to recover or you can check all files by checking check box that is high lighted. And then click Recover button.

10:  Now select directory where you want to keep recovered files. and then click on OK button

11: Recovering of data is started 

12: When recovery is completed you will see a dialog box as given below. Click OK your data is recovered. :-)

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Banks’ technology adoption not fast enough for some regulators – SAP study

While technology is changing every aspect of banking operations, 77 percent of participants in a recent survey say the greatest impact will be on customer satisfaction and regulatory compliance. 

Some regulators, however, believe banks are moving too slowly.

“The Benefits of Innovative Information Technology in the Banking Industry” was conducted by the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, New York University’s Stern School of Business and Management, the University of Applied Sciences and Arts North-Western Switzerland, the Business Transformation Academy (Basel, Switzerland) and SAP SE.

The study uncovered various trends in banking, most notably a large disconnect between regulators’ expectations and the ability of banks to meet compliance and reporting requirements. However, many financial institutions have plans to increase their budget for Information Technology (IT) to invest in the necessary banking solutions to meet these changing requirements.

Throughout the study, a clear consensus prevailed that regulatory requirements are the primary driver of business model changes.

Regulators agree that required levels of risk reporting in banks cannot be met given existing IT infrastructure. As one regulator noted, “IT budgets have to significantly increase to meet the current and future requirements.” Indeed, 61 percent of survey participants expect an increase in their IT budget of at least 25 percent in the next three years. Regulators ranked new provisions that are regarded as the main cost drivers for the future IT infrastructure for banks.

According to the study, the top cost driver is the Basel Committee’s guideline on principles for effective risk data aggregation and risk reporting (BCBS 239), followed by Basel III, Dodd-Frank, the recommendations set forth in the Liikanen Report, Markets in Financial Instruments Directive and Markets in Financial Investments Regulation, European Market Infrastructure Regulation and multi-curve valuations.

Regulators defined which features will characterise a state-of-the-art IT infrastructure from a regulatory standpoint. The ability to conduct automated ad hoc stress testing is key, as well as the ability to produce timely, complete, granular balance sheet data and counterparty data for the entire bank.

In order to achieve a sustainable infrastructure, regulatory authorities and auditors recommend banks make the following improvements: Implementation of a central data warehouse, Improvement of data and process governance, Introduction of more automated processes, and Flexible and customised modules for automatic analysis, stress scenario generation and ad hoc stress testing. Others are: Enhanced capabilities and data analytics for product valuation and bank enterprise risk management calculations, as well as enhanced capabilities for legal entity- and jurisdiction-specific analytics.

As banks adopt advanced technologies to decrease the time lag on reporting, regulators have laid out their expectations.

For reporting on regulatory and economic capital on a group level, institutions should aim for final results within 10 business days from the effective date. Interestingly, there is a common expectation that in the near future the time frame deemed acceptable for delivery of information will not exceed one day, granting near real-time visibility.

Banks are largely in agreement that their current systems need updating, according to the study. Respondents to the online survey expressed little confidence in the ability of their current systems and processes to simulate the potential effects of business decisions on various figures, including economic capital and regulatory capital, in real time.

Despite increased regulatory pressures for banks to update their Information Technology (IT) infrastructure, banks remain largely focused on short-term success. As one auditor voiced, “To date, many financial institution tend to implement work-around and small scale solutions, but this will create significant issues in meeting potential future requirements.”

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Why The billboard goes digital

When Jeremy Male rang the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange last Thursday, he became one of a handful of chief executives to have performed that ceremonial duty, marking a corporate milestone, twice in one year.

Male, who is British, had already stood on the dais in March, at the side of Leslie Moonves, head of CBS, as they celebrated the spin-off of billboard advertising group CBS Outdoor from its parent. Male was then six months into the post of CBS Outdoor’s CEO.

The second Wall Street appearance, complete with change in ticker symbol, finalised the transformation of CBS Outdoor into Outfront Media. It also caps a year in which Male has overseen the group not just shedding its name but adopting a new tax structure and cutting the last ties to CBS as he pursues ambitious growth.

When he arrived in New York from France’s JCDecaux, one of the leading outdoor advertising companies, to head the group, it was very much in the shadow of CBS, the US broadcaster best known as the home of David Letterman, Survivor and The Big Bang Theory. “Coming over to the US, with a British accent, I’d say ‘CBS Outdoor’ and people would say, ‘Oh, what show is that?’”

Outfront’s reinvention comes as the out-of-home advertising sector – billboards, subway ads, bus shelters – is being reshaped by data, technology and the ubiquity of mobile devices, like the rest of the media industry.

It is also growing: global outdoor spending is projected to expand 4 per cent this year, and to maintain its 7 per cent share of the total advertising market over the next five years, according to Magna Global, Interpublic’s ad buying and research group.

Interest in outdoor is driven at least partly by operators converting their signs to more profitable digital displays, such as the often animated adverts illuminating Times Square and Piccadilly Circus like oversized television screens.

While just 1.5 per cent of Outfront’s inventory has been converted to digital signs, they already account for 10 per cent of its revenue. A single digital board can carry several ads a day and campaigns are cheaper and quicker to produce than traditional billboards. Male expects digital to reach 25 per cent of sales within three years, especially as the declining cost of electronic displays means advertisers can get more bang for their buck.

Additional digital inventory means Outfront can offer advertisers flexible and timely campaigns, including the ability to react fast to an event, such as flashing a message when a local team scores in a football game. “We’re not too far away from having an app where [marketers] could just say, ‘OK, I want this message on all of our screens across the world for a 10-second period’.”

Technology will enable billboard owners to use data to improve audience targeting, make campaigns interactive and connect outdoor messages to the other media people see, especially on the mobile phones carried by so many consumers wherever they go.

“What you can tell from the handsets that go past is where it started out, what it did, what websites it visited  . . . The data mobile devices capture is allowing us to add far more value to our locations,” says Male. Outfront has collaborated with Dash Labs, a mobile app maker, to collect demographics on drivers passing a billboard in Los Angeles.

Such data collection raises privacy concerns, but Male says it is collected in aggregated form without personally identifiable information, or taken from apps where consumers have opted to share location information.

“I don’t think it’s quite going to be Minority Report,” he says, referring to the film where ad displays target individuals, using their real names in real time. “But I do think being able to give that enriched audience data will add value for advertisers and therefore for us because what you’ll find is that each board has a personality of its own” – based on the types of people passing by.

The increasingly mobile-driven, fragmented media landscape offers a “fascinating” opportunity for Outfront, Male says. He acknowledges that “huge swaths of money” are going into digital advertising budgets that can narrow their target down to individuals.

But marketers still want to reach mass audiences too, and with traditional viewership for television shows fragmenting and declining, especially among younger people, Male says outdoor is poised to help reach huge groups of people with ads that cannot be fast-forwarded with a remote control. Commuters stuck in a traffic jam gaze up at big striking billboards; in cities such as London and San Francisco, pedestrians pass displays on bus shelters.

“We are one of the few media that, in a low-cost way, still has that one-to-many opportunity . . . We are reaching young, urban, affluent people on the streets, and they’re the people that advertisers want to reach. It’s no coincidence that brands such as Apple and Google are significant users of out-of-home.”

Apple spends some 10 per cent of its US marketing budget on outdoor ads, while the top 100 US advertisers together spend 2 per cent, he says. (The figure in Europe, is closer to 8 per cent.)

In his office on the 17th floor of Manhattan’s Chrysler Building, the tall, silver-haired Male looks relaxed for someone giving up one of the most recognisable brand names in US media. His purple tie matches the balloons festooning the entrance and the signs proclaiming Outfront’s new name and logo.

When he first arrived in New York, one part of his task of transforming the operation was clear: Moonves had announced at the start of 2013 that CBS Outdoor would be spun off as a real estate investment trust. Reits pay almost no corporate tax but must pay at least 90 per cent of their taxable income as dividends. The conversion into a Reit was completed in July.

The next decision – rebranding – was, Male says, necessary for the group’s increasingly digital future. In CBS, “you had this incredible brand that, in a way, we felt slightly parallel to. We knew we were never going to replace CBS as a consumer brand but we always felt we could go out and create a great new media brand.”

It was not the first time Male has taken on reshaping a company. In 1994, he made the leap from Germany’s Tchibo Coffee to outdoor advertising when he joined TDI, a US-based advertising group focusing on transportation that had just won the first private contract for London’s Underground and buses. Male was responsible for turning the London transport network’s in-house marketing division from “a civil service” operation into a competitive ad agency. Over six years, he built TDI’s UK and European business, before moving to JCDecaux, where he led the UK, northern Europe and Australia business.

Amid the corporate changes of recent months, Male also bought the US’s largest private portfolio of billboards from Van Wagner, including boards in New York’s Times Square and Los Angeles’s Sunset Strip. Overall, Outfront’s aim is to become the top billboard own¬er in the US’s 25 biggest markets. Male says it is still pursuing acquisitions to round out its holdings.

Along with the new name, the company is signalling its ambitions with a new in-house creative studio and a consumer insight service to help brands design their outdoor campaigns.

“That’s absolutely where we wanted to position the brand, which is a new market-leading brand that is associated with media. We’re now Outfront rather than outdoor or out-of-home.”

Second opinion: Insider on an outsider

As CEO of Omnicom’s Outdoor Media Group, North America’s largest buyer of outdoor advertising, Dave Yacullo advises marketers on billboard space.

He says Male “brings this track record of leadership and results in Europe and abroad” from his time at JCDecaux and TDI. But at the same time, “he hasn’t come in with the mindset of, ‘we had this great success over in Europe and we will just apply what works to the US’. He really understands the nuances of the market.”

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Why The billboard goes digital

When Jeremy Male rang the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange last Thursday, he became one of a handful of chief executives to have performed that ceremonial duty, marking a corporate milestone, twice in one year.

Male, who is British, had already stood on the dais in March, at the side of Leslie Moonves, head of CBS, as they celebrated the spin-off of billboard advertising group CBS Outdoor from its parent. Male was then six months into the post of CBS Outdoor’s CEO.

The second Wall Street appearance, complete with change in ticker symbol, finalised the transformation of CBS Outdoor into Outfront Media. It also caps a year in which Male has overseen the group not just shedding its name but adopting a new tax structure and cutting the last ties to CBS as he pursues ambitious growth.

When he arrived in New York from France’s JCDecaux, one of the leading outdoor advertising companies, to head the group, it was very much in the shadow of CBS, the US broadcaster best known as the home of David Letterman, Survivor and The Big Bang Theory. “Coming over to the US, with a British accent, I’d say ‘CBS Outdoor’ and people would say, ‘Oh, what show is that?’”

Outfront’s reinvention comes as the out-of-home advertising sector – billboards, subway ads, bus shelters – is being reshaped by data, technology and the ubiquity of mobile devices, like the rest of the media industry.

It is also growing: global outdoor spending is projected to expand 4 per cent this year, and to maintain its 7 per cent share of the total advertising market over the next five years, according to Magna Global, Interpublic’s ad buying and research group.

Interest in outdoor is driven at least partly by operators converting their signs to more profitable digital displays, such as the often animated adverts illuminating Times Square and Piccadilly Circus like oversized television screens.

While just 1.5 per cent of Outfront’s inventory has been converted to digital signs, they already account for 10 per cent of its revenue. A single digital board can carry several ads a day and campaigns are cheaper and quicker to produce than traditional billboards. Male expects digital to reach 25 per cent of sales within three years, especially as the declining cost of electronic displays means advertisers can get more bang for their buck.

Additional digital inventory means Outfront can offer advertisers flexible and timely campaigns, including the ability to react fast to an event, such as flashing a message when a local team scores in a football game. “We’re not too far away from having an app where [marketers] could just say, ‘OK, I want this message on all of our screens across the world for a 10-second period’.”

Technology will enable billboard owners to use data to improve audience targeting, make campaigns interactive and connect outdoor messages to the other media people see, especially on the mobile phones carried by so many consumers wherever they go.

“What you can tell from the handsets that go past is where it started out, what it did, what websites it visited  . . . The data mobile devices capture is allowing us to add far more value to our locations,” says Male. Outfront has collaborated with Dash Labs, a mobile app maker, to collect demographics on drivers passing a billboard in Los Angeles.

Such data collection raises privacy concerns, but Male says it is collected in aggregated form without personally identifiable information, or taken from apps where consumers have opted to share location information.

“I don’t think it’s quite going to be Minority Report,” he says, referring to the film where ad displays target individuals, using their real names in real time. “But I do think being able to give that enriched audience data will add value for advertisers and therefore for us because what you’ll find is that each board has a personality of its own” – based on the types of people passing by.

The increasingly mobile-driven, fragmented media landscape offers a “fascinating” opportunity for Outfront, Male says. He acknowledges that “huge swaths of money” are going into digital advertising budgets that can narrow their target down to individuals.

But marketers still want to reach mass audiences too, and with traditional viewership for television shows fragmenting and declining, especially among younger people, Male says outdoor is poised to help reach huge groups of people with ads that cannot be fast-forwarded with a remote control. Commuters stuck in a traffic jam gaze up at big striking billboards; in cities such as London and San Francisco, pedestrians pass displays on bus shelters.

“We are one of the few media that, in a low-cost way, still has that one-to-many opportunity . . . We are reaching young, urban, affluent people on the streets, and they’re the people that advertisers want to reach. It’s no coincidence that brands such as Apple and Google are significant users of out-of-home.”

Apple spends some 10 per cent of its US marketing budget on outdoor ads, while the top 100 US advertisers together spend 2 per cent, he says. (The figure in Europe, is closer to 8 per cent.)

In his office on the 17th floor of Manhattan’s Chrysler Building, the tall, silver-haired Male looks relaxed for someone giving up one of the most recognisable brand names in US media. His purple tie matches the balloons festooning the entrance and the signs proclaiming Outfront’s new name and logo.

When he first arrived in New York, one part of his task of transforming the operation was clear: Moonves had announced at the start of 2013 that CBS Outdoor would be spun off as a real estate investment trust. Reits pay almost no corporate tax but must pay at least 90 per cent of their taxable income as dividends. The conversion into a Reit was completed in July.

The next decision – rebranding – was, Male says, necessary for the group’s increasingly digital future. In CBS, “you had this incredible brand that, in a way, we felt slightly parallel to. We knew we were never going to replace CBS as a consumer brand but we always felt we could go out and create a great new media brand.”

It was not the first time Male has taken on reshaping a company. In 1994, he made the leap from Germany’s Tchibo Coffee to outdoor advertising when he joined TDI, a US-based advertising group focusing on transportation that had just won the first private contract for London’s Underground and buses. Male was responsible for turning the London transport network’s in-house marketing division from “a civil service” operation into a competitive ad agency. Over six years, he built TDI’s UK and European business, before moving to JCDecaux, where he led the UK, northern Europe and Australia business.

Amid the corporate changes of recent months, Male also bought the US’s largest private portfolio of billboards from Van Wagner, including boards in New York’s Times Square and Los Angeles’s Sunset Strip. Overall, Outfront’s aim is to become the top billboard own¬er in the US’s 25 biggest markets. Male says it is still pursuing acquisitions to round out its holdings.

Along with the new name, the company is signalling its ambitions with a new in-house creative studio and a consumer insight service to help brands design their outdoor campaigns.

“That’s absolutely where we wanted to position the brand, which is a new market-leading brand that is associated with media. We’re now Outfront rather than outdoor or out-of-home.”

Second opinion: Insider on an outsider

As CEO of Omnicom’s Outdoor Media Group, North America’s largest buyer of outdoor advertising, Dave Yacullo advises marketers on billboard space.

He says Male “brings this track record of leadership and results in Europe and abroad” from his time at JCDecaux and TDI. But at the same time, “he hasn’t come in with the mindset of, ‘we had this great success over in Europe and we will just apply what works to the US’. He really understands the nuances of the market.”

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Why The billboard goes digital

When Jeremy Male rang the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange last Thursday, he became one of a handful of chief executives to have performed that ceremonial duty, marking a corporate milestone, twice in one year.

Male, who is British, had already stood on the dais in March, at the side of Leslie Moonves, head of CBS, as they celebrated the spin-off of billboard advertising group CBS Outdoor from its parent. Male was then six months into the post of CBS Outdoor’s CEO.

The second Wall Street appearance, complete with change in ticker symbol, finalised the transformation of CBS Outdoor into Outfront Media. It also caps a year in which Male has overseen the group not just shedding its name but adopting a new tax structure and cutting the last ties to CBS as he pursues ambitious growth.

When he arrived in New York from France’s JCDecaux, one of the leading outdoor advertising companies, to head the group, it was very much in the shadow of CBS, the US broadcaster best known as the home of David Letterman, Survivor and The Big Bang Theory. “Coming over to the US, with a British accent, I’d say ‘CBS Outdoor’ and people would say, ‘Oh, what show is that?’”

Outfront’s reinvention comes as the out-of-home advertising sector – billboards, subway ads, bus shelters – is being reshaped by data, technology and the ubiquity of mobile devices, like the rest of the media industry.

It is also growing: global outdoor spending is projected to expand 4 per cent this year, and to maintain its 7 per cent share of the total advertising market over the next five years, according to Magna Global, Interpublic’s ad buying and research group.

Interest in outdoor is driven at least partly by operators converting their signs to more profitable digital displays, such as the often animated adverts illuminating Times Square and Piccadilly Circus like oversized television screens.

While just 1.5 per cent of Outfront’s inventory has been converted to digital signs, they already account for 10 per cent of its revenue. A single digital board can carry several ads a day and campaigns are cheaper and quicker to produce than traditional billboards. Male expects digital to reach 25 per cent of sales within three years, especially as the declining cost of electronic displays means advertisers can get more bang for their buck.

Additional digital inventory means Outfront can offer advertisers flexible and timely campaigns, including the ability to react fast to an event, such as flashing a message when a local team scores in a football game. “We’re not too far away from having an app where [marketers] could just say, ‘OK, I want this message on all of our screens across the world for a 10-second period’.”

Technology will enable billboard owners to use data to improve audience targeting, make campaigns interactive and connect outdoor messages to the other media people see, especially on the mobile phones carried by so many consumers wherever they go.

“What you can tell from the handsets that go past is where it started out, what it did, what websites it visited  . . . The data mobile devices capture is allowing us to add far more value to our locations,” says Male. Outfront has collaborated with Dash Labs, a mobile app maker, to collect demographics on drivers passing a billboard in Los Angeles.

Such data collection raises privacy concerns, but Male says it is collected in aggregated form without personally identifiable information, or taken from apps where consumers have opted to share location information.

“I don’t think it’s quite going to be Minority Report,” he says, referring to the film where ad displays target individuals, using their real names in real time. “But I do think being able to give that enriched audience data will add value for advertisers and therefore for us because what you’ll find is that each board has a personality of its own” – based on the types of people passing by.

The increasingly mobile-driven, fragmented media landscape offers a “fascinating” opportunity for Outfront, Male says. He acknowledges that “huge swaths of money” are going into digital advertising budgets that can narrow their target down to individuals.

But marketers still want to reach mass audiences too, and with traditional viewership for television shows fragmenting and declining, especially among younger people, Male says outdoor is poised to help reach huge groups of people with ads that cannot be fast-forwarded with a remote control. Commuters stuck in a traffic jam gaze up at big striking billboards; in cities such as London and San Francisco, pedestrians pass displays on bus shelters.

“We are one of the few media that, in a low-cost way, still has that one-to-many opportunity . . . We are reaching young, urban, affluent people on the streets, and they’re the people that advertisers want to reach. It’s no coincidence that brands such as Apple and Google are significant users of out-of-home.”

Apple spends some 10 per cent of its US marketing budget on outdoor ads, while the top 100 US advertisers together spend 2 per cent, he says. (The figure in Europe, is closer to 8 per cent.)

In his office on the 17th floor of Manhattan’s Chrysler Building, the tall, silver-haired Male looks relaxed for someone giving up one of the most recognisable brand names in US media. His purple tie matches the balloons festooning the entrance and the signs proclaiming Outfront’s new name and logo.

When he first arrived in New York, one part of his task of transforming the operation was clear: Moonves had announced at the start of 2013 that CBS Outdoor would be spun off as a real estate investment trust. Reits pay almost no corporate tax but must pay at least 90 per cent of their taxable income as dividends. The conversion into a Reit was completed in July.

The next decision – rebranding – was, Male says, necessary for the group’s increasingly digital future. In CBS, “you had this incredible brand that, in a way, we felt slightly parallel to. We knew we were never going to replace CBS as a consumer brand but we always felt we could go out and create a great new media brand.”

It was not the first time Male has taken on reshaping a company. In 1994, he made the leap from Germany’s Tchibo Coffee to outdoor advertising when he joined TDI, a US-based advertising group focusing on transportation that had just won the first private contract for London’s Underground and buses. Male was responsible for turning the London transport network’s in-house marketing division from “a civil service” operation into a competitive ad agency. Over six years, he built TDI’s UK and European business, before moving to JCDecaux, where he led the UK, northern Europe and Australia business.

Amid the corporate changes of recent months, Male also bought the US’s largest private portfolio of billboards from Van Wagner, including boards in New York’s Times Square and Los Angeles’s Sunset Strip. Overall, Outfront’s aim is to become the top billboard own¬er in the US’s 25 biggest markets. Male says it is still pursuing acquisitions to round out its holdings.

Along with the new name, the company is signalling its ambitions with a new in-house creative studio and a consumer insight service to help brands design their outdoor campaigns.

“That’s absolutely where we wanted to position the brand, which is a new market-leading brand that is associated with media. We’re now Outfront rather than outdoor or out-of-home.”

Second opinion: Insider on an outsider

As CEO of Omnicom’s Outdoor Media Group, North America’s largest buyer of outdoor advertising, Dave Yacullo advises marketers on billboard space.

He says Male “brings this track record of leadership and results in Europe and abroad” from his time at JCDecaux and TDI. But at the same time, “he hasn’t come in with the mindset of, ‘we had this great success over in Europe and we will just apply what works to the US’. He really understands the nuances of the market.”

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Intel, Google updating Android 4.1 for Atom tablets, smartphones

Intel is working with Google to complete a port of Android Jelly Bean to x86 smartphones and tablets.

IDG News Service - Intel is porting the Android 4.1 operating system, also called Jelly Bean, to work on smartphones and tablets using low-power Atom processors, the company said this week.

The company did not provide a time frame for when the Android 4.1 port would be complete, or when the OS would be deployed in products.

"Intel continues to work closely with Google to enable future versions of Android, including Jelly Bean, on our family of low power Atom processors," said Suzy Greenberg, a company spokeswoman, in an e-mail.

Smartphones running on Intel chips are currently being rolled out with Android 2.3, code-named Gingerbread, and are due to get Android 4.0, code-named Ice Cream Sandwich, as an update, though a time-frame has not been provided.

Lava International and Orange are among companies that launched Intel Inside smartphones with Gingerbread. Lenovo released an Intel Inside smartphone in China with a customized version of Android, and Motorola is due to release smartphones and tablets Intel chips with the Android OS later this year.

Intel has a minimal presence in the smartphone and tablet markets, which are dominated by ARM. The first tablet to get Android 4.1 was Google's Nexus 7, which was based on an ARM processor. Device makers that license ARM processors such as Asus and HTC are due to deliver over-the-air updates to Android 4.1 for devices in the near future.

ARM's rival MIPS, whose processor designs go into low-cost tablets, is also racing to complete a port of Jelly Bean to work on its processors.

Intel is a big backer of Android, and is mainly putting the OS on smartphones and tablets with its Atom chips code-named Medfield. Intel Inside smartphones carry Medfield chips, and a few tablets have been announced with Medfield. Vizio has announced it would use a Medfield chip in an upcoming 10-inch tablet.

Intel's next-generation Atom chip for tablets, code-named Clover Trail, is being targeted for use only in devices with Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 OS. Intel is not porting Android for Clover Trail tablets, and hopes to expand its presence in the tablet market primarily around Windows 8 and Clover Trail. Microsoft has also announced Windows RT for ARM processors.

ARM is a step ahead of its rival with devices already carrying Android 4.1. But Intel is trying to attract developers to write applications for Android on Atom processors. It is sponsoring a contest where the company will award $29,000 in cash prizes to attract Android developers to write games for Intel-based tablets and smartphones. As part of the contest, users can test the code in an Android 4.0 emulator.

Google has also said it would release an Android Platform Development Kit (PDK) to hardware companies to customize the OS for a chipset or device ahead of release.

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Yahoo's embattled former CEO gets new job

After leaving Yahoo after just 5 months and a public scandal, Thompson is hired at ShopRunner

Computerworld - Scott Thompson, who was pushed out as CEO of Yahoo amid scandal this spring, has landed a new job.

ShopRunner, an online shopping network, announced Monday that it has hired Thompson as its CEO. Mike Golden, who co-founded the nearly 2-year-old company, will step down as its CEO and act as company president.

Thompson, who had been Yahoos CEO for only five months, had been a member of ShopRunners board of directors.

Michael and I both felt he would be the perfect long-term CEO, said Golden in a statement. We are thrilled that Scott has taken us up on our offer to lead ShopRunners continued growth.

Yahoo hired Thompson in January. A few months later, he came under heavy criticism when it came to light that the academic credentials on his resume, as listed on Yahoo's Web site and in documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, were inaccurate.

Thompson's resume indicated that he has a degree in computer science, but he does not hold such a degree.

A special three-member committee was set up to investigate the CEO, his academic credentials and the circumstances surrounding his hiring.

Last week, Yahoo hired Google vice president Marissa Mayer ) as its new CEO.

Mayer went to Yahoo after 13 years with Google, where she started out as the companys first female engineer and ended as a top executive.

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How to manage IT contractors Contract IT workers may walk, talk and code like staff, but in fact they're not company employees -- something managers should keep in mind. Insider (registration required) Microsoft Office 2013 fires shot at Google's enterprise push With the upcoming release of Office 2013, Microsoft is putting a lot of focus on the cloud in a bid to compete with Google. ERP software woes ding aerospace company's profits Aerospace and energy system components manufacturer Woodward is the latest company to see its profits hurt by costs associated with an ERP software project, according to an announcement it made. Graceful exits from IT: Why CIOs decide to move on Some highly successful IT professionals decide the CIO's life isn't for them, so they move on to seek fulfillment elsewhere, perhaps as consultants or entrepreneurs. Do such departures represent a natural progression in the careers of accomplished executives, or do they say something troubling about the working environment of enterprise IT? Globalized IT operations pay off By interlocking business services, companies gain customer knowledge, efficiency and speed. The payoffs are huge, but laying the groundwork for IT standardization is no easy task. Data center fabrics promise flatter, simpler networks Early adopters say revamping a data center's switching gear is worth the time and effort required; benefits include killer bandwidth and more flexibility. Wall Street Beat: Hardware hits headwinds, software picture clears up While hardware and components makers face economic hurdles, the picture for software is getting brighter, according to earnings reports from major vendors and mid-year market research polls. Lenovo close to grabbing PC supremacy from HP If Chinese-based computer manufacturer Lenovo keeps moving at its current pace, the company will surpass Hewlett-Packard as the world's largest PC maker by the beginning of 2013, industry analysts say. Survey finds ERP software project overruns 'distressingly common' It is "distressingly common" to see ERP (enterprise-resource-planning) projects involving Oracle, SAP and Microsoft Dynamics software end up taking longer than customers anticipated, according to a new survey. Tech hotshots: The rise of the IT business analyst Business analysts, whether assigned to IT or embedded elsewhere in the organization, are in high demand. Here's how to manage the analyst relationship to your mutual advantage. BYOD: Big security, small devices Enterprises may be ready for BYOD, but most consumer devices aren't, so vendors are adding high-level security features to their new and upcoming products. Enterprises Must Collaborate and Get Social Now (or Pay Later) Jacob Morgan, author of 'The Collaborative Organization,' speaks passionately about what collaboration can do both inside and outside the enterprise. CIO.com talked to Morgan about the emerging trend and why it's important to act now. Windows 8-powered PCs, tablets to launch in late October Microsoft today said it will officially launch Windows 8 in late October when it starts selling upgrades and its hardware partners begin selling PCs, tablets and hybrid devices powered by the new operating system. Windows Server 2012 Release Preview: Compelling new features Windows Server 2012 Release Preview features a better virtual desktop experience, much easier DirectAccess deployment and a full-scale file-classification and access control system. Google Glass launches new age of personal computing If Google's latest computing plan stays on track, the definition of a computer could broaden significantly. Bye bye, corporate phone Once a status symbol and a perk, the subsidized corporate phone is being phased out as users demand their own devices -- and are willing to pay for the privilege. Five tips to keep apps from failing No business today that depends on online customers and processes to keep the lights on can afford an application meltdown. When an application critical to core business processes or revenues, such as a company's Web server, is down for even an hour it can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. ERP vendors Syspro, Unit4 launch app stores The app store model popularized by Apple is gaining further adoption in the world of ERP (enterprise-resource-planning) software, with new stores announced this week by Syspro and Unit4. Putting predictive analytics to work Predictive analytics involves both art and science, but getting started isn't for high rollers only. Here's how to ensure a successful outcome. Could cloud computing change how we communicate? At least one CIO has already done away with email and Office. Insider (registration required) Cloud-based Office tools: Right for you? When you're adopting cloud software, you need to think about features and functions, of course, as well as the costs involved. But process changes and user training can be even bigger factors. Insider (registration required) New Oracle OpenWorld details give early look at company's plans Oracle tends to keep a tight lid on the specific announcements it will make each year at the OpenWorld conference prior to show time, but a newly released session catalog provides plenty of clues and fodder for speculation as to what's in store at the event, which runs from Sept. 30 to Oct. 4 in San Francisco. Data center fabrics catching on, slowly Early adopters say the expense and time spent to revamp a data center's switching gear are well worth it; benefits include killer bandwidth and more flexibility. Survival guide: Do's and don'ts for next-gen IT Business IT is evolving behind your back. Here's how to head off extinction and assert a larger role Long live SOA in the cloud era You might not hear much about SOA anymore, but its imperative to make 'everything a service' is more relevant than ever Lowe's seeks to attract future workers with social tools At home improvement retailer Lowe's, executives aren't just focusing on their current employees. They're casting an eye toward the people they'll be hiring months or even years from now. Cisco takes social collaboration to the cloud Cisco announced that a cloud-based version of its social collaboration software will be available in North America in July Oracle profit jumps 8 percent, though hardware sales decline Profits at Oracle climbed 8 percent in the quarter just ended, though hardware sales declined and overall revenue was up only slightly. Samsung's SAFE for Galaxy S III aims to help IT embrace Android Samsung announced a new program on Monday to help enterprise IT shops feel more confident about allowing workers to use the coming Galaxy S III smartphone on the job. John Reed: Invest in your IT talent; it's the key to retention Businesses that cut training and development during the recession will be challenged to recruit IT professionals to help them grow as the economy improves. Robert Half Technology's John Reed offers tips for stepping up professional development efforts for IT staffers. Joel Capperella: Attract talent by building the IT community at large If you invest in the development of IT professionals outside your company, you help improve the level of talent in the entire IT ecosystem -- and, in turn, the quality of candidates who apply for your jobs, says Yoh's Joel Capperella. Microsoft turning to Yammer to beef up social tools, reports say  Microsoft in serious discussions to buy Yammer, an enterprise social collaboration company, according to reports. Java 7 auto-update could ding Oracle E-Business Suite installs Oracle has issued an "urgent bulletin" asking desktop administrators to immediately turn off the Java Runtime Environment auto-update option "for all Windows end-user desktops connecting to Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i, 12.0, and 12.1" due to a critical incompatibility. Review: Up close with NetSuite's deep ERP NetSuite offers extensive ERP, CRM, and other business management functionality to organizations that recognize the value proposition associated with SaaS Image gallery: Must-have data center utilities Your peers rely on these tools to help run their shops, for everything from real-time server graphing to capacity planning and virtual machine backup. Raco, Enterprise Mobile join to aid in M2M rollouts Raco Wireless and Enterprise Mobile have joined forces to help companies that lack telecom expertise get machine-to-machine (M2M) services off the ground, and in the process increase the sector's popularity, Raco said on Tuesday. Oracle-SAP retrial delayed Oracle and SAP will have to wait a bit longer to retry their corporate-theft lawsuit, according to a filing made Friday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Busting down the info silos Savvy business leaders are starting to recognize the paybacks of helping all their business groups work from the same data. BYOD: IT execs learn to let go of 'command and control' mindset Forward-thinking tech execs are learning how to stop worrying and love the gadget, lest their business units attempt an end-run around IT. Insider (registration required) Mobile Devices Enterprise Android Use 'Severely Limited' Adoption of Android tablets and smartphones in enterprises has been 'severely limited' by the complexities of managing the wide variety of devices and versions of the operating system, research firm Gartner said in a new report. The Grill: Tracey Rothenberger wears two hats at Ricoh Americas To help lead the merger of two multibillion-dollar companies -- IKON Office Solutions and Ricoh Americas -- Tracey Rothenberger last year added chief process officer to his existing titles of senior vice president and CIO. Extreme BI More organizations are developing mature BI infrastructures and practices to analyze data to develop ideas about what will happen in the future so they can craft better strategies to cope with what's ahead. Insider (registration required) IT Skills: Jumping the Chasm The current tech talent gap is just the first sign of a coming revolution in the IT labor market. Here's how to secure your footing now and brace for what's ahead. Technology for the Greater Good Dozens of 2012 Computerworld Honors laureates are leveraging low-cost, consumer-oriented technologies to create and deploy systems and applications designed to benefit society, especially in the areas of education and healthcare. 10 SaaS delivery companies to watch Analysts and industry watchers agree that the next frontier for SaaS is setting distribution channels designed specifically for the cloud and providing mechanisms for managing multiple SaaS offerings from a single control point. These advancements will likely come from a variety of sources: established SaaS vendors, startups providing SaaS channel enabling software, and cloud service brokerage houses. Here are 10 to watch, listed in alphabetical order. Attention IT: Your interns have something to teach you IT interns brought innovation to NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, the White House and We Energies. Here's how to inspire similar results from your summer crew. Mobile device management: Getting started Get started by focusing on the device(s) and the data plan, security issues and general policies. Global business services net big returns By interlocking business services, companies gain customer knowledge, efficiency and speed. The payoffs are huge, but laying the groundwork for IT standardization is no easy task. Google's Motorola buy seen boosting Android in workplace  With the closing of Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility this week, talk of the possibilities for Android in the enterprise has spiked. Microsoft server and tool upgrades demand CIOs' attention CIOs and IT directors tracking the barrage of major upgrades for Windows and Office also need to stay tuned to the refresh cycle for Microsoft's servers and tools, including Windows Server 2012, SQL Server 2012, System Center 2012 and Visual Studio 11. Minn. executive branch picks Microsoft to improve email, collaboration The Executive Branch of the Minnesota state government uses cloud-hosted Microsoft email and collaboration software, first as part of BPOS and later, Office 365. Security researcher urges IT to keep up with SAP patches More than 95 percent of over 600 SAP systems tested by security firm Onapsis were vulnerable to espionage, sabotage and fraud, mainly because patches had not been applied, according to a researcher. Wolfram unveils system modeling tool Expanding beyond its scientific and engineering number-crunching software, Mathematica maker Wolfram Research released a desktop application for full-scale system modeling and simulation. Google becomes hardware company with $12.5B Motorola buy Google said Tuesday morning that it has closed the deal to acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion Silver Peak bolsters virtual WAN optimization software Silver Peak upgraded the software for its WAN appliance to handle automated optimization for TCP and non-TCP traffic, 512,000 simultaneous connections for 10 gigabit-per-second (Gbps) infrastructures and support for a bunch of common hypervisors. The Cobol Brain Drain As baby boomers retire, the business processes they used to create their Cobol programs may walk out the door with them. Here's what IT organizations are doing about it. Up-and-Coming Tech Jobs Big changes in IT are spawning a new class of tech job titles. Here are a few up-and-comers -- and a rundown of the skills you need to land these positions. The Grill: TASC CIO Barbie Bigelow CIO Barbie Bigelow led the effort to build an IT organization and infrastructure from scratch when the TASC systems engineering operation was spun off from Northrop Grumman. Her team completed the cutover in just under 12 months. Managing Mobile Mania Unified communications isn't easy or cheap, but for companies that want to differentiate their customer service, it's becoming a must-have. Insider (registration required) Cisco mobility bundles target BYOD, mobile virtual desktop Cisco announced three pre-tested bundles of products and services designed to cut through the confusing complexity of enterprise mobility. VMware envisions virtualization in post-PC, BYOD era VMware wasn't just looking to save money when it launched a BYOD plan with the mandate that all of its U.S. employees use their personal mobile phones for work. It was taking a crash-course that would help shape its vision of post-PC era computing. SAP puts its HANA in-memory database in the spotlight SAP seems to be betting its future on its HANA in-memory database, spotlighting the technology once again at the Sapphire conference in Orlando Wednesday, announcing a slew of new applications, partnerships and functional enhancements for the system. Unified communications still fragmented The technology may get a big push from mobile adoption, but integration among multiple UC components is still a tough slog. NetSuite rolls out commerce-as-a-service platform NetSuite is going up against vendors such as Demandware and Venda in the market for cloud-based e-commerce platforms, announcing a new product, SuiteCommerce, during the SuiteWorld conference in San Francisco on Tuesday. SAP lays out cloud strategy post-SuccessFactors deal SAP announced a broad set of plans to become a player in cloud computing, spanning from a "loosely coupled suite" of business applications to data integration and PaaS (platform as a service) Tuesday during the Sapphire conference in Orlando. SAP certifies Business All-in-One for Amazon Web Services SAP has certified its Business All-in-One ERP application for cloud-based deployments on Amazon Web Services, the companies announced Friday. Public-sector cloud computing: The good, the bad and the ugly From California and Utah to Ohio, Massachusetts and Maine, state and local governments are using the cloud to update antiquated systems, but the hurdles are high. Epicor to move its apps to Microsoft's Azure cloud Epicor is planning to work with Microsoft to bring Epicor's ERP (enterprise resource planning) applications to the Azure cloud service, the companies announced Tuesday during Epicor's Insights conference in Las Vegas. Today, printers. Tomorrow, 'integrated peripherals'? Printers are evolving from passive devices as vendors cram more features into them and buyers find ways to better integrate them into the overall environment. No big shift to the cloud for unified communications and collaboration The 2012 IDG Enterprise Unified Communications and Collaboration survey highlights the uptick in adoption and investments. Insider (registration required) Half of all Macs will lack access to security updates by summer Unless Apple changes its security update practice, nearly half of all Mac users will be adrift without patches sometime this summer. Open-source cloud frameworks: A work in progress Here's a look at the growing list of open-source platform-as-a-service providers and how IT managers can decide where the technology fits best in their organizations. Wide-Open Search With the explosion of unstructured data, companies are looking for more options for enterprise search. Here's a look at the benefits and limitations of open-source search-enabled applications. Turning Long Demands Into a Short List IT is under pressure to get more agile in its delivery methods and pursue flexible prioritization strategies to work with, not against, the burgeoning needs of the business. Sage moves ERP apps to Microsoft's Azure cloud Following an ongoing industry trend, Sage Group is moving a number of its ERP software products to Microsoft's Azure cloud service. iPad in the Enterprise: IT Must Stay Ahead of the Curve In a wide-ranging interview, an Apple expert shares real-world experiences about iPads in the enterprise, mobile device management and BYOD. Key takeaways for IT: Don't improvise when it comes to iPad adoption and don't get bypassed by rogue users. IBM goes after enterprise mobility projects IBM took steps on Monday to help enterprises go mobile, introducing a set of software and services called Mobile Foundation. Holistic Virtualization To take full advantage of virtualization's high-level benefits, companies must view the technology's capabilities across the entire IT organization. Here's some expert advice on creating a virtualization strategy that looks at the big picture. Insider (registration required) Google Drive could be a boon -- and a headache -- for IT With the launch of Google Drive this week, IT managers can look forward to a potential new productivity tool -- and some significant headaches, analysts say SAP sees strong momentum for HANA and SuccessFactors business Business software vendor SAP expects software and software-related service revenue to increase in the range of 10 to 12 percent at constant currencies during the year, largely in line with preliminary estimates that the company released earlier this month. Most initial Oracle Fusion Applications customers going with cloud deployment Most of the 250 customers that have licensed Oracle's recently launched Fusion Applications so far have chosen a SaaS deployment model instead of running it on-premises, a senior executive said this week during the Collaborate user group conference in Las Vegas. The Upside of Shadow IT As employees bypass IT and regularly subscribe to collaboration, analytic and other cloud services with the press of a button, some of the savviest CIOs are embracing and even encouraging shadow IT. Here's why. Help for the Help Desk Whether it's a 'teaching moment' or a system that provides more efficient ticket tracking, the help desk is getting a much-needed assist in some shops. The Grill: SuperValu's Wayne Shurts on 'intensely business-focused IT' Wayne Shurts, executive vice president and CIO at SuperValu, talks about how he's working to help the IT department at the grocery retailer better support the company's overall business. Insider (registration required) E-discovery in the Cloud Companies often assume data in the cloud is inherently discoverable, but is it? Know what questions to ask your cloud vendor so you can get your data back when required. Microsoft touts corporate tools in Windows 8 Enterprise Microsoft yesterday laid out the exclusive features of Windows 8 Enterprise, one of three editions of the upcoming OS and the only one limited to corporate customers. Amazon Web Services offers one-click purchase of cloud apps from IBM, SAP, others Amazon Web Services on Thursday announced a new online marketplace that allows customers to buy software and services from a variety of vendors at hourly rates through its cloud infrastructure platform. Workday update pushes it deeper into Oracle, SAP's turf Workday is rolling out version 16 of its cloud-based ERP (enterprise resource planning) software to customers this week, an update that includes upgrades to the financials component that could help it steal away deals with large enterprises from the likes of Oracle and SAP. Time to de-Flash your site? Flash is a problem for iDevices, which makes mobile access to a website problematic. Here's what smart shops are doing about it. BYOD: 'The inmates of the asylum have control' Mobile devices are multiplying and -- sanctioned or unsanctioned -- finding their way onto corporate networks. For IT pros, the influx of personal mobile devices to the corporate network is raising security concerns, creating management challenges, and swamping the help desk with support calls. Should the CIO know how to code? With IT integral to the business, an increasing number of companies are hiring CIOs who didn't rise through the ranks. Is that a good thing? Insider (registration required) Software AG buys messaging company my-Channels Software AG said Monday that it has acquired U.K. middleware company my-Channels, which develops low-latency messaging software that will be used to extend Software AG's current offerings. SAP revenue rises 11% in first quarter, but margin shrinks SAP published preliminary figures for its first-quarter results on Friday, showing revenue up 11% year on year, but margins shrinking with operating profit up only 6%. Chevron's CIO Talks Transformation and Why IT Leaders Should Smile In the latest installment of the CIO Interview Series, Louie Ehrlich, CIO and president of Chevron Information Technology Company, talks about the most important things he's learned leading a giant, global IT team through massive change. His answers may sound simple, but they're hard-won lessons for Ehrlich, the top tech executive for the nearly $250 billion energy company, whose transformation effort has yielded the better part of a billion dollars in payback for Chevron. Insider (registration required) SAP lays out plans to become big player in databases, mobile SAP made a series of announcements on Tuesday as part of its bid to become a high-profile player in the database market alongside the likes of Oracle and IBM. Melissa P. Dodd Melissa P. Dodd, CIO of the Boston Public Schools, shares her ideas on running a large school system's IT department. Insider (registration required) Data analytics driving medical breakthroughs Big data and other technologies are poised to start saving lives and enhancing quality of life for sick patients.

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