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FCC ruling on 800MHz band a boon for Sprint

(Stephen Lawson) — Fri, 25 May 2012 19:59:00 GMT

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission approved a rule change for part of the 800MHz band at a meeting on Thursday, opening the door for Sprint Nextel to use the band for its 4G LTE network.

Google report sheds light on copyright takedown requests

jvijayan@computerworld.com (Jaikumar Vijayan) — Fri, 25 May 2012 19:25:00 GMT

Google this week received a somewhat rare accolade from a privacy rights group for publishing a detailed report on all the copyright related content removal requests it has received over the past year

Quickbooks Online outage leaves some customers in sour mood

(Chris Kanaracus) — Fri, 25 May 2012 17:12:00 GMT

Intuit's Quickbooks Online service suffered an outage this week that left "a small subset" of customers unable to access their data, but the company says the problems with the on-demand accounting software have now been fixed.

NASA hits new frontier with historic SpaceX rendezvous

sgaudin@computerworld.com (Sharon Gaudin) — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:22:00 GMT

Astronauts using a robotic arm on board the space station, grabbed hold of the unmanned Dragon cargo spacecraft while flying at speeds of 17,000 mph. It was the first time such a maneuver had taken place using a spacecraft from a commercial U.S. company.

Apple CEO Tim Cook passes up $75M

gkeizer@computerworld.com (Gregg Keizer) — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:08:00 GMT

Apple CEO Tim Cook has passed up about $75 million in dividend payments he would be due when his massive collection of more than 1 million shares vests in the next decade, according to a filing with the SEC.

Coding contest shows how big data can improve health care

(Fred O'Connor) — Fri, 25 May 2012 15:54:00 GMT

A recent coding competition in the Boston area brought together IT professionals, medical workers and others with an interest in health IT to show how data analytics can improve health care.

N.J. mayor arrested on hacking, conspiracy charges

(Lucian Constantin) — Fri, 25 May 2012 15:45:00 GMT

The mayor of West New York, New Jersey, was arrested together with his son on Thursday, for allegedly hacking into a website that criticized him and his administration.

Cisco all but kills Cius tablet computer

(Jim Duffy) — Fri, 25 May 2012 15:29:00 GMT

Cisco is slowly killing off its Cius business tablet less than a year after it started shipping.

IaaS: Renting on-demand technology

(Network World Staff) — Fri, 25 May 2012 15:23:00 GMT

Putting your faith in the cloud can be a risky endeavor. A survey from earlier this year showed that of 600 large companies, only 27% were using public cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service. Insider (registration required)

Untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1 available for download

(Loek Essers) — Fri, 25 May 2012 14:56:00 GMT

Absinthe 2.0, the jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1, is ready and available for download, the Jailbreak Dream Team announced at the Hack in the Box conference in Amsterdam on Friday.