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• British Micro Focus merges with Attachmate
• Apple censors unsightly bulge in iPhone 6
• Harry Potter dumps Hogwarts for Cambridge
• Micron releases super dense SSD
• Virgin too fast and loose for ASA
• Obituary: Dave Evans – 1950 to 2014
• One in six emails goes missing
• Cisco throws weight behind firewall
• Intel bullish on tablet front

British Micro Focus merges with Attachmate Posted: 17 Sep 2014 01:57 AM PDT Mainframe software outfit Micro Focus has started proceedings to merge with Attachmate, owners of Novell and Suse Linux, for approximately US$1.2 billion. The combined company should have yearly revenue of $1.4 billion, with more than 4,500 employees and more than 30,000 customers, Micro Focus said. more»

Apple censors unsightly bulge in iPhone 6 Posted: 17 Sep 2014 01:46 AM PDT It seems that the fruity cargo cult Apple has been taking a leaf from the Stalinist handbook and is re-touching pictures that are a little difficult for its fanboys to swallow. The iPhone 6 has an unsightly bulge which breaks the streamlining of the design.  more»

Harry Potter dumps Hogwarts for Cambridge Posted: 17 Sep 2014 01:45 AM PDT Muggles at Cambridge University have worked out a way of creating Harry Potter's cloak of invisibility claiming that it could have military uses against You Know Who. Ventsislav Valev, who we thought was one of the competitors in the Goblet of Fire, is apparently behind the idea. more»

Micron releases super dense SSD Posted: 17 Sep 2014 01:43 AM PDT Micron announced  a new SSD that uses its densest process and has an onboard chip that can program the memory to act as high performance SLC or high-capacity MLC flash. Dubbed the M600 SSD, the drive uses Micron’s new 16 nanometer (nm) lithography with 128Gb NAND density. more»

Virgin too fast and loose for ASA Posted: 17 Sep 2014 01:42 AM PDT Advertising watchdog, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a TV, website and several press adverts for Virgin Media's cable broadband service saying that they were misleading punters. Rivals BT and Sky Broadband (BSkyB), moaned that the Virgin promotions "misled" consumers by claiming the service offered Internet download speeds that were "5x faster than Sky and BT's regular broadband". more»

Obituary: Dave Evans – 1950 to 2014 Posted: 16 Sep 2014 11:41 AM PDT It's going to be difficult to say how much I miss my dear friend Dave Evans, who died last Saturday, after fighting hard with cancer for way too long, but I'll have a bash. I first met Dave in 1989 when he worked at ICL Today and I was editing PC Business World.  more»

One in six emails goes missing Posted: 16 Sep 2014 06:55 AM PDT A survey has revealed that one in every six email messages never reaches peoples' inboxes. Return Path surveyed nearly 500 million messages from email marketers who have requested to be sent messages, and found that 11 percent of all emails goes missing while another six percent go straight into peoples' spam or junk folders. more»

Cisco throws weight behind firewall Posted: 16 Sep 2014 06:40 AM PDT Networking giant Cisco claims it has introduced the first threat focused firewall. Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services uses contextual awareness and controls to automatically assess threats, provide intelligence and improve defences to protect network. Aimed at large enterprises, it includes Sourcefire's Advanced Malware Protection and Next Generation Intrusion Prevention Systems. more»

Intel bullish on tablet front Posted: 16 Sep 2014 06:31 AM PDT A Taiwanese supplier has received strong order for Intel based Android "white box" tablets. So says Digitimes, which quotes an insider at Insyde Software as spilling the beans. Insyde has investment from Intel inside. He or she said Intel will ship 40 million tablet processors this year, according to the report. more»

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