Tuesday, September 30, 2014

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Zuckerburg buys a stately pleasure dome

Posted: 30 Sep 2014 03:09 AM PDT

Mark Zuckerberg - WikimedaIt seems that all empire builders at some point have a crack at building their personal Xanadu, and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerburg is no different.

He has written a cheque for a 357-acre beachfront plantation on the island of Kauai in Hawaii — a space zoned for 80 well-appointed homes. more»

StealthGenie about to be bottled

Posted: 30 Sep 2014 01:46 AM PDT

idreamofjeannie1-300x193The US government has arrested the chief executive officer of a mobile spyware maker  and charged him with allegedly illegally marketing an app that monitors calls, texts, videos, and other communications on mobile phones “without detection",

Hammad Akbar, 31, of Pakistan, was the first person to be banged up in connection with advertising and the sales of mobile spyware targeting adults—in this case an app called StealthGenie. more»

Apple suffers more iCloud woes

Posted: 30 Sep 2014 01:42 AM PDT

stormNot satisfied with a security hole which allowed 4Chan users access to minor celebrities' porn stashes, the Fruity Cargo cult Apple has some more problems with its cloud.

According to MacRumours there is a serious bug with the “Reset All Settings” option in iOS 8, causing users who activate the feature to lose all of their iWork documents stored in iCloud Drive. more»

HP says “Don’t cross the Streams”

Posted: 30 Sep 2014 01:39 AM PDT

gb_pee-764695The maker of expensive printer ink, HP, seems jolly keen on putting Google's Chromebook out of business.  This week it announced several new stream notebooks.  For those who came in late the Stream series is HP's version of the low cost Windows laptop, meant to compete head to head with Chromebooks on price. more»

Apple is no longer shellshocked

Posted: 30 Sep 2014 01:38 AM PDT

tim-cook-securityApple has finally released updates to protect Mac OS X systems from the dangerous "Shellshock" bug.

The osxPatches are available via Software Update, or from the following links for OS X Mavericks, Mountain Lion, and Lion.

What is amazing is the amount of time that Apple has taken to get the patch to its users. more»

Cisco gets into cloudbusting

Posted: 29 Sep 2014 07:04 AM PDT

Clouds in Oxford: pic Mike MageeNetwork giant Cisco said it has added 30 partners to its Intercloud initiative.

Customers want the cloud to be less hazy less than it is and Cisco believes it can help itself and them by developing standardised cloud apps as well as very secure hybrid clouds. more»

IBM Lenovo sale is a done deal

Posted: 29 Sep 2014 06:54 AM PDT

A not so mobile X86 PCLenovo's offer to buy the remainder of IBM's X86 business is likely to be concluded this Wednesday.

IBM is disposing of the deal to the Chinese manufacturer for $1.8 billion and when the acquisition is complete, it will finally have washed its hands of all of its X86 business. more»

China clamps down on iPhone smugglers

Posted: 29 Sep 2014 06:45 AM PDT

gala_appleApple is not set to launch its iPhone 6 family in mainland China for a while, but that's just created a smuggling racket as crooks try to cash in on demand for the devices.

According to the Taipei Times, crooks are selling imported iPhone 6s for as much as $3,000 – but authorities have made several seizures of the machines in the last week. more»

Microsoft turns on the heat on notebooks

Posted: 29 Sep 2014 06:35 AM PDT

Microsoft campusA report said Microsoft is cutting the licence cost on Windows 8.1 in a bid to offer notebooks costing $250 or less.

Digitimes Research said manufacturers will be offered Windows 8.1 with Bing with a tentative release date of February next year. more»

HP intros ARM into datacentres

Posted: 29 Sep 2014 06:26 AM PDT

HPIn a sign that things wont be what they were in the past, HP said it has announced two servers based on ARM architecture, rather than the old fashioned Intel stuff.

The two enterprise class servers use 64-bit ARM microprocessors which it said "offer value choice in their compute strategy".  more»

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