Wednesday, October 1, 2014

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Microsoft loses the count on Windows 9

Posted: 01 Oct 2014 02:20 AM PDT

Count_von_Count_kneelingSoftware giant Microsoft appears to have lost count with Windows 9 and has instead jumped to Windows 10 as the next version of its operating system.

Microsoft today skipped a number and announced Windows 10, the OS formerly known as Threshold and the successor to Windows 8/8.1. more»

Ellison still a draw at Oracle conference

Posted: 01 Oct 2014 02:18 AM PDT

Larry EllisonDespite his surprise exit from Oracle, Larry Ellison was still the main draw at Oracle’s annual conference in San Francisco.

Ellison has given up his position as chief executive of the enterprise software behemoth he co-founded 37 years ago, however he stuck to his tradition of delivering the main presentation at Oracle OpenWorld. more»

Hong Kong protestors use Mesh

Posted: 01 Oct 2014 02:16 AM PDT

hong kong protestHong Kong’s activists are relying on a free app that can send messages without any mobile phone connection.

The move comes about because of fears that the Chinese government would block local phone networks to stop protestors organising.

However activists have turned to the FireChat app to send supportive messages and share the latest news. more»

Tame Apple Press claims Bendgate is a conspiracy theory

Posted: 01 Oct 2014 02:15 AM PDT

truthDesperate to keep Apple afloat after it released a phone which was easy to bend and break, the Tame Apple Press is actually releasing stories claiming it is all a conspiracy theory "on a par to 9/11."

BGR  insists that all the videos  you see where the phone is being bent are all doctored, just like the moon landings.  more»

German watchdog barks at Google

Posted: 01 Oct 2014 02:14 AM PDT

AnubiA German data protection watchdog has snarled at the search engine Google for the way it creates data profiles from its various services.

The data protection commissioner for the German city state of Hamburg has ordered Google to take the necessary technical and organizational measures to guarantee that their users can decide on their own if and to what extend their data is used for profiling. more»

Security incidents soar by 48 percent

Posted: 30 Sep 2014 07:12 AM PDT

PwC logoA report from PwC said the number of reported security incidents with tech rose 48 percent in 2013 to hit 42.8 million attacks.

That, said PwC, is equal to 117,339 attacks every day.  The Global State of Information Security Survey said the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) has increased by 66 percent year over year since 2009. more»

Sandisk releases enterprise flash drive

Posted: 30 Sep 2014 06:57 AM PDT

Sandisk X300 SSDMemory company Sandisk said it has introduced the X300 solid state disk (SSD), suitable for corporate environments.

The drive uses its X3 flash technology and also builds in nCache 2.0.  This is next generation tiered caching technology that uses SLC and X3 flash blocks to improve life, increase efficience and give faster performance for large organisations. more»

British don’t understand the interweb

Posted: 30 Sep 2014 06:46 AM PDT

ukflagA survey showed that UK users of the internet are still a bit confuzzled by the pesky thing.

Tata Communications revealed its report today – garnered from 9,417 people across the world – and including 1,770 internet users in the UK. more»

NCR claims we all love self checkout

Posted: 30 Sep 2014 06:37 AM PDT

A supermarket checkoutA report commissioned by NCR claims that the world and its dog all love to use self checkout when we're shopping in supermarkets.

The survey covered nine countries – Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, Spain, the UK and the USA – and polled 2,800 shoppers. more»

Lenovo carves up Chinese server pie

Posted: 30 Sep 2014 06:23 AM PDT

lenovo-logoAs we reported yesterday, Lenovo will acquire Intel's X86 server business this week and that means it will be the biggest server company in mainland China.

Market research firm IDC released its figures for server sales in China for the first half of this year and Lenovo – which includes prior IBM system business – comes out the leader at 23.91 percent (see chart). more»

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