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• Networks compromised by Backoff malware
• Intel revises its pay outs for vendors
• Apple apologist hack hit by instant karma
• Tech firm paid IT workers $1.21 an hour
• Google hires Oxford boffins to provide AI
• Microsoft says it is still researching
• Microsoft results better than expected
• Algorithms gouge online buyers
• Amazon invests in German datacentres

Networks compromised by Backoff malware Posted: 24 Oct 2014 05:57 AM PDT Security company Damballa said it had recorded a 57 percent increase in Backoff Malware between August to September. It compiles its reports from enterprise customers and global ISPs. The biggest challenge for IT security teams is to find genuine attacks on networks from an avalanche of security alerts typically received. more»

Intel revises its pay outs for vendors Posted: 24 Oct 2014 04:21 AM PDT It looks as if Intel will stop providing pay outs – in euphemistic terms – subsidies, for people making mobile phones using its technology. According to Taiwanese wire Digitimes, while Intel had an apparently sparkling set of financial results recently, it is going to restrict these payouts to all but the biggest players It is significant that despite these sparkling results, Intel's mobile unit, as we reported yesterday, was a loss making venture.  more»

Apple apologist hack hit by instant karma Posted: 24 Oct 2014 01:51 AM PDT Just when you thought that Apple's super bendy, overpriced, low spec iPhone 6 could not be a bigger lemon, it turns out that using its Pay function will cost you an arm and a leg. It seems that not just the design geniuses at Apple need firing for the iPhone 6, but the programmers should also get a written warning and a lecture from HR. more»

Tech firm paid IT workers $1.21 an hour Posted: 24 Oct 2014 01:50 AM PDT A San Jose based outfit, Electronics for Imaging paid several employees from India as little as $1.21 an hour to help install computer systems at the company’s Fremont headquarters. The highly skilled workers, who could have earned more cash by sitting with a cup and dog on a string in the high street, worked up to 122 hours a week between September 8, 2013, and December 21, 2013. more»

Google hires Oxford boffins to provide AI Posted: 24 Oct 2014 01:47 AM PDT Google is finding itself a little short on intelligence and has been seen snuffling around near the Oxford headquarters of TechEye. When cornered, near one of the wheelie bins at the back of public house the Kite, a Google staffer explained that the search engine was expanding its artificial intelligence initiative. more»

Microsoft says it is still researching Posted: 24 Oct 2014 01:46 AM PDT Microsoft has not given up on research and development, despite closing its Silicon Valley lab. Writing in his bog, Harry Shum, Executive Vice President, Technology & Research said that the recent shuttering of the Silicon Valley lab really hurt. He said that no one at Microsoft felt good about the fact that a significant number of friends and colleagues were laid off. more»

Microsoft results better than expected Posted: 24 Oct 2014 01:44 AM PDT Microsoft reported higher than expected quarterly revenue, helped by stronger sales of its phones, Surface tablets and cloud-computing products for companies. The cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street had been a little concerned that Microsoft might  suffer from am industry shift toward lower-margin cloud services. more»

Algorithms gouge online buyers Posted: 24 Oct 2014 01:27 AM PDT A study by a team of researchers at the Northeastern University have discovered that online shops target people based on their profiles and charge some more than others for the same products. The team said that people regularly receive personalised content, such as specific offers from Amazon.  more»

Amazon invests in German datacentres Posted: 23 Oct 2014 06:23 AM PDT Many people might think that Amazon is where you buy your books, your Hue lights and your CDs but behind the scenes it is  becoming a major player in the datacentre business. And now, according to the Financial Times, Amazon will build several datacentres in Frankfurt in a bid to allay customers' fears that their data is housed in places where security and privacy are not as high a priority as in Germany. more»

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