Wednesday, November 5, 2014

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Microsoft, Dropbox team up

Posted: 05 Nov 2014 03:44 AM PST

Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEODropbox and Microsoft have signed a deal to integrate their services including Microsoft Office on phones, on tablets and on the internet.

Dropbox currently hosts over 35 billion Office files and 1.2 billion people use Office.

The deal means that you will be able to access Dropbox from Office applications, edit Office files directly from Dropbox and synchronise them across different kinds of devices.  more»

IBM claims first for intelligent cloud security

Posted: 05 Nov 2014 03:22 AM PST

clouds3Big Blue claimed it is the first company to build an intelligent security profile that protects data, applications and people in the cloud.

The offerings it announced use what IBM described as advanced analytics to react to threats across enterprise, public, private and mobile clouds  – so called hybrid clouds. more»

Governments want more from Facebook

Posted: 05 Nov 2014 03:11 AM PST

Facebook's Mark ZuckerbergSocial networking company Facebook said in a statement that requests by different governments round the world sharply rose during the first half of this year.

Governments requested 34,946 requests while Facebook said limits on some content to comply with local legislation increased by 19 percent during the same period. more»

HTC shows signs of recovery

Posted: 05 Nov 2014 02:54 AM PST

Nexus 9Cooperation between mobile firm HTC and Google is giving the Taiwanese firm a boost.

According to the Taipei Times, orders for the Nexus 9 tablet have exceeded expectations and that means HTC has ramped up its production facilities.

HTC mobile phones are considered to be some of the most stylish smartphones on the market, but a lack of marketing budget has seen the firm struggling to compete with the majors in the market. more»

Tablet demand slows to standstill

Posted: 05 Nov 2014 02:43 AM PST

Raphael painting: Moses receiving the tablets, Wikimedia CommonsA report said that during the third quarter of 2014, shipments of tablets worldwide amounted to 63.4 million unit only one percent up from the same quarter last year.

And the impetus for Apple iPads flatlined during the third quarter, largely affected by delays in shipments, according to Digitimes Research. more»

Apple security adopts hauhau method

Posted: 05 Nov 2014 01:22 AM PST

i_257It seems that the Apple Cargo cult is taking the same approach to security that the Maori Hauhau did during the New Zealand wars.

Like Apple, the Hauhau was a strange cult built by a bullied people but under a charismatic leader. more»

Dell counter attacks against rivals

Posted: 05 Nov 2014 01:14 AM PST

Conan 1While Michael Dell was fighting to take his tin box outfit private, his rivals used the uncertainty to steal his customers – now he is counter-attacking.  

Dell opened the Dell World conference and wasted no time denouncing the "turmoil" his rivals in the industry are going through. more»

Intel’s Skylake is an escargot

Posted: 05 Nov 2014 01:13 AM PST

Cooked_snailsWord on the street is that Skylake processors may be delayed.

Intel has been promising that Skylight will be in developers paws early 2015 ahead of shipping "by the second half of the year."

Digitime's Joanne Chen claims that Skylake will be held back so as not to dent sales of Broadwell-based notebooks. more»

Tsar Putin bans iPhone and iPad

Posted: 05 Nov 2014 01:12 AM PST

Movie-Ivan-the-Terrible-by-Sergei-EisensteinApple will be banned from selling its iPhone and Apple iPad in Russia, from January as the Russian Orthodox Tsar Putin orders a crackdown on the cargo cult.

Initially appeared that Apple was being banned from Russia because it has a gay CEO and Putin is homophobic in such a way which caused a business group to dismantle a memorial to Steve Jobs in St. more»

Government to force better mobile coverage

Posted: 05 Nov 2014 01:11 AM PST

TortureRackThe British government launched a consultation on new legislation to force mobile operators to improve coverage around the country.

Sajid Javid, the government’s culture secretary, said the  consultation will complement the work industry is doing and allow the Government to hear from the wider telecoms sector, businesses and the public,”

Traditionally governments hope that private enterprise will undertake such work voluntarily.  more»

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