Friday, December 5, 2014

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HP pushes notebook sales

Posted: 05 Dec 2014 03:48 AM PST

HPStrong orders from both the enterprise and from the retail market meant growth in notebook sales during the month of November, largely due to HP’s position in the market.

That's according to data from Digitimes Research which claims the top five multinational vendor and Taiwanese original design manufacturers (ODMs) showed shipments growing by 10 percent in the month, following a decline in shipments in October. more»

Internet of Things “is already here”

Posted: 05 Dec 2014 03:21 AM PST

Internet of ThingsA report commissioned by Verizon suggests that rather than being science fiction, the Internet of Things (IoT) is already here and producing business results.

Verizon commissioned the Harvard Business Review to conduct a report and that suggested the IoT is already here in the shape of connectivity, cloud computing, and miniaturisation of sensors "making it possible" for over 10 billion devices to be networked. more»

IT failures crippling businesses

Posted: 05 Dec 2014 02:57 AM PST

Wall Street Crash, Wikimedia CommonsThe average cost of IT failures is a staggering £410,000 per incident, according to a KPMG report.

But even more staggering is that over half of the failures were "completely avoidable", according to KPMG's latest risk assessment.

And four million bank and credit card accounts were compromised by each IT failure, while an average of 776,000 people were affected by every SNAFU. more»

Apple’s garage beginning was a myth

Posted: 05 Dec 2014 01:27 AM PST

Steve WozniakApple co-founder Steve Wozniak has scotched a long running myth that Apple started in Steve Job's parents' garage.

For a while now Apple has peddled an HP style myth that Apple started from the garage. However Woz said the garage thing was a bit of a myth. more»

SSDs are now more reliable

Posted: 05 Dec 2014 01:25 AM PST

 ssdiconsetAn investigation into the shelf life of SSDs has concluded that in a year the technology has improved dramatically.

Techreport carried out a test to see how many writes an SSD could survive before burning out. IT also tracked how each one’s performance characteristics and health statistics changed as the writes accumulated. more»

Free is the about the right price for software

Posted: 05 Dec 2014 01:24 AM PST

5360989064_19643132d7_b (1)The  CEO of Cheetah Mobile, a Chinese mobile software company that went public earlier this year is telling the world+dog that he thinks free is about the right price for software.

In the west few have heard of Cheetah Mobile, it has several Android utility products that are consistently among the top downloads in the Google Play store. more»

Tories blame ISPs for Sony hack

Posted: 05 Dec 2014 01:23 AM PST

Mike_WeatherleyEver willing to blame ISPs for any problems in the world, the UK's Tory government say ISPs are behind the Sony hack.

The Tories are trying to get ISPs to act as unpaid censors to stop anything that someone with a blue rinse might not want to see on the internet.  more»

Apple deleted content from user devices

Posted: 05 Dec 2014 01:22 AM PST

apple-disney-dreams-snow-white-Favim.com-142405Fruity cargo cult Apple deleted music from its customers' devices which were not bought through the iTunes Music Store.

The information has come out of the proceedings of Apple’s iPod/iTunes antitrust lawsuit. Plaintiffs’ lawyers claimed Apple surreptitiously deleted songs not purchased through the iTunes Music Store from users’ iPods. more»

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