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- LTE adoption to be worth $40 billion
- IBM buys Blue Box
- Google investors worry about hidden lobbying
- Apple’s new headphones catch fire
- Oracle commits to custom Xeons
- London start-up protects with invisible code
- Wearables market continues to grow
| LTE adoption to be worth $40 billion Posted: 04 Jun 2015 03:13 AM PDT
And it's China that's leading the rush – with widespread adoption of SSL encryption being a game changer. Practice director Joe Hoffman believes that mobile optimisation will become more important than ever before. "The advent of all IP services, including VoLTE, VoWi-Fi and LTE-U require close attention from the operator," he said. "All leading network infrastructure vendors, including Ericsson, Nokia Networks and Alcatel-Lucent, offer their own or partnered solutions. Likewise, the independents, such as Citrix, ByteMobile and Openwave Mobility, provide differentiated, targeted and ready-to-use solutions for every mobile broadband operator." ABI believes that capacity improvement will be such that there will be virtually free network and spectrum gear. |
| Posted: 04 Jun 2015 03:04 AM PDT
Blue Box is a privately owned company from Seattle that specialises in cloud as a service based on OpenStack. Because it's a private company, financial details need not be provided. IBM said the reason it bought Blue Box because it will help it support customers with their applications and on premises systems into an OpenStack managed cloud. The big idea is that the acquisition will help IBM deliver a public cloud experience within its customers' own data centre. The CEO of Blue Box, Jesse Proudman, said the conjunction of the two companies is the beginning of new OpenStack options from IBM. "Now is the time to arm customers with more efficient development, delivery and lower cost solutions than they've seen thus far." IBM said its cloud revenue amount to $7.7 billion at the end of March 2015. |
| Google investors worry about hidden lobbying Posted: 04 Jun 2015 02:38 AM PDT
For example Google donated $26,000 to Democrat Jerry Brown in his last campaign for governor of California, and the company wrote a cheque for $10,000 to Republican Marco Rubio’s 2016 U.S. Senate campaign. That is the smaller detail. Since President Obama took office, Google has spent over $60 million on lobbying in Washington. Google shareholders seem to think that it is time for Google to truly live by its openness value. They are demanding that the company fully disclose all of its lobbying. In a quaint view of US business politics it appears that the shareholders are not so worried about the amount that Google is spending "lobbying" but just wants to know who the cheques are going to. They are also worried that Google is effectively supporting groups like the US Chamber of Trade which has Dickensian views about the environment and climate change. Google cut all ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council because it was “lying” on climate change. Tim Smith of Walden Asset Management filed a formal shareholder resolution to require Google to be fully transparent about its lobbying expenses and objectives. Google opposes the latest proposal from Walden Asset Management, arguing that it would be “impractical and burdensome” to disclose more about its lobbying than it does now. While it might not be worried about the cash it gives the likes of the US Chamber of Trade, it is probably concerned about people finding out the extent of cash it is giving politicians. |
| Apple’s new headphones catch fire Posted: 04 Jun 2015 02:38 AM PDT  Michael Jackson a little bit on fire Apple is probably regretting its purchase of Beats headphones – not only was the outfit tied up with a patent dispute apparently one of its pricier products catches fire. Apple does not do many product recalls, so the one it issued today for a voluntary recall of Beats Pill XL speakers must have really hurt. Customers who return their flaming headsets will get their money back, presumably given to them by a sobbing Apple genius. Apparently Apple has determined that, "in rare cases", the battery in the Beats Pill XL may overheat and pose a fire safety risk. The recall does not affect any other Beats or Apple products. Given that in the past when Apple has used the phrase "effects a small number of users" it has meant "most of them" it is probably a good idea to get those headphones back before your head does a Michael Jackson. What is alarming is that the headphones are incredibly expensive. Apple is giving the owners of the headset an electronic payment of $325 which should give you an idea of how much these things cost. The Beats Pill XL was introduced by Beats by Dre in November 2013. Apple acquired Beats in 2014, so in this case it is not a genus Apple design which caused the fault – just genius Apple management which bought Beats. Apple purchased Beats Electronics in May for $3 billion, which is the Cupertino-based company’s biggest purchase to date. Apple also had to settle a patent case with Bose over Beats noise-cancelling headphones. |
| Oracle commits to custom Xeons Posted: 04 Jun 2015 02:37 AM PDT
The E7-8895 v3 has 18 cores and 36 threads based around an X5-4, a four-socket server. It has 96 DIMM slots for 3TB of RAM and NVMe for in-memory workloads. Oracle said that its new servers can "vary the core count and operating frequency … without the need for a system level reboot". It claims that it has the highest uptime x86 server based on Intel's Xeon E7 v3 processors, with hot-swappable and redundant disks, cooling fans, and power supply units. Intel and Oracle have been working on this relationship for more than a year now with customisable chips popping up from last year. Intel tinkered with its E7-8890 by adding features that let the silicon switch cores on and off which Oracle’s software demanded. The chips can also vary their clock speed to suit loading. Still it all does show a glorious alliance in the making, with Intel and Oracle working hard for each other. |
| London start-up protects with invisible code Posted: 04 Jun 2015 02:36 AM PDT
Abatis has early adopters which include Lockheed Martin, the civil nuclear sector, the air traffic control sector, the website of the United Nations, the Swiss military, London's Network Rail and controversial French multinational IT services provider ATOS. CEO Kerry Davis likens the company’s kernel driver to "the invention of the wheel – it's really significant". The product is 100kb of discrete and autonomous code, prevents all attackers from writing to permanent storage, requires no signature files or whitelists, uses no heuristics or sandboxing, saves 7 per cent of electricity costs, offers a 40 percent performance improvement over signature-based AV solutions, is backwards compatible to NT4 on Windows and is also available for Red Hat and other brands of Linux and Unix, in addition to a forthcoming iteration on Android. In short it is a bloody miracle. "We can stop zero day malware," claims Davis. "The known unknowns and the unknown unknowns," Lockheed Martin, have released a partial report of its results using Abatis , which finds the potential for scalable savings in data centres 'highly significant', observing 'a potential annual cost saving in excess of £12 at server level' – scaling up to £125,000 in a data centre with 10,000 servers. Its secret sauce appears to be a in-kernel defence mechanism, so when the computer fires up … the moment the files become apparent in the system. HDF [Abatis Host Integrity Technology] is protectings all the other programs that come afterwards. If you try to get ahead of it in the stack it won't let you…it's looking for unapproved I/O traffic related to specific processes. You won't stop processes from running in memory, but you will stop processes writing to disk," It has its limits. It will not help server environments that don't reboot for months and malware can do a lot of damage without writing to disk. |
| Wearables market continues to grow Posted: 03 Jun 2015 06:12 AM PDT
IDC said vendors shipped 11.4 million wearable devices in the first quarter of this year, that's up 200 percent from the same quarter last year. But the big question is how well the Apple iWatch is going to do. And IDC still thinks the jury is out in this case. What's clear, however, is there is considerable price erosion in the market with 40 percent of the devices now priced under $100. Apple's offerings, of course, are considerably more expensive than that. Jitesh Ubrani, a senior analyst at IDC, said: "Apple's entrance with a product priced at the high end of the spectrum will test consumers' willingness to pay a premium for a brand or product that is the centre ofattention." Currently, the top five vendors in the first quarter are Fitbit, Xiaomi, Garmin, Samsung and Jawbone. Most of these are health related apart from Samsung's Gear watch. Here are IDC's figures for the top five. |
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