Thursday, February 26, 2015

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RAMNIT sent to the works

Posted: 26 Feb 2015 01:45 AM PST

12026489_8cfc0bee54A  three million strong botnet which filled the world with phishing emails has been shut down thanks to the efforts of the National Crime Agency's National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU), police in the  Netherlands, Italy and Germany.

The shut-down was co-ordinated through Europol's European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), which also shut down command and control servers used by the RAMNIT botnet. more»

Microsoft gives kids a cloud

Posted: 26 Feb 2015 01:45 AM PST

Clouds in Oxford: pic Mike MageeAs part of its push to dominate the cloud, software giant Microsoft is giving away free Office 365 subscriptions to students outside the US.

Schools will have to buy subscriptions for staff and faculty, but once they do, students  - and even teachers – can self-install for no charge by using a school-issued email address at the Office in education website. more»

US tech economy suffering because of paranoia

Posted: 26 Feb 2015 01:44 AM PST

Senator McCarthy On 'Face The Nation'The US economy is officially suffering because its government is not reigning in its paranoid security services.

One of the world's biggest markets, China, has said that it is no longer using high-profile US technology brands for state buys, amid ongoing revelations about mass surveillance and hacking by the US government. more»

Intel brings the Joy of X to the Atom

Posted: 26 Feb 2015 01:43 AM PST

atomIntel has finally woken up to the fact that its esoteric branding of Atom chips is leading to a lot of confusion amongst suppliers and customers.

Historically Intel has thought that customers and suppliers would instinctively know the difference between the Atom Z3735F or the Atom Z3735G. more»

US no longer the Land of the Fee

Posted: 26 Feb 2015 01:41 AM PST

 Statue-of-LibertyThe US will finally get net neutrality after the Republicans realised that mindlessly defending telco's rights to charge people double were going to cost them votes.

Republicans conceded that the gruelling fight with President Obama over the regulation of Internet service appears over, with the president and all those people who did not want to be charged for internet use were victorious. more»

Samsung Group freezes salaries

Posted: 26 Feb 2015 01:35 AM PST

Samsung rules the roostSouth Korea's lead chaebol, Samsung Group, announced on Thursday that it has decided to freeze salaries for its executives next year in an attempt to reduce costs, the first time since the 2009 global financial crisis. The income of approximately 2,000 executives at the business group, which includes Samsung Electronics Co. more»

Dell sells web scale converged devices

Posted: 25 Feb 2015 06:48 AM PST

Dell logoDell said it has introduced the second series of of its XC Series web scale converged devices.

The units are aimed at data centre customers and Dell claimed they have now over 50 percent more storage capacity and twice the rack densities. more»

Tablets slow right down

Posted: 25 Feb 2015 06:28 AM PST

cheap-tabletsOnly 221.4 million tablets will ship worldwide this year – a drop of 11.9 percent compared to 2014.

That's according to Digitimes Research (DR), which predicts that Apple will continue to take the lead, managing to ship over 54 million units this year. more»

Virtual reality market set to soar

Posted: 25 Feb 2015 06:21 AM PST

Screen Shot 2015-02-25 at 14.19.20While virtual reality (VR) has been around for a good old while, a market research firm now predicts massive growth in the marketplace.

ABI Research said it expects to see three million VR units ship this year, but that will soar to 55 million by 2020. more»

IBM strikes further deals with Juniper

Posted: 25 Feb 2015 06:12 AM PST

Juniper and IBM have decided to work together in a bid to provide customers with improved mobile facilities, look at Internet of Things (IoT) applications and plumb the world of big data.

IBM said that the two companies will work together to deliver high performance network analytics to speed up enterprises, reduce costs, and provide better end user applications. more»

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