Friday, February 27, 2015

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Apple copies Intel and drinks milk and honey

Posted: 27 Feb 2015 01:24 AM PST

Apple's Tim CookFruity cargo cult Apple is set to copy Intel’s success by shifting an ever increasing amount of development work to Israel.

Chief Executive Tim Cook was in Israel on Thursday to visit the company's new research and development offices in Herzlyia. more»

AMD does not think Chromebooks are worth it

Posted: 27 Feb 2015 01:10 AM PST

AMD, SunnyvaleAMD chief technical officer Mark Papermaster has dismissed Chromebooks as "not worth it" and explained why his outfit is not behind the technology.

He said that it was important to look at Chromebook and what Google’s grand plan with it is. more»

Intel buying its way into China

Posted: 27 Feb 2015 01:08 AM PST

Intel Q4_14_ResultsMegachip maker Intel has decided that the only way to get around the inscrutable Chinese is to invest in shed loads of scrute and buy its way into the market.

Intel is pouring billions of dollars into expanding its influence in China, where fewer than half the country's roughly 500 million mobile phone users have smartphones and the market is ruled by Qualcomm. more»

Google reorganises in EU

Posted: 27 Feb 2015 01:05 AM PST

330ogleThe search engine also known as Google is restructuring its European businesses to cope with the fact that the EU might want it to be a little more reasonable on privacy and anti-trust issues.

Google merged its two European regional divisions claiming it needed to "meet the challenges of tougher regulation across the continent",

The internet giant is merging its northern and western European division with the unit covering southern and eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa. more»

IBM wants cloud killing

Posted: 27 Feb 2015 01:03 AM PST

Clouds in Oxford: pic Mike MageeBig Blue thinks it can restore itself to its former suited glory by pushing heavily into cloud and big data.

Apparently the outfit has set itself a target of making $40 billion a year from cloud, big data, security and other growth areas by 2018. more»

Flash drives still have problems

Posted: 26 Feb 2015 07:45 AM PST

flash_gordon (1)Kroll Ontrack, a company which specialises in data recovery, claimed that while nearly 90 percent of the people they surveyed used solid state drives (SSD), a third claimed they had some malfunctions.

Obviously Kroll has something of an axe to grind here, but it has surveyed over 2,000 people in the survey. more»

Juniper extends deal with Canonical

Posted: 26 Feb 2015 06:49 AM PST

Pic Mike MageeUbuntu provider Canonical and Juniper Networks said they have extended their relationship to provide OpenStack based cloud offerings.

The deal is intended for use by the telecommunications industry.

The OpenStack software lets service providers virtualise core networks and network functions and is claimed to give better performance, scale and reliability. more»

Healthcare systems are subject to hacking

Posted: 26 Feb 2015 06:26 AM PST

wargames-hackerHospitals, clinics, trusts and insurers are under a barrage of cyberattacks but the healthcare section does not seem to be spending enough money to protect itself.

According to ABI Research, cybersecurity for healthcare protection will only be worth $10 billion by 2020, while other sectors such as financial and defence are coping. more»

Hardcopy peripherals value grew

Posted: 26 Feb 2015 06:19 AM PST

HPA report from IDC said that values of hardcopy peripherals worldwide increased in the fourth quarter by 1.7 percent, bringing in revenues of $15.2 billion.

But although the value figure was up, unit shipments fell by 2.6 percent during the quarter, amounting to 30.8 million inits. more»

Lenovo gets hacked

Posted: 26 Feb 2015 06:11 AM PST

lenovo-logoA cyberattack by a hacking group called Lizard Squad brought down Lenovo's web site yesterday.

That's following the revelation that Lenovo shipped adware called Superfish on some of its notebook devices.

Lizard Squad claimed responsibility for downing the Sony site at the end of last year. more»

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