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- Smartphone decline confirmed
- Hardcopy peripheral market falls
- Medical apps push 3D printing market
- Mozilla hunts hate speech employee
- McAfee claims that Ashley Madison was an inside job
- Russians terrified by Microsoft snooping
- You Canute be serious Cook!
- Intel appoints top cop
- UK orders Google to remove news links
- Dell takes aim at smaller datacentres
| Posted: 25 Aug 2015 06:04 AM PDT
And this week, rival research firm IDC has confirmed that trend. IDC said that smartphone shipments will grow by 10.4 percent this year to 1.44 bilion units, lower than its previous forecast of 11.3 percent. The reason is that China, like the USA and Western Europe, is entering a mature phase where replacement will be the norm. Nevertheless, average selling prices are falling and shipments will hit 1.9 billion units by 2019. Last year, said IDC, China accounted for 32.3 percent of all new smartphone shipments and it will continue to be the biggest market for volumes. But IDC predicts that its share will drop to 23.1 percent in 2019 while India will continue to grow. India has now more potential for growth than other markets. Here's how IDC sees the smartphone market by operating systems, with Android phones dwarfing the others.        |
| Hardcopy peripheral market falls Posted: 25 Aug 2015 02:53 AM PDT
But that is just a really big "perhaps", because the market is still worth $13.2 billion worldwide, according to IDC figures. And in some markets, such as the US and Canada, the market is growing by 3.6 percent and 5.8 percent respectively. High end peripherals which bash out more than 45 pages per minute had a double digit growth in the quarter. IDC said the 45-69ppm monochrome printer sector grew in the second quarter by 17.3 percent. The 70-90ppm colour segment showed a healthy 72.9 percent growth. Inkjet printers still sell more than laserjets with a 58.7 percent share. HP is in number one position, followed by Canon, Epson, Samsung and Brother.     |
| Medical apps push 3D printing market Posted: 25 Aug 2015 02:01 AM PDT
That's the conclusion of market research company Gartner, which said in a report that 3D printing is already being used widely to make things like hearing aids and dental devices. Peter Basiliere, a research director at Gartner, said all major hearing aid suppliers are personalised to the shape of a patient's ear. "This is evidence that using 3D printing for mass customisation of consumer goods is now viable. Routine use of 3D printing for dental implats is also not far from this level of market maturity." And while some techs are not being used routinely, they offer promise for better hip and knee replacements, with early trials show a better success rate and faster recovery times. Basiliere believes that 3D printed hip and knee replacements will be in mainstream use within two to five years. And, in the future, 3D bioprinting will come into play, capable of "printing" cells, proteins, DNA and drugs. Advances in 3D scanners will lead to ordinary people being able to produce extraordinary 3D printed items.     |
| Mozilla hunts hate speech employee Posted: 25 Aug 2015 01:32 AM PDT
An anonymous person with the handle "aioyama " complained about “social justice bullies” on Reddit effectively saying that the outfit was relieved to lose community organizer Christie Koehler. Koehler had left complaining about Mozilla’s lack of diversity in the workplace and its failure to address accessibility issues. The Reddit user cheered Koehler’s exit. “Frankly everyone was glad to see the back of Christie Koehler. She was batshit insane and permanently offended at everything. When she and the rest of her blue-haired nose-pierced asshole feminists are gone, the tech industry will breathe a sigh of relief.” However the comment miffed Mozilla CEO Chris Beard who said that the person had crossed the line from criticism to hate speech. Beard said the remarks indicated a discomfort with diversity that he would not tolerate and if he finds out who they are, then the will be escorted from the building with their belongings in a photocopy box. Being identified as a backward misogynistic organisation adapted for life in the civil war south is a sore spot for Mozilla. Its CEO resigned last year amid outrage he supported groups that opposed gay marriage. Beard said the person was "not welcome to continue to participate in the Mozilla project. It is not who we are." Sorry Chris, if a former CEO was a homophobe, the person you hired to improve diversity leaves in frustration and your staff cheers, you might be sitting on a bigger problem. You might think that "it is not who we are" but evidence suggests otherwise.     |
| McAfee claims that Ashley Madison was an inside job Posted: 25 Aug 2015 01:31 AM PDT
McAfee said that files found in the leaked database contain some peculiarities that he wouldn’t expect a hacker to normally know. "The data contains actual MySQL database dumps. This is not just someone copying a table and making it into a .csv file," he said. The hack contains a lot of insider information, including employee stock options, the layout of the Ashley Madison offices, and the source code of every program ever written by the company's employees. McAfee says statements made by the alleged hackers seem to be hostile towards certain employees, like the company's VP of Information Technology, and favourable towards others. McAfee claims the attacker is a woman because of the insults used. "The more telling was a statement calling men 'scumbags'. I think in any language this would suggest that a woman is speaking." The hacker's first manifesto used the term "spiteful" in reference to joining Ashley Madison after Valentine's Day. Men have trouble even remembering Valentine's Day exists, so the attacker must be a woman, McAfee reasons.     |
| Russians terrified by Microsoft snooping Posted: 25 Aug 2015 01:30 AM PDT
A top Russian politician, Nikolai Levichev, has written to the country’s Prime Minister, Dmitry Medvedev, calling for government departments to be banned from using Windows 10. Normally when stories like this come out of Russia, Putin's politicians are worried that strong Russian men will become weak homosexuals by using the technology, but in this case it is real concern about Windows 10 phoning Redmond all the time. Levichev is deputy speaker in the State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s parliament, and leader of “A Just Russia,” the third-largest party there. All software used by government agencies has to be certified in Russia, and this has not happened yet for Windows 10. This usually takes six months from the launch of a new product, but since Windows 10 was a free upgrade people installed it. Levichev also wrote to the head of Roskomnadzor, the Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications, asking him to investigate whether Microsoft is in compliance with Russian laws given the way that Windows 10 can gather and transmit personal data. Two weeks ago, the Russian member of parliament, Vadim Solovyov, asked the country’s attorney general to investigate (translated) whether Windows 10 violates Russian privacy laws. He said that some of the information gathered by the latest version of the operating system when running on government computers would be classified. He dubbed Vole's activities “espionage.” In response, Microsoft said that data was only gathered with the user’s consent.
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| Posted: 25 Aug 2015 01:29 AM PDT
Russia's favourite CEO should have been terrified as stocks in China fell like a free-fall team of elephants who have forgotten to pack their parachutes. After all Apple is banking on Chinese interest in its shiny toys to make up for the fact that the rest of the world has worked out that they can get better for much cheaper. Cook however proved he had the power to make the problem go away by actually talking to shareholders and telling them that everything will be OK. Cook took the rare step of commenting on the health of Apple’s business midway through a financial quarter. He wrote that iPhone activations in China had accelerated over the past few weeks and that the App Store in China had its best performance of the year over the past two weeks. “Obviously I can’t predict the future, but our performance so far this quarter is reassuring. Additionally, I continue to believe China represents an unprecedented opportunity over the long term,” Cook wrote. In two hours they reversed those losses to trade up 2.25 percent at $108.12, adding around $85 billion to Apple’s market capitalisation from its earlier low. This is a little weird given that any iPhone activations would have happened long before the Chinese sharemarket crashed. However owning shares in Apple is a religion based on faith and not common sense. The Tame Apple press rushed to find analysts to back up Cook's pronouncement and sure enough there were a few who agreed. This seems to prove to us that it is probably better to ask the cat financial advice than Wall Street Analysts. Fortunately there are some on Wall Street who were a little more sensible. After the rebound, Apple’s stock was still down about 19 percent from its record high close set in February. Cowen and Company analyst Timothy Arcuri said that no one has seen the extent of any Apple slowdown in China. Last week Gartner report said smartphone sales in the country fell for the first time ever in the previous quarter. In short, Cook and Canute have something in common. No amount of pronouncements will stop the rising tide.     |
| Posted: 24 Aug 2015 07:29 AM PDT
And now it has appointed a man to run its newly-fledged Intel Security division. Intel poached Richard Steranka from Avaya, and will now run the division, reporting to Scott Lovett, a senior VP of global sales. Steranka's job will be to bring better security to both Intel "partners" and mutual customers, including embedded OEMs. Steranka, who worked at Cisco before being poached by Avaya, said that security is probably fastest moving field in IT. "Staying relevant and on the offence is imperative so that our partners can not only reach their own profitability goals, but also better protect our mutual customers from next generation cyber threats." Steranka is predominantly a salesman because his expertise is in sales, channels, marketing and operations.     |
| UK orders Google to remove news links Posted: 24 Aug 2015 07:13 AM PDT
A convict asked Google to remove a link to a report of his criminal conviction, and the behemoth did so in the spirit of last year's "right to be forgotten ruling". But, according to the UK Press Gazette, the individual's criminal conviction cropped up on Google after a news report mentioned her or his name in light of original link removal. The individual complained again about this and other news report but Google stood its ground and said the links were in the public interest. The ICO also asked Google to remove these subsequent links but it refused to do so again. So now the ICO has given Google 35 days to remove nine story links or it will use its enforcement powers under the Data Protection Act to put the boot in.     |
| Dell takes aim at smaller datacentres Posted: 24 Aug 2015 07:04 AM PDT
The division, called Datacentre Scalable Solutions (DSS) is looking to sell into web tech, telecomms service providers, hosting companies, old and gas companies and research organisations. Dell has been in this business for over eight years but the new division is aimed at providing smaller organisations with customised and tailored products just beow the "hyperscale" of the massive companies it's previously sold to. This segment of the market is worth as much as $6 billion worldwide, Dell believes. The company is to deliver its first DSS branded products in autumn. Ashley Gorakhpurwalla, general manager of the server division at Dell, said other companies have sold product by marketing hype or reducing capex costs, his company will sell purpose built product in line with its financial services divsion.     |
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