Some of the biggest names in IT and online services have banded together to standardize the way applications are run in the cloud. Organized by the Linux Foundation, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation was announced Tuesday and has drawn the support of Cisco, IBM, Intel, VMware, CoreOS, Docker, and Joyent. …
New mainframe slows sales decline at IBM Sales fell 13 percent in the second quarter at IBM, and profit dropped 16 percent—but things could have been worse if it weren’t for sales of the recently launched Z13 mainframe. IBM blamed much of the decline on a strong dollar and the …
Executives at electronics and industrial giant Toshiba resigned on Tuesday after a committee reviewing its earnings said the company padded its operating profit by about ¥156 billion ($1.25 billion) over six years to the end of 2014. Leaders at the company, which makes everything from vacuum cleaners to nuclear power …
Apple, Facebook and Amazon.com have increased their expenses on trying to influence U.S. politicians and policy at the federal level, but Google still outstrips them in spending though it reduced expenditure in the second quarter. Amazon’s spending on lobbying increased by 103 percent to a record $2.15 million in the …
According to a new survey of Black Hat attendees released last week, InfoSec professionals are spending the biggest amount of their time and budgets on security problems created within the organization itself. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here (Insider Story) …
Should you remove Adobe Flash from Linux? Adobe Flash has been in the news a lot lately, and not for any positive reasons. Flash has been roundly criticized in the media for various security flaws. This has led some folks to call for the removal of Flash from people’s computers, …
When news of a shark attack on professional surfer Mick Fanning reached Costa Rica and 9-year-old Ella Strickland Sunday, she grabbed her mother’s smartphone to see if the great white was one of the sharks she knows. Happily for Ella, the shark that attacked Fanning during the J-Bay Open surfing …
Windows 10 is just about here — and many users (especially those who have been wrestling with Windows 8) are probably eager to upgrade. But even if you can get it now — the upgrade will be sent first to those who signed up for the Windows Insider beta program …
When I unboxed XYZPrinting’s Nobel 1.0 stereolithographic (SLA) 3D printer, I’d just finished shipping off another top-rated and remarkably accurate SLA machine, the Formlabs Form 1+. XYZprinting is known for its low-cost printers — the Taiwanese company has made its bones in the market by offering up what are arguably …
Among this pilot fish’s responsibilities is handling complaints about how the rest of the IT staff is handling complaints. “A laptop user wrote that after a repair that involved replacing the hard disk, he couldn’t re-install the OS because the sticker with the serial number was not legible,” says fish. …
Крупнейший торговый портал Amazon уже оформил страницу для предварительного заказа загрузочные USB-флешки с Windows 10. Если ранее выпуск операционной системы Windows 10 на портативных накопителях был всего лишь слухом, то сегодня это подтвержденный факт. Стоит отметить, что функция создания установочной флешки реализована в Windows 7, но Microsoft любыми способами избегала этот способ распространения своей системы. Тем …
Американский производитель процессоров для мобильных устройств Qualcomm конкурирует с компаниями MediaTek и Spreadtrum, пишет ресурс dni24.com. В поисках новых партнеров Qualcomm заключила соглашение с Microsoft, в рамках которого производитель будет обеспечивать бюджетные процессоры Snapdragon 210, предназначенные для смартфонов на базе Windows 10 не дороже $80. В сегменте топовых процессоров рейтинг Qualcomm в этом году пострадал …
The end is near for Google+ Photos, the photo sharing service that’s part of the company’s social network. Google will begin closing down the service on Aug. 1 on Android, with the Web and iOS devices to follow soon after. For a time, Google touted the service as a key …
More than 250 companies have signed on with Airbnbs Business Travel program since its launch a year ago, but on Monday the home-sharing service launched a new product suite in the hopes of growing that customer segment further. Airbnb’s new software is designed to make the service easier to use …
IBM has reported another quarter of declining revenue and profit, though sales of its new mainframe gave it a lift. Revenue for its second quarter was $20.8 billion, down from $24 billion a year earlier, IBM announced Monday. The big drop is partly from IBM selling its x86 server business …
It’s not Patch Tuesday, but Windows users should take note of an off-schedule patcdh that fixes a serious security vulnerability. The patch fixes a font driver vulnerability that could let a hacker remotely execute code on a compromised Windows machine. Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.x, Windows RT and RT …
Microsoft today issued one of its sporadic emergency, or “out-of-band,” security updates to patch a vulnerability in Windows — including the yet-to-be-released Windows 10 — that was uncovered by researchers sifting through the massive cache of emails leaked after a breach of Italian surveillance vendor Hacking Team. The Milan-based vendor …
A proposed set of software export controls, including controls on selling hacking software outside the U.S., are “dangerously broad and vague,” Google said Monday. Google, commenting on rules proposed by the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC), said the proposed export controls would hurt the security research community. A DOC Bureau …
Space X is giving its Dragon spacecraft a software upgrade so it might be able to save itself in the event of a rocket explosion. The decision, announced on Monday by company founder Elon Musk, is one of the results of an investigation being carried out into the explosion last …
Microsoft is said to be paying $320 million to acquire Adallom, a cloud security provider whose services might help Microsoft in its new push toward becoming a “cloud-first” company. Adallom provides back-end security tools that gather usage data and detect suspicious activity. Its services are used by Netflix, SAP and …
A South Korean intelligence officer who used a controversial surveillance system from Italy’s Hacking Team was found dead over the weekend in an apparent suicide as controversy swirls in the country over use of the software. The officer, identified by local media only as Lim, was a 20-year cyber-security veteran …
Oracle on Monday enhanced its cloud-based human resources offering with a suite of “work-life” applications. Aiming to help organizations embrace what the company calls “modern HR,” Oracle’s updated Human Capital Management Cloud includes an array of tools designed to help human resources departments better recognize and support the intersection of …
Rather than looking for signatures of known malware as traditional anti-virus software does, next-generation endpoint protection platforms analyze processes, changes and connections in order to spot activity that indicates foul play and while that approach is better at catching zero-day exploits, issues remain. For instance, intelligence about what devices are …
In April, Microsoft introduced the Game bar to Windows 10 as a means for recording gameplay sessions on PCs. But that’s not all it’s good for, as it turns out: you can also use the new Game bar recording function as a quick and dirty screen video recorder for other …
Esri is set to announce an open-source software bridge that makes it faster and easier to move mapping data between ArcGIS and R. The aim is to help R users tap into an organization’s GIS data housed within ArcGIS, a popular platform for high-powered geo-analysis, without the need to generate …
Once devoted chiefly to developing desktop and server Windows applications, the Microsoft Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE) is increasingly resembling a Swiss Army Knife, able to support myriad computing platforms, languages and runtime environments. Visual Studio 2015, released Monday, provides a way for a developer to write a single …