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Gartner Says Service Providers Hold the Key to Their Success in the Digital Era

August 5, 2014August 6, 2014 enews

Digital Business Incompetence Will Cause 25 Percent of Businesses to Lose Market Position As enterprises move to become digital businesses, opportunities are arising for service providers to play a crucial role in the digital era, according to Gartner, Inc. Service providers should begin to align and adapt their organizational structure, capabilities, offerings, and engagement and delivery models to thrive in this new digital environment. “All signs suggest that organizations have just begun to tap into the potential of digital business; however, organizations that don’t accelerate their digital business transformation will…

SCARY! New Website Reveals Google Forgotten Search Results

August 5, 2014August 5, 2014 enews

Not all that long ago it was announced that Google was to comply with the right for people to “be forgotten” within search results. As soon as the form was released, Google was flooded by an overwhelming response and thousands of people had some or other page or result that they wanted removed. It should also be noticed that other search engines are following in Google’s footsteps by designing a similar method to “be forgotten”. However, a new website has already surfaced in an effort to reveal these hidden results!…

Best Windows Phone apps for 2014

August 5, 2014August 5, 2014 enews

We round up the best and most popular Windows Phone apps to help you decide what’s hot and what’s not for 2014 While not quite matching Android or iPhone when it comes to dominating the mobile market, Windows Phone has a loyal following, and is certainly popular within the business community. Of late, Microsoft has made the OS much more business-focused than it used to be, helping it wrest market share from one-time rival BlackBerry, and it has also been designed to work with Windows-based IT infrastructures. 1. iTelMobileDialer URL: http://www.revesoft.com/…

Telenor issues challenge to youth at next summit

August 4, 2014August 4, 2014 enews

Fornebu – August 4, 2014 – Telenor Group, in collaboration with the Nobel Peace Center, invites youth to explore how mobile and digital communication can bring social change and create opportunities for all. Telenor Group will host its Youth Summit, in association with the Nobel Peace Center, from Dec. 9-11, 2014, in Oslo. The event follows last year’s successful inaugural gathering (Telenor Youth Summit 2013 alumni and recommendations) and coincides with the Nobel Peace Prize festivities taking place the same week in Norway. The summit will bring together youth between…

Here’s how Microsoft plans to take over NFL sidelines

August 4, 2014August 4, 2014 enews

Are you ready for some football? Because Microsoft most certainly is. To go along with the introduction of a new NFL app for Xbox One and Windows 8, the software giant has also revealed how it plans to help professional coaches and players during games. As part of an ongoing partnership with the National Football League, which began last year and was reportedly worth $400 million over five years, Microsoft created what it calls a Sideline Viewing System. Naturally, the company’s own hardware is a key component to this; the new system is powered by Surface Pro…

Internet of things big security worry, says HP

August 4, 2014August 4, 2014 enews

HP found 25 vulnerabilities per device including everything from TVs to thermostats to home alarms and scales About 70 percent of Internet of things devices—including sensors and connected infrastructure—have vulnerabilities that could be exploited, according to Hewlett-Packard. HP’s data is based on it Fortify division and a scan of 10 of the most popular Internet of things devices. HP found 25 vulnerabilities per device. These devices included TVs, Webcams, thermostats, remote power outlets, sprinklers, door locks, home alarms, scales and garage openers. The findings, assessed based on the OWASP Internet…

Things with RFID chips in them will carry this logo in Europe, because privacy

August 4, 2014August 4, 2014 enews

The logo is designed to make it clear to consumers when the goods they’re carrying contain an RFID smart chip, and to bring retailers and healthcare and banking companies out of a legal “gray zone” when it comes to data protection. The European Commission has revealed a new logo for items that include radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, to keep them compliant with EU data protection rules. The scheme is voluntary, but technology trade organizations like Germany’s BITKOM have signed up to promote its use. RFID tags, used in everything…

The End of a Necessary Evil: Collapsing the Memory Hierarchy

August 3, 2014August 3, 2014 enews

Four hours and 31 minutes. That’s how much longer my HP Folio 1040 laptop estimates I can work given the energy stored in its battery. Where does all that energy go? My CPU meter shows only slight activity. I’m only running a couple of apps and I’m not typing that fast. It turns out that today’s computers spend most of their time and energy shuffling data between tiers of storage and memory. In modern systems, this hierarchy can be more than 10 layers deep. In geek land, we call this…

What’s Hot in Cloud Now? Mission-critical Cloud Computing

August 3, 2014August 3, 2014 enews

The cloud is evolving and a new front – mission-critical cloud computing — is coming on strong. Once viewed skeptically for any use, the cloud is now being tapped to deploy mission-critical applications. Driven by customer demands, businesses are finding cloud computing necessary to remain competitive and viable in the business landscape. Traditionally the cloud has been used for less-critical applications like storage or testing and development. However, customers are increasingly requiring service delivery models to satisfy their needs – think online subscription-based software – and enterprises need to adjust…

Almost 200,000 people may have been affected by US visa system crash

August 3, 2014August 3, 2014 enews

Computer problems with the U.S. State Department’s system for issuing passports and visas may have affected up to 200,000 people, it emerged Thursday, as the scale of the problem became clear for the first time. The problems began July 20 when engineers from Oracle and Microsoft applied a software patch to the State Department’s Consular Consolidated Database, which handles millions of passport and visa applications in the U.S. and at its embassies and consulates around the globe. The patch was intended to solve several months of instability but instead crashed…