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The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted patent 8739287 to Kaspersky Lab for a technology that detects threats in corporate IT infrastructure without compromising confidential information. Not all threats can be detected using locally installed solutions – some of them require more extensive analysis. To do this, suspicious files are delivered to a special infrastructure operated by the security vendor. This infrastructure has more resources to carry out comprehensive analysis in isolated conditions. However, most companies use their IT infrastructure to store confidential data. Often it is…

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(Fornebu, 25 June 2014) Telenor Norway has selected Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) as its partner to modernize and simplify the fixed network operations. The goal is to improve customer experience through reduced complexity and faster deliveries. Telenor Norway has launched a long-term effort to modernize and simplify products, processes and related IT systems in the fixed area. On 24th June, Telenor Norway signed a contract with TCS as a partner. “This is one of the largest change programs in recent history for Telenor Norway. The agreement with TCS represents…

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You’ve no doubt heard countless stories about how the internet is rife with hackers and ruled by malware-peddling malcontents. You’ve probably read dozens of paragraphs on how the next great theater of war will be online rather than offline, and how China and the US are already battling each other for cyber supremacy. The truth is, though, unless you’ve actually been hacked, it’s hard to appreciate just how real the prospect of cyberwar actually is; after all, the effects of hacking are mostly invisible to the untrained eye, with the exception of very-high-profile database breaches.…

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Unlimited storage available for $10/user/month Google has added a raft of features to its popular Drive service – offering up unlimited cloud storage, beefed up encryption and refreshed mobile apps. Google Drive for Work will cost $10/user/month (£6.60 in the UK). Unlimited storage is the headline feature, together with the ability to store individuals files of up to 5TB in size. “We want to take the hurdles out of data management. Adding infrastructure to support more users and data is a massive IT burden. By making storage unlimited – businesses…

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Open source database debuts Microsoft and Google clouds MongoDB users will now be able to run the NoSQL database on both Microsoft Azure and Google Compute Engine. The open source NoSQL database will be available as a managed service on both public clouds, it announced at its MongoDB World conference in New York. It already runs on AWS and is also available as a cloud service on IBM Softlayer. According to  MongoDB vice president of Global Channels business development Vijay Vijayasankar, the offering means that its customers “will enjoy the…

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What? This surprises you? Google is poised to further its dominance of all things internet with a move into domain-name registration. Plenty of people find companies online by typing their names into Google Search, rather than typing their URLs into their browsers, but the launch of Google Domainswill mark the first time the online ad-slinger has dealt with DNS directly. So far, Google has done nothing to publicize the effort and the site itself is marked as an “invite-only beta”. You can’t even sign up unless you have a special code. Over…

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Oslo, Norway – June 23, 2014 – Have you been longing for Opera on Linux? The wait is over! Opera Software has today released the Developer version of Opera 24 for Windows, Mac and Linux. If you love trying out new Opera improvements before anyone else, download it from the experimental Developer channel at opera.com/developer/. The Opera desktop browser was re-built from scratch for the Windows and Mac platforms, based on the Blink rendering engine. Opera’s engineers put a lot of effort into fine-tuning the browser and giving it a better performance,…

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Google Play Movies is now available in 21 new countries, bringing the total to 90 countries. Google Play Movies is now also available in Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Slovakia, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. For a full list of all 90 countries, see Google support. The list of countries that gets TV shows alongside movies is still only five (US, Canada, UK, Japan and Australia). Google Play Movies can also be accessed on connected TVs…

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Germany’s national telco Deutsche Telekom is negotiating with global video-on-demand (VOD) market leader Netflix about a partnership when it launches in Germany by the end of the year. Telekom apparently wants to include Netflix into its offering despite the fact that it competes with its own platform Entertain, reports German magazine Manager Magazin with reference to people familiar with the situation. Recently, Telekom already added ProSiebenSat.1′s VOD service maxdome to Entertain as a third-party proposition. The conversations about a marketing collaboration between Telekom and Netflix are at an advanced stage, but haven’t been finalised yet, according…

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Oracle is scooping up co-browsing software maker LiveLOOK in a bid to flesh out its suite of customer experience software. LiveLOOK’s product is already being used by more than 100 Oracle customers, having been embedded into Oracle’s customer service application. It gives support and sales representatives a way to browse alongside customers in order to fix problems and help them make the right purchases, according to a statement. Some 500 customers use LiveLOOK, according to a FAQ document released Friday in conjunction with the acquisition announcement. Oracle is locked in fierce competition…

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