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On Tuesday, CRM and cloud giant Salesforce.com announced the Salesforce Wear Developer Kit, a set of resources designed to help the company’s 1.5 million developers experiment with and build applications for a variety of popular wearable devices, including smartwatches, smartglasses, smart armbands and biometric authenticators. The new wearable-focused developer kit represents “the first in a series of steps” in the company’s broader Salesforce Wear initiative, according to Daniel Debow, senior vice president of emerging technologies, Salesforce.com. Eventually Salesforce plans to setup open wearable-focused developer zones at its events and hold…

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On May 27-28 Kaspersky Lab held its annual Emerging Markets Partner Conference, which took place in Marrakech, Morocco and brought together more than 100 visitors from 42 counties from the Middle East, Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe. The company’s partners found out more about its new enterprise-level security strategy, partnership enhancements and heard about the latest trends in the world of cyberthreats; they shared their best practices, received technology training and discussed the latest hot topics. Some partners received awards for their outstanding results in a number of spheres.…

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US spy agency the CIA has joined the world of social media, setting up Facebook and Twitter profiles The CIA, which has long trolled social media to try to uncover global trends and track evil-doers, officially joined Twitter and Facebook last week. The spy agency cast the move as an effort to better get out its message and engage directly with the public, but its first Twitter message, sent out shortly before 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT), did not indicate there would be major revelations. It said simply: “We can…

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PALO ALTO, Calif. — HP today expanded its leading portfolio of thin client solutions with the HP t310 All-in-One Zero Client and HP t520 Flexible Series Thin Client, designed to help businesses securely support virtual work environments. HP also announced updates to its embedded Linux Operating System (OS) for Thin Clients, HP ThinPro 5.0, which features a new user interface and increased flexibility to move between the HP ThinPro OS and HP Smart Zero cores. Businesses demand technology that helps employees stay productive across an organization’s different workgroups and between offices. IT managers must…

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Google is working on the ultimate security and privacy feature. It’s called “End-to-End” encryption, and it’s the best way to stop anyone from snooping on your emails. Google would turn your emails into jumbled code, and the only person who can see the email in plain text is the trusted person on the other end. Hackers don’t stand a chance. In fact, neither does the National Security Agency. It’s the kind of encryption ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden used to communicate with journalists before he went public last year with damning…

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Canon Europe has announced that it has agreed a working partnership with Wavestore, a distinguished security solutions provider, to deliver an intelligent and fully integrated security offering with superior image quality and advanced analytics capabilities. The partnership will deliver advanced surveillance systems by combining Canon’s portfolio of high-quality Network Security Cameras with Wavestore’s industry leading video management software (VMS). Both companies are working closely together to ensure that the analytics are faultless and fully integrated to provide system integrators with amplified surveillance capabilities. The pan-European partnership will allow both companies…

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Neuss, Germany, May 27th 2014 – Toshiba Europe GmbH today announces its first consumer detachable Ultrabook – the Satellite Click 2 Pro P30W. This premium ultra-portable 2-in-1 is designed to transform seamlessly from laptop to tablet, offering the choice between a fully featured Ultrabook and a media savvy tablet – ideal for a range of usages. “Today’s users require the performance of an Ultrabook and the convenience of a tablet without the need for compromise. The Satellite Click 2 Pro P30W takes the Ultrabook to a new level by offering more flexibility on the go, at home…

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COMPUTEX, Taipei, Taiwan, June 3, 2014 – As computing continues to evolve and expand beyond the traditional PC, Intel Corporation President Renée James said Intel and the Taiwan technology ecosystem have the exciting opportunity to build on the long history of collaborative innovation to deliver seamless and truly personal computing experiences. Processor technology continues to get smaller with greater performance and lower power thanks to Moore’s Law, expanding the scale and potential for Intel technology and that of the Taiwan ecosystem, from infrastructure for cloud computing and the Internet of…

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Comic’s rant sparks run on commission’s public comments page A protest campaign in support of net neutrality provisions has overwhelmed the the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) website. The commission briefly saw its public comments service go down on Monday, one day after comedian John Oliver delivered an extended rant in support of net neutrality on his evening program Last Week Tonight. In the 13-minute segment, Oliver calls the appointment of former lobbyist Tom Wheeler as FCC chairman “the equivalent of needing a babysitter and hiring a dingo” and, providing a link to the…

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Gotcha! It’s the five-year-old Windows 7, not touchy 8.1 One of Microsoft’s newest operating systems now runs on half of desktops – but it’s not the one Redmond might have wished. Windows 7 accounted for 50.06 per cent of operating system market share in May according to Netmarketshare’s running monthly tally. The operating system expanded its share from 49.27 per cent in April. Microsoft’s Windows 8.1 scored a milestone of its own last month, as it also eclipsed Windows 8. Windows 8.1 claimed 6.35 per cent of desktops, up from…

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