Category: News

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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Heartbleed has a new wireless-based attack vector, according to security expert’s findings Android phones and wireless routers accessible via Wi-Fi might be at risk from attackers utilising a new form of the Heartbleed bug, it has been revealed. The security world is still feeling the effects of Heartbleed seven weeks after its discovery lead to websites scrambling to protect their data. Security expert Luis Grangeia, a partner and security services manager at SysValue, has apparently found a vector through which the bug can attack wireless devices and Android phones. Dubbed “Cupid”, the new attack…

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ARMONK, NY, May 28, 2014 – IBM  today announced that the cities of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Montpellier, France, are working with IBM to make data-driven decisions to rapidly transform the way they provide water, transportation and emergency management.  These and other cities around the world are increasingly using data to make better decisions and allocate resources to sense and respond to challenges in city infrastructure.  From improving traffic management, responding rapidly to incidents, using effective communication channels with citizens and ensuring sustainable natural resources, data and analytics are providing new…

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SAP has made OpenText Archiving available in the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, which provides online access to most SAP software. Since May 2013, OpenText, an enterprise content management (ECM) software maker, has provided integration with the SAP Business Suite running on the HANA in-memory database. The latest upgrade lets customers accessing Business Suite through the SAP cloud retrieve historical data within the ECM system. In addition, SAP and OpenText announced May 29 that users of the latter company’s software in Enterprise Cloud would have access starting in July to Tempo Box. The…

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The Orchestrated Datacenter enables rapid delivery of IT services across traditional data centers and cloud environments PALO ALTO, Calif. — HP today announced new offerings that accelerate the design and deployment of a customer’s applications, infrastructure and cloud-based services, improving time to value and quality of service delivery, while decreasing costs. The adoption of mobility and cloud computing is accelerating the application life cycle and increasing pressure to take a user-centric approach to design and delivery. The challenge is to increase the speed of application delivery across both traditional data…

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15 Free Podcast Tools For Teachers   Ardour  – Ardour is a free, fully-featured digital audio workstation, similar to other software like ProTools, Nuendo, Sonar and Logic, and capable of replacing analog or digital tape systems. Available for Mac OS X, Linux. Audacity – Audacity is free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds. Audacity is available for Windows, Mac, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. BlogAmp – Blogamp is a web-based audiocasting solution that combines a rich media on-demand experience with podcasting. Blogamp’s robust administration utility and content manager…

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Is Intel ready to be a software company? San Francisco – The chip giant on Tuesday announced it has put together a collaboration software suite that it will offer to small and medium-size businesses via its resellers. Intel held a press conference at the Web 2.0 Summit here to give details of the move, alongside open-source support provider SpikeSource and other companies. Called SuiteTwo, the package will include software from Six Apart, Socialtext, NewsGator and SimpleFeed. These are small software companies that provide applications for blogs, RSS feeds, wikis and social networking. All…

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Moscow, 21 May 2014. – Kaspersky Lab has made a host of unique statistical data available that shows the real-time picture of the cyberworld and its inhabitants. The company’s new portal gathers together statistical information from all over the world on what people are doing on the web, what devices they use and what threats they face. The kaspersky-cyberstat.com site pays particular attention to cyber threats: what malware is currently most active and what harm it can cause to users and their devices. The portal presents ratings of the most widespread…

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