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Check Point Threat Intelligence and research teams recently discovered a high volume Chinese threat operation which has infected over 250 million computers worldwide. The installed malware,  Fireball, takes over target browsers and turns them into zombies. Fireball has two main functionalities:  the ability of running any code on victim computers–downloading any file or malware, and  hijacking and manipulating infected users’ web-traffic to generate ad-revenue. Currently, Fireball installs plug-ins and additional configurations to boost its advertisements, but just as easily it can turn into a prominent distributor for any additional malware.…

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The new chip and a cloud-based machine-learning supercomputer will help Google establish itself as an AI-focused hardware maker. If artificial intelligence is rapidly eating software, then Google may have the biggest appetite around. At the company’s annual developer conference today, CEO Sundar Pichai announced a new computer processor designed to perform the kind of machine learning that has taken the industry by storm in recent years (see “10 Breakthrough Technologies: Deep Learning”). The announcement reflects how rapidly artificial intelligence is transforming Google itself, and it is the surest sign yet that…

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After months of talks with India, Apple is now ready to make iPhone phones in this country as of the end of April. That’s according to Priyank Kharge, information technology minister for the Indian state of Karnataka, who discussed the plans in a Bloomberg interview late Thursday. The move into the world’s fastest-growing major smartphone market comes at a time when iPhone sales have slowed in key markets such as China. “Apple’s iPhone devices will be made in Bangalore (Karnataka) and all devices will be designed to the domestic market,…

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PORTLAND, Oregon, November 2, 2016 – Citifyd, (www.citifyd.com), the smart city technology company connecting people to parking providers and merchants, announced today an agreement with smart city development company P3GM (www.p3gm.com) to facilitate private parking sharing in the city of Pasadena, California through the Citifyd shared parking solution. The Citifyd platform will allow private commercial parking spot owners to list their unused and available spaces for a period of time and price of their choosing. Residents and visitors will then be able to book and pay for parking using the…

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HP Inc, the world leader in printing, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.’s (005930.KS) printer business in a deal valued at $1.05 billion.  Palo Alto, Calif., and Suwon, South Korea, Sept. 12, 2016 —The acquisition positions HP to disrupt and reinvent the $55 billion copier industry, a segment that hasn’t innovated in decades. Copiers are outdated, complicated machines with dozens of replaceable parts requiring inefficient service and maintenance agreements. Customers are frequently frustrated with the number of visits needed to keep copier machines functioning. Today, HP is…

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Microsoft Corp. has entered a six-year agreement with HP Inc. to deploy Microsoft Dynamics to thousands of employees across HP, dramatically enhancing collaboration across marketing, sales and service operations. With Dynamics, as well as Azure, Office 365 and other Microsoft Cloud solutions, HP has invested in the sales and service collaboration platform it needs to deliver a seamless sales experience for customers and partners while increasing the company’s performance and economies. REDMOND, Wash. — Sept. 12, 2016 — “We have chosen Microsoft Dynamics as our CRM solution for our direct…

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Under 31-year-old Thomas Saueressig, SAP is testing emerging technologies to boost workforce productivity and, ultimately, customer satisfaction. SAP SE is exploring augmented reality and intelligent assistant software in initiatives intended to boost employee productivity, according to new SAP CIO Thomas Saueressig, who at 31 is the youngest CIOworking for a global 2000 company. More productive employees will ultimately improve the business software maker’s ability to serve customers, one of the German company’s core tenets. “I fundamentally believe that the new generation and the expectations of our customers and our employees…

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Communication service providers (CSPs) in the Western European enterprise market have faced difficult market conditions for years, hit by a perfect storm of economic headwinds, spending rationalization, technology migrations, competition, and regulatory pressure. A new report from International Data Corporation (IDC), however, suggests there might be light at the end of the tunnel for the troubled sector. LONDON, May 3, 2016 —The report shows that revenue declines for CSPs’ business wireline activities continued to level off in the fourth quarter of 2015. While this does not mean an end to the…

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Imagine a world in which Windows was open source. Jack Wallen believes it is now time for such a reality. The title says it all. It’s a crazy notion…but I’m filled with such shenanigans of late. However, I don’t mean this one as a lark. Let me help you follow my train of thought on this. The platform is dead. I think many of us can all agree upon that sentiment. Or, if you don’t believe it dead…it is at least become mostly irrelevant. What is relevant now is the…

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