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Consumer SSDs will be ‘almost’ as cheap as HDDs by next year
The future is looking gloomier for hard disk drives as the price of consumer solid state (flash) drives continues to plummet. The average price of an SSD is set to hit $0.24 per gigabyte in 2016, down from $0.39 per gigabyte this year, according to new research from DRAMeXchange. And the price for SSDs will ...
Wikipedia builds its own AI system to edit bad edits
In an effort to clamp down on the number of erroneous or joke edits made on Wikipedia.com, the foundation that runs the website has built its own AI filter to keep tabs on new entries. The sheer number of daily edits on Wikipedia is staggering – there are approximately ten new entries made every second, ...
Yahoo’s chips are down as investors push to sell-off its core Internet services
Ever since she first landed the CEO job at Yahoo Inc. back in 2012, Marissa Mayer has tried all manner of tricks aimed at getting people to engage with its Internet services, like Yahoo! Mail and search. But those efforts have largely failed to Yahoo’s image of a dog that’s had its day, and now ...
Apache CloudStack announces new rapid release schedule
Although Apache CloudStack doesn’t get anywhere near as much attention as fellow open-source cloud project OpenStack, its developers continue beavering away, adding new enhancements and improvements. The latest version of the platform, CloudStack 4.6, comes with “dozens” of new features and improvements, and is the first in what will be a much more rapid roll-out ...
Dell/EMC takeover: Trouble looms on the horizon
Now that the dust has settled on Dell Inc.’s proposed $67 billion takeover of storage giant EMC Corp., it’s becoming clear that the deal is far from a foregone conclusion. Some shareholders are reportedly getting nervous over the deal due to EMC’s and VMware Inc.’s stock prices plummeting in the wake of the proposed deal. ...
Microsoft bundles new Skype for Business tools into Office 365
Enterprises can now get their hands on a brand new, top-tier package of Office 365. Called the Office 365 E5 plan, it costs $35 per user per month, or $420 for a full year. The new package will eventually replace the existing E4 plan, which will be retired on June 30 next year. The existing ...
Google Cloud suffers new outage in Europe
Google suffered a major cloud outage last week thanks to an errant peering advertisement by an unnamed European network carrier that caused its europe-west1 region to slip off the grid for about 70 minutes. According to Google’s blog post on the matter, the network carrier mistakenly added a new peering link to Google that suggested ...
Microsoft declares war on Potentially Unwanted Applications in the enterprise
Microsoft has decided it’s time to put its foot down and do something about all of those annoying “potentially unwanted applications” (PUAs) that clog up Windows machines on corporate networks. To that end, Redmond is now offering a new ‘PUA protection’ feature in its System Center Endpoint Protection (SCEP) and Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP) tools. ...
Microsoft to finally make it in mobile… in 2019
Microsoft’s refusal to give up in mobile might soon pay off, if a new report from research outfit Strategy Analytics Inc. is to be believed. The market research firm claims the Redmond will become the fastest-growing maker of tablet operating systems by 2019 as Windows 10 adoption increases. Strategy Analytics reckons Microsoft will boost its ...
Tor launches crowdfunding campaign to expand its hidden services
The Tor Project, which maintains the private communications network Tor, has kicked off a crowdfunding campaign aimed at reducing its dependency on the U.S. government for funding. The anonymizing network, which is popular with all manner of journalists, activists, whistleblowers, criminals and privacy-conscious netizens, reportedly gets around 90 percent of its funding directly from the ...