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USBKill transforms your thumb drive into a kill switch
Cybercriminals who spend their lives looking over their shoulders, terrified of being caught red-handed by law enforcement with a laptop full of incriminating information can breathe a little easier, thanks to an empty USB drive and some simple code. That’s because a coder who goes by the name “Hephaestos” has just released a Python script ...
Microsoft brings Azure to your data center with Azure Stack
Microsoft is boxing up a number of its cloud-based operating system components into a new Azure Stack offering that’s designed to be run in customers on-premise data centers. The new service extends Microsoft Azure’s application development and deployment model to any data center, be it a private enterprise or a web hosting company. The Azure ...
Outreach snags $2M to automate sales tasks
Outreach Inc., which delivers a sales platform that helps companies to automate calls and emails, has just announced $2 million in seed funding. The platform is capable of giving salespeople “superpowers”, said Manuel Medina, the company’s CEO, in an interview with VentureBeat. It does so by allowing users to manage more potential customers in less ...
Intel sets its sights on Altera in hostile takeover bid
Intel Corp. could soon launch a hostile takeover of rival chip making firm Altera Corp., after a standstill agreement signed between the two companies comes to an end on June 1. The report comes via Reuters, which cites “unnammed sources” familiar with the matter who said Intel signed the agreement earlier this year, and that ...
Gartner: Enterprises to hold off on PC purchases; higher prices to blame
The PC market has been feeling the pinch for a few years, and things are likely to get tougher as vendors are forced to raise their prices by as much as 10 percent this year, due to the impact of the strong dollar on profits. That forecast from Gartner, Inc. will have a ripple effect ...
Oracle distances itself from Salesforce acquisition rumors
Salesforce.com, Inc. might be up for sale, but Oracle yesterday played down speculation that it is the mystery suitor, as most analysts initially suspected. The comments came directly from Oracle CEO Safra Catz, who didn’t outright deny her company was interested in buying Salesforce, but simply refused to comment. However, she was more forthcoming when ...
Adatao brings its Big Data machine learning tools to the masses
Big Data startup Adatao Inc. is aiming to make business intelligence accessible to everyone with the release of its first products, after it raised $13 million in venture capital late last year. The company’s main offering is the Adatao Data Intelligence Platform, which comes with a user-friendly interface and combines a set of predictive applications ...
Microsoft hopes to have Windows 10 on ONE BILLION devices in just 3 years
Microsoft’s Terry Myerson, head of the company’s Operating Systems Group, has gone out on a limb and predicted that Windows 10 will be running on one billion devices within the next two to three years. Myserson made his claims during day one of the company’s Build 2015 developer conference in San Francisco. He said the ...
Mesosphere’s DCOS now available on AWS & Microsoft Azure
Mesosphere Inc. has taken another step towards its goal of data center domination, launching a public beta of its Datacenter Operating System (DCOS) on Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.
IBM claims key breakthroughs in quantum computing
Quantum computing is still in its infancy, but IBM today announced a major breakthrough with regards to error detection and a scalable design. If, as Moore’s Law states, the number of transistors on a microprocessor continues to double every 18 months, the year 2020 or 2030 will find the circuits on a microprocessor measured on ...