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FCC denies U-turn on net neutrality
The Wall Street Journal is claiming the FCC has had a major change of heart over net neutrality. According to its report, the FCC is set to propose new rules that would pave the way for companies to pay for faster broadband speeds, but only if the terms of these deals are “commercially reasonable”. Such ...
Microsoft rumor mill: New update & cloud-based OS on the way?
Microsoft is going hell for leather to get people to like its Windows 8.1 operating system, and to that end it’s said to be planning yet another update for this fall. One of the more extravagant rumors is that this could be followed by a new, cloudy version of the OS that’s entirely free to ...
VMware gains momentum with expectation-busting Q1 earnings
VMware has once again shown us there’s an absolute fortune to be made in the world of virtualization, reporting analyst-busting revenues in its earnings call yesterday. The Palo Alto-based virtualization giant announced sales of a whopping $1.368 billion for Q1 of this year, a 14 percent rise from the previous year’s quarter, and way ahead ...
OpenBSD wants to mop up ‘Heartbleed’ with LibreSSL fork
There’s been a lot of talk about fixing OpenSSL to prevent a Heartbleed-like situation from ever arising again, and now software developers are intent on taking matters into their own hands. One question that’s been raised in the debates following Heartbleed is whether or not OpenSSL should be patched up or completely rewritten. The realities ...
Dark days ahead for Big Data? Depends what you use it for…
According to Gartner’s famed hype cycle, technologies typically follow a similar pattern, in which they’re first discovered and immediately over-hyped, causing users to quickly become disillusioned, before finally finding realistic applications for the technology. It kicks off with the “trigger” phase, a stage of rabid excitement about a new technology that leads to huge public ...
Software-Defined Storage: Flash still plays a minor role
Storage virtualization provider DataCore Software has just published the findings of its latest survey of Software-defined storage (SDS) users, revealing a surprisingly slow rate of adoption for flash-based devices like solid-state drives. This marks the fourth year in succession that DataCore has undertaken its “The State of Software-Defined Storage” survey. This time around it took ...
Verizon Data Breach Investigations: Point-of-sale attacks, web app hacks & more
As far as cybersecurity goes, 2013 was about as bad as it gets. It’s not just that the NSA was revealed to be hacking just about every single Internet user in the world. Oh no, it was the year that hacking incidents went mainstream, becoming something the average web user needs to worry about. Cyberattacks ...
Scary stuff: Drones, robots and wearable tech
The world of tech has advanced enormously in just a few short years – we’ve got smartphones, smart homes, 3D printers, hell, we’ve even got drones and self-driving cars! It’s as if we’re living in the future already, and most people think that this rapid pace of change is set to increase over the next ...
Nike’s Fuelband runs out of steam: What next for Nike?
Last Friday a number of conflicting reports emerged about Nike, claiming that it’s going to give up on its high-profile Fuelband fitness products, or else make some big changes to the way it runs that business. It’s still not clear exactly what’s happening, but Nike did confirm to Re/Code that it had laid-off a “small ...
OpenStack Icehouse: The cloud just got that much cooler
OpenStack officially released the latest distribution of its cloud computing framework, dubbed Icehouse, focusing mainly on consolidation and stability. However, it’s added a few cool new features into the mix, including a new database service, support for Hadoop deployments on OpenStack clouds, and improved support for containers. Icehouse was released on Thursday, and it finally delivers ...
