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Microsoft joins social graph party with Office Delve to help workers stay connected
Microsoft Corp. has finally unveiled its long-awaited social networking features for Office 365, with the launch of a new product called Office Delve. We first caught a glimpse of Office Delve at Microsoft’s SharePoint conference back in March, when the tech was dubbed “Project Oslo”. At the time, Redmond’s techies said the software was designed to ...
Salesforce under attack: Dyre malware slurping CRM data
Salesforce.com is warning that malicious types are trying to attack customers with a remote access Trojan called Dyre that’s designed to slurp user’s login credentials. The company has just issued an alert which states: “On September 3, 2014, one of our security partners identified that the Dyre malware (also known as Dyreza), which typically targets ...
Networked storage is getting old: Revenues slump again
The market for networked storage arrays is still in decline, with revenues falling for the second quarter in a row, according to market research firm International Data Corporation (IDC), which has just release its Q2 2014 quarter storage tracker, which looks at both networked storage arrays and also the total disk storage market. IDC said that ...
MSN is back with a Vengeance! Except it’s not working properly, yet.
Does anyone still use MSN? Does anyone even know what it is anymore? If the answer is yes, you might be interested to know that Microsoft has decided to give it a desperately-needed makeover, revamping the site as a one-stop shop for all your media content and personal productivity needs. MSN, which is an abbreviation ...
Apple to add iCloud security alerts in wake of nude celebrity selfie scandal
Apple Inc. is hoping to quell security fears by extending its two-factor authentication technology and rolling out new iCloud security alerts when someone tried to make changes to an account. The move comes in the wake of the last week’s highly publicized nude celebrity selfie scandal, which saw naked pics of female stars like Oscar ...
CenturyLink targets Rackspace in rumored acquisition bid
Web hosting provider Rackspace Hosting Inc. is reported to be the subject of a takeover bid by the telecommunications firm CenturyLink Inc. The eyebrow-raising news was reported by Bloomberg over the weekend, which said the two firms had “discussed the idea” sometime last month. As always, Bloomberg relied on quotes by people “familiar with the ...
Denstu razorfish jumps on MapR’s Hadoop
Hadoop vendor MapR Technologies Inc., has just grabbed a major new customer in the form of Dentsu razorfish, which is a joint venture between advertising giant Dentsu Inc., and digital agency razorfish. Dentsu razorfish said it’ll be using MapR’s Hadoop to power its Next Generation Communication Platform (NGCP) to bolster its digital marketing services for ...
Microsoft: There’s no point using a ‘hard’ password
Celebrities desperately trying to protect themselves against nude photo leaks by ‘hardening’ their passwords are probably wasting their time, according to a new report from Microsoft’s research mavericks. Writing in a paper titled An Administrator’s Guide to Internet Password Research [PDF], Microsoft’s Dinei Florencio and Cormac Herley say it really isn’t worth bothering with trying ...
DataStax gunning for Oracle after $106M funding round
Apache Cassandra database firm DataStax Inc. has just raised $106 million in a series E funding round led by Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers (KPCB). The company now has a valuation of around $830 million, and has attracted total funding of over $190 million. As far as today’s cash injection goes, DataStax says the money ...
Peace-loving Intel vows to be ‘conflict-free’ by 2016
Intel Corp. is bidding to do its bit for world peace with a promise to switch to a conflict-free product line by 2016 at the latest. The undertaking means it’ll look to source metals like gold, tantalum, tungsten and tin – all essential parts of its chippery – from smelters that are certified for using ...