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The Mozilla Foundation released its annual financial report for 2013 last Friday, and it wasn’t exactly good news. With revenues increasing by just one percent from the year before, and it’s main benefactor Google Inc. about to wave goodbye, it raises questions …
Analysts: Windows Phone will surpass Android in the enterprise
The fortune tellers over at CCS Insight are forecasting good things for Microsoft, claiming its Windows Phone OS is set to become the number two platform for enterprise users by 2016. Speaking to The Register, Nick McQuire, VP of Enterprise Research at …
Symantec unearths sophisticated malware that’s been in the wild for at least 6 years
Researchers from the security firm Symantec Corp. have uncovered evidence of “highly advanced malware” in the wild. They believe the virus was developed by a nation-state state to spy on targets in various industries, including airlines, banking, energy, hospitality and research. The …
NASA’s building a ‘living’ drone that decomposes on impact
If you’re flying surveillance drones and don’t want them to be found by the people you’re spying on, ‘living’ drones that decompose after a crash landing might be just what you’re looking for. NASA and a team of students from Stanford and …
Primary Data hires Steve Wozniak, bids to “reinvent” storage
Storage startup Primary Data has just come out of stealth, teasing a new technology it hopes can virtualize the world’s data. The company claims it will reinvent “file virtualization” in the software-defined data center, and has just secured the services of Apple …
Mozilla swaps Google for Yahoo! as default search partner in Firefox
The Mozilla Foundation has announced it’s divorcing its chief search engine partner Google Inc. after ten years, and will instead offer Yahoo! as the default search tool in its Firefox browser. Mozilla didn’t discuss how much money was involved, but said the …
Seagate rolls out Hadoop Workflow Accelerator to boost Big Data analytics
Storage giant Seagate Technology Inc. is moving to accommodate Big Data workloads with the introduction of a new ClusterStor Hadoop Workflow Accelerator tool. It offers a set of tools and services for optimizing Hadoop, which should boost the performance of its ClusterStor …
Airware’s drones get ready for take-off with GE Ventures investment
There’s still a lot of controversy about the safety of unmanned drones buzzing about over our heads, but the idea is getting more popular by the day. A case in point is GE Ventures, which has just announced its plan to collaborate …
Cisco, Mozilla & friends launch Let’s Encrypt to simplify Internet security
A motley crew of tech firms have banded together to launch a new certificate authority initiative called “Let’s Encrypt”, that hopes to make the World Wide Web a safer place to be. Let’s Encrypt, which is backed by Akamai Technologies Inc, Cisco …
Microsoft continues open source embrace with Docker client for Windows
Microsoft Corp. is further its move toward open-source integration with the release of a new tool to manage Docker containers inside its Windows Server operating system. The new Docker Command Line Interface for Windows comes just weeks after Microsoft teamed up with …