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OpenStack survey: Ubuntu OS stays on top
Despite the lack of widespread adoption, OpenStack has become one of the major battlegrounds among IT’s biggest players – with the likes of Red Hat, CentOS and HP all betting big on the open-source architecture overwhelming IT sooner rather than later. So it’s mildly surprising to learn that these so-called ‘major players’ have been left ...
IoT will THRIVE by 2025, but not everyone’s looking forward to it
The “Internet of Things” is one of the hottest trends in tech right now, but is it really set to go the distance? And if so, what kinds of effects will it have on our lives in years to come? Those were just some of the questions being pondered by the Pew Research Center Internet ...
Not even Tor can protect you from the all-seeing eyes of the NSA
So you thought you were safe from prying eyes thanks to the Tor network? Well, think again. According to Andy Malone, head of Microsoft’s Enterprise Security, Tor doesn’t provide anything like the kind of anonymity it’s supposed to, and can be compromised by both government agencies and determined cybercriminals. First designed in 2002, Tor was ...
Google wants to translate the real world
Google has taken a giant step forward in its quest to bring translation into the real world, following its acquisition of Quest Visual, makers of the ‘Word Lens’ app, for an undisclosed sum. Word Lens is a smartphone app that’s designed to help travellers read menus and signs in foreign languages. Simply snap a photo ...
Red Hat’s vision for OpenStack could lead to a new era of vendor lock-in
Red Hat potentially opened a new front in the long-running “cloud wars” this week, and one that could have massive implications for customers down the road. Rumor has it that Red Hat is about to start ‘strong-arming’ companies into using its own, personal flavor of OpenStack. Red Hat has since tried to deny these allegations, ...
FSF slams Mozilla’s ‘shocking’ DRM capitulation
Mozilla has come in for some harsh criticism from the Free Software Foundation, following its controversial decision to support Digital Rights Management (DRM) in its Firefox browser. The FSF has published an open letter condemning the move, saying it’s “deeply disappointed” by Mozilla’s actions. This came after Wednesday night’s announcement that Mozilla would work with ...
Adobe screws up again with 24-hour Creative Cloud outage
Yesterday was a bit of a disaster for Adobe, as the company’s online services fell victim to a global outage lasting more than 24 hours. Adobe first admitted that its customers were locked out of it’s Creative Cloud suite via a tweet at 2.22pm PT on Wednesday. It was still offline some 24 hours later, ...
Red Hat denies using ‘strongarm tactics’ on OpenStack
Red Hat has come out in denial of a report from the Wall Street Journal that it refuses to support users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux who also run non-Red Hat versions of OpenStack. The company said in a blog post that it will continue to provide commercial support for its Linux distro regardless of ...
Acxiom gets into Big Data ‘onboarding’ = cue more targeted ads
Internet users are about to see even more targeted ads that seem to know all about the products and services they might be interested in. That’s because Big Data services giant Acxion has just snapped up LiveRamp for a cool $310 million. LiveRamp, for those who don’t know, connects the dots between customer data from ...
Mozilla bows to DRM demands so we can still watch Netflix
Mozilla has somewhat belatedly announced it’s going to add Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) to its Firefox browser to facilitate Digital Rights Management (DRM), even though the technology goes against its principle of a free and open Internet. The decision was taken because the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recently caved in to pressure from companies ...