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Malaysia’s Web Heavily Censored Before Controversial Elections
In the wake of highly controversial elections that were narrowly won by Malaysia’s ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition, evidence is emerging that the government there employed tried and tested internet ‘bullying’ tactics in a bid to silence the opposition and manipulate the vote. Sunday’s election was billed as the most hotly contested vote in Malaysia’s ...
YouTube Subscriptions On The Way As Google Fights Netflix
Google is reportedly getting ready to announce a new subscription service for some of the specialized channels on YouTube, a move that will allow it to finance a much wider range of content and add a second source of revenue to the world’s No.1 video website. The Financial Times is reporting that Google may announce ...
SAP Unveils Rapid Deployment Tools For The Enterprise
SAP has announced the availability of new rapid-deployment applications designed to speed up and simplify scoping, configuring and implementation in enterprise technology. The new online tools will allow companies to speed up deployments through collaborative designs of their systems, before SAP supplies them as complete packages. Once set up, companies will be able to deploy ...
Twitter IPO Talk Heats Up As Ex-Banker Cynthia Gaylor Joins The Ranks
Twitter has just gone and hired an ex-banker with leaps and bounds of experience in IPOs, acquisitions and mergers, ostensibly to head up its corporate development team. Nevertheless, the move immediately sparked rumors that the microblogging site could be about to make its market debut. Talk of a Twitter IPO has been doing the rounds ...
Barnes & Noble Sells Its Soul, Brings Google Play To The Nook
Barnes & Noble has given up the ghost at long last, abandoning its Amazon-style, Lone Ranger strategy by finally welcoming Google Play and the thousands of apps it brings to its line of Nook tablets. “We’re offering customers even more great entertainment on our award-winning tablets,” said Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch. “Now, with ...
US Military Contractor Hacked: Secrets Served Up On A Platter
A key US Military contractor’s confidential research data was exposed to hackers sponsored by the Chinese military for more than three years, in what is just the latest in a string of high-profile cyberespionage scandals. The claims, reported by Bloomberg yesterday, revealed that the hackers gained unrestricted access to hundreds of classified and highly-sensitive military ...
Bring Your Own Device, or You’re Fired!
Sick and tired of lugging around that boring old, work-issued laptop day after day? Well, if you are, don’t sweat it, for the chances are that you won’t be required to do so for much longer, not if Gartner’s latest prediction comes true anyhow. According to a new global survey of CIOs by the industry ...
Lenovo & IBM Are Done Talking as x86 Server Negotiations Break Down
Negotiations between IBM and Lenovo over the sale of the former’s x86 server business have apparently come to an abrupt halt, with reports suggesting that the two parties have failed to agree on a price. The Wall Street Journal reports that talks have broken down due to “valuation concerns”, though it states that the two ...
Microsoft’s Project Mohoro Set To Deliver Windows 8 “Desktop-as-a-Service”
It’s no secret that Microsoft is dissatisfied with the reception of Windows 8, and to rectify that Redmond’s designers have been planning to introduce some big changes with the up-and-coming “Windows Blue” update later this year. Windows Blue is rumored to contain a number of new features, including extended menus in ‘Metro mode’ and the ...
AWS Ecosystem Beefs Up Security, but What About Compliance?
At this week’s Amazon AWS 2013 summit, the message was received loud and clear that the cloud is heading for the enterprise in a big, big way. The transition is going to be disruptive one for sure, but as Chris Archinaco of Avere Systems told us on theCUBE this week, enterprise customers are rapidly beginning ...
