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Cisco drives OpenStack on UCS at OpenStack Summit Hong Kong
Cisco unveiled a new batch of accelerator packs at the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong earlier today, designed to help organizations deploy their OpenStack cloud infrastructures on Cisco’s UCS more easily, giving them all of the benefits of Cisco server and networking technology with virtualisation and storage capabilities from partners like EMC and VMware. The ...
Google finally boosts Chrome security with password manager protection
Those who use Google Chrome as their preferred web browser are probably familiar with its basic password manager, which allows users to store authentication data and log into various websites hassle-free. It’s all very convenient of course, allowing you to access your favorite websites without needing to login every single time you visit them, but ...
The patent war rumbles on, just don’t go thinking Google is innocent
Steve Jobs may not have lived to make good on his promise of a “thermonuclear” war against Google, but the company he left behind is determined to keep up the fight. In one of the biggest stories from the weekend, Rockstar Consortium, of which Apple and Microsoft are key members, caused a stir when it ...
Anonymous hacks The Straits Times, threatens war against Singapore government
Singapore’s leading newspaper, The Straits Times, became the latest victim of hacktivist group Anonymous this morning, after the collective hacked its website to announce the start of an all-out war against the country’s government. A member of Anonymous posted the following message onto The Straits Times’ blog, in retaliation for a ‘misleading’ article written by ...
Salesforce’s still chasing Oracle, but it needs Oracle’s help to do it
With Salesforce’s annual Dreamforce conference set to kick off later this month, the spotlight once again falls on its ongoing love/hate relationship with Oracle, and what each company is doing to wrongfoot the other. Dreamforce will take place from November 18-21, with more than 120,000 attendees set to turn up for the annual event, making ...
Facebook wants to track your mouse cursor and screen behavior
As if it didn’t know enough about you already, Facebook now wants to be able to track your mouse cursor as you interact with the site, and has apparently been researching the feasibility and profitability of doing so. According to the Wall Street Journal, which broke the story, the social media giant is looking for ...
Bugged teddy bears, electric irons & the Pope: Spying just got really, really silly
If you’ve been following the NSA’s spying saga over the summer, you probably thought you’d seen it all by now. Well, you couldn’t have been more wrong, because this was the week that the torrent of spy allegations went completely over-the-top. The NSA has been eavesdropping on The Pope; the Russians are using bugged teddy ...
Intel to build world’s first quad-core 64-bit ARM chip
In a surprising move that could have massive implications for the mobile sector at a later date, Intel is reportedly designing what could well turn out to be the world’s first quad-core 64-bit ARM processing chip. The news was announced by Intel partner Altera, which said that its Stratix 10 system-on-a-chip (SoC) will be powered ...
64-bit ARM chips will be a game-changer for Apple
When Apple launched its new iPhone earlier this month, the device hit record-breaking sales. This helped boost Apple’s stock considerably, hardly surprising since half of its revenues come from iPhone sales. But besides these solid figures, the iPhone 5s was notable for something else entirely, coming with a new component that could prove to be ...
US consumers still being screwed over broadband costs
Broadband speeds in the United States have been the subject of debate for some time now, and yesterday a new study confirmed what many had already suspected – that the US is still playing catch-up with the rest of the world. Okay so that’s not strictly true – it is possible to get super-fast connections ...