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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 ...
Salesforce rigs up Heroku into its cloud
Quite a few people were scratching their heads when Salesforce.com added Heroku to its list of acquisitions. After all, why on earth would Salesforce with its Force.com SaaS platform feel the need to buy up a PaaS platform like Heroku? Now, it seems we finally have our answer, with the release of a new Heroku ...
Oracle launches OpenStack missile at Red Hat’s cloud party
Oracle has just taken a major shot across the bow of Red Hat, announcing a preview of its own OpenStack build designed to run atop Oracle Linux and Oracle VM Server. This comes following its integration of its Solaris platform with the open-source cloud framework at the end of last month. For now, Oracle’s OpenStack ...
Patch Tuesday signals play time for Windows XP hackers
Those who’re still running Windows XP are about to face a substantially higher level of risk now that Microsoft’s first Patch Tuesday since end of support has passed. Yesterday’s update saw several critical vulnerabilities patched in Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8, and at least half of them are thought to affect XP, which ...
Don’t be scared of Big Data. Just be careful
Big Data is a pretty frightening concept for some. Companies and organizations collect vast amounts of data on people’s lives, where they live, their habits, their friends, and this can all be stored, accessed and analyzed later on. But that doesn’t mean consumers should be scared, although a degree of caution is definitely advised. At ...
TechEd 2014: Microsoft steps up Azure hybrid cloud push
There’s been a lot of noise coming from the OpenStack Summit 2014 this week, but that hasn’t stopped Microsoft from betting on some enterprises choosing to move their workloads onto its own proprietary hybrid cloud. And that’s the message it hammered home on the opening day of its own TechED conference in Houston yesterday. In ...