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In an oddly timed bit of scheduling, HGST Inc., (formerly known as Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) rolled out a bevy of new products during Apple’s iPhone 6 reveal and Intel’s IDF keynote. One might suspect HGST’s message to be drowned out, but …
CloudKit transforms document access & storage in iOS 8
Just hours away from the expected launch of Apple’s iPhone 6 and not surprisingly all the talk is centered on the actual device. Few doubt that Apple’s CEO Tim Cook will have something pretty cool to show off when he walks onto …
Microsoft joins social graph party with Office Delve to help workers stay connected
Microsoft Corp. has finally unveiled its long-awaited social networking features for Office 365, with the launch of a new product called Office Delve. We first caught a glimpse of Office Delve at Microsoft’s SharePoint conference back in March, when the tech was …
Salesforce under attack: Dyre malware slurping CRM data
Salesforce.com is warning that malicious types are trying to attack customers with a remote access Trojan called Dyre that’s designed to slurp user’s login credentials. The company has just issued an alert which states: “On September 3, 2014, one of our security …
Networked storage is getting old: Revenues slump again
The market for networked storage arrays is still in decline, with revenues falling for the second quarter in a row, according to market research firm International Data Corporation (IDC), which has just release its Q2 2014 quarter storage tracker, which looks at both …
MSN is back with a Vengeance! Except it’s not working properly, yet.
Does anyone still use MSN? Does anyone even know what it is anymore? If the answer is yes, you might be interested to know that Microsoft has decided to give it a desperately-needed makeover, revamping the site as a one-stop shop for …
Apple to add iCloud security alerts in wake of nude celebrity selfie scandal
Apple Inc. is hoping to quell security fears by extending its two-factor authentication technology and rolling out new iCloud security alerts when someone tried to make changes to an account. The move comes in the wake of the last week’s highly publicized …
CenturyLink targets Rackspace in rumored acquisition bid
Web hosting provider Rackspace Hosting Inc. is reported to be the subject of a takeover bid by the telecommunications firm CenturyLink Inc. The eyebrow-raising news was reported by Bloomberg over the weekend, which said the two firms had “discussed the idea” sometime …
Denstu razorfish jumps on MapR’s Hadoop
Hadoop vendor MapR Technologies Inc., has just grabbed a major new customer in the form of Dentsu razorfish, which is a joint venture between advertising giant Dentsu Inc., and digital agency razorfish. Dentsu razorfish said it’ll be using MapR’s Hadoop to power …
Microsoft: There’s no point using a ‘hard’ password
Celebrities desperately trying to protect themselves against nude photo leaks by ‘hardening’ their passwords are probably wasting their time, according to a new report from Microsoft’s research mavericks. Writing in a paper titled An Administrator’s Guide to Internet Password Research [PDF], Microsoft’s …