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Apple’s Feeling Sick: Can It Get Well Soon?
Tech giants have had a pretty miserable time of late. Honors for the biggest fail went to Microsoft, which wrote off almost $1 billion on unsold Surface RT devices, while at the same time watching helplessly as its PC business continues to wither. Intel and AMD also took a hit for the very same reason, ...
Randy Bias: OpenStack Needs Amazon APIs To Drive Hybrid Clouds
With his outspoken views on the widespread disruption caused by cloud computing, Cloudscaling CEO Randy Bias has forged a reputation as one of the industry’s most influential voices. More than that, he’s also become one of the most vocal advocates of open-source systems, and was one of the early champions of the OpenStack project. So ...
Gmail Embraces Spam with Ads in your Inbox
If you’ve had the ‘pleasure’ of being upgraded to Gmail’s new-look, self-organizing inbox in the last couple of weeks, you might’ve noticed something off. Google has taken the opportunity of using the redesign to start delivering ads directly into your inbox, disguised as genuine email. As reported by CNet and other websites, these ads have ...
Apple Earnings Preview: Don’t Expect Much, Yet
Apple is the next tech giant in line to announce its quarterly earnings later today, and once again all eyes will be on the performance of its flagship iPhone. As we all know, the iPhone has been the main driving force behind Apple’s spectacular rise to greatness over the last few years, but this time ...
Hackers Causing Havoc Again: Apple, Ubuntu and NASDAQ All Breached
It’s been a while since we had a good ol’ high profile hack. The last major incident that really hit the headlines was probably Anonymous’ hit on a bunch of official North Korean websites, defacing images of its ‘dear leader’ Kim Jong Un and generally making the commies look stupid. But just when we were ...
Facebook Earnings Preview: Will Mobile Ads Finally Pay Off?
Facebook is one of a number of tech companies set to announce its second-quarter financial results this week, and its earnings are expected to be among the most closely scrutinized as its mobile strategy takes shape. The company will host a conference calls at 2pm PT on Wednesday when it will announce its results, with ...
SIM Card Vulnerability Puts One Quarter of all Phones At Risk
As many as one quarter of all mobile phones in use in the world today could be vulnerable to an SMS attack that allows hackers to gain full control of the phone. The vulnerability was discovered in the outdated, 1970s-era cryptography technique called DES encryption that’s still used by around half of all SIM cards. ...
SatoshiDice Sold For 126,315 BTC in World’s First Major Bitcoin Acquisition
The Bitcoin world has been shaken up this morning with the acquisition of SatoshiDice, an online casino that deals exclusively in the cryptocurrency. Not only does the deal represent the first major acquisition of a company whose business is built almost entirely on Bitcoin, but the transaction must also represent one of the largest in ...
How The NSA Taps Undersea Fiber Optic Cables
The old saying goes that there’s more than one way to skin a cat, and that holds true for the NSA and the way it eavesdrops on global communications. In the latest round of leaks from Ed Snowden, the world’s most wanted ex-contractor reveals that it’s not just tech companies like Google and Microsoft that ...
Ditch The Cloud With These 3 Cloud-Like Storage Alternatives
Wikibon Senior Analyst Stu Miniman recently stated that while cloud computing has been much talked about over the past five years, we’re still in the early stages. Which means there’s still lots that can be improved upon with cloud storage and cloud storage security just some of the chief concerns. Google is said to be ...