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Bitcoin Mining Malware Stalks Skype, Turning Computers into Virtual Slaves
Increasingly desperate to cash in on the sky-rocketing price of Bitcoin these days, gangs of cybercriminals have designed a new malware that’s infecting computers via Skype in an attempt to build a botnet massive enough to start mining the virtual currency. The malware was unearthed late last week by researchers at Kaspersky Labs, who discovered ...
Avere Launches “Industry-First” Hybrid Storage Appliance to Take on NetApp, EMC
Flash storage provider Avere Systems has just rolled out a new hybrid filer storage appliance that allows enterprises to shift large files through their server architecture quickly and efficiently. This might sound like a pretty basic application, but Avere insists that with its new breed of FXT edge filer appliances, it becomes the “first vendor” ...
Amazon’s Domain Bid up the Creek without a Paddle
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is holding its 46th meeting in Beijing this week in order to discuss the implementation of thousands of new gTLDs, or Generic Top Level Domains, across the internet. But while tech giants like Cisco, Google, Microsoft and Oracle are all likely to be assigned their own ...
HP Set to Eclipse Rivals with Project Moonshot?
HP is finally set to lift the lid on its long-awaited Project Moonshot later this morning, unveiling what analysts predict will be a new class of low-power, hyperscale servers that can scale up performance quickly. The event has been eagerly anticipated thanks to the endless stream of rhetoric from HP about its new, next generation ...
Rackspace: This Time, The Patent Troll’s Gonna Pay
Want know how to fight the plague that is patent trolls? Then you could try taking a leaf out of Rackspace’s book. The cloud infrastructure provider, buoyed by its success in seeing off a patent infringement lawsuit over Linux just last week, has now come out with all guns blazing, launching a counter-attack against the ...
Google Fights FBI Over NSL Data Requests
Google is taking on the full might of the US government in what will be a milestone court case, launching a legal challenge against the FBI’s warrantless electronic data-gathering technique – the first time a major communications company has taken such action, Bloomberg reports. The case relates to Google’s apparent refusal to comply with a ...
Facebook Home: Good For Dumb F*cks, But Not For The Rest Of Us
And so the “Facebook Phone” has finally landed. Only problem is, it isn’t a phone at all, but simply just an app. That’s right folks, despite all the fanfare and cries of “Wow! A Facebook phone!” and the rest of the buzz generated around yesterday’s event, all the ‘event’ in question was actually about was ...
Gartner Report Paints Bleak Future for Microsoft as Consumers Embrace Tablets
Uh oh, there could be trouble ahead… Or at least, it looks like there is for Microsoft anyway. New data from Gartner paints a less than rosy picture of the future for the Redmond firm, whose dominant PC market faces being overwhelmed by consumer’s preference for tablet devices over PCs. According to the research firm, ...
Health eHeart Big Data Study Looks To Enroll 1M Smartphone Users
If researchers at the University of California in San Francisco get their own way, that shiny smartphone you’re holding will become a new tool for medical research. Launched earlier this week, the new Health eHeart Study aims to sign up one million participants from around the world to use their smartphones to monitor their heart ...
Ignition Partners Scales Down To Focus On Enterprise IT & Big Data
If you’re looking for more evidence that “small really is beautiful”, look no further than Frank Artale’s Ignition Partners venture capital firm, which has just announced the closure of its fifth investment fund at a nicely rounded $150 million. That amount is of course less than half the size of Ignition’s previous fund, which totaled ...