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CIA Spies Amazon For Its Private Cloud
An intriguing report has emerged today that claims the CIA has turned to Amazon to help it build a private cloud. According to the report in Federal Computer Weekly, the spy agency has signed a massive, $600 million deal with the cloud computing company in order to secure its service for the next ten years. ...
Microsoft Ending Support for Windows Phone 8 Next Year, But What’s Coming Next?
Microsoft caused a bit of a stir earlier this week when it announced that support for Windows Phone 8 will end after a period of 18 months, on July 8, 2014. The revelation instantly led to a flurry of speculation among Windows Phone users, wondering what will happen to their phones after the deadline has ...
Moor Insight & Strategy: “Windows 8 Tablets Best Bet for the Enterprise”
Windows 8 hasn’t exactly had the best of receptions since its launch in fall of last year, but despite the negativity surrounding it there’s still a large body of opinion that insists it remains the best operating system around for those looking to get things done. The problems with Windows have been cited numerous times ...
Repressive Surveillance Software FinSpy Used By At Least 25 Countries
The controversial surveillance software FinSpy has been deployed by more that 25 countries around the world, lumping together “democracies” like the US, Canada, the UK and Germany with some of the world’s most repressive and dubious regimes, such as Turkmenistan, Bahrain, Ethiopia and Vietnam. According to researchers at The Citizen Lab, command and control servers for the ...
BYOD Is “Most Significant” Influence On Cloud Adoption
We’ve suspected a link between BYOD and cloud service adoption for some time, and this theory has all but been confirmed by the latest Cloud Trends report from IT provider CDW. One of the biggest findings from CDW’s survey of IT professionals was that BYOD was cited by 75% of organizations as being the most ...
SDL Wants To Translate Your Foreign Big Data
Organizations can yield a veritable gold mine of insights and opportunities from their Big Data streams, but what happens when their text-based data comes in a mish-mash of foreign languages? For companies that operate on an international level, there’s no doubt that opportunities increase exponentially as the data flows in from all corners of the globe, ...
Microsoft Brings Back Flash: Should We Be Worried?
This week saw a big reversal from Microsoft as it rolled out a fresh update for the Windows 8 and RT versions of Internet Explorer 10, enabling Flash content to run by default for the first time. According to Microsoft, the move will ensure that websites “just work”, vastly improving the Windows experience for its ...
Lenovo Wants to Repeat History With BlackBerry
Will Lenovo really end up buying BlackBerry? We can’t say for sure, but it’s fair to say that such a move is looking a lot more likely following comments by CEO Yang Yuanqing to French media earlier this week. Speaking to the newspaper Les Echos, Yuanqing agreed that acquiring BlackBerry “could make sense”, although he ...
Google Wants To Help Hacked Sites
There’s been a spate of high-profile hacks over the last month or so, with big names including Facebook, Twitter, Apple and Evernote all falling victim to malware. It might not be clear who is responsible for these attacks or how exactly they got away with it, but if there’s one thing we can take home ...
Gartner: Big Data Finally Going Mainstream
Big Data has become such a big buzzword in tech these days that anyone who’s anyone is desperate to get in on the action. And there’s good reason for that too, for the sheer amount of data that’s being collected by companies around the world is truly astonishing. What with websites and devices gathering petabytes ...