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Cisco Q4 revenue, profit flat in 'tough environment'
Cisco Systems posted fiscal fourth-quarter revenue and earnings that were roughly flat from a year earlier as the company works through what Chairman and CEO John Chambers called "a tough environment." Read More
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Gartner: Internet of Things has reached hype peak
The Internet of Things has reached the height of its hype, according to Gartner.Each year the research firm puts out a Hype Cycle of emerging technologies, a sort of report card for various trends and buzzwords. This year, IoT tops the list (See chart below).Gartner believes that most emerging technologies go through a natural process in which they are triggered by some innovation, then they rise to a peak of inflated expectations. As the technologies mature, markets generally become disillusioned by them, before they start to become mainstream and just part of everyday technology.+ MORE AT NETWORK WORLD: Three cool features in Google's cloud +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Murder suspect asks Siri where to hide a dead body
A Florida man currently on trial for murder reportedly attempted to use Siri to garner ideas about where to bury the body of his dead roommate. According to police allegations, a University of Florida student named Pedro Bravo murdered his roomate via strangulation in late September of 2012 over a dispute involving Bravo's ex- girlfriend.According to a detective working the case, Bravo subsequently fired up Siri on his iPhone and entered the following query, "I need to hide my roommate."Though Siri now responds to such queries with a "That's very funny", the software at the time actually responded with the following: What kind of place are you looking for? Swamps. Reservoirs. Metal Foundries. Dumps.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
7 futuristic authentication systems DARPA is funding
"Image by flickr/ Dave CatchpoleA lot of the best technology of today exploits biometric factors such as retina patterns, fingerprints and voice analysis, but beyond that a number of researchers are looking to tap into the way we think, walk and breathe to differentiate between us and an intruder.Helping to lead the research is DARPA, the U.S. military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Its active authentication project is funding research at a number of institutions working on desktop and mobile technologies that work not just for the initial login but continuously while the user is accessing a device. Read the article version: Seven ways DARPA is trying to kill the passwordTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Oracle E-Business Suite upgrade points to its Fusion dilemma
Oracle has pushed out a major update to its E-Business Suite of applications, in a move that underscores the company's challenge of meeting customer needs while also persuading them to adopt its next-generation Fusion cloud software.E-Business 12.2.4 is now generally available and includes a wide array of enhancements to its many functional modules, tie-ins to some Oracle cloud applications and an overhauled user interface, according to Wednesday's announcement.For the financial app, Oracle has made approval cycles faster and integrated the software with its Revenue Management Cloud application.Updates to the procurement modules help workers shop for items more quickly, audit procurement contracts and place complex orders.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Nonprofit to bring Sega game console chips back to life
Processors that powered some of Sega's famous gaming consoles in the 1990s will come back to life starting later this year.The newly formed Open Core Foundation wants to reintroduce in October older CPU designs of Hitachi chips, which were used to run operating systems and gaming consoles in the 1990s.The chips were advanced for their time and could even be used today in electronics like sensor devices and do-it-yourself projects, said Shumpei Kawasaki, a member of the OCF, at the Hot Chips conference in Cupertino, California.The goal is to provide low-cost, open-source CPU cores to the community involved in the development of products, Kawasaki said.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Malware is less concerned about virtual machines
Symantec finds most malware doesn't quit if it runs on VM, which used to be a sign it was being analyzed Read More
Streaming rankings slam Verizon and AT&T's fiber
The black-and-white days of radio chart show American Top 40 were when families would huddle around and listen to the singles that Billboard magazine had rated most popular. It was the beginning of our obsession with chart positions.More recently, the 45-rpm slab of vinyl has faced competition for our entertainment-consumable discretionary spending. That competition started with video tape and has progressed downloads and cord-cutting—the a la carte consumption of electronically delivered media.So it would make sense that about the most interesting chart for cord-cutters and future-media consumers is Netflix's ISP streaming rankings. Sorry, vinyl romantics.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Microsoft to support fewer IE versions
Microsoft has started a 17-month campaign to upgrade customers to the newest version of Internet Explorer that their operating systems will support, which should make it simpler for the company to keep the browser secure because it will have fewer versions to deal with.On Jan. 12, 2016 Microsoft will drop support for all but the current browser versions. The versions can be automatically upgraded via Windows Update, which is the route the company recommends.Commercial customers should test the latest upgrades for compatibility with their apps and configurations and then install them as soon as possible, the company recommends.After the cutoff date, Microsoft will support only the following pairings of desktop operating systems and IE versions: Windows Vista SP2 and IE9; Windows 7 SP1 and IE11; Windows 8.1 and IE 11.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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