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Rackspace bows out of IaaS market
In face of stiff price competition from Amazon and Google, Rackspace embraces its managed heritage. Is this a sign of things to come? Read More
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iPhone 6 will not be delayed by Chinese wheel hub factory explosion
An explosion Saturday at a Chinese factory that electroplates aluminum wheel hubs will almost certainly not cause a delay for Apple's iPhone 6, despite anguished speculation on a range of news, technology and Apple-focused websites. The connection between wheel hubs and the iPhone, a connection not immediately obvious to the masses, was traced in a series of alarmist headlines and web posts that were short on facts but not fantasies. The online reaction is reminiscent of the venerable parable that traces how a missing horseshoe nail leads to a lost horseshoe and thence inevitably to the loss of a kingdom: "for want of a nail…." But in the case of Apple products, it's often a chain-of-unreasoning.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Microsoft's inconsistent Windows Phone 8.1 strategy stumbles forward
It's no secret that Windows Phone is not setting the world on fire, despite all the noise we keep hearing from Samsung and other non-Apple vendors that they want an alternative. WP8 is now at just 2.7% market share, and that's a decline from 3.8% last year.It's not really a surprise when you look at how mismanaged the whole thing is, and I say that as someone who traded in an iPhone for a WP8 device. I'm more frustrated than anyone.Problem number one is the ridiculous amount of time between major releases. Apple has a new iOS release out every year, usually with the new handsets. Windows Phone 8 came out in October 2012 and now, 22 months later, many of us are still waiting for 8.1.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Intelligence agency wants brain tools to tell: Who's the smartest of them all?
Reuters Can a tool or technology be applied to the brain and accurately predict out of a given group of people who will be the smartest?The research arm of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is looking for exactly those kinds of tools."IARPA is looking to get a handle on the state of the art in brain-based predictors of future cognitive performance. In particular, IARPA is interested in non-invasive analyses of brain structure and/or function that can be used to predict who will best learn complex skills and accomplish tasks within real-world environments, and with outcome measures, that are relevant to national security.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Video documents 'audacious' protest flight over massive NSA data center in Utah
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released a seven-minute video documenting the reasoning behind and preparation for that June 27 launch of a protest airship over the National Security Agency's sprawling data center in Bluffdale, Utah. The flight itself is spectacular. From an EFF press release: At dawn on June 27, EFF, Greenpeace, and the Tenth Amendment Center launched an airship above the NSA's $1.2-billion data center in Bluffdale, Utah. The 135-foot-long airship carried a banner bearing a downward arrow and the words, "Illegal Spying Below," to bring attention to the facility as well as StandAgainstSpying.org, a website showing how members of Congress voted on legislation that would restrict mass surveillance.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Cisco: Blackhole arrest cuts exploit-kit traffic, but don't let your guard down
Exploit kits of cybercrime tools fell into a big slump in the first half of this year after Russian authorities nabbed the alleged creator of the popular Blackhole kit, but users aren't necessarily safer.Blackhole so dominated the shadowy market for exploit kits, or bundles of code for taking advantage of known software vulnerabilities, that the number of URL requests associated with exploit kits fell by 87 percent in the first half, according to the Cisco 2014 Midyear Security Report. The report was released on Tuesday during the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Oracle issues fix for Java update that crippled some Web apps
A work-around is available for users who are unable to apply Java upgrades, Oracle says Read More
Yes, there's a tech bubble: Google Shopping Express proves it
1999 called and it wants its Internet bubble back. And it just might get it, delivered free in half an hour.If you live and work in the tech industry in the San Francisco Bay Area (or many other high-tech epicenters) these days, you can't help but wonder if we're in the midst of a new bout of "irrational exuberance," as Alan Greenspan famously described the dot-com bubble back in 1996.It's not that the current zeitgeist is a carbon copy of the dot-com boom from the late 1990s, but that many parts of the modern Internet economy are starting to bear an uncomfortable resemblance to the excesses of 15 years ago.Over the rest of the summer, I plan to look into a variety of similarities and differences between 1999 and 2014, but nowhere are the warning signs of a bubble set to pop more clearly visible than in the urban fast-delivery arena.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
15 Windows 9 features we want to see in Microsoft's next OS
Windows 9 can right the wrongs (both real and perceived) inflicted by Windows 8, as well as make Microsoft more competitive with Apple and Google. Read More
F5 CEO sees opportunity in myriad challenges facing IT
F5 Networks CEO John McAdam says future of IT is complicated, confusing and riddled with security threats - and that's a good thing. Read More
HP to test wearables market by working with partners
HP will provide the engineering and technology for wearables designed by fashion houses and partners Read More
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