Microsoft sketches ambitious enhancements for Office 365
Microsoft didn't disappoint with the new and improved capabilities it announced and demonstrated for Office 365 this week, but how well they work in the real world remains to be seen. At its SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft laid out its vision for making Office 365 a more intelligent collaboration suite via new social interactions, APIs (application programming interfaces) and machine learning capabilities.
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Android malware detection boosted by university research
With smartphones and tablets increasingly at risk from malware, researchers from North Carolina State University have devised a new and potentially better way to detect it on Android devices. The tool they have developed, called PREC (Practical Root Exploit Containment), is trained to uncover aberrant code written in the C programming language, the language in which they say most malicious Android code is written.
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Eight eye-openers from Salesforce.com's annual report
Last week, Salesforce.com reported its fourth-quarter and year-end fiscal 2014 results, announcing a major bump in revenue and even raising its guidance significantly. But the fast-growing cloud vendor is also continuing to post significant losses as it spends big on sales, marketing and acquisitions.
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ATMs will still run Windows XP -- but a bigger shift in security looms
The vast majority of bank ATMs around the world currently run on Windows XP. Come April 8, when Microsoft cuts off support for Windows XP, the vast majority of those bank ATMs will still be running XP.
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Don't count your Amazon drones before they fly
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NSA created 'European bazaar' to spy on EU citizens, Snowden tells European Parliament
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has turned the European Union into a tapping "bazaar" in order to spy on as many EU citizens as possible, NSA leaker Edward Snowden said. The NSA has been working with national security agencies in EU member states to get access to as much data of EU citizens as possible, Snowden said in a testimony sent to Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) published Friday.
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Facebook redesign mixes a bit of the old, a bit of the new
If you, like a lot of people, didn't like Facebook's News Feed redesign last year, you're in luck. The social network is trying to change what you don't like -- with another redesign.Facebook announced Thursday afternoon that it's launching another redesign of its News Feed and it's going to be a mix of the old design and the revamp launched a year ago.
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U.S. spy agencies adopt new IT approach
The CIA's decision to use Amazon's cloud is part of a broader IT shake-up to make the spy business more efficient. The move is being overseen by Al Tarasiuk, who serves as the CIO of the Intelligence Community, part of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). That office, created in 2005, leads integration efforts among the government's 17 intelligence agencies.
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If you haven't retired Windows XP and haven't been fired yet, get busy
CIOs who haven't moved their companies from Windows XP by now ought to be fired, some people think, but those who haven't and are still on the job have options for saving their bacon. "Start," is the first piece of advice from Shawn Allaway, CEO of Converter Technology, which specializes in migrating businesses to new versions of Windows and Microsoft Office. Even if the project isn't completed before Microsoft ends support for XP on April 8, it's important to minimize the window of exposure during which XP runs unsupported on corporate networks.
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External disk storage market recovers from slump
The market for external disk storage systems has recovered from a slump, with factory revenues up 2.4 percent to $6.9 billion in the fourth quarter of 2013, according to an IDC study.Internal plus external disk storage systems produced $8.8 billion in revenue, up 1.3 percent from the last quarter of 2012 and jumping 17.2 percent from 2013's third quarter, which was seasonally slow.
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Tablets coming back to earth after years of breakthrough growth
The rate of increase in tablet shipments is expected to slow this year after unabated growth during the product category's first three years of existence.Research firm IDC is projecting tablet shipments to grow at 19.3 percent this year compared to 2013, when tablet shipments increased 51.6 percent compared to 2012.
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What you need to know about the GnuTLS Linux bug
A critical Linux bug that many are comparing to the "goto fail" problem that afflicted Apple last month was recently discovered, prompting Linux distribution and application developers to scramble to incorporate a new patch into their code.
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CFOs say companies will hire more techies in 2014, but not in IT
The most recent BDO USA survey of 100 CFOs in "leading technology companies throughout the United States" claims that for the fourth year in a row, the majority of said CFOs belie
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