Facebook HydraBase adds reliability to Hadoop's HBase
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Safari, Chrome push to mask URLs
Safari on OS X Yosemite will mask most of a URL in its top-of-window address bar, following in the footsteps of Safari on iOS, and beating Google's Chrome, which is experimenting with the same design, to the desktop. While not strictly a trend, the decision by Apple to mask all but the domain -- say, nytimes.com or computerworld.com -- will bring a simmering discussion about the value of a full-string URL to the surface when customers first fire up Safari on Yosemite this fall.
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Twitter snaps up Namo Media to improve ad experience
Twitter has acquired a San Francisco firm called Namo Media in a bid to strengthen its ad-tech business, particularly in the area of native advertising. Namo Media is an advertising product that helps app developers run native in-stream ads in the midst of their app, creating revenue opportunities without putting off new and existing users.
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Global in-house centers more cost effective than outsourcing
Despite speculation that the cost competitiveness of captive offshore centers may be fading, most global in-house centers still deliver more savings than offshore outsourcing, according to recent research by outsourcing consultancy Everest Group.
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Microsoft's latest countdown: Update Windows 8.1 before Tuesday
Microsoft today announced it will deliver seven security updates to customers next week, including an almost-habitual one for Internet Explorer (IE), and others for Windows, Office and Lync, the company's communications server software. Before then, Windows 8.1 devices that rely on Windows Update to obtain patches must have moved to Windows 8.1 Update, an interim upgrade Microsoft shipped in early April.
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Vodafone granted governments direct access to its networks for surveillance
Vodafone has granted governments direct access to its networks in several countries, allowing them to listen to all conversations on those networks, the company said Friday. Vodafone Group received lawful demands for assistance from a law enforcement agency or government authority in 29 countries between April 1, 2013, and March 31, 2014, it said in its first Law Enforcement Disclosure Report.
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Senators question need to rein in NSA surveillance
The U.S. Congress would endanger the nation's security by passing even watered-down legislation to limit the National Security Agency's bulk collection of domestic phone records, several U.S. senators said Thursday. Several members of the Senate Intelligence Committee voiced opposition to the USA Freedom Act, a bill aimed at reining in NSA bulk collection of telephone and other records, even though many civil liberties groups and technology companies have questioned whether the bill would work as its sponsors originally envisioned.
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Fusion-io's Atomic flash cards can talk to applications for a bigger speed boost
Fusion-io's new generation of ioMemory flash components can pack in twice as much capacity, and according to the company, they know how to use it. Thanks to smaller die sizes in flash media, the so-called Atomic Series offers as much as 6.4TB of capacity on a single PCI Express card, versus 3.2TB on the previous generation. But Fusion-io has also worked with vendors of database, virtualization, big-data and virtual desktop software to make the new ioMemory products further accelerate those applications.
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IT is bracing -- but not preparing -- for the Internet of things
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OS X Yosemite and iOS 8's enticements could also entrap
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Trojan app encrypts files on Android devices and asks for ransom
The ransomware model is increasingly being adopted by cybercriminals who target mobile users, one of their latest creations being able to encrypt files stored on the SD memory cards of Android devices. A new threat dubbed Android/Simplock.A was identified by researchers from antivirus firm ESET over the weekend and while it's not the first ransomware program for Android, it is the first one seen by the company that holds files hostage by encrypting them.
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New OpenSSL vulnerability puts encrypted communications at risk of spying
A newly discovered vulnerability that allows spying on encrypted SSL/TLS communications has been identified and fixed in the widely used OpenSSL library. The vulnerability, which is being tracked as CVE-2014-0224, can be exploited to decrypt and modify SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) and TLS (Transport Layer Security) traffic between clients and servers that use OpenSSL, if the version of the library on the server is 1.0.1 or newer.
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Micro Python's tiny circuits: Python variant targets microcontrollers
The Python programming language's flexibility and ease-of-use have made it popular in many realms where speed of development is more important than raw performance.
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