Azure cloud services have a rough week
Microsoft's Azure cloud computing platform suffered a series of outages and service disruptions in the past week that affected several products and impacted customers in various parts of the world. Maintaining solid performance and reliability of the Azure infrastructure- and platform-as-a-service cloud tools is key for Microsoft as it battles strong rivals in this market like Amazon and Google.
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Samsung buys SmartThings in ambitious push to connect your home
Samsung has agreed to buy SmartThings, a two-year-old startup that makes software to connect household objects and let them be controlled from afar via smartphone. The deal, announced Thursday, gives Samsung a solid foothold in the burgeoning "Internet of things" market. IoT generally involves connecting objects such as cameras, sensors and appliances using a wireless Internet connection and controlling them or collecting data.
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Users find fix for botched KB 2982791 and KB 2970228 Windows update
Seems like business as usual in the Microsoft Black Tuesday support arena.
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Stroustrup: Why the 35-year-old C++ still dominates 'real' dev
Credit: Bjarne Stroustrup
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Smarter than Siri: Viv promises a truly intelligent assistant
Credit: VOLODYMYR GRINKO
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How to crack an open source community
For a community founded on peace, love, and free-flowing code, the open source community can be a difficult crowd to crack.
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Rimini Street did steal Oracle's intellectual property, judge says
A federal judge has dismissed a defamation claim against Oracle by third-party support vendor Rimini Street, saying Oracle was telling the truth when it accused the company of "massive theft" of its software. "It is undisputed that Rimini engaged in theft of Oracle's intellectual property by repeatedly making multiple copies of Oracle's copyrighted Enterprise Software programs to support its software support service clients," Judge Larry Hicks wrote in a ruling filed on Tuesday in a federal district court in Nevada.
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Google broadens its malware sleuthing to sniff out deceptive downloads
Google is expanding its safe browsing technology to notify Web users of downloads that appear benign, but actually make unwanted changes to their computers.
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Infor goes up against Salesforce.com with SalesLogix acquisition
Infor has acquired Saleslogix in a bid to compete with Salesforce.com in the cloud CRM (customer relationship management) software market, particularly for customers seeking industry-specific features. SalesLogix is changing hands for the second time in two years. In early 2013, Swiftpage bought it along with Act from Sage. Terms of the deal between Infor and Swiftpage, which was announced Thursday, were not disclosed.
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New Gameover Zeus botnet growing in the U.S.
Cyber criminals are in the process of rebuilding the GOZ (Gameover Zeus) botnet, which law enforcement authorities took over in June, and recent research suggests that they've had some success, especially in the U.S. The original GOZ botnet was built using a modified version of the infamous Zeus trojan program and was designed to steal online banking and other credentials from infected computers. The GOZ malware authors created a command-and-control infrastructure with a peer-to-peer architecture, making their botnet more resilient to takeover attempts.
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Wyoming to close data centers in cloud shift
The state of Wyoming is planning to discontinue most of its data center operations and move its physical equipment to commercial colocation facilities. It will continue to manage its own physical servers at these colocation centers, but this outsourcing step is part of a broader plan to move the state's computing resources to cloud services.
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