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Finally! iOS 10 lets you remove built-in apps like Stocks

Publié: juin 13, 2016, 11:08pm CEST par Mark Wilson

It’s something that many iPhone and iPad owners have asked: just how the hell do I delete the pointless Stocks app? With iOS 10 there's no need to go as far as jailbreaking your beloved device, as Apple is making it possible to delete no fewer than 23 of the built-in apps. That useless Stocks app? Gone! The News app you never use? History! There are many reasons for wanting to banish these apps. Apart from not using them, you might want to free up screen space by getting rid of unnecessary icons. You might feel you can free up… [Continue Reading]
With iOS 10 and macOS Sierra, Apple drops support for many older Macs, iPhones and iPads

Publié: juin 13, 2016, 10:28pm CEST par Mark Wilson

With Apple's software announcements today, the focus has been on what is new and exciting. But with (just about) any operating system update, there is a darker side: the older devices that slip into oblivion, never to be updated again. It's no different with iOS 10 and macOS Sierra. On the mobile front, Apple is giving up on the A5 chip, meaning that a number iPhones and iPads are not going to support the latest version of iOS. It’s a similar story for Mac and MacBook owners -- older devices simply aren’t going to get the goodies. The official list… [Continue Reading]
Apple renames OS X to macOS -- upcoming 'Sierra' version will get Siri, Apple Pay, and more

Publié: juin 13, 2016, 10:02pm CEST par Brian Fagioli

If you are wanting a desktop operating system, you largely have two options -- Windows or OS X. To a lesser extent, consumers can opt for Linux-based operating systems, such as Chrome OS or Ubuntu, but Apple and Microsoft's offerings reign supreme. While OS X is arguably more elegant than Windows, it only comes installed on Apple's expensive hardware. Microsoft's OS is the best option for those on a budget. One thing that was not elegant about OS X, however, was the name. It was not in line with the company's other operating systems -- iOS, watchOS, and tvOS. Not… [Continue Reading]
Apple focuses on new features and privacy in iOS 10, while opening up to developers

Publié: juin 13, 2016, 9:51pm CEST par Mark Wilson

It's what Apple is describing as 'the biggest iOS release ever'. Whether everyone else agrees remains to be seen, but today the company took the wraps off iOS 10 -- and there's certainly a lot to take in. Perhaps the most notable change, for developers at least, is the fact that Siri has been opened up so that it can be used by third party apps. Messaging has become more important than ever in recent years, and this is something that Apple recognizes with iOS 10. Taking design cues from the likes of Facebook and WhatsApp, the Messages app now… [Continue Reading]
Microsoft's Xbox 'Project Scorpio' will be the most powerful games console ever

Publié: juin 13, 2016, 9:28pm CEST par Wayne Williams

Continuing to steal Apple's WWDC thunder, Microsoft has been using its E3 press briefing to make some major announcements. First up, the tech giant unveiled the Xbox One S, a slimmer, much improved Xbox One, but the real excitement is not that games console, but a future device. Xbox boss Phil Spencer announced the Xbox One successor, codenamed "Project Scorpio", and described it as "the most powerful console ever". That’s a big claim, and Microsoft didn’t offer much to back it up, but as the console isn’t scheduled to arrive before the Holiday season 2017, it’s fair to say that… [Continue Reading]
Microsoft sells 1.1 million Surface units in Q1 2016

Publié: juin 13, 2016, 8:20pm CEST par Sead Fadilpašić

Two-in-one and pro slate devices have earned their vendors higher revenue, managing to stabilize average selling prices, a new report by Strategy Analytics says. The report, entitled "Global Tablet Vendor & OS, Unit & Value Market Share by Region: Q1 2016", says Microsoft and Apple sold more than a million of their pro slates last quarter. What’s more, most mobile-first and smartphone vendors now have pro slates with an optional keyboard, or 2-in-1 tablets in stock, to "sate growing demand for these converged computing devices". And here I was, thinking the tablet market was done for. I guess there’s still… [Continue Reading]
With watchOS 3, Apple finally gets Watch right

Publié: juin 13, 2016, 7:55pm CEST par Wayne Williams

I’m an Apple Watch owner, but I’m not really an Apple Watch wearer. Like a lot of people, I’ve found Apple’s first wearable to be useful, but far from essential. I’ll wear it occasionally -- usually when I’m exercising -- but most of the time it just sits on the side, charging. With watchOS 3, Apple has actually made me excited again for the Apple Watch. So what’s new? For starters, Apple Watch now opens apps immediately (seven times faster in the example shown on stage), which fixes a complaint that a lot of users -- myself included -- had… [Continue Reading]
IT pros: Cloud apps are as secure as their on-premise counterparts

Publié: juin 13, 2016, 6:39pm CEST par Sead Fadilpašić

For the first time ever, the majority of cybersecurity professionals believe cloud-based apps are as secure as on-premise apps. Those are the results of a new survey conducted by Bitglass, among 2,200 cybersecurity experts. According to the report, entitled The Rise of Purpose-Built Cloud Security, 52 percent of those surveyed said they found cloud-based apps as secure as their on-premise counterparts. The most interesting thing is that this percentage has jumped from 40 percent same time last year. But just because apps are believed to be secure, it doesn’t mean businesses are. The report also says that user behavior, such… [Continue Reading]
Is Microsoft trying to steal Apple's WWDC thunder?

Publié: juin 13, 2016, 6:27pm CEST par Joe Wilcox

Timing is everything, particularly in business marketing tactics. Surely it's no coincidence that hours before Apple's big developer conference, where questions about iPhone's future and product innovation loom large, that Microsoft announces plans to buy social network LinkedIn. Hehe, how do you like them apples? The merger will split tech news and analysis coverage this fine Monday and spill over to tomorrow, robbing Apple of the attention it needs now to subdue rising negative perceptions about the future. Global smartphone sales are slowing and iPhone accounts for 65 percent of total revenues. Meanwhile, the fruit-logo company hasn't perceptually lifted the… [Continue Reading]
How to automatically mount a network drive on Mac OS X

Publié: juin 13, 2016, 4:17pm CEST par Mihăiță Bamburic

To quickly and easily access a network drive from your Mac you can configure OS X to automatically mount the volume after booting up. That way, after you turn on or restart your Mac, you will be able to get to your files in no time. But, how can you do that? While it is very easy to access the network drive, figuring out how to set up OS X to automatically mount it is not. That is because there is no magic button to click on in the volume's settings or an obvious option to enable in System Preferences.… [Continue Reading]
27 percent of apps connected to corporate environments are risky

Publié: juin 13, 2016, 4:10pm CEST par Ian Barker

As organizations move more of their data to the cloud the risk from shadow IT in the form of connected third-party apps grows greater. New research from CloudLock CyberLab, the security intelligence part of the CloudLock security platform, finds that 27 percent of third-party apps are classified as high risk. This means cyber criminals could gain programmatic access to corporate platforms and impersonate end users. With a 30x increase in apps from 5,500 to nearly 160,000 between 2014 and 2016, this represents a large number of potential backdoors through which hackers can infiltrate and steal sensitive corporate assets. The report… [Continue Reading]
Batch image processor ImBatch gets new transparency tools

Publié: juin 13, 2016, 3:27pm CEST par Mike Williams

Powerful batch image processor ImBatch has reached version 4.90 with the addition of some handy transparency tools. A new Stroke feature outlines your image with transparency, using a customizable width and color. ImBatch can now replace transparency with a white color when saving to an image which doesn’t support transparency (PNG > JPG, say). The "Convert Colors" task now has a related option to replace an alpha channel with the specified color, and a bug fix ensures transparency is now saved correctly to DDS files. Elsewhere, the "Resize Canvas" task has gained an option to fill the expanded space with… [Continue Reading]
New application uses behavioral analytics to fight ransomware

Publié: juin 13, 2016, 3:24pm CEST par Ian Barker

Ransomware is one of the most important security threats for business to deal with as it has the potential to cause serious damage and financial loss. User behavior specialist Exabeam is launching its Analytics for Ransomware, a new application designed for early detection across the corporate network. Unlike other security products, Exabeam can detect ransomware movement and activity in the network, servers, workstations, BYOD devices, and cloud services. "Ask any CISO about their biggest challenge today, and ransomware will almost certainly be the response," says Nir Polak, CEO of Exabeam. "It's bypassing security tools and overwhelming already-overburdened security analysts. Exabeam… [Continue Reading]
Dell launches new PowerEdge servers

Publié: juin 13, 2016, 3:23pm CEST par Sead Fadilpašić

Dell has announced that it has upgraded its 13th generation PowerEdge four-socket server portfolio. The new servers, designed with big-data and real-time analytics in mind, offer more flexibility, scalability and manageability. This includes four new offerings: the PowerEdge R830 and PowerEdge R930 servers, PowerEdge FC830 -- a full-width, four-socket compute node for the Dell PowerEdge FX architecture -- and PowerEdge M830 blade server. All servers now come with better processors (Intel Xeon E5-4600 v4 and Intel Xeon E7-8890 V4 for the PowerEdge R830 and PowerEdge R930, respectively). The PowerEdge R930 holds the world record result on the standard benchmark for… [Continue Reading]
Microsoft to buy LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in cash

Publié: juin 13, 2016, 3:03pm CEST par Mark Wilson

In a surprise announcement, Microsoft has said that it is to buy LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in cash. The $196 per share deal is expect to close by the end of this calendar year having been unanimously approved by both companies' Boards of Directors. Following the acquisition, LinkedIn will retain its current branding and Jeff Weiner will remain on as CEO, reporting to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. LinkedIn will become part of Microsoft’s Productivity and Business Processes segment. In a statement, Nadella said: "The LinkedIn team has grown a fantastic business centered on connecting the world’s professionals. Together we can… [Continue Reading]
Reduce Memory is a tiny RAM optimizer

Publié: juin 13, 2016, 2:40pm CEST par Mike Williams

Would you like a faster PC? One standard tip is to run a memory optimizer, which supposedly cleans, tunes and defragments your RAM, fixes memory leaks and more. Most of these claims are utter garbage, but the technology may help a little in a few situations, and Reduce Memory offers a quick and easy way to try this out for yourself. The program is very simple. There’s no installation, no adware, no interface, no extra startup or system tray program -- it’s just a tiny executable which you run as necessary. On launch, Reduce Memory cycles through all your applications,… [Continue Reading]
KeePass 2.34 released, tightens update checking security

Publié: juin 13, 2016, 2:30pm CEST par Nick Peers

Open-source password-management tool KeePass 2.34 has been released for Windows. The new release’s headline feature is a digitally signed version information file, which is used to check for updates. The feature was unveiled after a potential vulnerability was discovered whereby hackers could dupe KeePass users into downloading malware through the online update check. After the publication of articles revealing the man-in-the-middle vulnerability, KeePass announced its plans to implement digital signing in the version update file to ensure future version checks could not be hijacked. This has now been implemented in version 2.34, with the program now downloading the file over… [Continue Reading]
What does Bill Gates know about raising chickens?

Publié: juin 13, 2016, 2:23pm CEST par Robert X. Cringely

Bill Gates is a blogger, did you know that? His blog is called Gates Notes and generally covers areas of interest not only to Bill but also to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which means there’s more coverage of malaria than Microsoft. His latest post that a reader pointed out to me today is about raising chickens, which Bill says he’d do if he was a poor woman in Africa. I’ll wait while you follow the link to read the post, just don’t forget to come back. And while you are there be sure to watch the video… For… [Continue Reading]
View and edit music file tags with AudioShell

Publié: juin 13, 2016, 1:56pm CEST par Mike Williams

AudioShell is a Windows Explorer extension which enables viewing and editing of ID3 and other tags. You may be able to do some of this already, depending on your Windows version and other software you might have installed, but AudioShell takes the idea further in several ways. The first benefit is additional support for many more formats, covering both audio and some video formats. Here’s the official list. mp3 (all ID3 tag versions) Windows Media (wma, asf and wmv files) Apple iTunes aac (m4a, m4p, m4r and m4b) and mp4 and aiff files ogg, flac, opus, speex (vorbis comment tags)… [Continue Reading]
Microsoft, Google and Facebook to work with Bangladesh government to remove 'inappropriate content'

Publié: juin 13, 2016, 12:14pm CEST par Mark Wilson

Following prolonged talks with the Bangladesh government, Facebook, Google and Microsoft have all agreed to do more to remove 'inappropriate content' from the internet. State Minister for Telecoms, Tarana Halim, said: "After intense discussion with Facebook, Google and Microsoft, it has been agreed that they will respond to requests within 48 hours". Agreeing to the Bangladesh government's demands comes just weeks after major tech companies agreed to a new code of conduct to combat online hate speech. In this instance, however, it has not been made entirely clear what constitutes inappropriate content, and the announcement will raise questions about the… [Continue Reading]
Behavioral firewall helps guard against data breaches

Publié: juin 13, 2016, 12:12pm CEST par Ian Barker

When a data breach is just as likely to originate from inside the organization as outside, protecting an enterprise can be a difficult task. Californian company Preempt is launching a new proactive approach that allows organizations to spot threats in real-time without engaging already overwhelmed security teams. Preempt Behavioral Firewall protects enterprises from security breaches and malicious insiders with an approach that couples User and Entity Behavior Analysis (UEBA) with Adaptive Response to provide the most effective solution for both detecting and responding to threats. "According to Verizon's DBIR, in 60 percent of breaches, attackers are able to compromise an… [Continue Reading]
How to watch Apple's WWDC 2016 keynote live on any device including Windows, Linux and Android

Publié: juin 13, 2016, 11:51am CEST par Wayne Williams

Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference kicks off today, Monday 13 June, in San Francisco, with the big keynote speech scheduled for 10am PDT/1pm EST/6pm BST. As always it will be streamed live so you can tune in at home or (maybe) work. As WWDC is for software developers, Apple doesn’t usually reveal major new hardware -- typically it’s just updated versions of existing products. We're expecting to see makeovers for iTunes and Apple Music, a massively improved Siri, and iOS 10 and macOS 12 (Apple is rumored to be dropping the X from the OS name). There are likely to be… [Continue Reading]
Two in three commercial apps with open source code have security vulnerabilities

Publié: juin 13, 2016, 10:34am CEST par Sead Fadilpašić

"If you’re using open source, chances are you are likely including vulnerabilities known to the world at large". This is a quote taken from the latest open source security report released by software company Black Duck. The company analyzed more than 200 applications that are based on, or partially use, open source material, over a six-month period. The results are that 67 percent of them have vulnerabilities, and every application has at least five vulnerable components. It was found that more than 10 percent have the Heartbleed vulnerability, and almost 10 percent POODLE. LogJam and FREAK were present at almost… [Continue Reading]
Respawn and Electronic Arts reveal Titanfall 2 release date for Xbox One, PC, and PlayStation 4

Publié: juin 13, 2016, 12:05am CEST par Brian Fagioli

While E3 2016 doesn't officially begin until June 14th, gaming news is starting to come fast and furiously. For example, the new Xbox One S console has leaked prematurely; I am sure Microsoft is not happy about this. Electronic Arts and Respawn on the other hand, have chosen to intentionally release information early regarding one of its fan-favorite franchises. Titanfall 2, the sequel to the wildly popular shooter, will be coming to Xbox One and PC this year. The title will also come to PlayStation 4; this is significant, as the original did not come to Sony's console. Curious of the release date?… [Continue Reading]