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DevOps can help bridge the gap between software companies

Publié: juin 23, 2016, 7:23pm CEST par Sead Fadilpašić

High-performing organizations are widening the gap against low-performing ones, a new report on DevOps suggests. Entitled 2016 State of DevOps Report, it was released by Puppet and DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment), and is considered one of the largest, most comprehensive and longest-running studies on the topic of DevOps. High-performers deploy 200 times more frequently and have 2,555 times faster lead times. They recover 24 times faster from failed changes and have three times lower change fail rates. The report also said high-performers spend 22 percent less time on unplanned work and rework, and are able to spend 29 percent more time on… [Continue Reading]
Samsung unveils 'Notebook 7 spin' convertible Windows 10 laptop

Publié: juin 23, 2016, 6:23pm CEST par Brian Fagioli

Samsung is probably best known for its Android smartphones and tablets nowadays, but the company is so much more. It makes amazing televisions, plus appliances like refrigerators and washing machines. Samsung even makes Windows laptops and tablets, such as the 2-in-1 TabPro S. Today, Samsung unveils the all-new 'Notebook 7 spin' laptop. This convertible Windows 10 computer can double as a tablet -- the touch screen can rotate and sit flush on the rear. It even has a backlit keyboard by default -- nice. Best of all, the pricing is rather competitive. "This device was designed with multimedia enthusiasts in… [Continue Reading]
Google's free Android Basics Nanodegree helps you learn how to code

Publié: juin 23, 2016, 4:41pm CEST par Mihăiță Bamburic

Google wants more people to make Android apps, so it has teamed up with Udacity to create a new program aimed at aspiring developers. Called Android Basics Nanodegree, it offers a series of courses and services that will teach students, with little to no coding experience, how to make their first Android app. "The courses walk you through step-by-step on how to build an order form for a coffee shop, an app to track pets in a shelter, an app that teaches vocabulary words from the Native American Miwok tribe, and an app on recent earthquakes in the world. At the… [Continue Reading]
'No-cloud' policy to soon go extinct

Publié: juin 23, 2016, 4:24pm CEST par Sead Fadilpašić

Within the next four years, the extreme "no-cloud" policy among businesses will be as rare as "no-internet" policy is today, Gartner predicts. By 2020, however, not everything will be cloud-based, but companies having absolutely nothing in that respect will be almost extinct. "Aside from the fact that many organizations with a no-cloud policy actually have some under-the-radar or unavoidable cloud usage, we believe that this position will become increasingly untenable", says Jeffrey Mann, research vice president at Gartner. "Cloud will increasingly be the default option for software deployment. The same is true for custom software, which increasingly is designed for some variation of… [Continue Reading]
90 percent of Android devices vulnerable to Godless malware

Publié: juin 23, 2016, 3:56pm CEST par Mihăiță Bamburic

When we take a look at the Android distribution updates that Google posts every month one thing seems to never change, and that is the overwhelming number of devices that run an outdated version of the operating system. As of early-June 2016, nearly 90 percent of the handsets with Google Play access are rocking Lollipop, Jelly Bean or another old distribution. Meanwhile, Marshmallow powers only 10.1 percent of Android devices. And, as Trend Micro security researchers point out, that can be a serious problem in terms of security as there is a new family of malware, known as Godless, that… [Continue Reading]
Why can't 'no' just mean 'no' when it comes to free software?

Publié: juin 23, 2016, 3:43pm CEST par Wayne Williams

As we’ve reported numerous times before, and with increasing levels of frustration, Microsoft won’t ever seem to take no for an answer when it comes to Windows 10. When the Get Windows 10 app appears to users of Windows 7 or 8.1 they might reasonably expect to have the choice of saying "yes" or "no" to the free upgrade offer. Except while "yes" means "yes", "no" apparently means "yes, but you’ll need to trick me into installing it". It’s not just Microsoft which pulls this kind of stunt either. This is a recent experience I had when installing Auslogics Disk… [Continue Reading]
How mobile device management could be invading your privacy

Publié: juin 23, 2016, 3:21pm CEST par Ian Barker

Many companies now turn to mobile device management (MDM) to control and monitor their employees' mobile use. But a new study from data protection company Bitglass reveals that MDM itself represents a threat to privacy. Bitglass researchers configured MDM software to route mobile data traffic through a corporate proxy and installed corporate-issued certificates on employee devices to decrypt SSL traffic. This, a common configuration in enterprise MDM deployments for inspecting traffic for malware, enabled researchers to see the contents of employees' personal email inboxes, social networking accounts and even banking information. More of a problem is that the usernames and passwords… [Continue Reading]
Edit and analyze written content with Word Doctor

Publié: juin 23, 2016, 3:00pm CEST par Mike Williams

Word Doctor’s developer says it’s a word editor and writer’s aid, "designed to analyze both writing content and style". At first glance, that seems hard to believe, because the editor looks only marginally more powerful than Notepad. But start exploring and you’ll begin to change your mind. Type or click a word, for instance, and an instant definition appears in the status bar ("word -- noun -- a unit of language"). Select a word, right-click, and there’s a synonym finder, a more detailed definition, even an audio pronunciation guide. The Find and Replace dialog also delivers more than you’d expect.… [Continue Reading]
Docker Engine will get built-in container orchestration

Publié: juin 23, 2016, 2:56pm CEST par Anthony Spadafora

During its developer conference in Seattle this week, Docker announced that container orchestration will now be built right into its Docker Engine, making the process of building, deploying and orchestrating containers far easier for its users. The company has basically taken the core features of Docker Swarm and Compose and has added them to its core Engine to simplify the process of using containers in production. Both of these standalone products only recently exited their beta phases last November and it is impressive that Docker has been able to add them to Docker Engine in such a short period of time.… [Continue Reading]
Capture, upload and share screenshots and text with Image DeCap

Publié: juin 23, 2016, 1:41pm CEST par Mike Williams

There are hundreds of screen capture tools for Windows, covering just about every possible need and situation. Do we really need any more? Well, maybe not, but Image DeCap has just enough interesting and unusual features to deserve a closer look. Captures can be quick and easy. Press a customizable hotkey, hit Enter, and you can save the current screen or window locally, copy it to the clipboard, upload it to Imgur or your own FTP site. There’s only one other capture type, a freehand rectangular region, but it comes with a screen magnifier to help you draw with pixel-level… [Continue Reading]
Crypto-ransomware attacks increase five fold

Publié: juin 23, 2016, 12:30pm CEST par Ian Barker

Ransomware has become a big problem in recent years, particularly crypto-ransomware, which encrypts data on users' systems. New research by Kaspersky Lab looking at how it’s evolved over the last two years points to just how big. Among the findings are that the number of users attacked with crypto-ransomware rose 5.5 times, from 131,111 in 2014-2015 to 718,536 in 2015-2016. The total number of users encountering any type of ransomware between April 2015 and March 2016 also increased by 17.7 percent compared to the period April 2014 to March 2015. The share of users encountering ransomware at least once as… [Continue Reading]
Check your privacy settings -- Facebook is (probably) sharing your employment history

Publié: juin 23, 2016, 10:27am CEST par Mark Wilson

Somewhat out of the blue, Facebook has decided to change the way it displays certain information on your profile. Not content with showing your current place of work -- whether this is real, or some clever pun you've engineered -- it now also shows your employment history. This is not a direct change to privacy settings as it does not make public anything that had been previously set to be private. It does, however, broadcast your previous places of work to people looking at your profile. You might not like this. You might want to do something about it. In… [Continue Reading]
Millennials would trust tech companies with money transactions

Publié: juin 23, 2016, 9:43am CEST par Sead Fadilpašić

There’s a new report suggesting that banks need to seriously consider innovating, if they don’t want to hand over their business to tech companies. The report, entitled "Are Banks Losing The Innovation Game?", was released by financial regulatory framework compliance experts, Neopay. It is based on a poll of 2,000 UK adults on their experience with high street banks and tech companies. Here’s the deal: the younger audience would rather trust a tech company with their e-money than a bank. Now, knowing that eCommerce is rising fast, it’s time for banks to start reacting, even faster. Almost half (41 percent)… [Continue Reading]