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Bennett monitors Bluetooth signal strength on a PC -- sometimes

Publié: juillet 26, 2016, 11:36pm CEST par Mike Williams

If you’re having problems connecting your laptop to a wireless device or network, there are a host of tools to help you view what’s in range and its signal strength. If you’re having trouble with Bluetooth, it’s a different story. The standard Windows applets might list available devices but you’ll see little, if any information about them. Bennett is a tiny portable tool which displays extra details on your Bluetooth adapter and in-range devices, and might be able to monitor their signal strength. The program arrives as a single executable, with no intrusive drivers or system components. Just unzip and… [Continue Reading]
Microsoft makes Cortana unkillable in Windows 10 Anniversary Update -- but you can disable her

Publié: juillet 26, 2016, 9:27pm CEST par Wayne Williams

We’re only a few days away from the global roll out of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, and Microsoft is busy squashing the last few bugs before its prime-time release. There are lots of changes in the update, including a more usable Start menu, Windows Ink, an updated Windows Defender, and an improved Cortana you can’t turn off. Wait, what? SEE ALSO: Windows 10 Anniversary Update Preview gets another patch -- Build 14393.5 now available At the moment, turning Cortana off in Windows 10 is straightforward enough. Open Start , type Cortana, and then select Cortana and search settings. From… [Continue Reading]
Using culture to empower IT organization

Publié: juillet 26, 2016, 8:35pm CEST par Doron Gordon

Over the last decade, enterprise companies have experienced a complete IT evolution. The nature and techniques of companies are transforming to empower new shifts in technology, rapid innovation, and expansion. Culture is at the center of this strategic shift and it’s dramatically changing the way IT organizations operate. Whether it's the cultural shift in collaboration that’s elevating the rise of DevOps, now predicted by Gartner as a mainstream enterprise strategy for 2016; social communication encouraging shadow IT; or diversity creating more inclusive decision making, culture has truly restructured IT. And, it’s done so for the better. For enterprise organizations who… [Continue Reading]
Teradata buys Big Data Partnership

Publié: juillet 26, 2016, 8:28pm CEST par Sead Fadilpašić

US-based data analytics company Teradata has acquired UK-founded Big Data Partnership. Maria Wagner, investment director at Beringea hopes the deal will serve as an inspiration to British startups that the global market is still open to them, despite Brexit results. Founded in 2012 by Mike Merritt-Holmes, Pinal Gandhi and Tim Seears, Big Data Partnership’s goal is to help businesses use the power of complex data. Two years ago, they got £1.2 million in a Series A funding, which was led by Beringea, transatlantic venture and growth investor. In a Series B round, in May 2015, Beringea again led to a total… [Continue Reading]
Canonical joins The Document Foundation Advisory Board -- will give LibreOffice guidance

Publié: juillet 26, 2016, 7:20pm CEST par Brian Fagioli

All operating systems -- including Linux-based variants -- are only as good as its available software. In other words, for a computer to be an effective tool, it must be able to complete your needed tasks. As much as I love Linux-based operating systems such as Fedora and Ubuntu, if it wasn't for software like LibreOffice (also available for Windows and Mac), using the operating systems would probably not be possible. Speaking of Ubuntu, its owner, Canonical, is joining the The Document Foundation Advisory Board -- overseer of the very important LibreOffice. "Canonical has been an active member of the LibreOffice… [Continue Reading]
Your wireless keyboard could be secretly leaking unencrypted data to hackers

Publié: juillet 26, 2016, 7:04pm CEST par Mark Wilson

Researchers at security firm Bastille warn that many wireless keyboards can be very easily intercepted so hackers can see exactly what is being typed. With a very simple dongle called Keysniffer, it is possible to snoop on usernames, passwords and anything else that is being typed from up to 250 feet away. In all, Bastille found that eight manufacturers produce keyboards -- meaning there are millions in use -- which use unencrypted radio communication to transmit easily captured clear text. The problem affects non-Bluetooth devices from the likes of Anker, Hewlett-Packard, Kensington and Toshiba. The list of problematic, insecure keyboards… [Continue Reading]
Apple TV gets Adobe Lightroom, but there is one big catch

Publié: juillet 26, 2016, 6:52pm CEST par Brian Fagioli

One of my favorite recent tech purchases is the 4th generation Apple TV. Not only is it a great way to stream movies and listen to Apple Music, but it makes a wonderful game console too. Not to mention, the ability to mirror my iPhone to my TV is totally killer. Today, the 4th generation Apple TV gets a very unlikely app -- Adobe Lightroom. Before you get excited about editing photos on your television with the Apple TV remote, you should know that there is one huge catch. What is the catch of which I speak? Well, you can't actually… [Continue Reading]
New platform aims to cut mobile ad waste

Publié: juillet 26, 2016, 6:15pm CEST par Ian Barker

There's a famous quote from 19th century British soap magnate Lord Leverhulme which goes, "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, and the problem is I don't know which half". Despite the array of technology and analytics tools available today, it’s still true that a good deal of advertising spend is simply thrown into the dark. Real-time mobile advertising platform Smaato is aiming to cut waste with the launch of its Smaato Demand Platform (SDX) that allows more accurate targeting of ads. Aimed at mobile publishers and app developers, SDX brings powerful targeting and QPS (query per second)… [Continue Reading]
Total iPhone sales will exceed one billion mark

Publié: juillet 26, 2016, 5:42pm CEST par Sead Fadilpašić

Just days after it was reported that Facebook has a billion people using Messenger, a similar thing will happen with Apple. The company has either already, or will very soon, sell its one billionth iPhone. In the last reported quarter (Q1 2016), it was unveiled that the company had sold a total of 987 million iPhones in the seven years since its inception. Some 40 million had been sold in the quarter alone, and according to Financial Times, analysts expect at least another 40m quarter ahead. And that, ladies and gentlemen, gives us a billion. "Microsoft wanted to put a… [Continue Reading]
EU-US data-sharing Privacy Shield agreement will run for at least a year without legal challenges

Publié: juillet 26, 2016, 5:24pm CEST par Mark Wilson

The rocky road to finding a replacement to the Safe Harbour data transfer agreement appears to have become a little smoother. The successor to the EU-US arrangement is Privacy Shield, and European regulators have said it will be permitted to run to at least a year without intervention. Having been deemed unsuitable because of the level of access it gave the US to European data, Safe Harbor's replacement has been a long time coming. The head nod from regulators will be widely welcomed by the tech industry, as well as those disturbed by NSA surveillance revelations. The decision to run… [Continue Reading]
Jumper Ezbook 2: The whole is not greater than the sum of its parts [Review]

Publié: juillet 26, 2016, 5:16pm CEST par Mihăiță Bamburic

It used to be that buying an entry-level Windows device meant you had to settle for a big, bulky product with poor specs and a design that didn't try to hide the low price tag. These days, however, things are different. The arrival of Chromebooks has driven PC makers to change their approach and release laptops that are much more appealing to consumers shopping in this segment. With a thin profile, solid specs and a nice design, the Jumper Ezbook 2 seems to be the perfect example of a new-age entry-level Windows laptop. It is priced well below the magical… [Continue Reading]
Europol's No More Ransom website helps ransomware victims unlock their files

Publié: juillet 26, 2016, 5:07pm CEST par Anthony Spadafora

To help curb the global rise of ransomware, the European police agency Europol has decided to launch a new initiative and website to put victims of an attack in touch with the police. The initiative will be called "No More Ransom" and will be coordinated by Europol, but will also be receiving help from the Dutch national police, Intel Security and Kaspersky Lab. As cyber attackers using ransomware are discovered, details regarding the methods they use to trick users into paying fines to regain their encrypted files will be updated on the No More Ransom site which will better inform… [Continue Reading]
88 percent of all ransomware is detected in the healthcare industry

Publié: juillet 26, 2016, 4:24pm CEST par Ian Barker

According to the findings of a new report, companies in the healthcare industry have the most ransomware present, accounting for 88 percent of all detections in the second quarter of this year. The report from managed security provider Solutionary shows other affected industries include education (six percent) and finance (four percent), with eight other industries combining for less than two percent of detections. "Healthcare has been a target for ransomware campaigns because the industry has often paid ransom to retrieve vital customer data quickly. Furthermore, healthcare organizations use an abundance of systems and devices that are crucial pivot-points for an… [Continue Reading]
Microsoft boosts the intelligence of Office with Zoom for PowerPoint, Focused Inbox for Outlook, and more

Publié: juillet 26, 2016, 4:18pm CEST par Mark Wilson

Microsoft today announced a series of updates for its Office apps which help to make the suite more intelligent than ever. There's a strong focus on workflow and efficiency, and things kick off with the Researcher tool. This provides context-sensitive research materials that can be accessed from within Word and quickly added to a document complete with properly formatted citations. Microsoft says that Researcher will continue to expand to include "sources like national science and health centers, well-known encyclopedias, history databases and more". But this is far from being the only new tool to be added in the latest monthly… [Continue Reading]
Real-time outage detection delivers insights into online performance

Publié: juillet 26, 2016, 3:29pm CEST par Ian Barker

As businesses come to rely increasingly on the cloud, the impact of downtime in any part of the network infrastructure is felt more keenly. Network intelligence company ThousandEyes is launching a new Internet Outage Detection product, providing a way for enterprises to reliably detect outages across ISPs. It delivers better insights into internet performance by detecting patterns of anomalies in network data generated by global users of the ThousandEyes platform. These capabilities provide actionable information about when and how network and routing outages are affecting application and service delivery. "All kinds of companies are using ThousandEyes to gain critical visibility… [Continue Reading]
No, Facebook wasn't deliberately censoring Wikileaks' #DNCLeak emails

Publié: juillet 26, 2016, 3:10pm CEST par Mark Wilson

Julian Assange promised to deliver a cache of emails that would harm 'liberal war hawk' Hillary Clinton and her presidential campaign. Living up to Assange's promise, Wikileaks delivered the goods. It wasn't long before controversy struck, but this was not because of the content of the emails. The communication between US Democratic Party committee members was shared on Facebook but it didn't take long for the content to be blocked, leading to accusations of censorship. Facebook has now explained that it was not purposefully censoring Wikileaks' content. The company's chief security officer said a couple of days ago that the… [Continue Reading]
SentinelOne offers customers a $1 million ransomware guarantee

Publié: juillet 26, 2016, 2:53pm CEST par Ian Barker

Ransomware is one of the biggest threats that companies face and it can have severe consequences if important files are corrupted or lost. Endpoint security specialist SentinelOne is underlining its confidence in its product by launching a threat protection guarantee to provide customers with financial protection in the event of ransomware attacks on their networks. SentinelOne's cyber threat protection guarantee program provides its customers with financial support of $1,000 per endpoint, or up to $1 million per company, securing them against the financial implications of a ransomware attack, if the company suffers an attack and SentinelOne is unable to block… [Continue Reading]
TechCrunch hacked by OurMine

Publié: juillet 26, 2016, 2:09pm CEST par Mark Wilson

The TechCrunch website was today hit by a hacker group going by the name of OurMine. The group describes itself as a "an elite hacker group known for many hacks showing vulnerabilities in major systems". The hack was -- on the face of it, at least -- not particularly malicious, and came across as almost polite. Rather than completely defacing the site, OurMine chose instead to simply post a news story to indicate that the CMS had been breached. The message (since deleted) was posted by Devin Coldewey under the headline "OurMine Team -- Important Message!" It read: "Hello guys… [Continue Reading]
Chuwi Vi10 Plus tablet includes Windows 10 and Android for an incredibly low price

Publié: juillet 26, 2016, 1:22pm CEST par Mark Wilson

A few months back, we took a look at the Chuwi Hi12, a low-cost tablet that we compared to the Surface Pro 4 and iPad Pro. Now the company has released a slightly smaller -- and even cheaper -- model, the Chuwi Vi10 Plus. With a 10.8-inch screen, the Chuwi Vi10 Plus is available in two variations. The first model comes with Android-based Remix OS 2.0 installed, while the second is a dual boot unit that has both Windows 10 and Remix OS 2.0 installed. For now, Chuwi only has the single-OS version of the Vi10 Plus, priced at a… [Continue Reading]
Automatically generate abstract art with Mondriaan Creator

Publié: juillet 26, 2016, 12:58pm CEST par Mike Williams

Even if you don’t know Piet Mondriaan’s name, you’ll probably recognize the Dutch painter’s distinctive geometric style: white background and a black grid, partly filled with primary colors. It’s not an approach that appeals to everyone, but if you’re interested then you can now generate new Mondriaan-style images with the free Mondriaan Creator. Launch the program and it immediately displays an original image. Keeping clicking "Create painting" to generate something new each time. By default most of the grid will be white, but you can tweak this color balance to suit your needs: less white, more blue, double the yellow,… [Continue Reading]
CyanogenMod: reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated

Publié: juillet 26, 2016, 11:27am CEST par Mark Wilson

Rumors started to circulate in recent days that all was not well at Cyanogen Inc. Reports suggested that the company was not only shedding a fifth of its staff, but was also moving away from its Android-based CyanogenMod to focus instead on apps. After a few days of silence, the company has now come forward to set the record straight. Cyanogen Inc wants to make it clear that its operating system is here to stay, and there are no plans to become an app company. Co-founder Steve Kondik has written a blog post with the aim of addressing the "circus… [Continue Reading]
Spam call protection arrives in the Google Phone app for Android

Publié: juillet 26, 2016, 11:01am CEST par Mark Wilson

We're used to the idea of filtering spam emails from our inbox these days, but there is also the problem of spam phone calls. These are not just a nuisance, but may also be the start of scams. Google is pushing out an update to its Phone app that helps to keep you protected. It's a simple idea. Whenever a suspicious call comes through, a warning is displayed on screen to let you know that you might want to either ignore the call, or take care if you answer. While it's great to be warned about possible spam calls, Google… [Continue Reading]
Google Maps gets a facelift that makes it easier to read and areas of interest easier to find

Publié: juillet 26, 2016, 10:29am CEST par Mark Wilson

You've probably noticed that it can be hard to make out details on Google Maps. You're not alone; Google has noticed too, and the company has just launched a redesigned version of the essential travel tool. The changes apply to the desktop, iOS and Android versions of Google Maps and the most immediately apparent difference is the new color palette -- much subtler and easier on the eyes. But Google has also cleaned things up to improve visibility, and added new 'areas of interest'. Google said that improving the legibility of Maps "is a balancing act" and explains that it… [Continue Reading]
Hackers steal 1.6 million Clash of Kings forum accounts

Publié: juillet 26, 2016, 10:27am CEST par Anthony Spadafora

The official forum for the popular mobile game Clash of Kings is the latest to fall victim to a cyberattack after a hacker broke through its defenses and managed to obtain the user data of around 1.6 million accounts. The hack occurred on July 14 and the security breach was made known to the website LeakedSource.com by a hacker who wished to remain anonymous. The database of user account details taken from the forum contained the usernames, email addresses, IP addresses, device identifiers in addition to Facebook data and access tokens from those who signed in using their social accounts.… [Continue Reading]
Bitcoin is not money, it's property

Publié: juillet 26, 2016, 9:54am CEST par Mark Wilson

What's the first word that pops into your head when you hear Bitcoin? It's probably cryptocurrency, but a judge in Florida says this is wrong -- it's actually property. In a case relating to alleged money laundering, Judge Teresa Pooler ruled that the charges could not stick as Bitcoin was not money, and therefore could not be laundered. With the decision that Bitcoin cannot be considered a 'monetary instrument', this could have implications for future cases. Judge Pooler said that trying to apply financial legislation to Bitcoin was futile and inappropriate. As she put it: "attempting to fit the sale… [Continue Reading]
Windows 10 Anniversary Update Preview gets another patch -- Build 14393.5 now available

Publié: juillet 26, 2016, 9:43am CEST par Wayne Williams

Microsoft continues to polish Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14393 in preparation for its big release as the Anniversary Update on 2 August. The latest cumulative update (KB3176927) is available for both PC and Mobile, and bumps the Fast ring build up to 14393.5. As you would expect, this patch fixes a fair few problems, including some notable ones. SEE ALSO: There's only a few days left to get Windows 10 for free -- this is why you should upgrade This is what’s fixed according to the update announcement in the Feedback Hub: We have improved reliability and performance of… [Continue Reading]
Amazon gets government approval to test 'Prime Air' delivery drones in the UK

Publié: juillet 26, 2016, 2:36am CEST par Brian Fagioli

When Amazon initially announced that it wanted to make deliveries by drone, the world became very curious. The media jumped on the story, of course, driving people to get both excited and anxious about the possibilities. Like many things, however, the USA government bureaucracy stifled our drone delivery dreams, somewhat. While I am all for safety and testing, I hate to see progress move at a snail's pace. The UK Government seems a bit more open to the unmanned delivery idea, as it is now working with Amazon to begin testing these drones in the nation as a delivery method. "A… [Continue Reading]