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Consumers apps better made than enterprise apps

Publié: août 12, 2016, 10:17pm CEST par Sead Fadilpašić

Consumer grade is the new enterprise grade, a new survey by ScaleArc says. The annual survey among IT decision makers has revealed that consumer apps seem to be much better than enterprise apps, because they’re faster, and more reliable. "It is clear that consumer grade is the new enterprise grade", says Justin Barney, president and CEO of ScaleArc. "IT decision-makers who build enterprise apps recognize that they, and the general public, have a better experience on their personal apps than their work apps. We’ve all lost patience with websites and apps that don’t offer optimal performance". A vast majority of… [Continue Reading]
Adblock Plus says open source developers will fight for users' right to block ads on Facebook

Publié: août 12, 2016, 10:07pm CEST par Mark Wilson

Following on from Facebook's decision to override users' ad blocking tools, Adblock Plus has fired one more shot, saying that it will continue the fight for the right to an ad-free social networking experience. After finding a way to prevent Facebook blocking ads, which Facebook then bypassed once again, Adblock Plus says that while the game of cat and mouse may continue, it wants to use what it describes as "probably be the last time we talk about it for a while" to say that the open source community will fight the good fight for users. The company has a… [Continue Reading]
Asian countries lag behind in data storage security

Publié: août 12, 2016, 7:23pm CEST par Sead Fadilpašić

Asian nations are not very secure places to keep your digital data, a new report by secure data centre Artmotion suggests. The report was built on data from the UN, World Economic Forum and Transparency International, among other groups. Titled Data Danger Zones, it ranks more than 170 nations on how good they are at keeping data secure. Switzerland was ranked first. But looking at Asian countries is where things get particularly interesting. Singapore has a risk score of 1.9 percent, and is considered the safest Asian nation. Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea also made it in the top 15,… [Continue Reading]
Notebook shipments are 'healthier', says TrendForce

Publié: août 12, 2016, 5:11pm CEST par Sead Fadilpašić

Notebook shipments have returned to a somewhat "healthier" state, but the second half of the year, which is traditionally seen as the "peak" in shipments, is expected to be weaker than usual. These are the highlights of a new report by market analysts TrendForce. Total number of notebook shipments for the first half of 2016 hit 74.18 million units, representing a four percent decline compared to the year before, and TrendForce sees this as a return to a more healthy state. However, September usually marks the beginning of a new cycle, when consumers upgrade and re-stock on their notebooks, as the… [Continue Reading]
Samsung Galaxy Note7 will get Android 7.0 Nougat soon

Publié: août 12, 2016, 2:54pm CEST par Mihăiță Bamburic

Samsung announced the Galaxy Note7 earlier than usual, choosing to unveil the new flagship in early-August instead of waiting for the IFA show in September as it has done with previous models. And, by doing so, it had no other option than to release it with Android 6.0 Marshmallow out of the box, even though a new version of the mobile operating system -- dubbed Nougat -- is on the horizon. There are some potential buyers who are understandably disappointed by this, knowing that Android 7.0 should launch in the coming weeks. The good news is that Samsung plans to… [Continue Reading]
North American businesses reluctant to adopt Windows 10

Publié: août 12, 2016, 1:49pm CEST par Ian Barker

A year on from the release of Windows 10 most businesses are still reluctant to adopt the OS, according to research by solutions and managed services company Softchoice. Based on an evaluation of more than 400,000 Windows-based computing devices between January and May this year, across 169 organizations in the US and Canada using the TechCheck asset management solution, the study reveals less than one percent were running Windows 10. It finds the vast majority of North American businesses adopted Windows 7 as the corporate platform-of-choice since moving away from Windows XP, and have yet to move in significant quantities… [Continue Reading]
5 reasons CEOs need to start caring about data governance

Publié: août 12, 2016, 1:42pm CEST par Ilan Hertz

Business leaders everywhere now recognize information as a strategic asset. Many executives value data governance as a powerful tool that reduces risk and supports data-based decision making. But what is data governance, what does it do, and what day-to-day support does it offer to CEOs? A company’s digital wealth requires consistent, company-wide information management. Data governance is an umbrella term for the standards and practices that guide how information is managed and used in businesses. It provides a framework, which ensures that important data assets are used consistently throughout the organization. But wait, you say, isn’t information management the CIO’s… [Continue Reading]
Best Windows apps this week

Publié: août 12, 2016, 1:33pm CEST par Martin Brinkmann

One-hundred and ninety-three in a series. Welcome to this week's overview of the best apps, games and extensions released for Windows 8.x and Windows 10 in the past seven days. This week saw quite the flurry of articles about the Windows 10 Anniversary Update. Find out how to disable ads and tips, fix update related issues, or slow Internet speed after applying the update. App of the week is Spinster, an interesting media browser for Windows 10 that displays collections -- images or video -- next to each other on the screen. As always, if I missed an app or game… [Continue Reading]
Facebook starts to take more notice of your preferences to personalize your newsfeed

Publié: août 12, 2016, 12:36pm CEST par Mark Wilson

Facebook's constant tinkering with newsfeed algorithms has a tendency to leave people asking what on earth is wrong with a simple chronological display of posts. But the social network -- driven by ads -- feels that it knows better and likes to play with the code that determines what you see. Having made changes to ensure that you see more posts from the people you know (well, Facebook is supposed to be about friends and family...) the latest change sees the social network aiming to bring you posts that are "more personally informative". Facebook uses its Feed Quality Program to… [Continue Reading]
Russia fines Google over breaking antitrust rules with Android

Publié: août 12, 2016, 11:03am CEST par Sam Pudwell

Google has been fined 438 million rubles ($6.75 million) by the Russian antitrust authority for abusing its market position following a complaint by Yandex, Russia’s biggest search engine. Google has been found guilty of forcing Android smartphone makers to install its search engine on their devices, which has been seen to breach "protecting competition" laws. Yelena Zayeva, the head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service’s (FAS) department for regulating communications and IT says that the ruling "will allow the development of competition on the mobile software market in Russia, which will have a positive effect for consumers". In response, Google says: "We have received notice… [Continue Reading]
Ad blockers find a way to circumvent Facebook's ad blocking circumvention

Publié: août 12, 2016, 10:45am CEST par Mark Wilson

Facebook's announcement that it would start to punch through ad blockers to make sure everyone sees ads was met with understandable condemnation and consternation. One of the best known ad blockers, Adblock Plus, soundly criticized the move, saying that it was an example of 'cat-and-mouse games'. And so it begins. Facebook may have said that it will circumvent ad blocking tools, but now ad blockers are fighting back. The open source community has worked is magic and come up with code that circumvents Facebook's circumvention. How meta... Adblock Plus is advising its users to update their filter lists right now… [Continue Reading]
Here we go again! Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14901 for PC arrives on the Fast ring

Publié: août 12, 2016, 1:03am CEST par Wayne Williams

Windows 10 Anniversary Update rolled out to all users last week, but the Windows team doesn’t rest on its laurels for long, and is already working on new builds. Today those Insiders who elected to stay in the program, and not switch back to the current branch, get the first new release for the Fast ring -- Build 14901 for PC. As you might expect, there’s nothing massively exciting happening in this new build. No new features or noticeable changes. As was the case following the release of the November Update last year, Microsoft is mostly focused on making some… [Continue Reading]