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Microsoft to flip the kill switch on older Windows 10 Insider Preview Builds

Publié: septembre 14, 2016, 8:38pm CEST par Wayne Williams

You don’t need a valid license to run a Windows 10 Insider Preview Build on your PC. Each build is time-limited, but a new version will be released before the previous one expires. Provided you keep updating your system to the latest build, you’ll have no problems. However, if you’ve installed a preview build and not updated it -- hey, free Windows! -- Microsoft is about to flip a kill switch that will stop it working entirely. Starting from tomorrow, September 15th, older versions of Insider builds will begin displaying daily build expiration notifications. If you fail to take action,… [Continue Reading]
LG and Samsung facing class action lawsuit over alleged 'no poaching' agreement

Publié: septembre 14, 2016, 8:17pm CEST par Anthony Spadafora

A civil lawsuit filed in a Northern California federal court has accused Samsung and LG of having a clandestine agreement not to poach each other's employees in the US. The suit was filed by a former LG sales manager who is accusing Samsung and LG of antitrust violations and believes the two South Korean companies have worked together to drive down employee wages. This case is reminiscent of the one which was filed against Apple, Google and other tech companies last year that resulted in a $415 million settlement. Samsung has declined to comment on the case, but an LG… [Continue Reading]
Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14926 for PC and Mobile arrives on the Fast ring, introduces experimental features

Publié: septembre 14, 2016, 7:57pm CEST par Wayne Williams

It’s been two weeks since Microsoft rolled out a new Windows 10 build to Insiders on the Fast ring. In that time the company has been busy upgrading its build monitoring services. Today, it's business as usual once more, as the company releases Build 14926 for PC and Mobile. The latest build is well worth the wait as this not only fixes the issue that was killing Wi-Fi for some users, and the problem causing bluescreen crashes for Kindle owners, but introduces several notable new features. First up is the ability to "snooze" a tab in Microsoft Edge. This experimental… [Continue Reading]
Enter the 2016 'Doodle 4 Google' contest now, using 'What I see for the future' theme

Publié: septembre 14, 2016, 7:06pm CEST par Brian Fagioli

Between the rather contentious USA presidential election, natural disasters, terrorism, gun crimes, and other terrible things reported in the news, it is a wonder that people get out of bed in the morning. With that said, positive news just doesn't get as much coverage, making the negativity seem overly prominent. There is plenty of good in the world, folks. Be happy. Today, Google launches its 2016 'Doodle 4 Google' contest with a focus on fun and good. If you aren't familiar, it invites children across the USA (grades K-12) to use art skills to 'doodle' the Google logo, focusing on a… [Continue Reading]
Twitter releases free video app for Microsoft Xbox One, Amazon Fire TV, and Apple TV

Publié: septembre 14, 2016, 6:37pm CEST par Brian Fagioli

When people think of Twitter, their minds might conjure images of short-form messages filled with emoji. While it is much more than that, it is how some people view the social network. Lately, however, the company is looking to expand into other markets, such as streaming media. As a publicly-traded company, Twitter could be looking to rejuvenate a relatively stagnant stock. Today, Twitter announces that its streaming video is no longer limited to your phones and tablets. Yes, folks, it is finally time for Twitter's video in your living room, as the company releases a free app for three popular TV-connected… [Continue Reading]
CloudBees brings enterprise-strength reliability to Jenkins

Publié: septembre 14, 2016, 6:33pm CEST par Ian Barker

The Jenkins open-source automation server is popular with businesses, and is easily extended by community contributions. But these contributions don't always receive the rigorous testing that enterprises require. Until now that is, Jenkins specialist CloudBees is launching CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise, a verified Jenkins distribution aimed directly at enterprise users. Announced at this week's Jenkins World conference in Santa Clara, the distribution has undergone a new comprehensive testing and verification process called the CloudBees Assurance Program. This ensures a stable and certified distribution of Jenkins, along with curated extensions from the community and third parties, all of which are now certified… [Continue Reading]
Ping Identity partners with Microsoft to deliver secure application access

Publié: septembre 14, 2016, 5:38pm CEST par Ian Barker

Many large enterprises use Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) as their identity platform for managing users and providing secure access to thousands of cloud SaaS and on-premises applications. Secure access company Ping Identity is announcing a collaboration with Microsoft to deliver integrations that will expand secure remote access and single sign-on (SSO) from any device to more on-premises web applications for Microsoft Azure AD customers. Azure AD handles over a billion authentications daily to more than nine million directories. However, connecting the full set of legacy and custom on-premises apps to these environments can be challenging. This integration with Ping… [Continue Reading]
GCHQ plans Great British Firewall to protect web users

Publié: septembre 14, 2016, 4:44pm CEST par Ian Barker

The UK's cyber intelligence agency GCHQ is planning what has been labelled a 'Great British Firewall' to protect individuals and companies against cyber attacks. The idea emerged in a speech delivered by the head of GCHQ's national cybersecurity centre, Ciaran Martin, at the Billington Cyber Security Summit in Washington DC. "The great majority of cyber attacks are not terribly sophisticated. They can be defended against. And even if they get through their impact can be contained. But far too many of these basic attacks are getting through. And they are doing far too much damage," says Martin. "They're damaging our… [Continue Reading]
CloudMagic gets rebranded to Newton, adds subscription-based premium features

Publié: septembre 14, 2016, 4:41pm CEST par Mihăiță Bamburic

Subscriptions can generate a lot of revenue for developers, which is why we are seeing them in so many apps these days. And it is not just new titles that now involve regular payments, as subscriptions are making their way to existing apps as well. This is now the case with CloudMagic, one of the best -- and my favorite -- cross-platform email apps. It just got an update that changes its name to Newton and adds a number of new, premium features. The latest extras are offered as a rather costly one-year subscription. The transition from CloudMagic to Newton has read… [Continue Reading]
Dell EMC sells Enterprise Content Division to OpenText

Publié: septembre 14, 2016, 4:12pm CEST par Sead Fadilpašić

Dell EMC continues to offload unwanted divisions within the new company, and the latest victim is its Enterprise Content Division (ECD), including Documentum. They have been acquired by enterprise information management company Opentext.com, for $1.62 billion (£1.22bn). The transaction is still subject to regulatory approvals, and is expected to close within 90 to 120 days. All software, associated services, and employees of ECD will be integrated into OpenText. OpenText hopes to "further strengthen its vertical offerings, customer base, managed services, and geographical coverage". The acquisition was made with the help of Barclays, which served as a financial advisor to OpenText and also provided… [Continue Reading]
American Express customers phished using phishing prevention scam

Publié: septembre 14, 2016, 3:08pm CEST par Ian Barker

In a rather ironic twist on traditional phishing attacks, customers of American Express are being targeted by a campaign promising them an identity theft and phishing prevention tool. The phishing emails offer SafeKey use as bait. This is a legitimate program that Amex offers its customers as an additional layer of security to guard against ID theft and phishing. The scam uncovered by Comodo Labs plays on deep-seated identity theft concerns to actually perpetrate large scale identity theft. The hackers have taken a great deal of care in the design of the messages employed to make them look, feel and… [Continue Reading]
Amazon Echo finally comes to UK and Germany

Publié: septembre 14, 2016, 1:18pm CEST par Wayne Williams

Amazon released Echo in the US a year ago, and has introduced a wealth of additional features to it since. You can use the Bluetooth and Wi-Fi-enabled cylindrical speaker to get answers to your questions, order food, request a taxi, play music and even control your home. For those of us in Europe the wait for Echo -- and its personal voice assistant Alexa -- has been a long one, but today the retail giant announces the device is finally set to be made available in the UK and Germany. The device will officially launch on September 28, although pre-orders… [Continue Reading]
Amazon Echo, Echo Dot finally come to UK and Germany

Publié: septembre 14, 2016, 1:18pm CEST par Wayne Williams

Amazon released Echo in the US a year ago, and has introduced a wealth of additional features to it since. You can use the Bluetooth and Wi-Fi-enabled cylindrical speaker to get answers to your questions, order food, request a taxi, play music and even control your home. For those of us in Europe the wait for Echo -- and its personal voice assistant Alexa -- has been a long one, but today the retail giant announces the device is finally set to be made available in the UK and Germany. The device will officially launch on September 28, although pre-orders… [Continue Reading]
One in five companies fail to test for security vulnerabilities

Publié: septembre 14, 2016, 12:25pm CEST par Ian Barker

Many businesses don't carry out frequent security testing despite believing that it's critically important to securing their systems and data, according to a new survey. The study from managed security services company Trustwave and Osterman Research finds that one in five businesses surveyed don't do any security testing, despite the fact that 95 percent of respondents reported encountering common security issues associated with security vulnerabilities. Among other findings are that when organizations do conduct testing, most do it using a combination of in-house resources and third-party testing services, although two in five organizations manage security testing only in-house. Among the… [Continue Reading]
IBM introduces new servers for AI workloads

Publié: septembre 14, 2016, 11:55am CEST par Sead Fadilpašić

IBM introduced a series of new servers dubbed "x86 killers". The devices, designed to give a significant boost to artificial intelligence, deep learning and advanced data analytics, were picked up by the Chinese telecommunications company Tencent, and IBM claims the results are basically out of this world. "A large cluster of the new IBM OpenPOWER servers was able to run a data-intensive workload three times faster than its former x86-based infrastructure", IBM says in a press release. "While reducing the total number of servers used by two-thirds". The first of the three, and obviously the flagship server, is the IBM… [Continue Reading]
NeuralStyler: Prisma for the desktop?

Publié: septembre 14, 2016, 10:59am CEST par Mike Williams

The popular mobile app Prisma has been making headlines recently with its ability to transform images into works of art using the styles of various artists. Now the open-source NeuralStyler is claiming to deliver similar results on the desktop, for both pictures and videos. This isn’t just ordinary pixel-based filtering, according to the developer. Instead NeuralStyler uses "artificial intelligence" to convert your source media using styles of artists like Van Gogh, Wassily Kandinsky and Georges Seurat. These are big claims, but they’re easy to test for yourself. There’s no installation required, and no account to create as the program works… [Continue Reading]
Logitech K780 multi-device wireless keyboard first impressions [Review]

Publié: septembre 14, 2016, 9:00am CEST par Brian Fagioli

One of the biggest pain points for dual-booting computer users is Bluetooth devices. This is because every time you switch operating systems, you must do the pairing all over again. For a keyboard in particular, this is a big hassle. Logitech solved this dilemma in 2014 with the wonderful K480, and today, it unveils an update to the that model. The all-new K780 MultiDevice Wireless Keyboard is designed for Windows, Mac, Chrome OS, Android, and iOS -- it will work on traditional Linux distros too. It is thinner than its predecessor (thankfully), while adding a number pad. I have been testing this new… [Continue Reading]
HP adopts Microsoft's Dynamics CRM

Publié: septembre 14, 2016, 8:24am CEST par Anthony Spadafora

HP is turning away from Salesforce and Oracle software to run its sales processes and now plans to use Microsoft Dynamics customer relationship management (CRM) software exclusively in its sales and support departments. The two companies have entered into a six-year contract and plan to roll out Dynamics CRM to 6,500 of HP's sales staff and 20,000 of its support personnel. Though the dollar amount of this deal is still unknown, around 50 percent of the company's workforce will now use Microsoft's software and services to manage their relationships with customers. This agreement is also a big deal for Microsoft,… [Continue Reading]
Apple 'Swift Playgrounds' coding app now available for iPad tablets running iOS 10

Publié: septembre 14, 2016, 6:20am CEST par Brian Fagioli

Today has been a great day for Apple device owners. The company released iOS 10 for compatible iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch devices. In addition, tvOS 10 was released for Apple TV, while watchOS 3 was made available for Apple Watch. All of these operating system upgrades are impressive, making the Apple devices even better. Not everything released by Apple today is operating system related, however, as the previously announced Swift Playgrounds app is released too. This iPad-only app is designed to help young learners to code. With that said, there is no reason why coding beginners of all ages can't get it… [Continue Reading]
Roku gets PEN (People / Entertainment Weekly Network)

Publié: septembre 14, 2016, 2:11am CEST par Brian Fagioli

Streaming media is more than just TV, movies, and sports. If you are more interested in real events -- as opposed to just mindless fiction -- there are plenty of news, lifestyle, and public interest options too. Heck, even Hollywood gossip can be a nice escape from the stresses of daily life. Today, Roku gains access to the PEN channel. Not familiar with it? Neither was I, but it is actually very cool. It is a joint partnership between two major media publications -- People and Entertainment Weekly. This looks to be a match made in heaven, as they both offer entertainment… [Continue Reading]