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People, not technology, drive innovation

Publié: janvier 12, 2017, 7:53pm CET par Robert Corace

Anyone who has worked in the technology industry for a long time will develop a healthy cynicism towards industry buzzwords. They may also come to realize that the majority of technology "paradigms" are adaptations of concepts that have been done before. Digital disruption is not the automatic result of the arrival of new types of tech. Disruption, transformation, innovation -- call it what you will -- comes about as a result of human ingenuity, good fortune, and hard work -- in addition to technology. Take Pokémon Go as an example. Plenty of analysis has been done on why it was so successful. Nothing… [Continue Reading]
Why you should be thanking hackers

Publié: janvier 12, 2017, 7:40pm CET par Rick Delgado

With titles like "cyber terrorist" floating around, hackers have been associated with all things criminal, malicious, and in some cases, just plain psychotic. A fair argument, considering how many cases of identity theft, loss of income, slander, and more have come from a data breach thanks to a keyboard and a few hours. So why should you be thanking hackers? What we have are three different columns of hackers; white hats, gray hats, and black hats. The black hat is the terrorist; the gray hat is the one who doesn’t always do damage but wants to make a point; and… [Continue Reading]
Android overtakes iOS in mobile ad revenue

Publié: janvier 12, 2017, 7:27pm CET par Ian Barker

Analysis of data from billions of mobile ad impressions served during the third quarter of 2016 shows that for the first time Android has passed iOS in terms of revenue generated. The report from real-time advertising platform Smaato shows that based on eCPM (effective cost per thousand impressions) in the third quarter of 2016, Android accounts for 55 percent of global mobile ad revenue generated by publishers compared to 41 percent for iOS, the share of which is eroding. Since Android has the lion's share of the market, accounting for 88 percent of shipments in the quarter, you might expect… [Continue Reading]
StarTech unveils new Thunderbolt 3 product line for Apple MacBook Pro and Windows PC

Publié: janvier 12, 2017, 7:05pm CET par Brian Fagioli

Owning a MacBook Pro (2016) has been a very fun experience. While some people are unhappy not having USB Type-A ports, I am happily embracing the Type-C/Thunderbolt 3 ports. Sure, I have needed a dongle a few times when connecting some devices, but it hasn't been too bad. I've even embraced a USB-C dock (with power delivery) to create a Mac desktop experience in my home -- mouse, keyboard, and monitor. So far, however, I haven't been very satisfied with USB-C docks. I sometimes face issues where USB ports don't work while delivering power. On a few occasions, my connected… [Continue Reading]
Watch Trump's inauguration as POTUS live on Twitter

Publié: janvier 12, 2017, 5:06pm CET par Mark Wilson

A week from tomorrow, on Friday 20 January, Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States and you can watch the whole event on the billionaire's favorite social platform -- Twitter. The social site is teaming up with PBS NewsHour to provide six hours of coverage of Trump's inauguration starting at 11:00 ET. It's an event that millions of people all around the world will be keen to watch -- particularly in light of this week's Russian dossier revelations -- and Twitter is setting up a dedicated page for that very purpose. Between 11:00… [Continue Reading]
View and manage Windows permissions with SetACL Stud

Publié: janvier 12, 2017, 5:04pm CET par Mike Williams

SetACL Studio is an industrial-strength free tool for managing all your Windows security permissions: files, folders, registry keys, printers, drives, network shares, services and more. The program is aimed at sysadmins and other Windows experts, but you don’t have to know about DACLs to find it useful: there’s something here for everyone. SetACL Studio requires installing, and initially tells you it’s a "30-day trial". It was a commercial tool, but the the beginning of the year the developer made it free for both commercial and personal use, and has provided a public license key to unlock the program: RUMH5R-PREMM7-W38EA5-QTSQZ1-1HA1A6-CTXHUQ The… [Continue Reading]
4 reasons to move from Big Data to the Age of Insights

Publié: janvier 12, 2017, 4:54pm CET par Guy Greenberg

In the online world, where data aggregates, compounds and grows at a tremendous pace, your business probably has multiple tools for collecting data. But how many tools does it have for making sense of that data? Are you able to merge or fuse sets of data together to fully understand your users? Do you have a single source of data in order to understand the complete user journey? Are you able to use the data to answer complex business questions? If you answered "yes" to the above questions, you’re a step ahead of many others. According to , online companies… [Continue Reading]
Windows 10's new Dynamic Lock feature locks your PC when you step away

Publié: janvier 12, 2017, 3:59pm CET par Wayne Williams

The forthcoming Creators Update for Windows 10 introduces a lot of new features, including something called Dynamic Lock. This allows Windows 10 to detect when you’re away from your computer and automatically lock the device to prevent anyone accessing it in your absence. You don’t need to have Windows Hello configured to use it. Provided you’re running the latest Insider Preview Build 15002, you can find the Dynamic Lock toggle in Settings. Go to Accounts > Sign-in options and you’ll see it listed there. You can toggle the setting On or Off, but that’s it. There are no other settings,… [Continue Reading]
Opera Neon provides a conceptual look at a potential future Opera web browser

Publié: janvier 12, 2017, 3:59pm CET par Nick Peers

Opera Software has released Opera Neon, the company’s first ever "concept browser". It’s been designed from the ground up to focus on web content and provide a different way of browsing and consuming the web. Despite the fact it’s a concept browser, Opera Neon is based on the existing Opera desktop engine, and so is a fully functional browser in its own right. 2016 saw Opera step up its game, introducing a raft of new features including native ad-blocker, built-in free VPN, battery saver, personal newsreader and video pop-up (this latter feature is present in Opera Neon too). Fire up… [Continue Reading]
Avast launches AVG 2017 range

Publié: janvier 12, 2017, 3:56pm CET par Mike Williams

It’s less than 120 days since Avast acquired AVG, but the company has just released the first results in the 2017 editions of AVG AntiVirus FREE, AVG Internet Security and AVG TuneUp. FREE users will benefit immediately with speedy "Pushed Priority Updates", ensuring they get the same immediate protection as users of the commercial products. Both AVG AntiVirus and Internet Security now use AVAST’s CyberCapture cloud-based smart file scanner, delivering another layer of protection from zero-day threats. The new releases can now be installed and run alongside other security products without conflict. The setup program detects other antivirus engines and… [Continue Reading]
Social apps dominate mobile activity

Publié: janvier 12, 2017, 3:51pm CET par Ian Barker

Yahoo's mobile analytics arm Flurry has released its State of Mobile report for 2016, looking at mobile app activity and trends from the last year. Over the last year, Flurry tracked more than 940,000 applications, across 2.1 billion devices, in 3.2 trillion sessions. Compared to 2015 overall app usage grew by 11 percent and time-spent in apps grew by 69 percent. Growth in some app categories, however, has been at the expense of other apps rather than traditional media. Messaging and social applications for example saw year-on-year growth at 44 percent, while the personalization category lost 46 percent in session… [Continue Reading]
Microsoft dodges Swiss court with changes to Windows 10 privacy settings

Publié: janvier 12, 2017, 3:27pm CET par Mark Wilson

Privacy has been a big issue for users of Windows 10, and the tsunami of complaints about spying has been a major headache for Microsoft. Now the company has managed to avoid a potentially expensive and damaging court case in Switzerland by improving data processing transparency in Windows 10. The Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) has just reached the end of an investigation into Windows that started back in 2015. They found that Windows 10's "get going fast" quick install option automatically enabled invasive data sharing with Microsoft (location details, browser and search history, keyboard entries and… [Continue Reading]
Samsung rolling out Android Nougat for Galaxy S7, Galaxy S7 edge

Publié: janvier 12, 2017, 2:02pm CET par Mihăiță Bamburic

Samsung announced in late-December that it would release Android Nougat for the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge in January. And it has lived up to its promise, as the much-awaited software update is now rolling out for the two flagships. At the time of writing this article, the official Android Nougat update is only available for Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge users who joined the Galaxy Beta Program, but it is expected to be rolled out to more customers in the following days. SamMobile, which reported on the roll out only moments ago, said earlier this week that the software update will be officially… [Continue Reading]
Yahoo's security is a huge mess

Publié: janvier 12, 2017, 2:01pm CET par Mark Crowther

The latest reports on the data breach revelations at Yahoo, suggest that the company lost data for more than one billion users as far back as August 2013 and that the data is suspected to contain names, email addresses, hashed passwords, security questions and associated answers. In addition, Yahoo has stated that the attackers have accessed Yahoo proprietary code used to generate cookies for user access without credentials. This major breach raises a number of questions, including: why did it take so long to identify and notify authorities about it? What are the implications for Yahoo users? What might this… [Continue Reading]
HTC's U Ultra flagship is an epic fail

Publié: janvier 12, 2017, 1:14pm CET par Mihăiță Bamburic

HTC has a serious problem: it cannot deliver a flagship worth getting excited about. A while back, the company at least tried to do things differently, to get consumers talking, but lately it seems happy just to have a new high-end smartphone on the market -- even if everyone knows it's way behind the competition. Last year's flagship, called HTC 10, was better than its most-recent predecessors, but it failed to stand out against devices like Apple's iPhone 6s and Samsung's Galaxy S7. So no one cared about it. This year's HTC U Ultra is no different -- it's probably the most uninspiring device… [Continue Reading]
Europe: we need more details from Yahoo about scanning emails for US intelligence

Publié: janvier 12, 2017, 12:47pm CET par Mark Wilson

The European Union is not happy with the explanation Yahoo has given for scanning user emails for US intelligence. There is concern about how such surveillance could impact upon not only privacy, but also business between the EU and US, and trust has to be built from scratch as Donald Trump becomes president. Yahoo -- which is on the verge of being sold to Verizon -- is not signed up to the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield agreement that blocks the US from spying on European data. As such, the company has been acting on a previously-secret court order, gathering data for… [Continue Reading]
New platform detects and blocks attacks using behavior patterns

Publié: janvier 12, 2017, 11:59am CET par Ian Barker

Traditional security solutions rely on detecting an attack based on existing information, which allows zero-day threats to slip through the net. Israel-based Nyotron is launching a new generation of its PARANOID security platform designed to block attacks before they occur, regardless of threat type or method used to access the network. It works by mapping and understanding what normal computer behavior looks like and what to do when suspicious behavior tries to damage data on an endpoint. Once implemented, the software can monitor system calls for normal, suspicious or malicious behavior attempts. This means that regardless of the type of… [Continue Reading]
Now it's easy to secretly edit Facebook posts without anyone noticing

Publié: janvier 12, 2017, 11:23am CET par Mark Wilson

There is a lot of talk about the possibility of editing tweets on Twitter at the moment, but an editing function has been available on Facebook for ages. With the ability to edit posts that people can comment on come concerns, and with this in mind Facebook has always let you know when a post you're reading has been amended. Until now... Without warning, the label which advised of edits has vanished. This means that it is now possible to make surreptitious changes to posts and many people will be completely unaware of what you have done. Towards the end of last… [Continue Reading]
Citrix acquires Unidesk for its layering technology

Publié: janvier 12, 2017, 9:37am CET par Sead Fadilpašić

Citrix has announced that it has acquired Unidesk, a company that created layering. The technology allows for the separation of Windows applications from the operating system. The value of the acquisition was not disclosed. What we do know, however, is that we can expect a much tighter cooperation between Microsoft and Citrix. "Unidesk has been recognized by customers and industry analysts as the clear leader in application layering, offering multiple unique advantages that streamline secure app delivery and VDI deployments and make them easier to manage", says Jeroen van Rotterdam, senior vice president of Engineering at Citrix. "By incorporating Unidesk technology into… [Continue Reading]