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High expectations for the potential of Facebook-like social networks that work behind the corporate firewall have mostly met with frustration, but now a new player appears set to enter the game: Facebook. According to a report in the Financial Times this weekend, Facebook …
Latest Windows 10 build sports new touchpad gestures, revamped OneDrive
Microsoft Corp. has pushed out a new release of its work in-progress Windows 10 operating system. Called Build 9879, the latest edition includes an improved OneDrive file management system, new gesture controls, new icons and the ability to hide taskbar buttons. The release …
Amazon’s enterprise push: “We’re in it to win it” | #reinvent
“The message from Amazon is, “we’re going to win the enterprise”, they’re serious now and they’re showing some proof points.” That’s how theCUBE host John Furrier sees it at the close of this year’s AWS Re:invent 2014 conference, and it’s true there’s …
US judge rules Iran’s top-level domain cannot be seized
A global diplomatic crisis seems to have been averted after a Washington DC judge ruled that it’s unlawful to seize a country’s Internet domain registry. Lawyers working on behalf of nine American citizens who were inured during an Iranian-sponsored bombing in Jerusalem …
Amazon spins out ‘lifecycle management’ tools for cloudy devs
Amazon Web Services Inc. considers itself to be quite the expert when it comes to deploying apps in the cloud, and it’s just underlined that point with the launch of a new range of tools for developers to improve their cloudy app’s …
Chinese hackers took out the NOAA’s weather satellites
Chinese hackers have been blamed for an attack on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) weather forecasting systems, which caused a multi-day data outage when the agency reacted to the breach in October. The NOAA, which is the parent of the …
AWS launches Aurora relational database in the cloud
Amazon Web Services Inc., has just taken a shot at rival Oracle Corp., with the release of a new, cloud-based relational database service that it claims will deliver better performance at a fraction of the cost of on-premises installations. Called Amazon RDS …
Microsoft patches 19-year old “unicorn-like” bug
Microsoft Corp. has patched what it describes as a critical bug in its Windows operating system that’s been present in all versions stretching back to Windows 95, according to reports. The bug could potentially allow hackers to gain remote control of any …
Microsoft scraps Lync, rolls out new “Skype for Business”
Microsoft Corp. has finally seen sense and realized that it’s a bit confusing having two instant messaging/VoIP programs on the go at once. Hence, it’s decided to kill off the least popular version, Microsoft Lync, and replaced it with a new program …
Red Hat launches Atomic Host platform for Docker containers
Docker containers are disrupting the world of virtualization, but IT still requires an operating system framework on which to run and manage them. Now, Red Hat Inc., has just launched the public beta of an OS it believes is ideally suited to …