Apple this week followed the lead of rivals like Facebook, Google and Microsoft, offering two-step authentication to help customers secure their Apple IDs against hacking. The new feature is designed to block unauthorised changes to ...
Fujitsu has paid $1.2 billion into its pension funds for current and former U.K. employees, and renegotiated cuts to ongoing pension contributions, freeing up cash to grow other areas of its U.K. business, the company said Monday. The ...
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There's a maxim in the data center business that holds that you can't manage what you can't measure, and eBay has come up with a new metric designed to make it easier to measure -- and therefore manage -- data center performance. The ...
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A "virtual lab" emulation environment can meet the challenges of complex SoC design verification, writes Richard Pugh of Mentor Graphics If you are verifying an SoC, you generally have three options when logic simulation runs out of steam ...
CIOs and IT managers tracking the progress of the SharePoint-Yammer integration got more details about the road map this week, but the updates were a sobering reminder of the long road ahead as Microsoft works to mesh the two products. ...
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A new piece of custom malware sold on the underground Internet market is being used to siphon payment card data from point-of-sale (POS) systems, according to security researchers from antivirus vendor McAfee. Dubbed vSkimmer, the ...
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A new piece of custom malware sold on the underground Internet market is being used to siphon payment card data from point-of-sale (POS) systems, according to security researchers from antivirus vendor McAfee. Dubbed vSkimmer, the ...
Tags: Vskimmer Malware, Point-of-Sale Systems, Computer Products
War Horse, the now legendary World War I drama depicting the devotion of a boy to his horse, has moved stage audiences in the UK and US, winning five 2011 Tony Awards. One of the most striking elements of the show is its highly evocative ...
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Microsoft has released a number of enhancements to Windows Azure that will make it easier to deploy and manage Hadoop clusters and integrate more mobile apps with the cloud platform. To simplify the roll out of big data applications, ...
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BlackBerry Z10 sales kick off this Friday in the U.S., but it is still unclear how popular the smartphone and its Q10 cousin running BlackBerry 10 will be, amid a number of contradictory predictions and indicators. AT&T will put the Z10 ...
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Business intelligence software provider Tableau Software has updated its namesake software with additional tools for connecting to the sources of data in the cloud. "There is clearly a big surge of cloud-based data sources," said Francois ...
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Simon Segars will become CEO of ARM when Warren East retires on July 1, the company said on Tuesday. Segars is currently ARM’s president. As CEO, he will take charge of a fast-growing company whose processor designs are used in most ...
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Hewlett-Packard may seek damages of US$4 billion to $4.2 billion from Oracle in its lawsuit over support for Itanium server architecture. An economist that HP plans to call in the case made the estimate at an evidentiary hearing on Monday ...
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Nvidia has introduced the concept of remote graphics acceleration in Windows, Linux or Mac-based clients. Called the Nvidia Grid Visual Computing Appliance (VCA) runs complex video applications such as those from Adobe Systems and ...
QLogic's technology for clustered cache storage on SAN adapters will hit the market this month in the form of adapters with integrated 200GB or 400GB flash cards. The company announced the technology last year and called it Mt. Rainier. ...