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Comguard launches Windows 8 virus removal support
Comguard today announced the launch of first virus removal device to support Windows 8 PCs from FixMeStick in Middle East.
Mobile malware, mainly aimed at Android devices, jumps 614% in a year
The number of mobile malware apps has jumped 614 percent in the last year, according to studies conducted by McAfee and Juniper Networks.
Nokia's new Lumia 1020 debuts with 41-megapixel camera
Nokia debuted the latest addition to its Windows Phone line-up on Thursday in the form of the oft-rumoured Lumia 1020, featuring a 41-megapixel PureView camera.
Yahoo says release of secret FISA court order will prove it resisted directives
Yahoo wants the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to order the public release of a secret order in a 2008 surveillance dispute.
Amazon slashes prices up to 80% to lure public cloud-weary enterprises
Amazon Web Services Wednesday dropped the price of its dedicated instances, which are virtual machines allocated to individual customers and that do not run on shared hardware.
Cloud and data centre virtualisation uptake hampered by ageing legacy systems, Brocade finds
The biggest barrier to adopting these new technologies, Brocade said in a statement, seemed to be having to sustain – at great cost – ageing legacy systems.
Do-it-yourself Big Data
Gulf Air shunned the expensive solutions of the big vendors jumping on the Big Data bandwagon, and became the first Middle East organisation to implement the technology by embracing open-source software with an in-house team.
BlackBerry can rise from the ashes as a leader in MDM
BlackBerry the company will survive, but it’s time to throw in the towel on BlackBerry the mobile platform vendor.
Prism harming US cloud provider business, European Commission claims
US cloud providers could miss out on billions of euros of business from European customers due to data privacy fears around the Prism surveillance programme, the European Commission has claimed.
Oracle quietly slashes BI software prices
Oracle has quietly cut the list price of its flagship BI (business intelligence) Foundation Suite significantly, possibly in response to increased market competition.
Windows 8 finally passes Vista in OS market share
Microsoft’s Windows 8 is now a more popular operating system than the reviled Windows Vista, eliminating a source of embarrassment as Microsoft’s latest OS slowly continues to gather steam.
Prism should make businesses think twice about cloud computing
Businesses worldwide need to re-think their use of cloud computing, in light of recent revelations around the Prism and Tempora surveillance programmes, according to independent privacy advocate Caspar Bowden.
Citadel malware variant uses content localisation to target brands and users in different countries
Malware modifies localised versions of social networks, banks and e-commerce sites when accessed from infected computers.
Oracle, NetSuite team on cloud services for mid-size customers
Oracle and NetSuite are to jointly offer cloud services to mid-size business customers.
Despite new malware scanning, Chrome Web Store security still falls short
While important, Google’s new policy of scanning apps for malware before making them available on the official Chrome Web Store falls short of providing maximum protection, one expert says.
Creating memories
Software AG-acquired Terracotta is making big moves in Big Data; its in-memory tools have seen 2.5 million deployments. Chief evangelist Gagan Mehar talks to CNME about the hype surrounding Big Data and the company’s love/hate relationship with SAP’s in-memory technology, HANA.
Apple OSes to narrow gap with Windows, says Gartner
Shipments of devices based on Apple’s Mac OS and iOS will close the gap on those of products running all flavours of Windows over the next two years.
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Gartner to businesses: Get ready for broad deployment of Windows 8.1
Gartner is giving the thumbs up to Windows 8.1, crediting the operating system refresh with overcoming the major downsides of Windows 8.