Punters with no Software Assurance to cough 15% more from August
Life is about to get more expensive for some folk living in Microsoft’s Office 365 world with a 15 per cent price hike in the offing from August.…
Monthly Archives: July 2014
Use Tor or ‘EXTREMIST’ Tails Linux? Congrats, you’re on an NSA list
Penguinista mag readers, privacy-conscious netizens and more targeted, claims report
Alleged leaked documents about the NSA’s XKeyscore snooping software appear to show the paranoid agency is targeting Tor and Tails users, Linux Journal readers – and anyone else interested in online privacy.…
Qualcomm fires DMCA shotgun at alleged code thieves on GitHub – including itself
Takedown notices issued to dozens of accounts
A company claiming to represent Qualcomm has shut down a number of repositories on source-code sharing site GitHub under provisions of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) – including at least one repository belonging to Qualcomm itself.…
iPhone user SHAMEGASM: ‘I beg of you’, delete sex app from my purchase list
Quick, iVibe, before mum sees
The developer of a vibrator app has told guilty self-touching fanbois that it cannot wipe away their sinful past.…
Start packing your bags for a Windows Server 2003 migration
Or say goodbye to support
Windows Server 2003 is due to reach the end of its life in July next year. Microsoft will no longer support the software, which means no further patches or security updates and a security risk and compliance headache for businesses.…
That AMAZING Windows comeback: Wow – 0.5% growth in 2015
Whoooah, my face is going all floppy with the speed
With new Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella keen to cram Windows into ever more devices, the operating system behemoth is now forecast to swell by no less than HALF a percentage point.…
Free Red Hat clone CentOS-7 is full of Linux Container love
All the glitter of RHEL 7 – without the price tag
The CentOS Project has announced general availability of CentOS-7, the first release of the free Linux distro based on the source code for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.…
But WE want to rule the Internet of STUFF – Intel, Dell, Samsung & chums
Going up against Microsoft, Cisco, Qualcomm and their lot
Intel, Dell, Samsung and Broadcom – among others – have founded a yet another group, dubbed the “Open Interconnect Consortium”, to promote standards that help development of the Internet of Things.…