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Announcement Announcement 68 articles, 2016-03-23 18:03 1 Android Pay is coming to the UK, Google’s first market in Europe (2.00/3) Now signing up 1.5 million users each week in the U. S., Android Pay, Google's payment platform and mobile wallet for Android devices and apps, is coming to.. 2016-03-23 18:02 2KB feedproxy.google.com 2 Bill Gates calls for tighter safeguards on bulk data collection Gates discusses the iPhone case, AI and the Microsoft Surface Book in his latest Reddit chat,Business Software,Privacy ,Microsoft,Bill Gates,Windows 10,Artificial Intelligence 2016-03-23 18:02 2KB www.computing.co.uk 3 Opera to add native ad blocker to desktop web browser Need for speed? Opera's web browser will come with a built-in speedometer ,Software,Internet,Internet of Things,Cloud and Infrastructure ,Opera,Opera Software,Browsers 2016-03-23 18:02 2KB www.computing.co.uk 4 US Department of Defense to migrate millions of PCs to Windows 10 - in just one year DoD to migrate four million desktops in just one year - or, at least, that's the plan,Operating Systems,Software ,Windows,Windows 10,Microsoft,Department of Defense,operating system 2016-03-23 18:02 3KB www.computing.co.uk 5 AI is coming, so we'd better start preparing for it Francois Tung of law firm Pinsent Masons examines the legal implications of rapidly improving artificial intelligence,Cloud and Infrastructure,Software,Legislation and Regulation ,Artificial Intelligence,Machine Learning,Pinsent Masons 2016-03-23 18:02 1017Bytes www.computing.co.uk 6 Security flaw affecting thousands of Linux apps and IoT devices uncovered Flaw in glibc open source code library leaves Linux-based devices open to malware,Cloud and Infrastructure,Open Source,Software,Operating Systems ,Linux,security,Internet of Things,IoT 2016-03-23 18:02 3KB www.computing.co.uk 7 Office 365 suffers European outage due to 'high resource utilisation' So - lag, basically,Business Software,Appliances ,Microsoft,Azure,Azure outage,Office 365 outage,SMB Spotlight,smb-services 2016-03-23 18:02 2KB www.computing.co.uk 8 HSCIC completes migration to NHS Spine 2 backbone New NHS Spine is 'the biggest public-sector IT system to be built entirely on open source software', claims HSCIC,Health,Open Source ,HSCIC,NHS 2016-03-23 18:02 3KB www.computing.co.uk 9 Microsoft unveils Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection service for enterprise customers Microsoft to add a post-breach layer of protection to the Windows 10 security stack,Software,Security ,Microsoft,Cyber security,Azure,Cloud,Windows 10 2016-03-23 18:02 3KB www.computing.co.uk 10 Oracle users warned over virtualisation software licence risks “It's simply not clear what Oracle’s contractual position is in reference to virtualised hardware,” warns software company,Software,Cloud and Infrastructure ,Oracle,TmaxSoft,Virtualisation 2016-03-23 18:02 3KB www.computing.co.uk 11 Blockchain-as-a-Service and open-sourcing of platform code among a slew of blockchain announcements from IBM IBM determined not to miss out on the predicted blockchain boom,Developer ,blockchain,Bitcoin,IBM,IBM Watson Internet of Things,Internet of Things,z Systems,London Stock Exchange,The Linux Foundation,Jim Zemlin,Bluemix,Cloud Computing 2016-03-23 18:02 4KB www.computing.co.uk 12 Apple unveils iPhone SE with 4in screen and specs to match iPhone 6S Firm aims to meet demand for more compact smartphones,Operating Systems,Mobile Phones ,Apple,iPhone 2016-03-23 18:02 2KB www.computing.co.uk 13 Why bet365 is open sourcing its Erlang code Bet365's Chandru Mullaparthi explains why the online betting giant has adopted Erlang – and why you should, too,Open Source,Big Data and Analytics ,Erlang,bet365,open source 2016-03-23 18:02 835Bytes www.computing.co.uk 14 Microsoft tempts Oracle customers with free SQL Server 2016 licences Microsoft says firms can save by switching, but they must be signed up for Software Assurance licensing,Applications,Licensing,Big Data and Analytics ,Microsoft,Oracle,SQL Server,databases,SQL,licence 2016-03-23 18:02 4KB www.computing.co.uk 15 Intel shoots for 3D broadcasting with Replay Technologies acquisition The acquisition is indicative of growing digital transformation across industries ,Strategy,Hardware,Business Software ,Intel,Data,IBM,Digital 2016-03-23 18:02 2KB www.computing.co.uk 16 Oracle’s 'traumatic' licensing methodology works, so it won’t change, says Specsavers global CIO It took Specsavers nine months to renegotiate a licensing deal with Oracle, but it didn't have to, says Phil Pavitt ,Licensing,Leadership ,Oracle,software licensing,SMB Spotlight,smb-services 2016-03-23 18:02 3KB www.computing.co.uk 17 Next Mayor of London should appoint a CIO, CTO or CDO, says advisory board CDO is the preferred option, according to panel of experts appointed by the Mayor to advise on technology ,Leadership,Open Source ,CIO,Mayor of London,Open Data 2016-03-23 18:02 3KB www.computing.co.uk 18 Steve Jobs tried to make email 'a walled garden' in the 1980s, reveals inventor of email file attachment “I realised that was not the way it should go” says open sourcer Nathaniel Borenstein,Open Source ,email,Mimecast,Steve Jobs 2016-03-23 18:02 3KB www.computing.co.uk 19 Big data in big numbers - it's time to forget the 'three Vs' and look at real-world figures The term 'big data' has lost its meaning, says Sean Jackson, who offers some numbers to explain its impact in the here and now,Business Software ,Big Data and Analytics,Exasol,in- memory database,Gartner,Moore's law,Google,Facebook,Analytics,Internet of Things 2016-03-23 18:02 1KB www.computing.co.uk 20 Oracle's 'gun to the head' licensing: if I were them I'd do the same, says Linux Foundation board director But they won't be able to do it for ever, says Frank Fanzilli of EnterpriseDB,Open Source ,postgres,NoSQL,SQL Server,Oracle,EnterpriseDB,mongoDB,mariadb,open source,Cloud Computing,The Linux Foundation,Exasol 2016-03-23 18:02 1KB www.computing.co.uk 21 Google's AlphaGo AI smashes top professional at ancient game of Go First Chess, now Go. What next? Buckaroo? Ker-Plunk?,Software,Internet of Things ,Artificial Intelligence,Google,AlphaGo,DeepMind 2016-03-23 18:02 2KB www.computing.co.uk 22 London fintech startup GoCardless raises $13M to bring recurring payments platform to more countries GoCardless has become somewhat of a poster child for the London fintech scene. Offering an alternative to card payments, the startup provide's a simple way.. 2016-03-23 18:02 3KB feedproxy.google.com 23 India’s BigBasket lands $150M to expand its online grocery service There's more money flowing into India's e-commerce space after BigBasket, a Bangalore- based company that focuses on groceries, landed a $150 million.. 2016-03-23 18:02 2KB feedproxy.google.com 24 Cherubic Ventures announces $120M early-stage fund for U. S., China and rest of Asia Cherubic Ventures, an early-stage VC firm with a focus on the U. S. and Asia, has announced a new fund targeted at $120 million. 2016-03-23 18:02 2KB feedproxy.google.com 25 Nigerian e-commerce site, DealDey, gets acquired by Ringier Ringier Africa Deals Group, a joint venture between Swiss Ringier Africa AG and South African Silvertree Internet Holdings Ltd., acquired Nigerian online.. 2016-03-23 18:02 3KB feedproxy.google.com 26 Gaming technology helps create better X-rays Researchers have developed software for the Microsoft Kinect gaming console that measures body part thickness and checks for motion, positioning and beam adjustment immediately before X-ray imaging, according to a new feasibility study. 2016-03-23 15:58 2KB feeds.sciencedaily.com 27 Powerful tool predicts wave behavior at all depths of sea A new harbor or windmill park at sea will continuously undergo the forces of breaking water waves. Those waves have, on their way from the deepest ocean to more shallow coastal waters, undergone lots of changes. Researchers developed mathematical models for very fast calculation of the... 2016-03-23 15:58 2KB feeds.sciencedaily.com 28 Ice sheet modeling of Greenland, Antarctica helps predict sea-level rise Predicting the expected loss of ice sheet mass is difficult due to the complexity of modeling ice sheet behavior. To better understand this loss, a team of researchers has been improving the reliability and efficiency of computational models that describe ice sheet behavior and dynamics. 2016-03-23 17:00 7KB feeds.sciencedaily.com 29 FileHippo News - powered by FeedBurner The clock is ticking for owners of certain models of Kindle e-readers as the deadline to install a critical update is looming. Today’s... 2016-03-23 04:16 20KB feeds2.feedburner.com 30 The AIX Minecraft Project Makes Thinking Software Possible Programming book reviews, programming tutorials,programming news, C#, Ruby, Python,C, C++, PHP, Visual Basic, Computer book reviews, computer history, programming history, joomla, theory, spreadsheets and more. 2016-03-23 13:31 4KB www.i-programmer.info 31 CCleaner 5.16 FINAL tweaks browser cleaning tools Piriform Software has released CCleaner 5.16 and CCleaner 5.16 Portable for Windows PCs. Once again, the latest release focuses on fine-tuning the program’s browser-cleaning tools, with tweaks for Opera, Chrome and Edge the major highlights. Piriform Software has released CCleaner 5... 2016-03-23 13:16 2KB feeds.betanews.com 32 Microsoft and Wistron deepen collaboration with Android patent licensing renewal REDMOND, Wash., and TAIPEI, Taiwan — March 7, 2016 — On Monday, Microsoft Corp..
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