for business customers to leverage that transformation and work seamlessly with Salesforce and Good for Enterprise. , HP has worked to expand its sphere of influence in software and services. Salesforce, meanwhile, is one of the leading customer relationship management (CRM) platform vendors. The company's name has become synonymous with cloud-based business tools, and HP believes that many of its customers rely on Salesforce to get things done. And so HP developed a new app: HP Relate, a cloud-based tool that integrates with Salesforce and enables users to easily create documents, sales quotes, business proposals, marketing, and correspondence. HP believes that HP Relate will allow users to spend less time focusing on creating content, and more time engaging directly with the customer. HP Relate is available immediately from the Salesforce AppExchange marketplace.
With everyone busy talking about the Xbox One, the PS4, and games, games, games on the eve of the E3 expo, HP has engaged in a bit of clever counter-programming by announcing several new commercial desktop PCs. This all-in-one PC is designed to appeal to IT admins and business-class users, thanks to Intel's vPro technology that promotes energy-efficient performance, security, and manageability. Systems with vPro use an independently powered discrete processor with its own firmware to monitor system memory. It doesn't require the system's main CPU or operating system to function, allowing an IT admin to access a computer remotely even if it's shut down or unable to boot due to the presence of a virus, operating-system corruption, or other serious problems. The system includes Intel's fouth-generation Core i5 or Core i7 processor as well as two DIMM slots that enable up to 16GB of DDR3/1600 memory. The 23-inch, 1920-by-1080-pixel screen is available with or without 10-point capacitive touch, and HP offers a myriad of stand options, including the ability to mount it to the wall or on an articulated arm via its VESA mount.
Upgrade your firewalls, insist on 16-character passwords, and apply all your security patches the day they come out. None of that may matter: The sad reality is that the biggest computer crime your organization is likely to face is the physical theft of a mobile device, should one of your traveling sales staff find their car broken into and their laptop bag stolen or merely become the victim of a subway bump-and-grab. . Today, thieves are finding that smartphones are even easier targets, and theft of these devices is becoming rampant. In San Francisco, fully half of all robberies now involve a cell phone—yet users have no qualms about walking down streets in the worst possible neighborhoods, their heads buried in their phones, oblivious to the world around them. New York has seen a 40-percent spike in cell phone thefts in the last year. .
Sandisk's newly launched Extreme II SSD offers a nice blend of price and performance. In its larger capacities, the drive retails for considerably less than a buck a gigabyte, and it's one of the fastest drives with large files that we've tested. Its performance with small files, on the other hand, is merely average, and the drop-off in write performance from the 240- and 480GB models to the 120GB version is steep. Sandisk has ditched the SandForce SF-2281 controller found in the original Extreme series, and equipped the 7mm profile, 6Gbps Extreme II with a Marvell 88SS9187. The combination of the new controller and fast, 19nm toggle-mode NAND allowed the Extreme II to outpace the sustained write performance of such capable drives as OCZ's Vector and Corsair's Neutron. The 240GB version wrote our 10GB large file at 644.3MBps and read it at 479.8MBps. With small files, however, the Extreme II was strictly mundane, writing our 10GB mix of files and folders at 352MBps, and reading them at 373.6MBps. The 480GB version posted numbers nearly identical to the 240GB's, but the 120GB model wrote files significantly slower. That's the norm with SSDs with less than 240GB/256GB capacity, as there are fewer chips and channels to write across, although the dropoff can vary. The 120GB drive was actually the fastest drive we've seen to date—485MBps—when reading our large file, but it wrote it at only 465.6MBps (nearly 200MBps slower than the two more capacious models). The 120GB model read our 10GB mix of files and folders at 378.9MBps, which is about the same performance as the larger capacities turned in, but it wrote it at 300.8MBps (60GBps slower). The 120GB version of the Extreme II retails for $130, while the larger 240GB and 480GB models cost $230 and $440 respectively. That's nice pricing for units with a five-year warranty and top-notch performance. Sandisk rates the drives for 80TBW (TeraBytes Written) plus. If you can scrape up the extra bucks for the larger capacities, you'll get significantly better write performance.
in cooperation with the Ponemon Institute to find out whether IT professionals consider risk management to be “science” or “art." surveyed 1,320 respondents across the United States and the United Kingdom: IT professionals working in information security, risk management, IT operations, business operations, and compliance. Participants were asked, “In your opinion, is information security risk management an ‘art’ or ‘science’?” Ponemon defined the two concepts for the purposes of the survey. “Science” means basing decisions on objective, quantifiable metrics and data. “Art” refers to analysis and decisions that are based on intuition, expertise, and a holistic view of the organization. Two-thirds of those from IT and enterprise risk management or business operations sided with “art,” while nearly two-thirds of the respondents who work in IT security and IT operations chose “science.”
Samsung's Galaxy Ace 3 made its debut today, and although it is a fairly basic smartphone, the device includes LTE, highlighting how the technology is making its way to simpler and cheaper devices. Users generally have to pay a high price to get an LTE smartphone or tablet, but costs are coming down thanks in part to growing volume, according to Neil Mawston, executive director at market research company Strategy Analytics. The Galaxy Ace 3 is an example of how LTE is spreading from the high-end segment of the smartphone market. Buyers of its predecessor, had to make do with HSDPA. But this time Samsung will release two different versions—3G or LTE and 3G. The LTE implementation works on the 800MHz, 900MHz, 1800MHz, and 2600MHz bands.
the file reside? So before you go the automated route, consider a safer option: Set your duplicate file finder to ignore files smaller than 20MB. That way, you'll have far fewer files to worry about, yet still free up a lot of space.
Call me old-fashioned, but I like to know when my hard drive is active. That's partly so I know when Windows has more or less finished its boot activity (which, on one aging machine, takes 7-8 minutes), and partly so I can troubleshoot problems. For example, if my mouse is suddenly non-responsive, I can check to see if there's still drive activity--and know whether or not I need to force a shutdown. a drive thrashing inside my desktop. Indeed, that was one sure-fire way to diagnose the insidious "click of death." But now that I'm mostly on laptops, which incorporate much quieter drives (or, in the case of SSDs, totally silent drives), I have to rely on LEDs.
The Swedish Data Inspection Board has for a second time disallowed an agreement that a local municipality wants to sign with Google regarding the use of its hosted Apps package. The agreement does not comply with the rules in Sweden’s Personal Data Act, and therefore it either has to be amended or the Salem municipality has to stop using Google Apps, the board said on Monday. The Personal Data Act turns 15 this year and aims to prevent privacy violations when personal data is processed. Salem’s deal with Google gave the company too much leeway to process personal data for its own purposes. Also, wasn’t clear what happens to the stored personal data when the contract ends, the board said.
The news that has the tech world talking. In this video, we get some reaction from Silicon Valley to the news that the government has been keeping closer tabs on you than you might have realized. Elsewhere on the site, we look at how you can in the program.)
Years ago, when Google launched its ChromeOS-powered Chromebooks, people wondered why they weren’t powered by Android, its existing mobile OS. It’s time to start asking those questions again. At Computex this week, , the N3-220, opening the door to the possibility that similar products might follow. While there’s no certainty that Acer’s N3-220 will ever come to market, one has to ask: Does an Android-powered PC make sense? On the desktop, probably not. Stretching out an Android app to the proportions used by non-touch-enabled desktop monitors would look awful—and even worse still if the app was originally designed for a phone. But on a smaller, touch-enabled notebook like the ? Very possibly. And if you designed a convertible Android-powered tablet that could quickly connect you to the Internet and Google’s suite of cloud-powered connectivity services, then you’d have all the power of a Chromebook, and then some. Microsoft offers an inexpensive Surface tablet. Apple has the iPad. Google and its partners offer an array of tablets, and the Chromebooks to boot. An Android powered "Droidbook" isn't necessarily a one-size-fits-all solution. The argument here is for .
Google is close to a deal to acquire Waze, maker of the eponymous crowdsourced mapping app, for at least $1 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal and others. The potential deal was first reported by Israeli business site Globes would be worth $1.3 billion, citing sources. Started in Israel, now with offices in Palo Alto headed by CEO Noam Bardin, says it has about 45 million users in 193 countries, according to the Journal. Waze originated in 2006 as an open-source mapping project led by CTO Ehud Shabtai; the company formed two years later with venture-capital backing, according to information on its website. The app allows users to tap into shared traffic and navigation information. Data on road obstacles, rush-hour snarls, accidents and the like can be shared with other drivers in real time. The most recent version of the app delivered last month, Waze 3.7, includes integration with Facebook that places Facebook events in users' navigation lists and allows them to see the progress of Waze-using friends travelling to the same event. Users can also join the community of map editors to improve data on the maps themselves, which use TIGER (Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing) data from the US Census Bureau. The app is free, supported by location-based advertising.
You've seen the inflammatory NSA slides, and now you can attach a name to the paperwork: His name is Edward Snowden, he has a 10-year history in government defense and intelligence gathering, and now, he , he's leaked classified documents because he thinks current NSA surveillance techniques pose "an existential threat to democracy." "My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them," he told Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald in an interview conducted in Hong Kong. Snowden is a former CIA technical assistant, and a current employee of defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, where he has worked for less than three months . For the last four years, Snowden has done contract work for the NSA as an employee of various outside firms. In 2003, Snowden enlisted in the U.S. Army to join the Special Forces, but broke both his legs during a training mission, and was discharged. From there, the Guardian reports, Snowden took a job as a security guard for the NSA, and then later joined the CIA to work in IT security before returning to the NSA as a contractor, including his current position as an infrastructure analyst.
A vulnerability in versions 6 through 10 of Internet Explorer could be exploited to take control of affected machines through malware delivered from tainted Web pages, according to the upcoming Patch Tuesday security bulletins from Microsoft. "This one would make it easy to remotely gain access to someone's machine via a malicious webpage," says Ken Pickering, development manager for security intelligence at CORE Security. "Bulletin One is downright scary." The single bulletin actually accounts for 19 of the 23 individual common vulnerability exposures (CVE) dealt with this month. It is the only one of the that is ranked critical, but since four of them require restarts after applying Microsoft recommended patches, it could make for IT headaches. "No one likes to force a reboot after an update, especially in an enterprise shop," he says.
Google is the undisputed king of search in most Western countries but, in Russia, home-grown Yandex still claims a 60 percent market share. In an attempt to maintain its advantage, Yandex has announced significant changes to its search engine results pages with the launch of interactive snippets, known as 'Islands', which aim to speed up the user's engagement with websites and services. Islands build on the concept of 'rich snippets' - the extra information that appears under search results. Google and Yandex both use rich snippets to give users a sense for what is on the page and why it is relevant to their query, but Ilya Segalovich, CTO at Yandex, describes them as "mere decoration". "When people search on the rich web these days, they are often looking to carry out an action," said Segalovich.
Bitcoin's trajectory over the past few years is nothing short of impressive. A peer-to-peer alternative currency whose creator remains anonymous five years later, Bitcoin sounds like something out of a science fiction novel. However, Bitcoin has paid off for many of its early adopters, and is moving too quickly to be ignored. , no interested party should dive into a Bitcoin engagement without knowing the facts.
Analyst concerns that Galaxy S4 smartphone sales are lagging have put pressure on Samsung shares. as another reason to downgrade the stock. "The mobile phone market is indeed a very volatile one," said Gartner analyst Carolina Milanesi via email. "I was not expecting the GS4 to have the same impact as the GS3, so in that sense, Samsung faces the same issues that Apple does." There was disagreement over the impact of the Apple trade-in program on Samsung, and some cited it as a concern.
A cheery new YouTube video called "Facebook - The Musical" is on its way to going viral at more than 500,000 views during its first few days on the Web, thanks to a campy crew of crooners singing the praises of the social network. While I'd love to see "Annie," "Bye Bye Birdie" and the rest of those overplayed musicals go the way of MySpace (oh, it's still around?), it looks like tech-themed musicals might be here to stay. At least on YouTube. , and in conjunction with the Vlogbrothers, Tumblr (in which a Disney-ish Ariel and geeky friends sing about the joys of viewing Tumblrs instead of actually reading).
, and now the Obama administration's national security boss is making an effort to cram it back in. on PRISM, noting it's not "an undisclosed collection or data mining program" that targets American citizens but rather a perfectly legal "internal government computer system" used for the authorized collection of foreign intelligence under court supervision. "In a rush to publish, media outlets have not given the full context—including the extent to which these programs are overseen by all three branches of government—to these effective tools," wrote Clapper in the statement. He goes on to write that "significant misimpressions" have resulted from PRISM media coverage, but that he can't correct inaccuracies without revealing classified information. From there, he explains his declassified explainer should "help dispel some of the myths and add necessary context to what has been published." In the declassified material, Clapper explains that PRISM is authorized under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), and that the government doesn't "unilaterally obtain information from the servers of U.S. electronic communication service providers." All information is collected with FISA court approval, he writes, and with the knowledge of service providers following a written directive from the Attorney General and Director of National Intelligence (a post, lest we forget, that's currently held by Clapper himself).
Mit einer breiten Software-Offensive, einem neuen Musikdienst und mit in den USA produzierten Macs will Apple Kunden und Investoren bei Laune halten.
Apple dürfte heute Abend in San Francisco einen neuen Dienst präsentieren. Für Konzernchef Tim Cook wird es der wichtigste Auftritt seit seinem Amtsantritt.
Kim Schmitz hat im Kampf gegen seine Auslieferung an die USA erneut Zeit gewonnen: Die Anhörung vor Gericht wurde auf November verschoben.
Vertu-Konzernchef Perry Oosting sieht in Edel-Smartphones den einzigen Weg, um dem Technologie-Wettrüsten zu entkommen.
Grosskonzerne wie Apple oder Google arbeiten seit Jahren Hand in Hand mit der NSA, sagt Guido Rudolphi, Experte für Sicherheit im Internet. Er rät dringend davon ab, ihre Geräte zu benützen.
Nach den heftigen Vorwürfen im US-Überwachungsskandal melden sich Google und Facebook zu Wort. Marc Zuckerberg erklärt, das Netzwerk habe sich gegen alle Anfragen nach freiem Datenzugang aggressiv gewehrt.
Am Montag stellt Apple in San Francisco die neusten Versionen der Betriebssysteme iOS und OS X vor. Wir zeigen, welche neuen Funktionen die Systeme bieten sollten.
Die neue Microsoft-Spielekonsole wird ohne ständige Internet-Verbindung nicht dauerhaft funktionieren.
UPC Cablecom lanciert eine weitere App: Horizon TV Remote macht iPhone und iPad zur Fernbedienung.
Im Computer- und Informatikmuseum «Enter» in Solothurn sind neue Raritäten zu bestaunen.
In einer Offensive in über 80 Ländern sind die USA und die Softwarefirma Microsoft gegen den Hackerring Citadel Botnets vorgegangen. Nun hat die Suche nach dem Drahtzieher mit den Spitznamen Aquabox begonnen.
Surface Pro will Tablet und Notebook in einem sein, doch bei der Mobilität happert es noch.
Google-Manager Eric Schmidt rät Eltern, mit ihren Kindern noch vor der sexuellen Aufklärung über den Umgang mit persönlichen Daten im Internet zu sprechen.
Samsung hat im Patentkrieg gegen Apple einen Etappensieg errungen: Wegen der Verletzung eines Patents dürfen ältere iPhones und iPads nicht mehr in die USA eingeführt werden. Apple bittet den US-Präsidenten um Hilfe.
Dieses Jahr sollen einer Studie zufolge erstmals mehr Multimediahandys als normale Mobiles verkauft werden.
Der Online-Musikdienst expandiert. In Europa war der Streaming-Dienst bislang lediglich in Deutschland und Grossbritannien verfügbar.
Weg von Office und Windows, hin zu Hardware und Services: Steve Ballmer macht offenbar Ernst mit dem Umbau des weltgrössten Softwareherstellers.
Neue Funktionen sollen die Websuche revolutionieren – mit intelligenter Auswertung von Nutzerdaten. Manchem Nutzer ist die allwissende «Google Now»-App aber schlicht nicht geheuer.
Das Programm World Wide Telescope erforscht das Sonnensystem und die Tiefe des Alls. Die Erde und weitere Himmelskörper sind als 3-D-Objekte vorhanden – die wichtigsten Tipps und Tricks.
Im Streit um Preisabsprachen bei elektronischen Büchern hat am Montag der Prozess gegen Apple begonnen.