Новости за 31.08.2015

Microsoft has prevailed over InterDigital in a years-old patent infringement action that was originally brought against Nokia in front of the U.S. International Trade Commission. 

Verint and Vidyo announced that they are collaborating on cloud-based visual communication technology to bring video support tools to customer engagement centers. The joint effort is designed to bring combined solutions that help organizations manage compliance and enhance customer experiences.

Attivo Networks, a startup launched last year, has upgraded its deception technology so businesses can deploy it within the portion of their corporate cloud that is hosted by Amazon Web Services.

The U.S. government is working on a sanctions package against Chinese firms and individuals for cyber-espionage activities against U.S. companies, the Washington Post reported. This move comes after months of cyber-attacks on companies and government agencies which have been linked to China.

Each year in late August, the Little League World Series (LLWS) in South Williamsport, Pa., kicks-off. However, before the games, there’s a ramp –up on security at the Little League Baseball World Series Complex, which requires months of preparation and planning.

Uber snapped up car hackers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek. Miller, who had worked on Twitter's security team, and Valasek, who had been working as Director of Vehicle Security Research at IOActive, will now join "dozens of autonomous vehicle experts hired from Carnegie Mellon University" working at Uber's Advanced Technologies Center.

In October of 2012, Microsoft released Windows 8, which promised to transform Redmond's storied operating system into one that would run across platforms, from desktop PCs to tablets to phones. It was a huge bet on the company's part, and it largely foundered in a user revolt against user interface changes.

Got a new item for your Monday morning to-do list: Upgrade your public beta installation of OS X El Capitan. Apple has just released Public Beta 6, though the release notes don't say anything about what is included in the update.

Back in 2005, Jack Johnson released a wonderful song called Better Together that's one of my favorites from that artist. Today, at Cisco's Global Sales Meeting in Las Vegas, Cisco's Executive Chairman John Chambers and Apple CEO Tim Cook sang their own version of this song, and it went something like this:

Embarcadero has updated its RAD Studio integrated development environment to help developers make the most of new features in Windows 10, now that the OS has been installed on more than 75 million devices.

There's a funny dichotomy between the container ecosystem and the software-defined networking (SDN) one. In the container space, seemingly every vendor is creating their own lightweight operating system that is designed to work well in a containerized infrastructure. Red Hat has one, Canonical does too, Microsoft is coming to the party, CoreOS was an early entrant... and so on.

The initial round of reviews for OnHub, Google’s fancified entry into the home router market, are out, and the consensus is that it’s a neat gadget, but possibly not worth the $200 you’ll fork over to get it.

Hottest products at VMworld 2015

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Virtualization, cloud, security are storage are among the hot trends of this year’s VMworld 2015 in San Francisco. Check out the latest and greatest of the new products being announced or displayed by vendors at VMworld 2015.

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Will the EMC Federation break up, as a flurry of recent reports have suggested? VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger, for one, believes one of the most prominent alliances of companies in the technology industry is still the best management structure.

It’s an interesting time to be the CEO of VMware.

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You’ll either love or hate the new OnHub Wi-Fi router that Google and TP-Link have cooked up. If you’re of the “I just want it to work” mindset, you’ll dig it. If you’re an enthusiast who likes to bend hardware to your will, tweaking knobs and being aware of everything that’s going on under the hood, it will drive you nuts.

The FBI this week said an e-mail scam that tricks businesses into paying invoices from what looks like established partners is growing exponentially.

Lenovo, the Chinese PC giant that bought out IBM's PC business a decade ago and soared to the top of IDC and Gartner's PC sales charts, now seems to be sabotaging its success with increasingly obnoxious bloatware. 

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It probably really is time to switch the name of this round-up to the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6S Plus rumor rollup since those will almost surely be the names of what’s coming next from Apple on the smartphone front, but before long, it’ll be back to slinging iPhone 7 scuttlebutt anyway.

It's now been over two months since I began my journey to eradicate all traces of Google from my life. And one full month since I achieved that goal and began living fully Google-free. Actually, a few days over a month. I had one or two (short-lived) "Google relapses," so I added a few days to my "totally Google-less" time to compensate for that. 

Chuck Robbins is officially the chief executive officer of Cisco, but that doesn’t mean he’s totally in charge.

Waiting for the right build has been a historical problem with test environments, while differences between development, test and production have caused defects to escape in production. Virtual Machines solve these problems by sharing a copy of system data, but they can be slow and take gigabytes of disk space. 

The real cause of the talent shortage in the information security field isn't a lack of new people entering the profession, but retention and churn at the highest levels, according to a new report by IDC.