IBM has announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Sanovi Technologies, a privately held company that provides hybrid cloud recovery, cloud migration and business continuity software for enterprise data centers and cloud infrastructure. Adding these capabilities along with advanced analytics will better enable IBM to bolster its Software Defined Resiliency strategy and delivery of… Read More IBM to acquire Sanovi Technologies
Oracle has taken its bid for up to US$9 billion in damages to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit after a judge in a federal court in California recently struck down its bid for a retrial in a copyright infringement suit against Google over the use of Java code in the Android… Read More Oracle takes Java copyright dispute with Google to appeals court
Microsoft yesterday said that it had added a malware-in-macros blocker to Office 2013 after customers demanded that it expand the feature beyond the latest version, Office 2016. “The predominant customer request we received was for this feature to be added to Office 2013,” the Microsoft Malware Protection Center team wrote in an unsigned blog post… Read More Microsoft adds macro blocker to Office 2013 to stymie old-school attackers
The axe is falling at Twitter today after attempts to sell the company proved fruitless, and it’s falling hard. During an earnings call this morning, Twitter announced plans to lay off 9 percent of its workforce, and around noon Eastern time, the company followed that up by revealing that it’s killing Vine, the popular app… Read More Twitter kills Vine
Microsoft publicised on Wednesday that Paint, the basic image creation and editing desktop software that everyone and their grandmother has used at some point in their life, is now going 3D with the Windows Creators update. Paint 3D will let you create 3D images and share them with others on SketchUp, or even Facebook (time… Read More Opinion Paint 3D: Has Microsoft Ruined Paint for Everyone or Given It a New Lease of Life?
European privacy watchdogs said on Friday they had sent letters to WhatsApp over its sharing of information with parent company Facebook and Yahoo over a 2014 data breach and its scanning of customer emails for US intelligence purposes. European Union data protection authorities said they had serious concerns about WhatsApp’s recent change in privacy policy… Read More EU Privacy Watchdogs Warn WhatsApp on Privacy Policy, Yahoo on Breach
Apple’s new MacBook Pros with Touch Bar controllers might have stolen the show at its Cupertino event today, but there was also a significant update to the company’s TV ecosystem. A new app, simply called TV, will be coming to Apple TV, iPad and iPhone for free later this year, and will unify… Read More Apple Announces Unified ‘TV’ App for Apple TV, iPad, iPhone
At Apple’s MacBook event, the Apple TV got some stage time. After confirming that it has access to over 8,000 apps, Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed that Minecraft will be available on it as well. While no exact date was confirmed, Minecraft will hit the Apple TV “by the end of the year.” Aside from this, little else… Read More Minecraft to Release on Apple TV ‘By the End of the Year’: Tim Cook
Apple has announced brand new MacBook Pros. Sporting a mix of tried and tested internals with some intriguing design choices, it ended being more than your usual spec refresh. On this edition of Orbital: The Gadgets 360 Podcast, host Pranay is joined by Rohan and Rishi to explain why we’re possibly on the cusp of… Read More Could MacBook Pro Be the Laptop Everyone’s Been Waiting For?
Government has mandated support for Indian languages in all mobile phones to be sold in the country from July 1, 2017 onward. “In exercise of the power conferred by clause 10(1) of Bureau of Indian Standard Act… the central government, hereby includes the Indian language support for mobile phone as per IS 16333 (Part-3) to… Read More Government Mandates Indian Language Support on All Phones Sold From July 2017
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