Update, 5/3/17: Google is beginning to roll out the new version of Allo, which will include chat backups, group incognito mode, and link previews. When Allo 9.0 arrived earlier this month, there wasn’t much to talk about. Aside from bug fixes and performance improvements, the update brought nary a new sticker pack to play with.…
China will start carrying out security checks of IT suppliers in the country, with the intent of keeping out internet products vulnerable to spying and hacking. The new rules, which take effect in June, mean that foreign vendors will face more scrutiny — including government-mandated background checks, and supply chain vetting — when selling IT…
A top executive responsible for shaping Intel’s PC roadmap will now run the company’s data center business. Navin Shenoy — previously senior vice president and general manager of the company’s Client Computing Group — has been appointed the general manager of Intel’s Data Center Group (DCG). He will replace the well-respected Diane Bryant, who was…
Australian collaboration software company Atlassian has launched its first data centre in Europe as the company ramps up its plans for global expansion in the cloud market. The infrastructure in Ireland was announced at the first European Atlassian Summit in Barcelona and is available for all existing cloud customers of its team planning and project…
Apple could cut the capacity of DRAM in its upcoming anniversary iPhones with the rising prices of storage and memory components hitting its profit margins. Apple acknowledged the rising DRAM and NAND prices during its second-quarter earnings call Tuesday. The company expects the pricing pressure to continue in the near term. Those prices, in turn,…
Saving money may be a good enough reason to try a brand-new cloud storage service — if it can deliver on its promises. That’s the equation some enterprises may use when they look at Wasabi Technologies, an object storage startup that says it offers six times the performance of Amazon’s S3 service at one-fifth the…
Verizon shut down its public cloud service in early 2016, and is now unloading its virtual private cloud and managed hosting offerings to IBM. The deal, announced Tuesday, allows IBM to improve its position in cloud computing, a spokesman said by email. Meanwhile, the deal allows Verizon to get out of the cloud infrastructure market…
Google has joined Amazon Web Services in promising customers of its cloud services that it will be compliant with new European Union data protection rules due to take effect next year. Neither company is fully compliant yet, but both have now made public commitments to meet the requirements of the EU General Data Protection Regulation…
The average amount of a ransomware demand has increased from $294 in 2015 to $1,077 last year, according to a report released last week by Symantec. “That’s a pretty dramatic increase,” said Kevin Haley, director of security response at Symantec. According to other estimates, total ransomware revenues passed $1 billion last year. To read this…
Microsoft is still a newcomer to the world of laptops and tablets, but it’s an old hand at peripherals—and a well regarded one at that. When the sleek new Surface Laptop starts shipping on June 15 it will do so alongside a refined version of Microsoft’s Arc Mouse carrying the Surface name. A successor to the…