Cisco unveils plan to make meetings more like… meetings

Is your business crippled by an old whiteboard? No? Well, here's a $10k replacement Cisco is kicking out a new set of screens and conferencing software aimed at overhauling its video conferencing and collaboration lines.…

VMware user group fight leaves community diminished

Independent user group HQ excluded Virtzilla rivals, fired volunteers Ongoing tension between Nutanix and VMware's has spilled over into Virtzilla's user groups, which have decided to exclude volunteers who work for rivals. That decision has left bo…

Firefox bares teeth, attacks sites that collect personal data

If it wants a password and doesn't use HTTPS, Mozilla will breathe fire Shoddy sites will have fewer places to hide with Firefox joining Chrome in badging cleartext sites that collect personal information as insecure.…

DuckDuckGo celebrates 10 billion anonymous searches

Amount of lead in Flint’s water falls below federal limit as work continues

Elon Musk still claims he’s serious about boring tunnels

Wine 2.0 lands: It's not Soylent for booze but more Windows apps on Linux and Mac OS

If you really want to run MS Office 2013 on Linux, you can Wine, the open source tool that translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls, and therefore lets Windows apps run on Linux, Mac OS and BSD, has reached version 2.0.…

Starbucks adds Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to its board

Human bot hybrid finds LinkedIn email, phone number-filching holes

Automated hacking weapon with human smarts does the business LinkedIn has shuttered five dangerous privacy holes that could have allowed users' phone numbers, email addresses and resumes to be downloaded, plus the deletion of all connection requests…

After promising Donald Trump jobs will come home, IBM swings axe

'Rebalancing' will make IBM great again. America? That's someone else's problem IBM's post-election promise to President Donald Trump to bring jobs home appears not to have been entirely accurate, as the company is making redundancies at home and st…

Trump's FBI boss, Attorney General picks reckon your encryption's getting backdoored

This isn't going to end well US President Donald Trump's pick for his Attorney General and head of the FBI will have security specialists nervous, since both believe breaking encryption is a good idea.…

Badlands National Park deletes climate change tweets after its account was ‘compromised’

Using LinkedIn will land you a shiny new job – like, er, CTO of Microsoft

Redmond decides we need to talk about Kevin Microsoft has reinstated its overall CTO role for the first time in 17 years and hired Kevin Scott – currently senior vice president of infrastructure with LinkedIn – to do the job.…

EZQuest introduces MacBook Pro keyboard covers

EZQuest (www.ezq.com) has expanded its keyboard covers product line to include compatibility with Apple’s 2016 MacBook Pro. They include clear covers for keyboard protection, creative softwar…

Acer introduceert Chromebook Spin 11 voor gebruik in de klas

Acer heeft de Chromebook Spin 11 aangekondigd. Deze laptop heeft een scherm dat 360 graden kan draaien, en is voornamelijk bedoeld voor gebruik in een schoolomgeving. Daarbij moet het apparaat ook tegen een stootje kunnen.

Is Kubernetes a little too terrifying? Platform9 has a safe space for you

Think DevOps, without the work Those daunted by the complexity of using Kubernetes to manage containerized applications can now outsource the work to Platform9.…

HP breidt terughaalactie brandgevaarlijke laptopaccu's uit

HP gaat de accu's van meer laptopmodellen terughalen wegens brandgevaar. Het terughaalprogramma loopt al sinds juni vorig jaar, maar nu blijkt uit nieuwe gegevens dat er meer modellen gevaar lopen dan eerder bekend was.

GeForce Game Ready Driver 378.49 WHQL

Nvidia heeft nieuwe stabiele GeForce-drivers uitgebracht. De drivers dragen versienummer 378.49 WHQL en zijn geschikt voor Windows Vista en hoger, met zoals gebruikelijk aparte downloads voor 32bit- en 64bit-omgevingen. De drivers kunnen worden gebr…

US govt can't stop Microsoft taking its Irish email seizure fight to the Supreme Court

Outdated law may now head to America's highest judges The US government has lost a legal appeal to have a critical case against Microsoft reheard, paving the way for a Supreme Court challenge.…

Yahoo! boo! hoo! hoo!: Verizon! hits! brakes! on! $4.8bn! biz! gobble!

And SEC probes three-year gap between data swipe and disclosure Yahoo!'s sale to Verizon has been delayed, following revelations last year of historical data security breaches.…

APFS is coming soon: iOS 10.3 will automatically upgrade your filesystem

Previously, APFS was only available as a beta in macOS Sierra.