New Wave of Ultrabooks to Include 30 Touchscreen Models, Intel Says
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A fresh crop of ultrabooks sporting Intel's latest "Ivy Bridge" Core processors will start to go on sale next month, including 30 models with touchscreens, Intel[...]
Continue ReadingIT Services Consolidation: CGI To Buy Logica For $2.6B (And Crashes Logica’s Site In Process)
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Some enterprise IT consolidation afoot, and a sign of the business crunch that the enterprise market has witnessed in the last year. CGI Corporation, an IT services firm based in Canada, has made an all-cash offer of $2.6 billion (£1.7 billion) to buy UK rival Logica, a deal that would create one more IT services powerhouse to rival the likes of IBM, Accenture and KPMG.
The offer represents a premium of 60 percent on Logica’s closing share price yesterday. Logica, one of Europe’s biggest IT services firms, has hit the rocks in the last year, with profit shrinking to £32.7 million ($50.6m) from £192.9 million ($299m) the year before on the back of IT cuts in the public sector, a k[...]
Continue ReadingThe offer represents a premium of 60 percent on Logica’s closing share price yesterday. Logica, one of Europe’s biggest IT services firms, has hit the rocks in the last year, with profit shrinking to £32.7 million ($50.6m) from £192.9 million ($299m) the year before on the back of IT cuts in the public sector, a k[...]
YC-Backed GoCardless Launches PayLinks, A Bitly For Payments
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GoCardless, the Y Combinator-backed startup founded in 2010 by Oxford graduates Hiroki Takeuchi, Tom Blomfield and Matt Robinson, is today launching a new product called PayLinks which aims to be something like a Bit.ly for payments. With its dead simple interface, anyone can create a shortened, tweet-friendly link in around 60 seconds, the company claims, allowing you to start collecting money online immediately.
These payments can either be one-off requests (throw in on the keg!), regular/subscription-based (subscribe to my blog!), or pre-authorized. The latter, which makes sense for B2B scenarios, lets a company collect a pre-authorized amount over a pre-determined period of time.
The U.K[...]
Continue ReadingThese payments can either be one-off requests (throw in on the keg!), regular/subscription-based (subscribe to my blog!), or pre-authorized. The latter, which makes sense for B2B scenarios, lets a company collect a pre-authorized amount over a pre-determined period of time.
The U.K[...]
Big Brother is watching botnets: White House rolls out initiative to fight viruses
Posted by VentureBeat
Following a number of large botnet attacks on major corporations last year, the Obama administration announced a voluntary, industry-wide plan to combat botnets based on a set of developed principles by the Industry Botnet Group (IBG) and nine other private groups. The White House also revealed its development of a consumer-education campaign intended to teach the public about computer viruses.
If you’re unfamiliar with the term “botnet,” then perhaps your computer wasn’t one of the 5 million systems infected worldwide between January and March of this year. Botnets are collections of infected computers used maliciously to create spam, flood traffic to websites and even steal private informa[...]
Continue ReadingIf you’re unfamiliar with the term “botnet,” then perhaps your computer wasn’t one of the 5 million systems infected worldwide between January and March of this year. Botnets are collections of infected computers used maliciously to create spam, flood traffic to websites and even steal private informa[...]
Verizon FiOS doubles down on speed with new 300 Mbps broadband service
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Data hogs, meet your Holy Grail.
Verizon is adding a major new option for its high-speed FiOS fiber customers: a 300 megabits-per-second data service for households with heavy Internet habits. Using the new level, customers can download a 1.5-gigabyte file in less than thirty seconds.
The reason for the new tier of service is all about online video, which, as an ever-expanding data dominator, needs more and more bandwidth all to itself. Even Verizon is investing in streaming video via Viewdini, a video platform that combines the output of Netflix, Hulu, and Comcast.
Verizon says its new offering is meant for households with five or more constantly-connected, data-hungry devices. Absent from[...]
Continue ReadingVerizon is adding a major new option for its high-speed FiOS fiber customers: a 300 megabits-per-second data service for households with heavy Internet habits. Using the new level, customers can download a 1.5-gigabyte file in less than thirty seconds.
The reason for the new tier of service is all about online video, which, as an ever-expanding data dominator, needs more and more bandwidth all to itself. Even Verizon is investing in streaming video via Viewdini, a video platform that combines the output of Netflix, Hulu, and Comcast.
Verizon says its new offering is meant for households with five or more constantly-connected, data-hungry devices. Absent from[...]
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