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HP says it plans to provide companies with personal computers and other devices as part of a service. Corporate customers of HP’s new initiative dubbed “device-as-a-service” will be able to pay a fixed monthly fee per employee for devices, eliminating … Continue reading HP Rolls Out Device-as-a-Service for PCs, Printers
Kate Conger, reporting for TechCrunch:Amazon retailers sometimes go to extreme lengths to guarantee good reviews, as security developer Matthew Garrett recently discovered when he wrote a one-star review of an internet-connected electric socket. When G… Continue reading Security Researcher Gets Threats Over Amazon Review
An anonymous reader shares a ZDNet report:Those persistent Get Windows 10 pop-ups are going away soon, after Microsoft’s free upgrade offer for Windows 10 expires on July 29. During those final days and hours, anyone still running Windows 7 or Windows … Continue reading Microsoft Prepares One Final, Full-Screen Get Windows 10 Nag
Oracle has been ordered to pay HP $3 billion in damages by a California jury over HP’s claim that Oracle reneged on a deal to support HP computer servers running on Itanium chips from Intel. Oracle said it will appeal. BBC reports:The court battle over… Continue reading Oracle Ordered To Pay $3B Damages To HP
On Thursday, Spotify made major accusations against Apple of playing unfair to its music service. The Swedish-based music company said that Apple didn’t approve a new version of Spotify’s iOS app because “it didn’t want competition for Apple Music.” Th… Continue reading Apple Slams Spotify For Asking For ‘Preferential Treatment’
Jon Brodkin, reporting for Ars Technica:In a time when consumers routinely replace gadgets with new models after just two or three years, some products stand out for being built to last. Witness the Linksys WRT54GL, the famous wireless router that came… Continue reading The WRT54GL: A 54Mbps Router From 2005 Still Makes Millions For Linksys
An anonymous reader writes: As promised, Mozilla has released the first Nightly build of Servo, its new browser engine. This is the first tech demo of Servo, which Jack Moffitt, Servo project lead at Mozilla, described to us a few months ago as “a next… Continue reading Mozilla Releases First Build of Servo, Its Next-Generation Browser Engine
Earlier this week, popular note-taking app Evernote announced major changes to its service. The company announced that free users on the app will now only be able to sync across two devices. The company also raised the prices of its paid tiers by 40%. … Continue reading Slashdot Asks: What’s Your Preferred Note-Taking App?
steveb3210 writes: Today, Ruby On Rails released version 5.0.0 of the platform. Major new features include ActionCable which brings support for WebSockets and a slimmed-down API-only mode From the official blog post:After six months of polish, four bet… Continue reading Ruby On Rails 5.0 Released
Stan Schroeder, writing for Mashable:An anonymous hacker managed to obtain an enormous number of user credentials in June 2013 from fallen social networking giant MySpace — some 427 million passwords, belonging to approx. 360 million users. In May 201… Continue reading You Can Now Browse Through 427 Millon Stolen MySpace Passwords