Sharp and NEC join forces for 8K UHD displays with 5G
The Japanese electronics group Sharp and the, once again Japanese, telecom network and other electronics supplier NEC have recently set up a joint venture. In the near future, this joint venture will focus on supplying Ultra HD displays with 5G connectivity.
Concretely, the now announced joint v... Read more
‘South Korea hacked North Koreans through 5 zero-day weaknesses’
Five Zero-Day vulnerabilities are said to have been used over the past year to hack targets in North Korea, according to researchers from the Google Threat Analysis Group. While Google itself makes no statements about who is behind the attacks, cyber security firm Kaspersky points to neighbouring S... Read more
First release for Kubernetes released in 2020
The developers of the Kubernetes container orchestration platform released the first new version for 2020 this week. The platform has received improvements for stability and new features that should further facilitate the user experience.
In version 1.18 of Kubernetes a lot of new functionality ... Read more
Phishing attacks increased by 667 percent after corona virus outbreak
According to researchers from various cyber firms, people who work from home because of the corona virus are much more often the target of phishing campaigns. According to Barracuda Networks, the number of reported phishing emails has increased by almost seven hundred percent in one month.
At th... Read more
Informatica announces serverless for better data management
Informatica, the business specialist in data management solutions and applications, recently updated its iPaaS Intelligent Cloud Service platform. The most important new feature is the advent of serverless computing.
The IPaaS platform of the data management specialist gets a big boost with the ... Read more
Dell EMC announces turnkey solutions for AI
Dell EMC will bring to market about eight ready-to-use solutions that allow data scientists and researchers to start creating and setting up AI models right away. The solutions include bundles of reference architectures and preconfigured workstations and storage.
The infrastructure specialist wa... Read more
Rollout of 5G possibly delayed by coronavirus
Telecom collective 3GPP has announced that two essential releases for the 5G standard will be postponed. The releases have been delayed due to the corona virus outbreak. It is not clear whether this will also delay the rollout of 5G.
Current 5G networks continue to operate largely on the standar... Read more
CEO Sayta Nadella: Microsoft Teams has enough capacity
In an interview with CNBC, Microsoft top executive Sayta Nadella discussed the problems Microsoft Teams had experienced in recent weeks. Due to the coronavirus, many more people are working from home and the app is used to hold far more online meetings than usual. This caused problems during the fi... Read more
HP asks shareholders to ignore Xerox bid during corona crisis
The intended acquisition of HP by Xerox was paused by the latter. However, the group does offer HP shareholders a high fee for handing over shares. In times of crisis due to the corona virus, HP calls on its shareholders to disregard the offer.
While HP has declined all of Xerox's offers, Xerox ... Read more
Hackers are targeting consumer routers to push malware
Not only is the number of phishing campaigns increasing, now that many people worldwide are working from home because of the corona virus, but there has also been an increase in attacks by hackers who want to get malware onto a system by other means. The same goes for pointing arrows at routers in ... Read more