Friday, 30 November 2018

3 Mac apps to get and stay organized - CNET

Take note, Mac multitaskers.

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How to turn your lights on automatically when you get home with IFTTT - CNET

IFTTT is a free automation tool, and you can use it to teach your lights to welcome you home like magic. Here's how.

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How to keep your house warm this winter - CNET

Make sure your home stays cozy all winter long.

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Google Cloud Worker Live: The tech conference you can attend … from anywhere

I attend a lot of technical conferences in my role here at Citrix. And I mean A LOT. I bet I’m in Vegas six times a year attending some cloud conference or another. (Get it? See what I did there?)

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Preparing endpoints to provide secure access to SaaS and web apps with Citrix Workspace app

In the spirit of the holiday season, I wanted to thank all our partners who attended our webinar about securing SaaS and web apps with Citrix Workspace and the new Citrix Ready Workspace Endpoint Program. We were thrilled to see

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Pixel 3 features coming to older Pixel devices - CNET

Google hasn't forgotten about Pixel 2 owners, or even first-gen Pixel owners.

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19 new features coming to your iPhone with iOS 12 - CNET

Want to be the cool kid who shows everyone else the cool features included in the iOS 12 update? Check this out.

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Tech insight into user layers: is it having your cake and eating it too?

Administrators are often faced with tough choices when it comes to user experience vs environment complexity – but with Citrix App Layering User Layers, you can have your cake and eat it too. User Layers gives administrators the cost benefits

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How to Check Size of App Updates in the Mac App Store

Want to see the size of an app update that is available in the Mac App Store? Some Mac users may be interested in knowing the size of an available app software update before starting to download or install the app update, but the App Store in MacOS Mojave doesn’t openly display the size of ... Read More

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Raspberry Pi as a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops thin client: second helping

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Strage DOS/DDoS attack to apache server

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For access management, you must look beyond SSO

Join Citrix for an interactive discussion of access management at the Gartner Identity and Access Management Summit 2018 in Las Vegas on Monday, December 3, at 10:45 a.m. We’ll be in Milano IV, Promenade Level.

Traditionally — and even today

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Economics of Web Hosting business

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How do we tackle South Africa’s growing skills crisis?

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Huge Marriott breach puts 500 million victims at risk

The Marriott hotel empire's Starwood guest reservation database has been subject to unauthorised access since 2014.

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DoJ charges Autonomy founder with fraud over $11BN sale to HP

UK entrepreneur turned billionaire investor, Mike Lynch, has been charged with fraud in US over the 2011 sale of his enterprise software company.

Lynch sold Autonomy, the big data company he founded back in 1996, to computer giant HP for around $11BN some seven years ago.

But within a year around three-quarters of the value of the business had been written off, with HP accusing Autonomy’s management of accounting misrepresentations and disclosure failures.

Lynch has always rejected the allegations, and after HP sought to sue him in UK courts he countersued in 2015.

Meanwhile the UK’s own Serious Fraud Office dropped an investigation into the Autonomy sale in 2015 — finding “insufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction”.

But now the DoJ has filed charges in a San Francisco court, accusing Lynch and other senior Autonomy executives of making false statement that inflated the value of the company.

They face 14 counts of conspiracy and fraud, according to Reuters — a charge which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.

We’ve reached out to Lynch’s fund, Invoke Capital, for comment on the latest development.

The BBC has obtained a statement from his lawyers, Chris Morvillo of Clifford Chance and Reid Weingarten of Steptoe & Johnson, which describes the indictment as “a travesty of justice”.

The statement also claims Lynch is being made a scapegoat for HP’s failures, framing the allegations as a business dispute over the application of UK accounting standards.

Two years ago we interviewed Lynch on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt London and he mocked the morass of allegations still swirling around the acquisition as “spin and bullshit”.

Following the latest developments, the BBC reports that Lynch has stepped down as a scientific adviser to the UK government.

“Dr. Lynch has decided to resign his membership of the CST [Council for Science and Technology] with immediate effect. We appreciate the valuable contribution he has made to the CST in recent years,” a government spokesperson told it.

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What’s New with Citrix Workspace – November 2018

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Marriott: Data on 500 Million Guests Stolen in 4-Year Breach

Hospitality giant Marriott today disclosed a massive data breach exposing the personal and financial information on as many as a half billion customers who made reservations at any of its Starwood properties over the past four years. Marriott said the breach involved unauthorized access

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11 places in your house that are filthy, and how to clean them - CNET

You're not cleaning these areas, but you should be.

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Forget real Christmas trees, get a fake one instead - CNET

Cut down on holiday headaches by getting an artificial Christmas tree this year.

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Enterprise AR is an opportunity to ‘do well by doing good,’ says General Catalyst

A founder-investor panel on augmented reality (AR) technology here at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin suggests growth hopes for the space have regrouped around enterprise use-cases, after the VR consumer hype cycle landed with yet another flop in the proverbial ‘trough of disillusionment’.

Matt Miesnieks, CEO of mobile AR startup 6d.ai, conceded the space has generally been on another downer but argued it’s coming out of its third hype cycle now with fresh b2b opportunities on the horizon.

6d.ai investor General Catalyst‘s Niko Bonatsos was also on stage, and both suggested the challenge for AR startups is figuring out how to build for enterprises so the b2b market can carry the mixed reality torch forward.

“From my point of view the fact that Apple, Google, Microsoft, have made such big commitments to the space is very reassuring over the long term,” said Miesnieks. “Similar to the smartphone industry ten years ago we’re just gradually seeing all the different pieces come together. And as those pieces mature we’ll eventually, over the next few years, see it sort of coalesce into an iPhone moment.”

“I’m still really positive,” he continued. “I don’t think anyone should be looking for some sort of big consumer hit product yet but in verticals in enterprise, and in some of the core tech enablers, some of the tool spaces, there’s really big opportunities there.”

Investors shot the arrow over the target where consumer VR/AR is concerned because they’d underestimated how challenging the content piece is, Bonatsos suggested.

“I think what we got wrong is probably the belief that we thought more indie developers would have come into the space and that by now we would probably have, I don’t know, another ten Pokémon-type consumer massive hit applications. This is not happening yet,” he said.

“I thought we’d have a few more games because games always lead the adoption to new technology platforms. But in the enterprise this is very, very exciting.”

“For sure also it’s clear that in order to have the iPhone moment we probably need to have much better hardware capabilities,” he added, suggesting everyone is looking to the likes of Apple to drive that forward in the future. On the plus side he said current sentiment is “much, much much better than what it was a year ago”.

Discussing potential b2b applications for AR tech one idea Miesnieks suggested is for transportation platforms that want to link a rider to the location of an on-demand and/or autonomous vehicle.

Another area of opportunity he sees is working with hardware companies — to add spacial awareness to devices such as smartphones and drones to expand their capabilities.

More generally they mentioned training for technical teams, field sales and collaborative use-cases as areas with strong potential.

“There are interesting applications in pharma, oil & gas where, with the aid of the technology, you can do very detailed stuff that you couldn’t do before because… you can follow everything on your screen and you can use your hands to do whatever it is you need to be doing,” said Bonatsos. “So that’s really, really exciting.

“These are some of the applications that I’ve seen. But it’s early days. I haven’t seen a lot of products in the space. It’s more like there’s one dev shop is working with the chief innovation officer of one specific company that is much more forward thinking and they want to come up with a really early demo.

“Now we’re seeing some early stage tech startups that are trying to attack these problems. The good news is that good dollars is being invested in trying to solve some of these problems — and whoever figures out how to get dollars from the… bigger companies, these are real enterprise businesses to be built. So I’m very excited about that.”

At the same time, the panel delved into some of the complexities and social challenges facing technologists as they try to integrate blended reality into, well, the real deal.

Including raising the spectre of Black Mirror style dystopia once smartphones can recognize and track moving objects in a scene — and 6d.ai’s tech shows that’s coming.

Miesnieks showed a brief video demo of 3D technology running live on a smartphone that’s able to identify cars and people moving through the scene in real time.

“Our team were able to solve this problem probably a year ahead of where the rest of the world is at. And it’s exciting. If we showed this to anyone who really knows 3D they’d literally jump out of the chair. But… it opens up all of these potentially unintended consequences,” he said.

“We’re wrestling with what might this be used for. Sure it’s going to make Pokémon game more fun. It could also let a blind person walk down the street and have awareness of cars and people and they may not need a cane or something.

“But it could let you like tap and literally have people be removed from your field of view and so you only see the type of people that you want to look at. Which can be dystopian.”

He pointed to issues being faced by the broader technology industry now, around social impacts and areas like privacy, adding: “We’re seeing some of the social impacts of how this stuff can go wrong, even if you assume good intentions.

“These sort of breakthroughs that we’re having are definitely causing us to be aware of the responsibility we have to think a bit more deeply about how this might be used for the things we didn’t expect.”

From the investor point of view Bonatsos said his thesis for enterprise AR has to be similarly sensitive to the world around the tech.

“It’s more about can we find the domain experts, people like Matt, that are going to do well by doing good. Because there are a tonne of different parameters to think about here and have the credibility in the market to make it happen,” he suggested, noting: “It‘s much more like traditional enterprise investing.”

“This is a great opportunity to use this new technology to do well by doing good,” Bonatsos continued. “So the responsibility is here from day one to think about privacy, to think about all the fake stuff that we could empower, what do we want to do, what do we want to limit? As well as, as we’re creating this massive, augmented reality, 3D version of the world — like who is going to own it, and share all this wealth? How do we make sure that there’s going to be a whole new ecosystem that everybody can take part of it. It’s very interesting stuff to think about.”

“Even if we do exactly what we think is right, and we assume that we have good intentions, it’s a big grey area in lots of ways and we’re going to make lots of mistakes,” conceded Miesnieks, after discussing some of the steps 6d.ai has taken to try to reduce privacy risks around its technology — such as local processing coupled with anonymizing/obfuscating any data that is taken off the phone.

“When [mistakes] happen — not if, when — all that we’re going to be able to rely on is our values as a company and the trust that we’ve built with the community by saying these are our values and then actually living up to them. So people can trust us to live up to those values. And that whole domain of startups figuring out values, communicating values and looking at this sort of abstract ‘soft’ layer — I think startups as an industry have done a really bad job of that.

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“Even big companies. There’d only a handful that you could say… are pretty clear on their values. But for AR and this emerging tech domain it’s going to be, ultimately, the core that people trust us.”

Bonatsos also pointed to rising political risk as a major headwind for startups in this space — noting how China’s government has decided to regulate the gaming market because of social impacts.

“That’s unbelievable. This is where we’re heading with the technology world right now. Because we’ve truly made it. We’ve become mainstream. We’re the incumbents. Anything we build has huge, huge intended and unintended consequences,” he said.

“Having a government that regulates how many games that can be built or how many games can be released — like that’s incredible. No company had to think of that before as a risk. But when people are spending so many hours and so much money on the tech products they are using every day. This is the [inevitable] next step.”

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5 Surefire Ways You Can Let Your Company Go Under

There is no shortage of examples of companies that went belly-up. Broadly speaking, some companies go under because of technology disruption. Some failed because they were highly leveraged. Others flamed out because of third-world competition. But as a CEO there are 5 sure-fire ways you can kill the company:

1. Believe your sales team when they tell you things will get better next quarter or next year.

This is sales-speak for they don’t know what’s wrong and just buys them more time to find another job. I watch orders like a hawk. Every single day I get an orders report and if there is a material decline from the normal run rate or budget, I start asking questions.

2. Believe your sales team when they tell you they can’t raise prices.

Sales people will always tell you that because they don’t want to have an uncomfortable conversation with their golf-buddy customers. Sometimes you can’t raise prices if you have a commodity and lots of low-cost competition. But raise them where you can. And raise them at least once a year. Don’t let your customer get used to living in a no price increase world.

3. Believe your marketing people when they tell you the market has no room for new products.

That is marketing speak for they have no idea. The reason they have no idea is that they only consider products the company is capable of developing. In other words, “same old, same old”. No market wants “same old, same old” If that is all you have it is time to radically restructure your company so it can launch “new to the world” products.

4. Trust in the old adage “the company has been around for 100 years and will be for another 100.”

Just look at the biggest companies at the turn of the century that have gone out of business. In fact, only two companies from the Forbes 1917 list of largest public companies are still around-AT&T and General Electric. And look what has happened to GE. If the venerable GE could crumble, you better bet your company could too.

5. Keep your Board and employees in “happy-land”.

Happy-land is a place where everyone is well, happy. Happy-land looks like this: Margins are good and always will be. The competition is on the run. Demand for our products will always be there. The future looks good in happy-land because that is what people want to believe. Don’t let them. Living in happy-land is a recipe for disaster. Always remember this: Just because you are paranoid does not mean someone is not out to get you. So be paranoid. And keep reminding your stakeholders of the danger that is ever present in the world of business.

Bottom line, the way to avert the possibility of failing is by constantly changing and improving by investing in new products and developing new markets. It is inevitable that the markets and products you’re in today won’t even exist in 10 years. So don’t stay there and don’t go under, evolve.

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Steven L. Blue is the President & CEO of Miller Ingenuity, an innovative company revolutionizing traditional safety solutions for railway workers, and author of the new book, Metamorphosis: From Rust-Belt to High-Tech in a 21st Century World. For more information, please visit www.StevenLBlue.com, www.milleringenuity.com and connect with Blue on Twitter, @StevenLBlue.

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Busted! DOJ exposes huge ad-fraud operation, eight charged

The US Department of Justice has charged eight men with running a vast ad-fraud scheme.

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Marriott Reveals Security Incident Involving Starwood Reservation Database

Marriott announced that it recently detected and addressed a security incident involving the Starwood guest reservation database. On 30 November, Marriott revealed that an internal investigation had found evidence of unauthorized access to the database containing guests’ reservation information at Sheraton hotels and other Starwood properties on or before 10 September 2018. The American multinational […]… Read More

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Upgrading Your Tech Equipment? 9 Creative Ways to Repurpose Old Gear

What’s one creative way to get rid of old (but still functioning) computer/ tech equipment when upgrading your office’s machines?

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1. Pass It On to a Startup

Find an early-stage company with limited capital, and pass it on to them. Give them a boost when they need it most, and hopefully, the karma will continue. – Ben Lang, IT Kit

2. Host a Technology Pop-Up Store for Employees

Set up a pop-up store within your company where employees can mingle, enjoy refreshments and buy used technology for a really low price. All proceeds from the store can go to a charity or, if you have one, an emergency fund for all employees. – Eng Tan, Simplr

3. Offer It to Your Developers and Remote Team Members

Your developers often use multiple computers to work on code while your remote team may not be in a position to buy the latest and greatest. What you are trading in may be more than they have now, so they will appreciate this perk. – Peter Daisyme, Hostt

4. Give It to Homeless Shelters

The homeless can use these computers at shelters they visit to prepare resumes and stay in touch with family. This also could provide the shelters with the technology they need to run their organization. I’ve seen them in use, and it really does help on so many levels. – Angela Ruth, Calendar

5. Donate It to Local Nonprofits

This can be the start of a great relationship with local nonprofits that can use your old computer equipment for good. It’s also important to reach out to these nonprofits and see whether there’s something else that can be done other than donating equipment. There may be room for further cooperation. – Brian Condenanza, Fluo Shoes

6. Find a Local School Donation Program

Many schools have a program through which people can donate stuff like computers, hardware or any other tools. These computers/IT products can be used in the school lab and also can be given to students to experiment with and see how they function. – Piyush Jain, Simpalm

7. Give It to People Who Need It

As long as it still functions, offer it to employees. If they have no use for the item, then donate it to a nonprofit that helps people re-enter the workforce or another needy organization. Donating also gives you an opportunity to turn it into a public relations moment. You can promote your goodwill on social media and through other channels. – Blair Thomas, eMerchantBroker

8. Use It for Upcycling and Upgrading

You’re limited only by your own imagination when it comes to upcycling old yet functional IT equipment. Amateur and professional artists have successfully used parts of old computers to create an assortment of items such as lamps, flower pots, tissue boxes, desk fans and mailboxes. Alternatively, you may consider reusing hardware from one or more working devices to upgrade or create another. – Derek Robinson, Top Notch Dezigns

9. Recycle It

There’s a local electronics recycling facility that we take all of our old computers to. It’s better for the environment than simply trashing them, and it’s nice knowing that parts of your machines will be reused. – Adrien Schmidt, Bouquet.ai

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Prisoners allegedly posed as underage girls in $560K sextortion scam

They allegedly victimized 442 military men by sending nude photos and then calling, pretending to be irate fathers or police.

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Is Public Cloud Cheaper Than Running Your Own Data Center?

The question on whether public cloud infrastructure is cheaper than running on-premises data centers keeps coming in client inquiries. Clients realize that most of the answers produced by the industry so far are skewed by the vested interests of whoever is coming up

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Friday, 30 November 2018

I attend a lot of technical conferences in my role here at Citrix. And I mean A LOT. I bet I’m in Vegas six times a year attending some cloud conference or another. (Get it? See what I did there?)

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1. Believe your sales team when they tell you things will get better next quarter or next year.

2. Believe your sales team when they tell you they can’t raise prices.

3. Believe your marketing people when they tell you the market has no room for new products.

4. Trust in the old adage “the company has been around for 100 years and will be for another 100.”

5. Keep your Board and employees in “happy-land”.

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1. Pass It On to a Startup

2. Host a Technology Pop-Up Store for Employees

3. Offer It to Your Developers and Remote Team Members

4. Give It to Homeless Shelters

5. Donate It to Local Nonprofits

6. Find a Local School Donation Program

7. Give It to People Who Need It

8. Use It for Upcycling and Upgrading

9. Recycle It