Ben Kepes writes about an infosec panic:
Bitglass, a company that is all about protecting organizational data, wanted to see the impacts of widespread use of public wi-fi, alongside the use of unsanctioned file sharing solutions…
……Bitglass’ threat research team tested two real-world scenarios—public wi-fi use and sharing of data from within a cloud app.
Southern Cross says its recent seabed survey found a faster route for the Southern Cross Next cable project connecting Auckland and Sydney to Los Angeles.
The route means laying cable in waters off the Wallis and Fortuna Islands. This should pay off by cutting latency; that’s the time taken for data to travel across the Pacific.…
Consumer Reports has pulled its recommendations for Microsoft’s Surface products, citing an industry-worst failure rate.
Source: Consumer Reports: Microsoft Surface is Dead Last for Reliability – Thurrott.com
Reliability is one of the hardest things to cover off when reviewing hardware.
It’s no accident that Apple, which sits at the top of the reliability league table lends hardware to journalists for extended review periods.…
With version 5.4 The Document Foundation has made the free, open source LibreOffice 5.4 more compatible with Microsoft Office1.
If you like your productivity software to come as a big, sprawling, all-encompassing suite, you can buy an annual Microsoft Office subscription.…
Spark press release:
…Spark announced today that Cambridge and Turangi have become the latest towns capable of getting the fastest mobile data speeds in the country, as 4.5G is switched on in the two Waikato locations.
The launch of 4.5G in Cambridge and Turangi follows other single-tower deployments covering limited areas in the Christchurch CBD, along with the activation of a cluster of five towers in Queenstown, making a total of 10 sites, with more on the horizon.
2degrees has signed a multi-year backhaul contract with Chorus. The deal replaces a mix of services from providers including Spark and Vocus.
The network will connect UFB points of presence and data centres to the international network. 2degrees says it now has a fully diverse and highly resilient network that transports voice and data worldwide.…
