Writing at Newsroom.co.nz, Mark Jennings covers a weak financial result from Sky TV. He quotes boss John Fellet:
“Piracy has become our biggest competitor.
“The big problem is the increasing ease by which pirated content is accessible.
“Devices preloaded with piracy software enable users to access pirated content stored on servers overseas, from the comfort of their living room.”
There’s little question piracy happens.…
Earlier today Oppo showed New Zealand media the R11 phone. We could talk about the 20 megapixel camera and features. Instead, let’s save time and get straight to the point: this is a NZ$770 premium Android phone.
That’s right. It costs a whisker over half the NZ$1500 price of a Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus.…
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.…
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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.…
