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Philippe J DEWOST
April 10, 2014 8:37 AM
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"The Heartbleed bug allows anyone on the Internet to read the memory of the systems protected by the vulnerable versions of the OpenSSL software. This compromises the secret keys used to identify the service providers and to encrypt the traffic, the names and passwords of the users and the actual content. This allows attackers to eavesdrop communications, steal data directly from the services and users and to impersonate services and users. Basically, an attacker can grab 64K of memory from a server. The attack leaves no trace, and can be done multiple times to grab a different random 64K of memory. This means that anything in memory -- SSL private keys, user keys, anything -- is vulnerable. And you have to assume that it is all compromised. All of it. "Catastrophic" is the right word. On the scale of 1 to 10, this is an 11.
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Philippe J DEWOST
April 10, 2014 7:14 AM
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PwC, l’AFDEL et le SNJV dévoilent la deuxième édition du classement des principaux acteurs du numérique Français pour l’année 2013, dans le cadre de l’initiative Global Software Leaders (GSL100). Le classement intègre les éditeurs de logiciels, de jeux vidéo ainsi que les services internet, compte tenu de la convergence des modèles économiques et des grandes tendances de fond qui affectent également l’ensemble de ces acteurs de l’économie numérique : la dématérialisation des contenus, la mobilité, la consumérisation des technologies, le cloud computing et le SAAS, le big data et l’intégration des réseaux sociaux. Le Top 100 des acteurs français du numérique pèse plus de 7,4 milliards d’euros, en progression de 6% par rapport à l’an dernier. Internet, le Cloud computing et le marché des jeux dématérialisés tirent la croissance, ainsi le GSL relève: + 38% de croissance pour le Top 10 des Services Internet sur 2013, tiré notamment par des acteurs comme Criteo, seul positionné dans le Top 5+ 70% de croissance moyenne sur 2010-2013 pour les 9 principaux éditeurs SaaS du Top 100 (Trace One, Oodrive, Talentsoft, Ivalua, EasyVista…)+12% de croissance du marché dématérialisé et sur mobiles pour les jeux vidéos
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Philippe J DEWOST
April 7, 2014 1:58 AM
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Lorsqu'on lui a parlé pour la première fois du FlyLab, Gilles Babinet avoue avoir au début été plutôt sceptique : comment un fablab, aussi sophistiqué qu’il fût, pouvait parvenir à créer des produits d’aussi haute technologie que des drones, principalement à usage professionnel ? C’est pourtant le challenge que relève brillamment Hakim Amrani Montanelli et son FlyLab. En s’appuyant sur un ensemble de technologies open source et open hardware, il peut fabriquer toutes les parties d’un drone, et en abaisse drastiquement le prix, parfois d’un facteur 20. L’ensemble des éléments logiciels sont évidemment libres, le micro-contrôleur est basé sur une plateforme Arduino - opensource -, tandis que la structure principale est réalisée en impression 3D. Même des pièces de haute technologie, comme l’étage haute fréquence, les moteurs électriques et les antennes HF peuvent être fabriqués par le Flylab. Pour l’instant, seules les hélices - qui sont injectées à haute pression pour disposer de la précision suffisante - sont produites à l’extérieur du FlyLab.
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Philippe J DEWOST
April 4, 2014 1:18 AM
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If you were ever wondering why Google has aggressively pursued Android, this chart is the answer. Mobile gadgets like smartphones and tablets have drastically increased the time we spend online according to a new report by comScore. The more time we're online, the better it is for Google.
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Philippe J DEWOST
April 3, 2014 4:21 AM
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The online storage startup, also used by mid-size businesses and enterprise customers, like any other company has to comply with U.S. copyright law. But how it goes about it can be an entirely different matter.
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Philippe J DEWOST
April 2, 2014 1:08 PM
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Messaging service WhatsApp has hit a new record after handling 64 billion messages in 24 hours.
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Philippe J DEWOST
March 29, 2014 5:28 AM
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CloudGOO, a newly launched Android application with something of a silly name, offers a way for you to smush together all your cloud-based file storage accounts to form one big cloud drive in the sky. That is, the app aggregates your cloud drive accounts into one mobile interface, then uses that space as if it were one drive for things like automatic uploads of photos, videos, music, and documents. The new service was launched just days ago by Berlin-based developer Jared Preston, who previously spent a few years in Seattle working for Microsoft on the Windows Live platform, followed by some time at Deutsche Telekom. He explains that unlike other platforms, such as Jolicloud for example, which attempted to aggregate a user’s web services under one roof, the idea with CloudGOO is not to have you navigate between your drives or media spaces using the app. Instead, he says, “you simply access and use your stuff, no matter where it is stored.” “Theoretically, you could just hook up as many Google Drives, Dropbox, etc., as you wanted, to create a total space available for you to use. CloudGOO can then be set to ‘automatic upload’ and would just utilize the space available,” says Preston. “You would not have to worry about managing the space, just using it.”
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Philippe J DEWOST
March 27, 2014 10:03 AM
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La start-up Awox, spécialisée dans les objets connectés pour la maison et le divertissement, a lancé mercredi son introduction en Bourse. Elle compte lever 17 millions d’euros sur Euronext Paris.
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Philippe J DEWOST
March 26, 2014 6:01 AM
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According to a statement from CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the company plans to expand Oculus beyond gaming: After games, we're going to make Oculus a platform for many other experiences. Imagine enjoying a court side seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor face-to-face -- just by putting on goggles in your home. Zuckerberg expanded on that in a conference call following the announcement, saying he believes virtual reality will be the next big computing platform after mobile devices like smartphones and tablets. "History suggests that there will be more platforms to come," Zuckerberg said on the conference call, adding that the person who controls that major computing platform will be able to shape the entire tech industry. "Today's acquisition is a long-term bet on the future of computing," Zuckerberg said. Oculus got its start on crowdfunding site Kickstarter, where it raised $2.4 million in 2012. Since then, other VCs have invested in the company. Most recently, Oculus raised $75 million in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz.
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Philippe J DEWOST
March 20, 2014 4:43 PM
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Robert Scoble, one of the earliest supporters of Google Glass, had a harsh blog post about Glass. He says Google can't figure out what it's doing with Glass internally, and he gets a feeling that it's not going well on the Glass project. He worries about what this means for Google's ability to actually follow through on projects (via Business Insider)
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Philippe J DEWOST
March 20, 2014 2:00 AM
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In October of 2011, Mike Dobson and David Gilday’s CubeStormer II robot, built from Lego kits and powered by a Samsung Galaxy S2, set the world record for solving a Rubik’s Cube: 5.27 seconds. That time just narrowly defeated the best ever human time, marking the first time a robot had done so. Now the two robot builders are at it again. At last weekend’s Big Bang Fair in Birmingham UK, the team brought their next creation: the CubeStormer 3. Again built from Lego mechanical and robotics parts and this time powered by a Samsung Galaxy S4, the robot shattered the record set by the CubeStormer II by solving a Rubik’s Cube in only 3.253 seconds – which is not only faster than the CubeStormer II, but also faster than the fastest human time of 5.55 secondsset by Mats Valk.
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Philippe J DEWOST
March 18, 2014 7:24 AM
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Le cloud computing (ou informatique en nuage) et le big data induisent une transformation majeure dans l’usage du numérique par les entreprises de tous les secteurs économiques. Les enjeux associés portent non seulement sur l’activité et la création d’emplois au sein des acteurs du numérique, mais aussi sur les gains de compétitivités pouvant être réalisés par les entreprises utilisatrices. Les entreprises doivent continuer à innover autour de ces solutions pour bâtir une position significative sur le plan technologique et industriel en France et en Europe pour le cloud computing, et identifier les opportunités majeures de création de valeur pour le big data.
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Philippe J DEWOST
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March 17, 2014 11:34 AM
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A desktop app called Popcorn Time launched last week gaining considerable attention for presenting pirated streaming movies in a clean and easy to use format. It was essentially a Netflix for pirated movies. By Friday, it was taken down. The anonymous team of developers wrote a blog post proclaiming their motivation was 'we need to move on with our lives'. Now, Torrentfreak reported that a team of developers called YTS resurrected the project and officially relaunched it Sunday.
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Philippe J DEWOST
April 10, 2014 8:29 AM
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Two new iPhones, two iWatches, and an Apple TV ? Apple will have a very busy second half of the year, according to KGI Securities analyst Ming Chi Kuo. In a new note released yesterday, and picked up at MacRumors, Kuo provided the following roadmap for Apple's product releases in 2013. Kuo is fairly plugged-in with Apple's suppliers and has a better track record than most.
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Philippe J DEWOST
April 9, 2014 12:34 AM
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If there's one negative thing you've heard about the iPhone in past few years, it's that it's getting walloped in market share battle with Android. Around the world, that's certainly true, but in the U.S., the iPhone is doing pretty well. As you can see in this chart from Statista based on data from comScore, Android is actually falling while the iPhone continues to take share.
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Philippe J DEWOST
April 4, 2014 3:56 PM
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Cheerleaders for big data have made four exciting claims, each one reflected in the success of Google Flu Trends: that data analysis produces uncannily accurate results; that every single data point can be captured, making old statistical sampling techniques obsolete; that it is passé to fret about what causes what, because statistical correlation tells us what we need to know; and that scientific or statistical models aren’t needed because, to quote “The End of Theory”, a provocative essay published in Wired in 2008, “with enough data, the numbers speak for themselves”. Unfortunately, these four articles of faith are at best optimistic oversimplifications. At worst, according to David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk at Cambridge university, they can be “complete bollocks. Absolute nonsense.”
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Philippe J DEWOST
April 3, 2014 4:35 AM
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Cela fait près de 10 ans que Google conçoit ses propres machines, après avoir modifié celles des autres. En 2001 déjà, Google équipait ses racks de serveurs avec des machines bon marché, en tirant profit de leur savoir-faire logiciel : en effet, leur architecture intégrant une gestion très poussée de la distribution des données et de leur redondance, il devenait beaucoup plus économique d'utiliser des machines un peu moins fiables, mais beaucoup moins coûteuses que les solutions haut de gamme de Dell, HP ou IBM. Le logiciel faisait le reste. Et lorsque Chris Pinkham a réalisé ce que faisait Google, il y a dix ans, Amazon a emboîté le pas, au grand dam de HP (très bien raconté dans cet article de Wired) Facebook a suivi plus tard. Et la grande surprise, c'est que contrairement à Google et Amazon, qui géraient leurs innovations et architectures comme des secrets industriels, la firme de Mark Zuckerberg a décidé de prendre la voie de l'opensource. En 2011, donc, le projet Open Compute voit le jour. En effet, quel espoir avait Facebook, malgré ses énormes moyens, de rattraper un jour l'avance de Google, tant intellectuelle (R&D) que matérielle (volume de machines fabriquées, données d'exploitation, etc.) ?
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Philippe J DEWOST
April 3, 2014 12:50 AM
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Alors que le décret sur la dématérialisation des titres-restaurant entre en vigueur ce mercredi 2 avril, Resto Flash, seul émetteur 100 % numérique, célèbre sa deuxième levée de fonds depuis sa création en 2011. « Cela n'aurait jamais été possible sans le décret qui nous accorde une certaine légitimité vis-à-vis des investisseurs », affirme Emmanuel Rodriguez-Maroto, président et co-fondateur de Resto Flash.
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Philippe J DEWOST
April 2, 2014 2:47 AM
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Microsoft slashed prices on several of its cloud computing services the company announced on Monday, following through on a standing promise to match Amazon Web Services, which made similar cuts last week. The software giant made the announcement in a blog post by Windows Azure general manager Steven Martin, saying it will slash prices on various services by 27 percent to 65 percent. “We recognize that economics are a primary driver for some customers adopting cloud, and stand by our commitment to match prices and be best-in-class on price performance,” Martin wrote. The move coincided with Microsoft’s Build conference taking place this week in San Francisco. It’s the latest move in what’s turning out to be a brisk price war for cloud computing services. Last week, Amazon announced a broad-based price cut on many portions of its Amazon Web Services by 36 percent to 65 percent. That came a day after Google slashed prices for its Google Cloud Platform from 32 percent to 85 percent.
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Philippe J DEWOST
March 28, 2014 2:53 AM
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The world’s first Perpetual Power reserveExtended power reserve is a major priority for horology connoisseurs as well as a quest for watchmakers.
The MERIDIIST INFINITE provides perpetual stand-by time through an invisible component built into the main screen and thanks to the exclusive partnership with the very innovative French company Sunpartner Technologies, creator of the Wysips® technology.
Behind the sapphire screen lies a lens substrate with electric conductors and, behind this, another layer of completely transparent photovoltaic cells and then comes the LCD screen – all together acting invisibly and automatically. A hybrid charging capacity allows automatic charging under certain natural or artificial light sources, even when the battery is empty.
TAG Heuer stands for “Technologie d’Avant-Garde”, and the MERIDIIST INFINITE perpetuates a great tradition that came before it.
This revolutionary communication instrument will be launched worldwide in July 2014, in Limited Edition of 1911 pieces made with titanium grade 5 and carbon, in selected TAG Heuer boutiques and Watch & Jewellery retailers.
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Philippe J DEWOST
March 27, 2014 1:44 AM
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Frank Frankovsky, Facebook’s vice president of hardware design and supply chain optimization, who helped oversee the development and growth of the company’s custom server effort, has left the social networking company to form his own as-yet-unnamed startup that will focus on building optical storage for the enterprise. In an interview, Frankovsky said he had resigned from Facebook last week to pursue this idea. Meanwhile, Jason Taylor, Facebook’s director of infrastructure, has assumed responsibility for the hardware design and supply chain teams at Facebook and will continue working with the Open Compute Project on Facebook’s behalf. Taylor has been overseeing much of that work for the last year, according to Facebook, and he will also be joining the Open Compute Foundation board along with Bill Laing, corporate VP of Cloud and Enterprise at Microsoft. This brings the OCP Foundation board from five to seven participants. Frankovsky, who will remain chairman and president of the OCP board, will stay as an independent member.
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Philippe J DEWOST
March 21, 2014 5:38 PM
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Airbnb is reportedly in talks to get new funding at a $10 billion valuation. That would vault Airbnb to the top of the startup valuation rankings
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Philippe J DEWOST
March 20, 2014 4:31 PM
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Tango, a messaging app and mobile social network, has raised $280 million, largely from Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba. Alibaba contributed $215 million and holds a minority stake in the company. Existing Tango investors put in the remaining $65 million.
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Philippe J DEWOST
March 19, 2014 3:35 AM
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Fayçal Boujemaa, responsable recherche et développement de Cloudwatt, revient pour Silicon.fr sur l’adoption de l’architecture ARM dans les serveurs. Et ouvre la porte à une diversification des processeurs présents dans les datacenters du Cloud.
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Philippe J DEWOST
March 18, 2014 3:22 AM
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In 2010, Jobs hosted his final Top 100 meeting. .../... One person asked if Apple was going to release a television next. There were already rumors all over the place that it was Apple's next conquest. Yukari says "Jobs didn't hesitate." He said, "No." "TV is a terrible business. They don't turn over and the margins suck," said Jobs. (Unlike iPhones which are wildly profitable and replaced every two years, a TV gets replaced every 8 years, and isn't all that profitable.) He did want to control the living room, though, he said. He also said the Apple TV, the little video streaming box, would remain a hobby until Apple got all the content it needed.
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I have been used to see BT's Security Chief more softtoned. This OpenSSL bug must be very serious.