en-sg-hotdailynews: 2015-01-22 Singapore Technology

Microsoft to give away Windows 10 for first year
Irish Independent
Adrian Weckler Twitter · Email. Published 22/01/2015 | 02:30. 0 Comments; Share. Facebook · Twitter · Google · Email. Windows 10. Microsoft is to make its next big launch of Windows free in a bid to beef up competition with Apple.
Microsoft debuts hologram goggles   ABS CBN News
HoloLens First Look: Gazing Through Microsoft's Virtual Windows   Wall Street Journal (blog)
Can Windows 10 enable meetings and presentations we can look forward to?   Firstpost
Engadget
Economic Times
CNET
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AsiaOne

Dell comes back to the tablet scene with purpose
AsiaOne
It's been a while since I've held a good tablet in my hands, probably the best one so far is Microsoft's Surface Pro 3, but that doesn't really count, since it's actually a laptop-tablet hybrid. Dell seems to be fixing that with the 8.4-inch Venue 8 7000, which was first ...

The Thinnest Tablet in the World   Men's Journal
Dell Venue 8 7000   PC Magazine

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New laptop battery released, lasts two days
National Column
This external battery helps your laptop go two days without you plugging in your charger. It has been tested and proved to work. This should be good news for frequent travelers. A user says that, he travelled to his office and back twice, watched two episodes ...

Dell XPS 13 (2015) Review   Laptop Mag
The two-day laptop battery is here   The Australian
Why you should get the Dell XPS 13 over a Macbook Air   AsiaOne
Herald Sun
Wall Street Journal
Macworld
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Samsung set to start making its own smartphone chips for Galaxy S6 is bid to ...
Daily Mail
Samsung is set to start making its own smartphone chips in a bid to move ahead of Apple in the smartphone wars. The firm will not use Qualcomm Inc's processors for the next version of the South Korean technology giant's flagship Galaxy S smartphone, ...

Will Samsung drop Qualcomm silicon from Galaxy S6?   U-T San Diego
Samsung gives Qualcomm the boot, decides to use its own chips in Galaxy phones   Vancouver Sun
Doubts Cast on Samsung Ditching Qualcomm in Galaxy S6   PC Magazine
ABC News
Korea IT Times (press release)
Wall Street Journal
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WhatSim sells a WhatsApp-only mobile plan on the cheap
Gigaom
WhatsApp is now capturing a good deal of the world's texting traffic, so an Italian company figured it was time to create a WhatsApp data plan for the world. The people behind Italy's Zeromobile have launched a new venture called WhatSim that sells a €10 ...

WhatSim SIM Card Lets You Access WhatsApp Anywhere In The World   Ubergizmo (blog)
WhatsApp access, anywhere in the world, for free? Egads!   Ausdroid
New SIM Card Offers Global Access to WhatsApp   Wall Street Journal (blog)
Telecompaper (subscription)
ANTARA
Droid Life (press release) (blog)
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No, it's not a typo: Oracle plugs a record 167 security holes
SiliconANGLE (blog)
leak Oracle rolled out a mammoth batch of patches on Tuesday in the first of four annual security fixes for its vast array of enterprise software products. What makes the otherwise routine update stand out is the sheer number of vulnerabilities addressed: a ...

Oracle to fix 167 vulnerabilities, including serious backdoor-like flaw in E ...   ComputerworldUK

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ZDNet

93% of US Companies Feel Vulnerable to Insider Threats
Infosecurity Magazine
In the past few years, rapid growth in the volume of sensitive information combined with new technologies has chipped away at the effectiveness of traditional endpoint protections and network perimeter security. As a result, a full 93% of US organizations ...

Most US businesses vulnerable to insider threats   ZDNet
US data security: 93% of American firms are vulnerable to insider threats   International Business Times UK
Security priorities shifting to preventing breaches, improving internal controls   CSO Online
BetaNews
Computer Business Review
The Independent Singapore News (blog)
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Vetting of foreign IT products to begin this year, regulator says
China Economic Review
Director of the Cyberspace Administration of China Peng Bo announced on Wednesday that a new system to screen foreign information technology products before they are used on the mainland would go into effect this year, Bloomberg reported, citing state ...

China has new system to screen foreign technology   South China Morning Post (subscription)
Beijing to vet foreign tech starting this year: agency   Taipei Times
China gets tough on online extortion   Xinhua
Businessweek
CNN
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