| ITworld Today | | | | BlackBerry has decided not operate in Pakistan after Nov. 30, rather than let the local government intercept communications on its enterprise services, the company said Monday.The Pakistani government wanted the ability to monitor all BlackBerry Enterprise Service traffic in the country, including every BES e-mail and BES BBM (BlackBerry Messenger) message, BlackBerry's Chief Operating Officer Marty Beard wrote in a blog post on Monday. BlackBerry has been under pressure in many countries including neighboring India to provide access to data on its enterprise services to law enforcement.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | | Issue highlights 1. Amazon shows off new delivery drone 2. Microsoft enables potential unwanted software detection for enterprise customers 3. Kalinin nuclear power plant's new neighbor will be a data center 4. Sony says PS4 remote game streaming to PCs, Macs coming 5. Microsoft zaps dodgy Dell digital certificates | | : Lookout Mobile Security In this eGuide, Computerworld UK, CSO, and IDG News Service examine some of the recent trends in mobile threats as well as ways to protect against them. Read on to learn how mobile security measures can help protect your organization. Learn more. | | Amazon.com has teased a new drone design that takes off and lands vertically like a helicopter but flies like an airplane.The video of the delivery drone is being released nearly two years after Amazon released a video to announce that it intended to use drones to deliver parcels through a new service called Prime Air.But the drone showcased in the video posted on Sunday is quite different from the one it showed off previously. The new drone, for example, carries the parcel in its fuselage rather than below the drone.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | It’s time to throw adware, browser hijackers and other potentially unwanted applications (PUAs) off corporate networks, Microsoft has decided. The company has started offering PUA protection in its anti-malware products for enterprise customers.The new feature is available in Microsoft's System Center Endpoint Protection (SCEP) and Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP) as an option that can be turned on by system administrators.PUA signatures are included in the anti-malware definition updates and cloud protection, so no additional configuration is needed.Potentially unwanted applications are those programs that, once installed, also deploy other programs without users' knowledge, inject advertisements into Web traffic locally, hijack browser search settings, or solicit payment for various services based on false claims.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: House ads CIO is now accepting applications for its 2016 CIO 100 Awards. These prestigious awards honor the innovative ways that IT delivers a competitive advantage or accelerates business success in the enterprise. Deadline: All entries due February 1, 2016. Submit your application now. | | Kalinin nuclear power plant's new neighbor will be a data center.The plant, near the city of Tver, is close to fiber-optic lines between Moscow and St Petersburg, providing the future data center with the double advantage of reliable power and fast communications links.When completed, the data center will be the largest in Russia, with a capacity of up to 10,000 racks, the company claims.Construction work will begin shortly, plant director Mikhail Kanyshev said Monday. The first phase is due to enter service in March 2017, and the second a year later, he said.Nuclear reactors need to run continuously, and so are a good match for loads that, like many data centers, run 24 hours a day. RosEnergoAtom expects the Kalinin data center to consume about 80 megawatts. That's just 2 percent of the neighboring power plant's generating capacity: Its four reactors are rated at 1 gigawatt each.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Sony said its PlayStation 4 will deliver game streaming to PCs and Macs, shortly after a third-party app promised to offer similar functionality.The addition of the functionality will also take the PS4 closer to rival Xbox, which launched the streaming of Xbox One games to Windows 10 PCs and tablets on the home network. The feature is seen by many gamers as extending their opportunity to stream games to a variety of devices, and not be tethered to their TV sets."Some people asked if we plan to provide Remote Play function to PC, and yes, we are indeed working on an official application for PC/Mac. :D," Shuhei Yoshida, president of Worldwide Studios at Sony Computer Entertainment, wrote in a tweet.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Microsoft has updated several of its security tools to remove two digital certificates installed on some Dell computers that could compromise data. The updates apply to Windows Defender for Windows 10 and 8.1; Microsoft Security Essentials for Windows 7 and Vista; and its Safety Scanner and Malicious Software Removal tool, according to postings here and here.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | WHITE PAPER: IBM Reviews how companies can infuse ready-to-use, world-class collaboration capabilities through SaaS, on-premises and hybrid deployment models. Learn More | | | | | | | |
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