| ITworld Today | | | | Sixty thousand dollars, and the first quarter next year: those were the details missing at Nokia's July unveiling of the Ozo 360-degree video camera.Nokia calls the Ozo a virtual reality camera, but this is something of a misnomer: If you're shooting video, there's nothing virtual about the reality depicted, and what you're recording is immersive video.The Ozo has a spherical field of view, with eight 2K-by-2K image sensors and eight microphones that record direct to a proprietary flash storage device. Its 500GB capacity is enough to store 45 minutes of video and audio, according to Nokia. The flash storage costs US$2,500.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | | Issue highlights 1. HPE's Synergy is a new type of 'composable' infrastructure 2. Samsung appoints new head for mobile business 3. Mozilla identifying home for Thunderbird as it focuses on Firefox 4. Flaws in Huawei WiMax routers won't be fixed, researcher says | | : 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. | | Hewlett Packard Enterprise has developed a new type of "composable' hardware that it claims will cut data center costs and slash the time it takes to spin up new applications.Called HPE Synergy, it combines storage, compute and network equipment in one chassis, along with management software that can quickly configure the hardware automatically to provide just the resources needed to run an application, HPE said."HPE Synergy's unique built-in software intelligence, auto discovery capabilities and fluid resource pools enable customers to instantly boot up infrastructure ready to run physical, virtual and containerized applications," the company said.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Samsung Electronics has appointed D.J. Koh, head of mobile research and development, as the new chief of the company's mobile communications business.The move follows some setbacks in Samsung's mobile business during the tenure of the former head J.K. Shin, including an underestimation this year of demand for the Galaxy S6 edge, while overestimating demand for the Galaxy S6 with a non-curved screen.Samsung said Tuesday that Shin and another co-chief executive officer would step back from day-to-day operations, according to the Wall Street Journal.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems As businesses quickly move to make the data center more agile, application centric automation and virtualization of both hardware and software infrastructure become increasingly important. Learn More | | To better focus on Firefox and its other products, the Mozilla Foundation decided in 2012 to address the on-going stability of the open-source Thunderbird email client rather than new development, which was passed on to volunteer developers. The rationale for the decision was that in view of the growing popularity of Web-based alternative forms of communications, Thunderbird was not likely to be a source of innovation and was seen more or less as a settled product with a basic set of features that users were happy with."Once again we’ve been asking the question: is Thunderbird a likely source of innovation and of leadership in today’s Internet life? Or is Thunderbird already pretty much what its users want and mostly needs some on-going maintenance?" wrote foundation chair Mitchell Baker in 2012.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Huawei isn't planning on patching several flaws in seven models of WiMax routers that are not being supported anymore by the company, according to a security researcher.Pierre Kim published a list of the affected models, which are still used in countries including Ivory Coast, Iran, Iraq, Libya, the Philippines, Bahrain and Ukraine.Kim notified Huawei of the problem on Oct. 28. He wrote that Huawei said the routers are no longer serviced by the company and would not be patched.The routers include the EchoLife BM626 WiMax CPE and associated models running the same firmware including the BM626e, BM635, BM632, BM631a, BM632w and the BM652.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | : Silver Peak Systems Inc Manufacturing leader, Interroll, augments MPLS with Broadband to dramatically reduce WAN costs and improve SaaS application performance. Read the case study to learn how. Learn more >> | | | | | | | |
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