Alastair Dowell

Mesh Networking Platform improves connectivity for home IoT devices

IOT, Qualcomm, Tips and Tricks / Alastair Dowell

Qualcomm\’s new platform and its Mesh Networking Reference Design aim to help make it easier to build out connected device solutions Earlier this week Qualcomm unveiled its Mesh Networking Platform, which it is positioning as an inroad to better connected home experiences for consumers. Qualcomm wants to make it easier for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to

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How to Protect Yourself From Ransomware Attacks

Security, Tips and Tricks / Alastair Dowell

Look Out on Windows PCs As you must know by now a nasty form of malicious software known as ransomware has been making headlines after cybercriminals hijacked hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide, impacting the NHS and many others. Ransomware, which is often transmitted by email or web pop-ups, involves locking up people’s data and

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Is Apple prepping a Smart Speaker?

Apple / Alastair Dowell

After the huge success of the Amazon Alexa speaker and the more recent Google Home Speaker, where is the Apple version? Now we have a clue after Mac Rumours publish a report from KGI Securities, who have a solid track record in all things Apple. Apple Apple\’s widely rumored Siri-based smart speaker and home hub

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Massive Global Ransomware Attack Underway

Events, Mobile, Security / Alastair Dowell

HNS hit hard As many people know there is a wide-spread and serious global PC hacking attack. The BBC and UK papers report numerous hospitals and the NHS in general have been especially hard hit with many thousands of PCs compromised. The virus is bad, as bad as they get. An infected PC spreads the

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Is your router compromised?

Security, Tips and Tricks / Alastair Dowell

Report shows growing number of website cyber attacks come from hacked home routers WordFence report that in the past month alone they have seen over 57,000 unique home routers being used to attack WordPress sites. Those home networks are now being explored by hackers who have full access to them via the hacked home router.

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Business still stuck on old version of Microsoft Windows

Microsoft / Alastair Dowell

According to the Spiceworks 2017 OS Adoption Trends survey, released Monday, some 52% of businesses are still running at least one instance of Windows XP, despite support for the OS ending on April 8, 2014. The survey also noted that 9% of businesses are still running at least one instance of Windows Vista, which will lose

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Benefits of distributed customer base

Apple, Investing / Alastair Dowell

Apple Drops Bomb on Imagination Tech Today UK graphics specialist Imagination Technologies disclosed that Apple a large customer of its graphics and multimedia intellectual property — informed the former that it will \”no longer use [Imagination\’s] intellectual property in new products in 15 months to two years [sic] time, and as such will not be eligible for royalty

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Square lands in UK to offer credit card processing right behind Stripe

Mobile, Product Review / Alastair Dowell

Payments company Square launches in the UK Square Inc, the payments company led by Twitter Inc Chief Executive Jack Dorsey, has just launched in the United Kingdom in its first European foray. The San Francisco-based company said on Tuesday that small-and medium-sized businesses in the U.K. would be able to use Square\’s credit card reader

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Apple updates iPad line

Apple, Investing / Alastair Dowell

Apple lowers costs of iPad with new model. Yesterday, March 21, Apple announced a new \”low-cost\” 9.7-inch iPad. Let\’s look at it and what it means for its iPad business. New iPad available for purchase on the 23rd March at 3PM. Building a cheaper iPad Air 2 Apple has historically discounted its older-generation iPad models

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Microsoft moves beyond Intel in its Azure cloud with Qualcomm

Investing, Microsoft / Alastair Dowell

Microsoft has been running its Windows Server OS on ARM-based processors made by Qualcomm. Microsoft will begin using ARM-based servers in its Azure cloud, in a significant move that takes it beyond using only Intel chips in its datacenters. Microsoft has been testing its Windows Server OS on ARM-based servers made by Qualcomm using the

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