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Printing Giant Lexmark Targets Asia After £2.5bn Chinese Takeover

Lexmark finds a buyer as it continues to move away from printers into software

Apple Calls Time On Quicktime For Windows

It’s curtains for Quicktime after Apple officially ends support, week after US government and security experts tell users to uninstall it

Cloud

Microsoft Is ‘Rapidly Growing’ Its Enterprise SaaS Revenue

Still a long way behind market leader Salesforce, but Microsoft is playing hard to catch up

Mobility

Rogue Wi-Fi Networks Brick iPhones And iPads Using Revived ‘1970’ iOS Bug

Researchers set up malicious Wi-Fi network to hoodwink iPhone and iPads into downloading dodgy updates

Collaboration Suites

Quiz Of The Week: Facebook

Facebook is the world's biggest social network and one of the most influential firms in Silicon Valley, but what do you know about it?

Cloud

Box: It Makes No Sense For Us To Build Data Centres When IBM Can Do It At Scale

IBM says only a few major players can deliver cloud scale and help other tech firms focus on their product, not hardware

Software

Windows XP Is Still Running On A Tenth Of All Desktops

Veteran software remains the third most popular version of Windows, despite support ending two years ago

Mobile Apps

BlackBerry Boosts BBM Privacy With Free Self-Destructing Messages And Recalls

BlackBerry abolishes subscription fee for 'retract' and 'timer' to give users "more control" over their BBM communications

Mobile Apps

BlackBerry Service And Software Revenues Rise But Results Miss Expectations

BlackBerry doubles software and service revenues but gives no hardware figures as recovery continues

Software

Microsoft Looks Beyond Mouse And Keyboard With Windows 10 ‘Anniversary Update’

Free ‘Anniversary Update’ will be available to all Windows 10 users from this summer

Security

Microsoft Office 2016 Blocks Malicious Macros

Microsoft released a new feature in Office 2016 that helps administrators prevent macro-based malware infections

Broadband

T- Mobile: Jive Frees Customer Service And Sales From IT

T-Mobile explains how Jive helps it communicate internally and externally to boost customer service and compete in competitive US market - away from IT

Software

Kindle: Update Software Now Or Kiss Book Downloads Goodbye

Amazon warns that old versions of Kindle software must be updated today or users will lose the connectivity needed to download new books

Authentification

How Crap Are Your Passwords?

Security failure: New Lieberman Software Poll highlights overwhelmingly negative attitude toward effectiveness of passwords

Collaboration Suites

Jive CEO: Consumer Services Can’t Solve Business Collaboration

JiveWorld 2016: CEO Elise Steele says rivals like Facebook at Workcan't match business focus and won't stop Jive from achieving profitability

Cloud

Jive Updates Intranet And Customer Collaboration Platforms

Jive World 2016: Jive adds new content creation options for internal and external collaboration software, teases Jive 9

Browsers

Opera Adds Native Ad Blocking To Desktop Browser

Opera says web pages can load 90 percent faster without an ad blocker and 40 percent faster than third party extensions

mobile OS

Google Sneaks Out Surprise Android N Preview

Developer preview of as-yet-unnamed version of Android mobile software features split-screen apps and improved Doze function

eCommerce

PayPal Signs Up First UK Customers For Mobile Payments

Users of PayPal Here SDK look to power up their businesses with better mobile payment functions

Software

Microsoft Previews SQL Server For Linux

The move is Microsoft's latest to accommodate the popular open source platform

Security

Amazon To Restore Encryption To Fire OS

Amazon changes its mind about removing encryption features from Kindle Fire and other Amazon products

Authentification

Amazon Has Disabled Encryption On Fire OS

Latest version of Fire software appears to leave users at risk of cyber-attacks

Enterprise

HPE ‘More Focused’ As It Delivers Strong First Quarter

Whitman claims HPE is more nimble, beats Wall Street on first results since split

Broadband

Cisco Bundles Software, Hardware And Services To ‘Save’ System Integration Hassle

Cisco offers bundles to small companies to help them 'digitise' their processes simply, boosting revenues and improving employee and customer relationships

Office Suites

Office 2016 Installation Routine Deleting Older Standalone Apps

NEWS ANALYSIS: If your company depends on Microsoft Office applications that are installed separately from the ubiquitous productivity suite, installing Office 2016 will remove them.