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Microsoft takes control of Nokia's phone business and acquires 25,000 new employees Summary: It's official as of today, April 25: Nokia's Devices and Services business is now owned by Microsoft. Microsoft Mobile Oy Microsoft Mobile Oy is now the subsidiary of Microsoft responsible for Lumia, Asha and Android-based Nokia X phones, and other unspecified devices. The new name and status is the culmination of Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia's handset business, which cost Redmond $5 billion (plus another $2 billion for a 10-year associated patent-licensing agreement). Microsoft Mobile Oy is now part of the Microsoft Devices Group headed by Executive Vice President Stephen Elop. The Mobile Devices Group is now responsible for Lumia smartphones and tablets, Nokia mobile phones, Xbox hardware, Surface, Perceptive Pixel (PPI) products, and accessories. Under the patent piece of the deal, Microsoft acquired 8,500 design patents covering phone manuf...

Amazon AppStream now available for all developers, including Mac Summary: AppStream, Amazon's streaming application is now open to all developers of applications and games, the company said on Thursday. This will allow all developers, including those working on OS X , to build and run streaming applications through Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon AppStream allows developers to stream resource-intensive applications and games from the cloud. The service was first launched in November last year. The previews were not available to Mac users at the time, a restriction that the company has now lifted. The most significant change from today's announcement is the introduction of the g2 instance type Elastic Block Storage (EBS). AppStream applications now run in a Windows 2008 R2 environment on an Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance and can make use of native Windows APIs and AWS resources such as relational and NoSQL (Amazon...

Heartbleed: Serious OpenSSL zero day vulnerability revealed Heartbleed OpenSSL zero-day vulnerability. Summary: New security holes are always showing up. The latest one, the so-called Heartbleed Bug in the OpenSSL cryptographic library, is an especially bad one.Lets hope every company would try to increase their security measures While Heartbleed only affects OpenSSL's 1.0.1 and the 1.0.2-beta release , 1.01 is already broadly deployed. Since Secure-Socket Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) are at the heart of Internet security, this security hole is serious. The flaw can potentially be used to reveal not just the contents of a secured-message, such as a credit-card transaction over HTTPS, but the primary and secondary SSL keys themselves. This data could then, in theory, be used as a skeleton keys to bypass secure serve...

Microsoft releases a preview build of its mysterious 'Project N' Summary: Microsoft's 'Project N,' now officially christened '.Net Native' -- a new compiler for building faster Windows Store apps -- is available now as a developer preview. Microsoft has released a first developer preview build of .Net Native , the technology formerly known by its codename "Project N." .Net Native allows Windows Store/Metro-Style apps to start up to 60 percent faster and use 15 percent to 20 percent less memory when compiled with .Net Native, according to Microsoft officials. In short, NET Native compiles C# to native machine code that performs like C++. "Our compiler in the cloud compiles the app using .Net Native in the Store, creating a self-contained app package that’s customized to the device where the app will be installed," explained officials in an April 2 blog post. Microsoft officials showed off a brief sneak peek ...