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http://cdn.mos.techradar.com/art/internet/Cables/Virus_synapse-470-75.jpgA "highly-complex" piece of malware with James Bond-level espionage capabilities has been spying on governments, infrastructure operators, businesses and individuals since 2008, according to security company Symantec. Detailed in a company blog post, the back-door type Trojan, called "Regin", can be highly customised through the use of modules depending on its intended target and has allegedly been used as a tool for mass surveillance. Regin has been found to infect its victims in multiple ways, from luring them to spoofed versions of well-known websites and installing itself to exploiting applications. The malware has claimed a number of victims as part of two waves, with a first version targeting organisations between 2008 and 2011 before being withdrawn. It re-emerged in 2013 to target companies, government entities and research institutions, with almost half of all infections targeting private individuals, small businesses and telecoms companies. Stealth modeAccording to Symantec, Regin has been designed to be a low-key type of malware that can potentially be used in espionage campaigns lasting several years. The company was only able to analyse its actions after decrypting sample files, discovering that its actions are particularly difficult to decipher. Some of Regin's particularly stealthy, anti-forensic characteristics include a custom-built encrypted virtual file system (EVFS), embedding commands in HTTP cookies, and custom TCP and UDP protocols. OS X and iOS devices are being targeted by malicious new malwarehttp://rss.feedsportal.com/c/669/f/415085/s/40d0b86e/sc/23/mf.gif http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597980782/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40d0b86e/sc/23/rc/1/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597980782/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40d0b86e/sc/23/rc/2/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597980782/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40d0b86e/sc/23/rc/3/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597980782/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40d0b86e/sc/23/a2.imghttp://pi.feedsportal.com/r/211597980782/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40d0b86e/sc/23/a2t.imghttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techradar/software-news/~4/K2LPk7gUFF0

http://cdn.mos.techradar.com/art/features/10%20Best%20iPhone%20camera%20apps%202014/10%20Best%20iPhone%20camera%20apps-470-75.jpgBest iPhone camera apps 1-5The latest iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus have the best cameras yet from Apple. Despite going with an 8MP sensor for three years now, the Cupertino company gave its latest set of handsets faster phase-detect autofocus and even optical image stabilization on the larger phablet. Similarly iOS 8 brings a host of improvements to the default camera app, with new timelapse tool and ability to shoot slow motion movies - plus all the OS level editing tools. While Apple's prepacked imaging tools are great and all. The iPhoneography only truly sings when with a collection of apps to expand the capabilities of smartphone photography. With this in mind we've rounded up the 10 best camera apps letting you pull off all sorts of new tricks including toy box images, camera shake free videos and fixing lens distortion. 1. Manualhttp://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/features/10%20Best%20iPhone%20camera%20apps%202014/Manual%20Menu-420-90.jpg One of the biggest new camera features of iOS 8 was the ability to finally adjust your exposure settings. Although you can manually brighten and darken the frame with the basic built-in camera app, the Manual app adds some more granular control over settings such as ISO and shutter speed. You could use this added flexibility to capture a long exposure by decreasing the ISO while lengthening the shutter speed. Alternatively when you want to shoot fast moving action in dark conditions, raise the ISO and shoot at a faster shutter speed. What's more, the app also gives you access to more features such as exposure compensation, manual focus and white balance. The only thing you won't be doing in Manual is editing your images afterwards. Manual is strictly a camera shooting app, focused purely on transmuting moments into pictures. 2. Photoshop Touchhttp://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/features/10%20Best%20iPhone%20camera%20apps%202014/Photoshop%20Touch%20Final-420-90.jpghttp://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/features/10%20Best%20iPhone%20camera%20apps%202014/Photoshop%20Touch%20Menu-220-100.jpg While Manual might not have any editing options whatsoever, look to Photoshop Touch for all your post processing needs. This versatile post processing tool lets you tweak your images for everything from brightness, contrast, saturation to toning down the highlights (otherwise known as the bright parts of the frame). Beyond some basic adjustments, the mobile Adobe workshop comes with layers and many of the same filtering effects from the full fledged desktop app. With these tools you could apply a blur to one layer and blend another image into the frame, all while adding a grainy texture to to create the effect of double exposed film. It might sound like overkill for the everyday iPhone snapshot, but it's crucial to have a fully featured image editor when more and more of the best DSLR cameras can wirelessly transfer images over to a smartphone. Like Lightroom Mobile for the iPad, Photoshop Touch also lets you remotely edit images you have stored on Adobe's Creative Cloud. 3. Hyperlapse" width="420">YouTube : iPhones don't just take good pictures, they're also excellent video cameras in a pinch. The only problem is camera shake (vibrations caused by unsteady hands) can make just about any short film unwatchable and its unavoidable unless users have the steadiest of hands, brought a stabilizer rig of some sort or got an iPhone 6 Plus with OIS. Luckily for you, Hyperlapse is a new video app from the minds behind Instagram. The app was initially introduced as a tool to create cinematic timelapses, but its best feature is actually to create extremely smooth video. Even with this video of me jogging through the Union Square subway station, Hyperlapse manages to wrangle most of the camera shake as I'm moving. This vibration smoothing feature becomes even better when you shooting a short clip while standing in place. Soon enough all your videos of your kids to amusements you find on the street will be completely shake free. 4. SimplyB&Whttp://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/features/10%20Best%20iPhone%20camera%20apps%202014/SimplyB%20and%20W%20Sample%20Final-420-90.JPG Color photography is modern and all that, but black and white photography still has it place in the world. Going with a monochromatic image is great for accentuating the lighting or capturing emotion in a photo by removing any distracting hues.With this in mind we're nominating SimplyB&W as the best camera app to make black and white images. This app can take any image you take and convert it into a grayscale image. For the best looking black and white images, you'll also want to mess around with the color levels by darkening reds or brightening the yellows. Luckily SimplyB&W includes a few templates, which darkens and lightens certain colors. You can also apply filters and add a vignette (dark circular border) to the image to make it a really classic looking image. 5. VSCO Camhttp://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/features/10%20Best%20iPhone%20camera%20apps%202014/VSCO%20Sample%20Final-420-90.jpg While we're still on the topic of classical film looks, there's no other app that comes with as many excellent film simulations as VSCO Cam. With the app you can add little desaturating and color shifting filters just like Hipstamatic and other apps. VSCO Cam, however, also has a few more options for tweaking the exposure and adding film grain. If you want a simple image editor that also offers some great filter effects, VSCO Cam is it. Best iPhone camera apps 5-106. SKRWThttp://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/features/10%20Best%20iPhone%20camera%20apps%202014/SKWRT%20sample%20Final-420-90.jpg Distortion is big problem with mobile phones because they all tend to come equipped with a wide-angle lens. If you've ever taken an image of a brick wall or a buildings head on, you might have noticed the center of the frame bulges out causing lines to curve into a bowl shape. It's a small but unmistakable problem all smartphones cameras suffer - that is until SKRWT showed up in the app store. This vowel-deficient app corrects (or adds more) distortion letting me square up this image above of the Brooklyn Bridge. SKRWT is also a great iPhone camera app if you want to change the perspective of an photo. For example you could take a photo of building looking upward to capture the whole thing. Then make a few adjustments to create a final picture that look like it was taken while looking at the building head on. 7. TiltshiftGen2http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/features/10%20Best%20iPhone%20camera%20apps%202014/TiltshiftGen2%20Sample%20Final-420-90.jpg Enough talk about fixing images, now it's time to do something fun with our photography again. Creating toy box (or miniature) pictures is something you can normally only do with a special and very expensive tilt-shift lens. Well, there are plenty of ways to replicate the same effect with some software trickery including the TiltshiftGen2 camera app. Making a toy box image is a little tricky but TiltshiftGen 2 simplifies the process into position the center of the blur area and picking the shape of the blur. For the best results it's a good idea to bump up the saturation to make the colors pop and look more cartoonish. Also keep in mind that not every image works well with the miniature effect. The best images that work with this type of photography are often birds-eye of a scene below. 8. Brushstrokehttp://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/features/10%20Best%20iPhone%20camera%20apps%202014/Brushstroke%20Sample%20Final-420-90.jpg There's more than one way to create a beautiful image and the Brushstroke app will turn your real life stills into gorgeous watercolor paintings. The process is as simple as picking an image to convert and hitting the go button. After a few seconds Brushstroke will pop out a freshly painted image that can be further customized with different brush styles, colored paints and differently textured canvases. There are a handful of other painting conversion apps like Waterlogue and Popsicolor, but Brushstroke has always been the fastest app on the draw. Unlike the other apps, Brushstroke also lets you tweak the image with settings like saturation and brightness. 9. VividHDRhttp://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/features/10%20Best%20iPhone%20camera%20apps%202014/Vivid%20HDR%20sample%20Final-420-90.jpg Smartphone cameras are notorious for capturing poor dynamic range, where the overall image looks flat and lifeless between the brightest and darkest parts of the frame. It's a problem that really extends to all cameras and it's caused by the imaging sensor only capturing a single instance of light. One way of correcting for this is taking a bracketed exposure (one underexposed, one normal exposure and one that's overexposed) and combining it into a single high-dynamic range image. The iOS camera comes with built-in HDR shooting mode, but it's results can vary with strange color effects to adding no benefit at all. iPhonegraphers seeking more control and better images should pick up VividHDR. It takes multiple images and splices them together just like the built-in camera app, but VividHDR also has more options letting you choose whether the final picture looks true to life or ventures into the world of surreal imagery. Once again there are other apps that produce the same effect including Pro HDR and True HDR. In our experience, though, VividHDR produces the least amount of ghosting and processes images faster. 10. Slow Fast Slow" width="420">YouTube : One of the neatest video tricks the iPhone 5S camera introduced was the ability to shoot slow motion videos. But watching balloons pop or skaters pull tricks in just slow motion by itself is gets old really fast. This is where the Slow Fast Slow video editing app comes to let you manipulate the tempo of your video. Speed up slow motion back to regular speed or put motion into fast forwards. Alternatively, you could take a regular movie clip and alter the frame rate in multiple sections. 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http://cdn.mos.techradar.com/art/mobile_phones/iPhone/iPhone%206%20Plus/HandsOn3/6Plus-HandsOn-18-470-75.JPGVirtual reality is currently the realm of Oculus Rift, Samsung and Sony - with a little Google thrown in - but Apple may soon join the fray as well. It certainly seems that way based on an Apple job listing for an app engineer with experience with "virtual reality systems." "This engineer will create high performance apps that integrate with Virtual Reality systems for prototyping and user testing," the ad reads. It also lists iOS and OS X app development and "VR/AR development" experience (i.e. virtual reality/augmented reality) as requirements. Read between the screensNaturally the listing doesn't go into detail beyond these requirements, but it's not hard to see where Apple might be going with it. Virtual reality is still on the cusp of really taking off, but with heavy hitters like Sony (with Project Morpheus), Facebook (which owns Oculus VR) and even Google (which punked everyone with a cardboard headset this year) in the mix there's little doubt that it will. There are even third-party accessories, like the Pinć, that do for the iPhone what Samsung's and Oculus's Gear VR does for the Galaxy Note 4, turning it into a VR display mounted to your face. Add Apple in officially and you just might be looking at the next big thing in tech. The consumer-ready Oculus Rift will launch in public beta by summer 2015http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/669/f/415085/s/40ceb8ef/sc/28/mf.gifhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techradar/software-news/~4/EIEmvo6MXig

http://cdn.mos.techradar.com/art/events/T-Mobile%20July%2018%202014/music-freedom-470-75.jpgT-Mobile promised over the summer that it would add Google Play Music to its Music Freedom package, and now the carrier's fulfilled that - and then some. Music Freedom is one of T-Mobile's now-legendary "un-carrier" initiatives, unveiled in June, and it lets users on the carrier's Simple Choice plans stream an unlimited amount of music on their T-Mobile data connections. Initially this applied to Pandora, Rhapsody, iHeartRadio, iTunes Radio, Slacker, Spotify, Milk Music and Beatport. Then, in August, they added AccuRadio, Black Planet, Grooveshark, Radio Paradise, Rdio and Songza. Now there are 14 more services to add to that list, including Google Play Music, Xbox Music, SoundCloud, and more. You need it, they have itToday's new Music Freedom additions also include a variety of specialty services dedicated to a single genre or other niche: RadioTunes, Digitally Imported, Fit Radio, Fresca Radio, JAZZRADIO, Live365, Mad Genius Radio, radioPup, radio.com, ROCKRADIO, and Saavn. Users on T-Mobile's Simple Choice plans can now stream all of the services listed above at no cost to their data plans - and it's a pretty awesome feeling. T-Mobile says nearly 300% more of its customers are streaming music now compared to before it began offering Music Freedom unlimited, and they're streaming 66 million songs, or 200TB of data, every day. And all without making a dent in their data plans - you can't argue with that. You want the best Black Friday deals - and we have 'emhttp://rss.feedsportal.com/c/669/f/415085/s/40cc1430/sc/15/mf.gif http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597958894/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40cc1430/sc/15/rc/1/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597958894/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40cc1430/sc/15/rc/2/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597958894/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40cc1430/sc/15/rc/3/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597958894/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40cc1430/sc/15/a2.imghttp://pi.feedsportal.com/r/211597958894/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40cc1430/sc/15/a2t.imghttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techradar/software-news/~4/ZO_Hvsp73Yo

http://cdn.mos.techradar.com/art/internet/internetexplorer_many-470-75.jpgIBM is launching a new enterprise tool that lets businesses create storefronts through which to sell directly to other businesses. The company describes a divide between how businesses sell to consumers through user-friendly digital stores, yet B2B transactions are often carried out through clunky and outdated "online catalogs" or "manual sales processes." With IBM B2B Commerce, businesses can craft easy-to-use digital storefronts "in minutes with no technical skills or expertise," IBM's announcement reads. "By infusing the power and simplicity of engaging consumer experiences into a B2B environment, IBM B2B Commerce allows companies to more easily execute even the most complex B2B transactions - from purchasing simple replacement parts to entire systems," the company says. Smarter CommerceIBM is launching B2B Commerce through its Smarter Commerce initiative, and it's powered by IBM's WebSphere Commerce platform. The company says B2B Commerce's drag-and-drop interface lets vendors "quickly model complex buying scenarios" and deploy B2B storefronts "in just minutes." Buyer profiles let organizations give different customers their own entitlements and agreements, while integrated search and marketing tools ensure that customers are directed to the products the vendor wants them to see. Head to IBM.com for more information about IBM B2B Commerce. IBM is the latest to "reinvent the inbox" with business-focused "Verse"http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/669/f/415085/s/40cb967a/mf.gif http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597984677/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40cb967a/rc/1/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597984677/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40cb967a/rc/2/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597984677/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40cb967a/rc/3/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597984677/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40cb967a/a2.imghttp://pi.feedsportal.com/r/211597984677/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40cb967a/a2t.imghttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techradar/software-news/~4/A9AJjiVkOiA

http://cdn.mos.techradar.com/art/techradar/TechRadar%20Deals/24th%20Nov%2014/deal%20main-470-75.jpgBlack Friday week has begun and TechRadar's deal elves have been deployed to dig up the best bargains on the web! We'll be continuing our daily deals posts with all the latest bargains, but be sure to check in regularly on our main Black Friday page for all the best deals, many of which will be very time sensitive. PS4 deals...Let's start with a great deals on the Sony PS4 new-gen console. You can currently pick one up at Rakuten for just £299.99. Or if a Black Friday PS4 bundle deal is what you're after, how about a PlayStation 4 console, PLUS Grand Theft Auto V AND The Last of Us Remastered AND Destiny + Vanguard AND a 12 month subscription to PlayStation Plus... all for just £399.99 at Game. Game also has a short term deal on the DualShock 4 control pad which you can currently pick up for £39.79. Black Friday tech deals...http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/techradar/TechRadar%20Deals/24th%20Nov%2014/5smmyjpg-580-100.jpg Here's a great deal to start with. If you've been wanting to buy a tablet but not found the right deal yet, this could be it. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 is currently just £139.99 on Amazon. http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/techradar/TechRadar%20Deals/24th%20Nov%2014/1soundbar-580-100.jpg Looking for a soundbar to boost the sound of your flatscreen TV? Let's face it, the thinner TVs get, the worse the sound is. And this Goodmans soundbar will also connect to your phone via Bluetooth and is now just £39.99 on Amazon. http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/techradar/TechRadar%20Deals/24th%20Nov%2014/2sandisk-580-100.jpg Here's an impulse purchase if there ever was one. A superfast Sandisk 16GB Cruzer Edge USB memory stick for just £4.99. http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/techradar/TechRadar%20Deals/24th%20Nov%2014/3stand-580-100.jpg Got an iPad Air? Don't let it get scratched, buy a case! This one, the Targus THZ36205EU (what a name) is smart and turns into a stand. It's not just £19.99 on Amazon. http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/techradar/TechRadar%20Deals/24th%20Nov%2014/4stand-580-100.jpg Need a new printer? Currys has a great deal today on the HP Officejet 6600 all in one. It's a wireless printer, a fax machine and a scanner and it's available now for £59.97 down from £89.99. MORE BLACK FRIDAY DEALSAmazon Kindle Fire HDX Android tablet - £99 at Amazon Tesco Hudl 2 Android tablet - £129 at Tesco Plantronics BackBeat GO 2 Wireless Earbuds - Black - £61.66 at Amazon ASUS 3 GB NVIDIA GeForce 780 Ti PCIe Graphics Card - £449.97 at Currys Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate for PS4 - £19.99 at Game LEGO The Hobbit - PS4 and Xbox One - £19.85 at Amazon Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes - PS4 and Xbox One - from just £11.99 at Game Amazon Basics high speed HDMI cable - £4.49 at Amazon Motorola Moto E mobile phone - £45 at Vodafone

http://cdn.mos.techradar.com/art/techradar/TechRadar%20Deals/24th%20Nov%2014/deal%20main-470-75.jpgBlack Friday week has begun and TechRadar's deal elves have been deployed to dig up the best bargains on the web! We'll be continuing our daily deals posts with all the latest bargains, but be sure to check in regularly on our main Black Friday page for all the best deals, many of which will be very time sensitive. PS4 deals...Let's start with a great deals on the Sony PS4 new-gen console. You can currently pick one up at Rakuten for just £299.99. Or if a Black Friday PS4 bundle deal is what you're after, how about a PlayStation 4 console, PLUS Grand Theft Auto V AND The Last of Us Remastered AND Destiny + Vanguard AND a 12 month subscription to PlayStation Plus... all for just £399.99 at Game. Game also has a short term deal on the DualShock 4 control pad which you can currently pick up for £39.79. Black Friday tech deals...http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/techradar/TechRadar%20Deals/24th%20Nov%2014/5smmyjpg-580-100.jpg Here's a great deal to start with. If you've been wanting to buy a tablet but not found the right deal yet, this could be it. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 is currently just £139.99 on Amazon. http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/techradar/TechRadar%20Deals/24th%20Nov%2014/1soundbar-580-100.jpg Looking for a soundbar to boost the sound of your flatscreen TV? Let's face it, the thinner TVs get, the worse the sound is. And this Goodmans soundbar will also connect to your phone via Bluetooth and is now just £39.99 on Amazon. http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/techradar/TechRadar%20Deals/24th%20Nov%2014/2sandisk-580-100.jpg Here's an impulse purchase if there ever was one. A superfast Sandisk 16GB Cruzer Edge USB memory stick for just £4.99. http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/techradar/TechRadar%20Deals/24th%20Nov%2014/3stand-580-100.jpg Got an iPad Air? Don't let it get scratched, buy a case! This one, the Targus THZ36205EU (what a name) is smart and turns into a stand. It's not just £19.99 on Amazon. http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/techradar/TechRadar%20Deals/24th%20Nov%2014/4stand-580-100.jpg Need a new printer? Currys has a great deal today on the HP Officejet 6600 all in one. It's a wireless printer, a fax machine and a scanner and it's available now for £59.97 down from £89.99. MORE BLACK FRIDAY DEALSAmazon Kindle Fire HDX Android tablet - £99 at Amazon Tesco Hudl 2 Android tablet - £129 at Tesco Plantronics BackBeat GO 2 Wireless Earbuds - Black - £61.66 at Amazon ASUS 3 GB NVIDIA GeForce 780 Ti PCIe Graphics Card - £449.97 at Currys Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate for PS4 - £19.99 at Game LEGO The Hobbit - PS4 and Xbox One - £19.85 at Amazon Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes - PS4 and Xbox One - from just £11.99 at Game Amazon Basics high speed HDMI cable - £4.49 at Amazon Motorola Moto E mobile phone - £45 at Vodafone http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/669/f/415085/s/40cda6ae/sc/28/mf.gifhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techradar/software-news/~4/C67Zo1mQZLg

http://cdn.mos.techradar.com/art/features/google15year1-470-75.jpgYou spend days, weeks, months, and in the case of some Android models, years, waiting for the latest software update to hit your digital thing, then what happens? It breaks something. And you wish you had your old version back. But you can't, not without reading forums and downloading tools that may well break it completely. So you're stuck with your broken phone or tablet and life is pretty much ruined. The long awaited Android Lollipop release hit Nexus devices recently, and what happened? It slowed some machines to a crunch, stopped some apps from working altogether and made many machines generally unstable. None of this was known before launch, of course, when commenters only saw all the pretty new design stuff and wanted it on their phones and tablets as soon as possible. Hardcore users have found ways to make the Android 5.0 Nexus release work a little better on afflicted machines by editing settings and deleting apps, but in a device aimed at attracting mainstream users, that's no help at all. Your dad's not going to attempt deactivating Google Now and changing page transition effects to see if it fixes anything on his newly clunky Nexus 7. He'll put it in a cupboard or buy an iPad. Not that Apple's managed a better job of it. iOS 8 was riddled with bugs that required hasty patching, a process that's still ongoing. The latest PS4 software update also broke things. Some users couldn't take their machines out of standby mode after applying the update, ruining the point of it all once again. Leave it aloneUpdate notifications used to be exciting, bringing the promise of new things to try and have, and something to show off about. Now they're massive warning signs that your expensive gadget might about to be broken, wiped or rendered as clunky as a budget model by an inept software upgrade. At least we can install bug fixes, though! Our devices make themselves useless for 20 minutes again while they download and install a version of the software that tries to fix the previous breakages and, if we're unlucky, may introduce a few new ones. What's the problem with getting things right first time? Is it because we're all such moaners we're forcing the tech companies to release updates before they're really ready? Would another fortnight of fiddling with the Android 5.0 release have resulted in an update that didn't break quite so many devices? Would another two weeks of Google being badmouthed on the internet for being too slow be worth delaying it for and avoiding the subsequent post-release badmouthing? Trust fund blownThis sort of ongoing ineptitude breeds a mistrust of the entire process. Once your mum's had her phone rendered useless through a firmware update gone bad, she's unlikely to hit any of the update notifications in the future. So when there's a massive security hole discovered in her Galaxy M for Mum it'll stay there until she upgrades it in six years time, because last time she did an update the Wi-Fi stopped working for three months so she's not trying THAT again. Tech history is so littered with examples of updates making things worse it's almost as if the hardware makers have some sort of vested interest in making sure we buy new models when they balls up the old ones. http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/669/f/415085/s/40c0eb6d/sc/28/mf.gif http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597906205/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40c0eb6d/sc/28/rc/1/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597906205/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40c0eb6d/sc/28/rc/2/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597906205/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40c0eb6d/sc/28/rc/3/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597906205/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40c0eb6d/sc/28/a2.imghttp://pi.feedsportal.com/r/211597906205/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40c0eb6d/sc/28/a2t.imghttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techradar/software-news/~4/T7cyt9pEeUc

http://cdn.mos.techradar.com/art/techradar/TechRadar%20Deals/21st%20Nov%2014/deals%20main-470-75.jpgSound the deals klaxon! Black Friday is only one week away now, and we'll be supplying all the best deals all week next week, culminating with the big day itself. Miss it, miss out! In the meantime, here are today's top deals for all you bargain hunters who can't wait. We'll start with some games deals, because it's Friday and the weekend is nearly upon us. Firstly for new-gen console gamers you can pick up the tense and horrifying Alien: Isolation for a shade over £33 at Amazon and that deal is good for both PS4 copies and Xbox One copies. You could also pick up Minecraft for PS4 for less than £13 and Lords of the Fallen is available on both new-gen consoles for precisely £29.54. http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/techradar/TechRadar%20Deals/21st%20Nov%2014/1misfit-580-100.jpg Wearable tech is all the rage at the moment and the Misfit Shine personal activity monitor is currently available at Amazon for £53.99. It'll measure steps taken, colories burned, distance travelled and monitor your sleep. http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/techradar/TechRadar%20Deals/21st%20Nov%2014/3netgear-580-100.jpg If you're having wireless issues in your house, you could try a range extender to give things a boost. Plug the Netgear EX6100 into a plug socket in your house and it'll act as a repeater to extend the range of your wi-fi. Currently on Currys for £47.99. http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/techradar/TechRadar%20Deals/21st%20Nov%2014/2gamingmouse-580-100.jpg If you're after a gaming mouse and like to play highly complex online games, the UtechSmart Venus mouse has 18 programmable buttons, 12 side buttons and 5 customisable user profiles. Now on Amazon for just £32.99. http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/techradar/TechRadar%20Deals/21st%20Nov%2014/4marley-580-100.jpg We also spotted these House of Marley headphones at Currys for £49.99, ideal for out and about listening. http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/techradar/TechRadar%20Deals/21st%20Nov%2014/5%20aukey-580-100.jpg If you own a Google Nexus 5 or any other mobile that supports wireless charging, the Aukey wireless charger is currently available on Amazon for just £12.99. Goodbye USB cables! If you're a Samsung Galaxy S5 owner and haven't bought a case yet, check out this official S-View case from Samsung at a discounted £23.99. It has a window so that you can check notifications etc without turning the whole screen on. And finally, everyone needs portable storage these days, and this excellent 1TB USB-3.0 drive from Samsung is just £45.99. Also available in 500GB, 1.5TB and 2TB capacities!

http://cdn.mos.techradar.com/art/people/nirpolak-470-75.jpgHackers are winning the battle against today's enterprise security teams. In the year since Target suffered a record-breaking data breach, it has become clear that the lessons learned from that attack have not been widely applied. At the time of writing, 636 confirmed data breaches have occurred in 2014, a 27% increase over the same period last year, with high-profile victims such as Home Depot, eBay, JPMorgan Chase, Dairy Queen, Goodwill and many others. Why do the hackers keep winning and what can we do to stop them? It starts with rethinking the way we manage cybersecurity. Here are three ways that enterprise security teams can reverse the dynamic favoring hackers to stay one step ahead. Assume the attacker is already inside the networkThe attack surface as it exists today is not at the perimeter, but within the IT environment. Hackers used authorize credentials to plant credit card-stealing malware on many of Target's point-of-sale (POS) systems. In fact, according to the 2014 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, authorized credentials were used by hackers in 76% of all network intrusions. Once a user's credentials have been compromised, hackers can move laterally through a network completely undetected without triggering perimeter-based detection software. Network intrusion is the shortest point in the attack chain, so if enterprise security teams are only focused on keeping hackers out, they are going to miss what is going on inside the network. It's become far too easy for hackers to gain credentialed access to enterprise networks. All it takes is one employee falling victim to a social engineering scheme for a hacker to gain a foothold on the network. It's likely the enterprise network has already been compromised (if not, it's just a matter of time), and hackers are merely probing the boundaries and limits of their access and looking for the highest value target. Focus on user behavior, rather than malwareA report from PandaLabs found that 30 million new malware threats were created in 2013 – an average of 82,000 every day. There is no way to keep up with this rapid rate of malware creation, which is constantly evolving. Firewalls and anti-virus signatures are sufficient to stop common threats, but do nothing to stop an attacker with valid credentials impersonating a user. Instead, IT teams need to stay one step ahead of hackers by monitoring the credential use for suspicious user activity as a result of stolen credentials or malicious insiders. This can be done by first establishing a baseline of normal user behavior to make it easier to identify anomalies. Does James in accounting often use the VPN to access the network in the middle of the night from halfway around the world with a device never seen on the network before, switch identities and touch systems no one in his peer group has accessed? There's a good chance his credentials have been compromised. Eliminate the white noiseSecurity information and event management (SIEM) deployments are designed to alert security teams to potential threats. And they do, for the most part. The problem is that they're often buried in a haystack of false positive alerts. Target learned this lesson the hard way, when members of the IT security team missed the alerts notifying them of a breach in progress. Not every alert is a threat, but SIEM systems as they exist today have no way of tracking an attacker using valid credentials across the entire attack chain while also accounting for the possible identity switch. Enterprise security teams need to be able to assign risk scores or other methods of qualifying alerts based on user session activity in order to see a clearer picture of the entire attack lifecycle. When this happens, the incident response team can jump immediately into mitigation, rather than chasing the needle in the haystack. If enterprises want to protect against data breaches, their approach to cybersecurity must change. Focusing on the various points of intrusion is a losing strategy, as evidenced by the hundreds of data breaches that have occurred so far this year. The attack surface today exists at the network layer, and enterprises need to focus on identifying the suspicious use of valid credentials if they expect to win the battle against today's hackers. Nir Polak is CEO and co-founder of Exabeamhttp://rss.feedsportal.com/c/669/f/415085/s/40b057eb/sc/4/mf.gif http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597775713/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40b057eb/sc/4/rc/1/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597775713/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40b057eb/sc/4/rc/2/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597775713/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40b057eb/sc/4/rc/3/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597775713/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40b057eb/sc/4/a2.imghttp://pi.feedsportal.com/r/211597775713/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40b057eb/sc/4/a2t.imghttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techradar/software-news/~4/LCW0G9ekRHg

http://cdn.mos.techradar.com/art/software/Office/microsoftoffice_dropbox-470-75.jpgEarlier this month Microsoft announced that a partnership with Dropbox meant better cloud integration in Office, but that's not the only benefit. The latest update to Office for Android adds support for Dropbox, as well as better support for Microsoft's own OneDrive cloud services. Dropbox support already arrived in Microsoft's Office Mobile apps for iOS, and now the Android version matches. Microsoft explained in a blog post that you can now use the Android Office Mobile app to store files on Dropbox, browse files stored there, and edit files directly on Dropbox without having to save them to your device first. You can also email links to Dropbox files from within the app. The latest update to Office Mobile for Android is available for free (for non-commercial use) from Google Play. YouTube for businesses? Microsoft introduces Office 365 videohttp://rss.feedsportal.com/c/669/f/415085/s/40b00ce9/sc/4/mf.gif http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597856887/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40b00ce9/sc/4/rc/1/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597856887/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40b00ce9/sc/4/rc/2/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597856887/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40b00ce9/sc/4/rc/3/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597856887/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40b00ce9/sc/4/a2.imghttp://pi.feedsportal.com/r/211597856887/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40b00ce9/sc/4/a2t.imghttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techradar/software-news/~4/od0Nd4DvrMk

http://cdn.mos.techradar.com/art/techradar/TechRadar%20Deals/20th%20Nov%2014/deal%20main-470-75.jpgSaving you money is what TechRadar Deals is all about, and we've got some more bargains for you to consider here. For today's treats we've got some excellent deals on PS4 and Xbox One games so why don't we start there? Firstly, the excellent new Lord of the Rings inspired game Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor is available on PS4 at Amazon right now for just £34.85. GamesRadar rated it 4.5 and of 5 and said the game "is an outstanding action game, offering a satisfying mix of stealth and melee combat that series like Assassin's Creed or Batman: Arkham have perfected. But the Nemesis system, which cleverly makes enemies grow and evolve along with the player, is what elevates Shadow of Mordor into the upper echelons of open-world excellence." Xbox One gamers needn't feel left out though. One of the console's brightest launch titles, Ryse: Son of Rome is currently available on Amazon for £22.99. GamesRadar said this one was "the definitive Xbox One launch title, for better or worse. It's an incredibly pretty game with some impressive ideas, and it's going to surprise you with its engaging story and weighty combat." Now on to some amazing deals on tech! http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/techradar/TechRadar%20Deals/20th%20Nov%2014/easyacc1-580-100.jpg How about the EasyAcc 10000mAh portable charger? Great for taking away with you at the weekend if you're going to be away from mains power and it's good for up to 6 full charges of an iPhone 5. Currently available at Amazon for £17.99. http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/techradar/TechRadar%20Deals/20th%20Nov%2014/4jbl-580-100.jpg Today you can also pick up the JBL Micro wireless portable Bluetooth speaker for £19.97 at Currys. The battery lasts 5 hours and it'll charge from the portable charger above! http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/techradar/TechRadar%20Deals/20th%20Nov%2014/2soundbar-580-100.jpg If you're looking for a soundbar to pair with a new flatscreen TV (let's face it, the speakers on that thing aren't great), Amazon has a great deal on the Sharp HTSB30 - just £49.99. It'll not only make your movies sound great but it's Bluetooth compatible too so you can play music through it from your phone. http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/techradar/TechRadar%20Deals/20th%20Nov%2014/5tplink-580-100.jpg If the Wi-Fi in your house is ropey, you might be able to fix it by extending the range of your router. You can do that with a range extender, and Currys currently has the TP-LINK TL-WA850RE for £24.99. http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/techradar/TechRadar%20Deals/20th%20Nov%2014/beats-580-100.jpg Want some new earphones? The Beats by Dre urBEATS 2 earphones are currently £60.61 at John Lewis. Good Christmas present for someone no doubt! Heads up, though - it's the white model that the best deal applies to, with all the other colours costing £79 or more. And finally...If you've just bought an iPhone 6 or thinking about getting one, Currys currently has the Proporta Bumper iPhone 6 Case for £9.95 - don't let your new phone get scratched!

http://cdn.mos.techradar.com/art/internet/Firefox/firefox_yahoo_search-470-75.jpgThere were a ton of fledgling search engines when the web was young - remember Ask Jeeves, or the one with the dog? - but over time Google emerged as the top choice for basically everyone. (Except except for Microsoft, although that's a different story.) That does, however, include Mozilla, makers of Firefox, which has always used Google as its default search engine - until now, that is. It turns out Mozilla and Yahoo have signed a deal that will see Yahoo's search engine replace Google by default in Firefox for at least the next five years. Good for the gooseThe switch goes into effect in December, according to the Mozilla Blog. http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/internet/Firefox/firefox_yahoo_interface-420-90.jpg Mozilla CEO Chris Beard wrote proudly that the company popularized browser-integrated search and has offered a number of search options over the last decade, but this year Google's contract came up for renewal. "In evaluating our search partnerships, our primary consideration was to ensure our strategy aligned with our values of choice and independence, and positions us to innovate and advance our mission in ways that best serve our users and the Web," Beard wrote. He added that Yahoo's strategy "stood out from the rest." A shocking twistNow Yahoo will be the default search engine in the US, while it will vary in other countries. Google remains a pre-installed alternative in the browser. Yahoo search will have a new interface in Firefox (in a shocking twist, it looks exactly like Google), and will also support Do Not Track, Beard wrote. That all sounds fine, but truthfully it remains to be seen whether this really helps Firefox users, or just Mozilla and Yahoo. Mozilla's 64-bit Firefox browser will touch down in Spring 2015http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/669/f/415085/s/40a6c482/sc/4/mf.gif http://da.feedsportal.com/r/213968673929/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40a6c482/sc/4/rc/1/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/213968673929/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40a6c482/sc/4/rc/2/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/213968673929/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40a6c482/sc/4/rc/3/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/213968673929/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40a6c482/sc/4/a2.imghttp://pi.feedsportal.com/r/213968673929/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40a6c482/sc/4/a2t.imghttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techradar/software-news/~4/oxMvom7fFl4

http://cdn.mos.techradar.com/art/your_mobile_life/Note3top10/Note3-2-470-75.JPGThere are plenty of people still tooling around with the Samsung Galaxy Note 3, despite the former king of phablets getting dethroned by its successor, the Note 4. But because of that the Note 3 is bound to be upgraded to Android 5.0 Lollipop at some point, and based on the latest leak it seems that day might be approaching. The video below, from Sammobile, shows the Galaxy Note 3 running what the site says is an "internal build" of the upcoming Android update. The video gives us a glimpse at how Lollipop will integrate with Samsung's custom TouchWiz UI on the Note 3, including new animations and the addition of the Note 4's multi-window feature. How's it look to you? Worth the wait? YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmFRLu_mSCQTechRadar laid out the best Android phones - which should you buy?http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/669/f/415085/s/40a68fc2/sc/28/mf.gif http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597812195/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40a68fc2/sc/28/rc/1/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597812195/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40a68fc2/sc/28/rc/2/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597812195/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40a68fc2/sc/28/rc/3/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597812195/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40a68fc2/sc/28/a2.imghttp://pi.feedsportal.com/r/211597812195/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40a68fc2/sc/28/a2t.imghttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techradar/software-news/~4/7Awnh46_XB8

http://cdn.mos.techradar.com/art/software/Twitter/twitter_techradar-470-75.jpgTwitter has opened the floodgates and is now letting you search through anything that's ever been posted on the 140-character social network. That's hundreds of billions of tweets since Twitter launched in 2006, the company says. Up to this point Twitter's search index has parsed through mainly recent tweets, but now it includes them all - for better or for worse. Twitter Search Infrastructure Engineer Yi Zhuang elucidated a number of different uses for the new expanded search, from tracking historic elections to revisiting entire conferences, in a blog post. Let's be honest, though: you're going to use it to look up every embarrassing thing your friends ever tweeted, and godspeed you on that mission. Twitter's "Digits" lets you sign in to apps with your phone numberhttp://rss.feedsportal.com/c/669/f/415085/s/40a61828/sc/4/mf.gif http://da.feedsportal.com/r/213968669090/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40a61828/sc/4/rc/1/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/213968669090/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40a61828/sc/4/rc/2/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/213968669090/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40a61828/sc/4/rc/3/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/213968669090/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40a61828/sc/4/a2.imghttp://pi.feedsportal.com/r/213968669090/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40a61828/sc/4/a2t.imghttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techradar/software-news/~4/vBlxgaWzN0A

http://cdn.mos.techradar.com/art/features/complete%20guide%20to%20itunes%2011/MAC256.main_feat.5-470-75.jpgThe Beats Music streaming service will reportedly join the likes of Newsstand, Maps and Stocks as a default iOS app next year. Apple acquired Beats in May, and although they've yet to do anything meaningful with the brand just yet that will soon change, reports the Financial Times. Beats Music will be bundled with an upcoming iOS update as early as March, the site says. Well it Beats iTunesApple hasn't made any official statements on its plans for Beats Music, but iTunes sales slowed this year and it's clear that the iPhone maker is plotting something. Word in October was Apple will merge Beats Music with iTunes, which already offers limited streaming music with iTunes Radio, and the FT agrees that that's likely. In addition Apple has reportedly been courting record labels in an effort to slash the streaming music subscription price in half to just $5 (about £3.20, AU$5.80) a month. It looks like Spotify might get a dedicated podcast featurehttp://rss.feedsportal.com/c/669/f/415085/s/40a5a64a/sc/15/mf.gif http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597779726/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40a5a64a/sc/15/rc/1/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597779726/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40a5a64a/sc/15/rc/2/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597779726/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40a5a64a/sc/15/rc/3/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597779726/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40a5a64a/sc/15/a2.imghttp://pi.feedsportal.com/r/211597779726/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40a5a64a/sc/15/a2t.imghttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techradar/software-news/~4/6jKa2xe5Cy4

http://cdn.mos.techradar.com/art/TRBC/windows_sp4-470-75.jpg If your company is late to upgrading its OS, you are not alone. More than 20 percent of US companies are yet to upgrade from the aging Windows XP. But there are ways you can turn tardiness to an advantage. It is something you have to doMost of the risks of remaining on an unsupported Windows XP system have been widely discussed in the public sphere, as business systems are vulnerable to viruses, malware and hacks. And Microsoft's extension of anti-malware support until July 2015 won't be enough to protect your systems. XP exploits will likely begin to emerge en masse within the coming months. The millions of computers on which XP is still installed are simply too tempting a target. What's more, on an old OS your business won't have access to the latest apps or software, with all the attendant frustrations and productivity issues this implies. If you're already coming late to migration you have no choice; you need to do it now. Don't compound the problem by waiting any longer. With the latest developments on automated systems, OS migration can be undertaken much more quickly than you think. Plan carefullyPlan your migration strategy in advance, clearly setting out your objectives, costs and time goals. What are the risks? Will migration impact users, and how? It might sound obvious, but it's incredible how many companies I see that make their migration strategy up as they go along, especially those who have never undertaken a large-scale migration before. As a result, timescales and KPIs tend to drift. As well as making your migration efforts more credible within the business, this form of planning will also be incredibly helpful to you as an IT professional. I guarantee, while doing your research, you'll learn something about the process that probably would have tripped you up later on. Audit and rationaliseUnderstand which applications are required and how critical they are; how much are they actually used and what does each application cost the business? Understand if applications can be upgraded or repackaged or if a new, similar application can be found. Make sure you involve users in decisions to keep or 'rationalise-out' certain applications though. IT teams can frequently underplay this stage of the migration process and underestimate the time, complexity and overall challenge involved in rationalising apps effectively, and the cost of getting it wrong. It's often best to call in outside help to undertake your application audit, whether in the form of consulting or automated application rationalisation tools. Run basic hygiene tests on your infrastructure Migration of an OS is no time to discover you have fundamental infrastructure issues, but this is just the way it has played out for many. In fact, an OS rollout can cause companies to take the first good, hard look at their systems for a while. However, finding these faults during the migration can cause the process to draw out, adding further expense. Make sure you perform some basic sanitation issues up-front. Ensure you have applied all the most current updates to all systems. Also, ensure your system management infrastructure has minimal failure points so it doesn't become a bottleneck. It will need to have the capacity to provide deployment services and desktop management in parallel. Automate, automate, automate!Many companies manually ship disks and USBs to departments, and/or eat up time with numerous costly desk-side visits in order to upgrade individual computers. This annoys users, disrupts work, and pulls IT staff away from important duties. Ensuring rollouts occur effectively and efficiently is the quickest way to be seen as an IT hero within your organisation. Given the technology that is available, aim for 100% 'Zero Touch Windows Migration'. 1E, for example, is typically able to achieve 100% Zero-Touch on 90% of a computer estate during a migration, with very limited interaction required on the remaining 10%. OS rollout is almost completely automated across the network with minimal desk-side visits from the IT department. Get users involved Migration is not about OS, but about people. Your job is to give staff the tools that will allow them to do their job effectively. Your migration should also be totally non-disruptive. Encourage user buy-in to the upgrade process by letting them schedule when automated upgrades occur, and ensure you are clear about the benefits it will bring and when it needs to be done by. After migration, consider setting up an app store, or another way of allowing users to request applications and upgrades in a way that lets them feel in control of the process and timing. Learn from others' mistakes If you're undertaking an ultra-late stage migration, one thing is strongly in your favour; the ability to see the mistakes everyone else has made, and avoid them. Whether problems with application mapping or device drivers, you'll see some very common problems out there, often experience by IT professionals who, perhaps understandably, will never have undertaken a large-scale migration before. Scour the forums, talk to other IT professionals, and consult with experts. At this point in time the industry will have a broader view of the issues involved. Turn this to maximum advantage. Think about the next migrationIf you're migrating from XP, trust us, your next OS isn't going survive 13 years like XP did! The rate at which Windows releases a new OS is speeding up. Many companies hadn't even got onto Windows 7 or 8 when Windows 9 was announced. Think about how you can implement more robust, efficient processes for the rollout of OSs and rationalisation of applications. As before, the best solution is to automate your migration processes as much as possible, putting in place systems that will make your next migration that much smoother. Ambareesh Kulkarni is Vice President of Professional Services at 1E. http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/669/f/415085/s/40a4a21d/sc/4/mf.gif http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597778615/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40a4a21d/sc/4/rc/1/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597778615/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40a4a21d/sc/4/rc/2/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597778615/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40a4a21d/sc/4/rc/3/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597778615/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40a4a21d/sc/4/a2.imghttp://pi.feedsportal.com/r/211597778615/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40a4a21d/sc/4/a2t.imghttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techradar/software-news/~4/ayLwDartEiU

http://cdn.mos.techradar.com/art/TRBC/office365video-470-75.jpgMicrosoft has announced a new feature called Office 365 video which it calls a "NextGen Portal" and generally characterise go-to solutions that are often put in place by customers using Sharepoint; these include search, dashboard, wikis, company intranets and blogs. Office 365 Video will allow organisations to post, share and discover video content within a secure perimeter rather than having to post them to an external third party like Vimeo or Youtube. The service is powered by Microsoft's Azure Media Services and will be available to all enterprise Office 365 users (E1, E2, E3, E4) as well as Academic (A2, A3, A4) with government plans coming at a latter stage. Check out our Office 365 reviewVideos are stored in the Sharepoint pooled storage and are encrypted at-rest and in-transit. Future improvements to the service, according to Mark Kashman, senior product manager on the Office 365 group, include broader mobile device coverage, recommendations powered by Office Graph and the ability to embed videos anywhere on an intranet. Microsoft, it seems, is using the Office 365 brand more liberally with a number of services being added lately like Sway and Delve. Video is the first of these "NextGen Portals" that Microsoft will be rolling out for its enterprise users. http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/669/f/415085/s/40a06f9d/sc/4/mf.gif http://da.feedsportal.com/r/213968648416/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40a06f9d/sc/4/rc/1/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/213968648416/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40a06f9d/sc/4/rc/2/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/213968648416/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40a06f9d/sc/4/rc/3/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/213968648416/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40a06f9d/sc/4/a2.imghttp://pi.feedsportal.com/r/213968648416/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/40a06f9d/sc/4/a2t.imghttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techradar/software-news/~4/3aOXY7Vb3Ks

http://cdn.mos.techradar.com/art/software/Snapchat/snapchat_snapcash-470-75.jpgSnapchat has thrown its ephemeral gauntlet toward the feet of Venmo and other quick-cash mobile services with the introduction of a new feature called "Snapcash." Snapcash lets users send money to their friends through Snapchat as easily as they'd send a hastily captioned selfie plastered with tacky emoticon stickers. Launched in partnership with Square, Snapcash is Snapchat's first product launched with the help of another company, they shared in a blog post. And unlike Snapchat messages, cash sent through the app doesn't disappear after you open it - hopefully. YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBwjxBmMszQ'It's secure, we promise'Snapchat's blog post says the company wanted to create something like Square's Square Cash feature, but more "Snapchat-y." Snapcash is "fast, fun, and incredibly simple," as the company describes it. Once you've entered a debit card number - stored with Square - you type a dollar sign and an amount in a chat and press the green button to send it. Snapchat says they've been working hard to make it secure, and for now the feature is only available to users in the US who are 18 years old and up. Snapchat adds SnapAds for the first timehttp://rss.feedsportal.com/c/669/f/415085/s/409266a3/sc/4/mf.gif http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597717787/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/409266a3/sc/4/rc/1/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597717787/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/409266a3/sc/4/rc/2/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597717787/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/409266a3/sc/4/rc/3/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597717787/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/409266a3/sc/4/a2.imghttp://pi.feedsportal.com/r/211597717787/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/409266a3/sc/4/a2t.imghttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techradar/software-news/~4/KtOd470EXrQ

http://cdn.mos.techradar.com/art/mobile_phones/Apps/ios_dnd-470-75.jpgiPhone users by now are wary of downloading new iOS updates on older devices, but Apple has today released an update that should make you a little less scared of switching to iOS 8. While the iOS 8.1 update was a major improvement that added Apple Pay and brought the Camera Roll back, today's iOS 8.1.1 revision isn't quite as significant - unless you're an iPhone 4S or iPad 2 user. You may be living in the past, but Apple wants to throw you a bone anyway, as the new update apparently makes iOS 8 run more smoothly on those fossils. The usualOf course iOS 8.1.1 also includes the usual "bug fixes" and "increased stability" in addition to the "performance improvements for iPad 2 and iPhone 4S." For more on Apple's latest mobile operating system read up on TechRadar's comprehensive iOS 8 hub. Then check TechRadar's iPhone 6 review for the full scoop on Apple's latesthttp://rss.feedsportal.com/c/669/f/415085/s/4091cb22/sc/5/mf.gif http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597696860/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/4091cb22/sc/5/rc/1/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597696860/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/4091cb22/sc/5/rc/2/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597696860/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/4091cb22/sc/5/rc/3/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597696860/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/4091cb22/sc/5/a2.imghttp://pi.feedsportal.com/r/211597696860/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/4091cb22/sc/5/a2t.imghttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techradar/software-news/~4/yerxILShYIY

http://cdn.mos.techradar.com/art/internet/podcasts_spotify-470-75.jpgSpotify is great at competing with rivals like iTunes and other streaming services, and it could be about to improve in a key area: podcasts. Developer Ethan Lee discovered new code for podcasts in the latest Spotify developer build, sharing his findings with TechCrunch. The new build also includes the code for Spotify's upcoming Uber integration, which will let Uber riders play their Spotify music in their drivers' cars. Do you believe in magic?An image Lee also uncovered shows a "Podcasts" category sandwiched under Spotify's "Top Lists" and "New Releases" sections. When asked about podcasts, Spotify responded by pointing out that it already supports "spoken word content" in its "Word" category and explaining that they're "always testing new things." Meanwhile Lee also uncovered code for another, much more mysterious feature only referred to as "magic." That one's anyone's guess, but only time will reveal whether any of this ever amounts to anything. Spotify has a new rivalhttp://rss.feedsportal.com/c/669/f/415085/s/4091b07e/sc/21/mf.gif http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597688570/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/4091b07e/sc/21/rc/1/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597688570/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/4091b07e/sc/21/rc/2/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597688570/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/4091b07e/sc/21/rc/3/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597688570/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/4091b07e/sc/21/a2.imghttp://pi.feedsportal.com/r/211597688570/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/4091b07e/sc/21/a2t.imghttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techradar/software-news/~4/9hy3IOL20iU

http://cdn.mos.techradar.com/art/other/Chris%20Phin%20column/play_monumentvalley_desktop-470-75.jpgThe internet - and please take a moment to look around you and consciously record the world as it is now because in 41 words' time I'm going to rock it to its very core with a pronouncement of such devastating originality and novelty that it might be hard in years to come to remember just what the world was like before you heard it - is a place of extremes. Everything is either awesome, or it sucks. Not on TechRadar, of course. Here we're all about the nuance and the subtlety and not at all about the writing of provocative opinion pieces. Going to extremesAnyway, what I wanted to say was: star ratings based on public reviews are meaningless and a waste of everyone's time. Human nature being what it is means that the distribution of star ratings when the public can set them looks a bit like this: http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/other/Chris%20Phin%20column/Chart-420-90.jpg And that's because if you can be bothered to review something, it's because you've been galvanised by thinking it's either the greatest thing since sliced bread or the worst thing since Nazism; by definition, nobody gets fired up to write a three-star review. Meh begets meh, and since rage cancels out joy when you take an average, star ratings don't really tell you much. Their intent is laudable, to be sure: to give you a sense of how good something is. You could argue (as I often rhetorically did when I was an editor) that you should scrap all gradations and just give everything a thumbs-up or thumbs-down rating - which is not unlike the 1-or-5-stars position. If you don't adopt that, though, you're just talking about shades of grey in your shades of grey. Do you mark out of five stars, do you allow half-stars, do you express it as a percentage (as if anyone can seriously argue there's a substantive objective difference between a game getting 84% and 85%), do you break it down into sub-categories and derive the overall rating from that? But arbitrary as they are, star ratings given by experienced experts can allow a buying public to differentiate between appalling, unexceptional and superb at a glance. Star ratings voted by the public and arrived at by an algorithm that might be no more sophisticated than a mean average can be a mushy, indistinct mess that helps nobody. A mark of spiteThis week, ustwo released an update to Monument Valley, a game which has been universally adored by reviewers to the extent that it's essentially become a shorthand for utterly lovely and beautifully crafted gaming experiences. It cost £2.49 when it was first introduced, and this week's update adds a collection of new chapters – an expansion pack, basically – for which the developers quite reasonably charged £1.49. Predictably, what happened next is that a lot of entitled babies – who apparently either have no idea how much work goes into creating things or don't care whether their creators can support themselves and their families – hied themselves to the App Store to rate the game one star and mash the keyboard for a bit to express their disgust, thus dragging down the average rating. So for a while – until ustwo gently though exasperatedly pointed out the injustice on Twitter, prompting fans of quality and of developers being able to eat to counteract with a deluge of five-star reviews – if you'd been a regular punter browsing the Store for something fun to play, you would have gotten the impression from glancing at its rating that Monument Valley was a poor game rather than one of the most critically acclaimed games of the last couple of years. The fault isn't really with the system, though, but with people. How else can you explain the 4.9/5 rating the first picture the Philae lander sent back from the surface of comet 67P currently has? What kind of towering arsehole looks at that picture – a picture taken 316 million miles away by a probe we launched 10 years ago and which landed on an object travelling at more than 30,000mph – and rates it anything other than five stars? Star ratings don't really tell you much, then, except that people can be jerks. And we didn't really need star ratings to tell us that. http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/669/f/415085/s/4085cf9f/sc/8/mf.gif http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597635091/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/4085cf9f/sc/8/rc/1/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597635091/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/4085cf9f/sc/8/rc/2/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597635091/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/4085cf9f/sc/8/rc/3/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597635091/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/4085cf9f/sc/8/a2.imghttp://pi.feedsportal.com/r/211597635091/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/4085cf9f/sc/8/a2t.imghttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techradar/software-news/~4/cgezu-kErVc

http://cdn.mos.techradar.com/art/mobile_phones/iPhone/iOS7/iOS7-Video-10%20copy-470-75.jpgThe US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) has issued an alert to warn iOS users that they're vulnerable to a unique form of attack. They call it the "Masque Attack," and it involves malicious users tricking you into installing harmful apps from outside Apple's App Store. Devices with iOS versions 7 and up, including the latest releases, are vulnerable, CERT says. The exploit reportedly works because iOS can't distinguish between authentic and counterfeit apps as long as the counterfeit has the correct "bundle identifier." A simple solutionApple issued a statement, though, with a simple solution: only download apps and app updates from "trusted sources." "We encourage customers to only download from trusted sources like the App Store and to pay attention to any warnings as they download apps," an Apple spokesperson said. "Enterprise users installing custom apps should install apps from their company's secure website," the spokesperson added. That's one source of potential trouble, if attackers are able to pose as corporate users' IT staff. But Apple and FireEye, the security firm that discovered the vulnerability, said there are no recorded instances of this actually being exploited. Microsoft just fixed a two-decades-old security bughttp://rss.feedsportal.com/c/669/f/415085/s/407f7dc7/sc/5/mf.gif http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597562066/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/407f7dc7/sc/5/rc/1/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597562066/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/407f7dc7/sc/5/rc/2/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597562066/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/407f7dc7/sc/5/rc/3/rc.img http://da.feedsportal.com/r/211597562066/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/407f7dc7/sc/5/a2.imghttp://pi.feedsportal.com/r/211597562066/u/49/f/415085/c/669/s/407f7dc7/sc/5/a2t.imghttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techradar/software-news/~4/WZcFbUDFSZg

http://cdn.mos.techradar.com/art/games_consoles/PlayStation%204/PS4%20A%20Year%20In%20Review%20Grabs/jpg/dualshock4white-470-75.jpgSony PS4: One year onTomorrow sees the PlayStation 4 turn one year old and it's had quite the debut. With Nintendo and its floundering Wii U console barely a speck in the rapidly-shrinking distance, PS4 has battled Microsoft's much-maligned Xbox One console at every turn and come up smelling of roses time after time. Records have been broken, exclusivity deals have been made and fan allegiances won and lost – so as Sony blows out the candles this November, was it greatness that awaited that sleek black box? A strong startPS4's first month couldn't have started any better; Microsoft's garbled handling of Xbox One's defining 'always online' and DRM features in the months leading up to its November 2013 launch had left its fanbase – both casual and hardcore – looking for a new port to call home. With an aggressive PR campaign and some social media-minded executives in the form of Jack Tretton, Adam Boyes and Shuhei Yoshida, PS4 hit the ground running. Read our updated PS4 reviewIn the US alone PS4 sold 1 million units within 24 hours of its launch (a staggering figure when you think it took Nintendo a whole year to sell 1.5m Wii U's) with global sales reaching 2.1m by the beginning of December. PS4 went into the Christmas period as a must-have item, thanks in no small part to Sony's aggressive pricing. At £399 in the UK it was a whole £30 cheaper than Microsoft's rival platform and with requests for PS4 going through the roof, Sony must have been wringing its hands with glee as it struggled to meet global demand. http://cdn4.mos.techradar.futurecdn.net//art/games_consoles/PlayStation%205/PS5/PS5_characters/Characters/crash_bandicoot-200-100.jpg A Knack for gamesAll these sales are a little surprising considering the relative lack of solid software available for new adopters, though. Two of PS4s biggest launch titles – the socially-minded racer Driveclub and the uber-hyped open-world hacker sim Watch Dogs – were delayed well into 2014, leaving Sony's new hardware a little threadbare in the software department. Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag proved to be one of the series' most popular (and commercially successful) instalments, but its availability on old-gen consoles took much of its PS4 sheen away. It was much the same for cross-gen titles such as Need For Speed Rivals, FIFA 14, Madden 25, etc, while Battlefield 4 blew its own foot clean off with servers as unstable as its much advertised falling skyscrapers (although this issue affected every single platform DICE's shooter was released on, so its effect on PS4's overall sales seems marginal at best). Only cutesy platformer Knack, download-only shoot-'em-up Resogun and sci-fi shooter Killzone: Shadow Fall could offer the mystique of a proper 'new-gen only' experience. The new Killzone looked great, but its much-lauded open-ended level design was sadly resigned to a small percentage of the game, while Knack was… well, a knackered attempt at a platformer. Only Housemarque's Resogun ticked every box, offering addictive score-hunting gameplay and visuals so good you'd want to lick the screen. In fact, it would take ten whole months for PS4 to get its first piece of unit-shifting software. You might have heard of it? It's called Destiny… Destiny was, and is, a big deal for PlayStation. Yes, the phenomenon that made $350m for publisher Activision in just five days is technically available on both Xbox platforms as well, but a heavily-PlayStation branded advertising campaign helped drive PS4 hardware sales into the stratosphere. Strangely it would be on Xbox One that Destiny would sell the most copies, but a ninth straight month as the number one selling console was more than enough for Sony. In and around Destiny there were a few standout releases (inFamous: Second Son, The Last Of Us Remastered and Driveclub being the most notable) but its clear that 2015 will be the real proving ground for Sony's promise of gaming greatness. http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/games_consoles/PlayStation%204/PS4%20A%20Year%20In%20Review%20Grabs/XMB%202-420-90.jpg Delivering on its promisesIt's been almost 20 months since Sony unveiled PS4 back in February 2013 and since then Sony has sold a mind-melting 13.5 million units worldwide. That's quite a few people that have either upgraded from PS3, switched over from a rival platform or purchased PS4 as a first console, with many of them likely charmed by Sony's refreshingly no-nonsense promises. Question is, how many of those promises actually made it into reality 12 months on? Well, Cerny's promise of a, "supercharged PC," has proven a solid investment thanks to its powerful 8GB of GDDR5 and the developer-friendly X86 architecture – in fact, news of new-gen games hitting 1080p and 60fps on PS4 (while failing to hit that on Xbox One) have become so common its barely newsworthy anymore. http://cdn3.mos.techradar.futurecdn.net//art/games_consoles/PlayStation%205/PS5/PS5_characters/Characters/little_big_planet-200-100.jpg Many of the unique features that sets PS4 from its rivals are now a reality, but its taken the best part of a year for them to get here. Remote Play (which enables you to stream any PS4 game through your PS Vita handheld console or Xperia smartphone) remains a remarkably reliable service while the newly-added Share Play feature (where one player with a full copy of a game can invite one of his friends to join him, even if they don't own a copy themselves) looks set to be a huge hit among its ever increasing user base. Sadly, the Suspend & Resume feature, which enables you to turn on your PS4 and jump back into a game in an instant, has proven a little too ambitious to realise quite yet. So while Microsoft's console feels castrated without the features it was forced to tear out last summer, PS4 feels like a untapped wilderness of potential. Even something as simple as the Share button has breathed new life into not so much the industry of making games but the industry of celebrating them. So has it been a memorable year for PS4? Well, while it's sold extremely well it's only in the last few months that we've really seen a glimpse of what it's capable of. With regular, tangible firmware updates and a genuine belief in the importance of supporting independent developers, it's the coming few years that will hold the most exciting developments for PS4. Read: PlayStation 4 review

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