NASA CTO Predicts Help Desks Will Become Extinct
Tom Soderstrom, CTO at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), views everything through the clouds. NASA’s JPL uses 10 public or private clouds to store everything from photos of Mars for public...
View ArticleSEC Asks Companies To Reveal Cyber Attacks
U.S. securities regulators formally asked public companies for the first time to disclose cyber attacks against them, following a trend of high-profile cyber crimes. The Securities and Exchange...
View ArticleAre Governments Lacking Cyber Security Experts?
There is an element of “it would say that” as it administrators the CISSP certificate for cyber security strategies. However, its comments do strike us as likely. It has called on national governments...
View ArticleYahoo Mail Bugs Is Possible Culprit In Android ‘Botnet’ Spam
Accusations that an Android-based botnet is churning out spam may, in fact, be false, but instead a sign that criminals are exploiting bugs in the Yahoo Mail app for Google’s mobile operating system, a...
View ArticleReport Says Many Android Devices Are Vulnerable To Unpatched Flaws
Over half of Android devices are vulnerable to known security holes that can be exploited by malicious applications to gain complete access to the operating system and the data stored on it, according...
View ArticleIBM Makes Renewed Push Into Mobile With MobileFirst
IBM is making a renewed push into the explosive growth market for all things mobile, saying it can help its corporate customers grow revenue and become more competitive through mobile app development....
View ArticleAdobe Doing Better Than Expected
Adobe Systems Inc, maker of Photoshop and Acrobat software, raised its full-year adjusted earnings forecast after reporting first-quarter results above Wall Street estimates as more customers flocked...
View ArticleGoogle Close To Acquiring Mapping App, Waze
Google is close to a deal to purchase Waze, maker of the power crowdsourced mapping app, for at least $1 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal and other sources. The potential deal was first...
View ArticleIBM Join Forces With Google On Power Chip Platform
IBM has teamed up with Google as it launches an effort to expand the use of its Power platform and reverse declines in its hardware business. Its strategy involves licensing designs of the Power...
View ArticleSamsung Joins OpenPower Consortium
OpenPower was the brand of a range of System p servers from IBM that utilized the Power5 CPU. Samsung’s products currently utilize both x86 and ARM-based processors.
View ArticleHP To Unveil Plans To Enter 3D Printing Market
Hewlett-Packard Co will unveil plans to enter the commercial 3D-printing arena in June, saying it has resolved a number of technical issues that have hindered broader adoption of the high-tech...
View ArticleGoogle To Invest In Low-Orbit Satellites
After experimenting with high altitude balloons, Google has now turned its focus towards a fleet of low-earth-orbit satellites capable of delivering Internet access to remote regions of the world. The...
View ArticleFifty Percent Of Android Apps May Have Security Holes
Shaking the industry like a bear might a salmon, Heartbleed caused most companies to come forward and issue alerts and patches. Some laggard servers remain though, and according to security researchers...
View ArticleHalf Of Web Traffic Is Bot Generated, Says Recent Report
Nearly half of all Web traffic comes from bots and crawlers, and that’s costing companies lots of money. That’s one finding from a report released by DeviceAtlas, which makes software to help companies...
View ArticleTwitter Suffers Another Loss
Twitter Inc’s Chief Technology Officer Adam Messinger announced via a tweet on Tuesday he would be leaving the company, the latest in a string of high-profile executive departures. Messinger had been...
View ArticleWill Twitter Be Around For All Of 2017?
"If data quality is bad, ad targeting is bad, and if ad targeting is bad, advertisers are not happy, and hence monetisation will remain challenging for Twitter," Chowdhry said.
View ArticlePowermat Releasing Updated, Stronger Wireless Charging Pad
Powermat plans to roll out an upgrade to its wireless charging technology in January that will enable 15-watt power transfers through a 1.5-in. thick solid surface and provide support for new Apple...
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