Monthly Archives: June 2013
Big Data Surveillance Is Real Purpose of Huge NSA Phone Record Sweep
The good news in the telephone records revelations that blew up on June 5 and 6 when the Guardian newspaper revealed that Verizon was...
Microsoft’s Botnet Takedown Campaign: 10 Reasons It Keeps Doing It
Microsoft and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced on June 6 that they successfully took down a $500 million botnet that was using...
Kaiser Permanente Releases Open API for Health App Developers
Kaiser Permanente, a nonprofit health care system, has unveiled Interchange, a secure open API that will allow application developers to collaborate with KP on...
A Microsoft Upgrade Worth Considering
NEW ORLEANS—While much of the attention of the recent enterprise system announcements at Microsoft’s Tech Ed conference was focused on the embrace of all...
Microsoft Shows Off Windows 8.1, Teases Small Tablets at Computex
Microsoft has stopped playing coy when it comes to its big Windows 8 update.In sharp contrast to the tight-lipped stance Microsoft took when details...
NSA Collecting, Analyzing Call Data: Leaked Court Documents
The National Security Agency, a U.S. government organization tasked with breaking enemy communications and protecting the nation's information technology, has collected data on the...
Jelastic Taps Former Microsoft MS-DOS Pioneer as Adviser
Jelastic, provider of a platform as a service (PaaS) for Java and PHP apps, has bolstered its development team with the addition of a...
Red Hat, SAP, Ericsson Invest $10M in Mirantis for OpenStack Push
Mirantis, an OpenStack systems integrator, announced that Ericsson, Red Hat and SAP Ventures, along with existing investor WestSummit Capital, have invested $10 million in...
Intel Brings Haswell to Xeon E3 Server Chips
Intel officials have spent most of their time when talking about the "Haswell" processor microarchitecture focusing on what it will mean in the PC...
Google Bolsters DoubleClick’s Social, Management Capabilities
Google's DoubleClick digital advertising and marketing platform for online sellers is getting some key upgrades, including a new ad campaign manager and social media...