Monthly Archives: October 2013
Amazon Preparing Two Smartphones and Set-Top Box: Reports
Amazon continues to expand beyond its retail and software roots into the hardware market—which CEO Jeff Bezos has made clear does perfect work of...
Adobe Reports Massive Security Breach
Adobe Systems has reported a massive security breach that could impact up to 2.9 million Adobe customers.According to Brad Arkin, Adobe’s chief security officer,...
Twitter Files Public IPO Papers, but Red Ink Prevails
Twitter on Oct. 3 filed its public S-1 document to the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public stock offering, and it did...
Cloud, Mobile, Software-Defined Networking Trends Prominent at Interop
New cloud competition, the meshing of consumer and network applications, the maturing of software-defined networks, network services to match compute and storage, and the...
Kevin Packingham, Samsung Chief Product Officer, Is Out the Door
Kevin Packingham, chief product officer for Samsung Electronics, and the man who helped launch a number of popular Galaxy devices, has left the company,...
Google Updates Chrome Browser and Chrome for iOS, Android
Google's latest Chrome Web browser, Version 30.0.1599.66, is now available to Web users for free download, featuring some 50 security patches and fixes and...
Is the Bing It On Challenge a Little Off?
People prefer Bing's results to Google's, asserts Microsoft in its "Bing It On" ads. A Yale professor is challenging those claims.The Bing It On...
Oracle Intros x86 Servers Powered by New Intel Xeon Chips
Oracle is unveiling new x86-based servers powered by Intel’s Xeon E5-2600 v2 processors, which the chip maker introduced in September.Oracle officials on Oct. 3...
Trustwave Automates Penetration Testing With Cloud Service
In the security market, penetration testing is a time-honored practice that typically requires a lot of time to organize, schedule and manage. Security vendor...
A10, Midokura, Pantheon Join OpenDaylight SDN Project
Midokura, A10 Networks and Pantheon Technologies are the latest companies to join the OpenDaylight Project, a vendor-driven effort to create an open-source platform for...