Monthly Archives: November 2013
New Google Chrome Experiment Goes Inside the World of the Hobbit
With a new Hobbit movie soon to be released, Google is getting Middle-earth fans ready with an interactive, multi-media, exploratory adventure prepared specially for...
NSA Looking for Dirt to Defend the U.S.
When the U.S. National Security Agency scandal about online spying was first revealed, the defense offered by the NSA's leadership was that it's all...
Better Encryption Makes CryptoLocker a Threat
For two months, a pernicious piece of malware has spread to consumer and business computers, encrypting files and demanding payment for the key to...
Data Integrity, Networked Devices Among Top Health IT Hazards for 2014
Data Integrity, Networked Devices Among Top Health IT Hazards for 2014
By Nathan Eddy
Alarm Hazards Lead the List
Ventilators, infusion pumps and many other devices generate...
10 Android Location-Based Apps to Help You Find Your Way Around
10 Android Location-Based Apps to Help You Find Your Way Around
by Don Reisinger
Back Country Navigator
Not everyone is looking to get around town on...
Riverbed: Public Cloud Usage Growing, but Reliability a Concern
Businesses are increasingly turning to public clouds such as Amazon Web Services and Rackspace, and that usage will only go up, according to WAN-optimization...
Microsoft’s Tighter Encryption: Why Others Should Follow Its Lead
The revelations in The Washington Post that Microsoft was working to encrypt all the traffic the company moves around the world because of National...
OpenStack Cloud Aiming to Improve Coding Consistency
There are many hundreds of developers who contribute code to the open-source OpenStack cloud platform. For the recent OpenStack Havana release, the top developer...
Google Gives Developers New Tools: Dart SDK, Portable Native Client
Google has unveiled two useful new tools for developers, a new Dart 1.0 software development kit (SDK) and a new portable native client that...
Tablet Owners Prefer WiFi to Data Plans, Due to Cost
The unprecedented use of tablets at a mass-market level in Western countries has many implications for operators and device manufacturers, with 43 percent of...