Monthly Archives: January 2014
FireEye’s $1B Mandiant Buyout: Is the Price Too High or Too Low?
Security is one of the great market segments of the technology world as it's not typically driven by seasonality or cyclical demands. Security needs...
Google Glass Will Integrate With the 2015 Hyundai Genesis
Google Glass and other wearable devices will be able to be used by drivers to remotely and wirelessly operate some of the features of...
CES: Five Big Consumer Electronics Trends Hiding Behind the Gadgets
The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) starts next week. I won't be there this year, but about 150,000 consumer electronics geeks will attend to...
Cisco, Dell, Others Push Back at NSA Spying
Cisco Systems was one of several top-tier tech companies to respond to reports that the National Security Agency had compromised various systems—from network switches...
Windows XP Upgrades to Windows 7 or 8 Take Patience, Know-How
As I write this column, I can see the flicker of the drive light on an HP workstation out of the corner of my...
Kaplan, Thoughtbot Team for Ruby on Rails Boot Camp
Kaplan Test Prep, a provider of test preparation materials and services, and Thoughtbot, a Web and mobile design and development firm, have partnered to...
Microsoft Releases Linux Integration Services 3.5 for Hyper-V
Microsoft is making room for more Linux distros on its virtualization platform with the release of Linux Integration Services 3.5 (LIS 3.5) for Hyper-V.Linux...
Intel Looking to Boost Enterprise Biz in 2014
Most of the talk around Intel involves its efforts to gain traction against ARM and its partners in the highly competitive mobile device space,...
Rackspace: OpenStack Bet Is Paying Off
In July 2010, Rackspace's Jim Curry helped to found the open-source OpenStack platform. It's an effort that now has the support of many of...
Ikea Names Former Google Sweden Head to Its Board
Ikea has appointed a former head of Google in Sweden as a member of the company's board of directors with the idea of capitalizing...