Monthly Archives: March 2014
IBM Launches Counter Fraud Effort With New Software, Services
NEW YORK--IBM launched new software and services to help organizations use Big Data and Analytics to address the $3.5 trillion lost each year to...
CIOs Must Change Their Technology, Service Relationships
Major changes will reshape the service provider landscape over the next several years as organizations struggle to adjust to a digital future, according to...
Small Businesses Embrace BYOD Tablets, Harbor Security Worries
While small and midsize business (SMBs)--defined as 100 to 2,000 employees--see considerable business benefits to tablet adoption, they also state that tablet users demand...
Cloudera Rides Hadoop, Big Data to Market Advancement
NEW YORK–With its latest round of funding, big data darling Cloudera is poised to go public some time down the road as the company...
Microsoft Ex-Employee Arrested for Windows 8, Other Leaks
An ex-employee of Microsoft, Alex Kibkalo, was arrested in Seattle March 19 on charges that he leaked early, pre-release Windows 8 code and copied...
How the IoT Will Create Major Challenges for Data Centers
If we at eWEEK aren't writing about our usual-suspect IT topics—data security and privacy, application development, big data analytics, the cloud, data centers or...
GigaOm Pundit Suggests Enterprises Have Gone From Hadoop to ‘Hadumping’
I attended GigaOm's Structure Data conference last year, and the conference was all about the promise of Hadoop, big data and unstructured data, which...
Is Windows Phone 8.1 Nearing Release?
Windows Phone 8.1 may be inching closer toward release, according to an eagle-eyed blogger.Ubergizmo's Tyler Lee spotted a reference to the mobile OS on...
Malware Turns 25K Linux Servers Into Spam Distribution Botnet
A sophisticated network of 25,000 compromised Linux servers has become the foundation of a massive cyber-criminal botnet capable of sending 35 million spam messages...
Microsoft Fixes Skype Bug That Drains Battery of Android Devices
The Android version of Microsoft's popular Skype video calling app had one unpopular quirk: It placed a noticeable, sometimes massive, drain on batteries.The company...