Monthly Archives: April 2014
Google Brings Lens Blur to Mobile Phone Cameras
It's been just about impossible to artistically create a blurry foreground or background in a photo taken with a mobile phone or tablet camera...
IBM Watson Group Invests in Fluid to Transform Online Shopping
IBM’s Watson Group announced that it has invested in retail application provider Fluid Inc. to empower online shoppers with Watson’s expertise and personalized advice.Fluid...
Apple Uses Earth Day to Announce Green Initiatives, Provoke Samsung
Apple, on Earth Day, announced to visitors to its site: "We want to leave the world better than we found it." That's a tall...
Google Names Participants for 2014 Summer of Code Program
The 10th annual Google Summer of Code program will involve 1,307 students who will be working with 190 mentoring organizations around the globe as...
AT&T to Expand U-verse With GigaPower Fiber Network to 100 Cities
AT&T, no longer dabbling with trial projects, has announced an initiative to try and expand its "ultra-fast fiber network" and deliver U-verse with GigaPower...
Verizon Security Report Says Attacks Vary by Industry
Although Verizon's annual Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), which came out today, includes lots of specific data points, one of the key observations is...
Google Seeking Nonprofit Groups to Receive Glass Grants
In the wilds of Nepal, Google Glass is being tested by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) as a way to better track endangered wild...
Daily Tech Briefing: April 22, 2014
While fiber optics is relatively common in telecoms and hyperscale environments, some vendors have plans to start pushing it into enterprise data centers. By...
Microsoft Re-Mixes PowerPoint for Interactive Presentations
Microsoft is working on technology that makes linear, by-the-numbers presentations a thing of the past.As countless office workers can attest, PowerPoint, while useful for...
Security Risks for Cloud Are Like Those for Non-Cloud Deployments
Though the cloud offers a different deployment and consumption model for computing services, many of the same security risks present in non-cloud IT deployments...