Monthly Archives: April 2014
Microsoft-Nokia Deal to Close on April 25
Microsoft will end this week with Nokia's devices unit officially under its corporate umbrella."Today we are excited to share that we have completed the...
General Mills Cancels Legal Changes, New Privacy Terms Remain
Grocery titan General Mills says it has heard, loud and clear, consumers' displeasure with its new legal terms and so has reverted to its...
Optical LANs Starting to Move From Cloud Giants to Data Centers
Elias Bernardino is the executive director of IS for Santa Fe (N.M.) Public Schools, a system that includes 14,000 students, 2,700 employees and 34...
IBM Bolsters SoftLayer Ecosystem, Adds Disaster Recovery, Security
IBM launched a series of new initiatives to bolster its SoftLayer cloud computing effort, including providing new resources to support SoftLayer ecosystem members as...
Online Payment Adoption Slows After Years of Growth
After several years of growth in the use of emerging payment methods like prepaid cards and mobile payments, a new survey saw a small...
Technological Advances Expected to Have Positive Impact on Society
Most Americans anticipate that the technological developments of the coming half-century will have a net positive impact on society, according to a study by...
Opko Health Acquires Medical Device Specialist Inspiro
Biopharmaceutical and diagnostics company Opko Health announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Inspiro Medical, an Israeli medical device company.Inspiro is...
Program and Portfolio Managers Face Transformational Changes
Program and portfolio management (PPM) leaders must prepare for a greater number of business transformation projects and programs with higher expectations for results, as...
Easy-to-Use NTP Amplification Emerges as Common DDoS Attack Vector
In the past year, attackers have changed focus from attacking applications to overwhelming network bandwidth using brute-force reflection attacks, according to a report published...
Microsoft Expects Cortana Voice Assistant to Get Smarter
Cortana can speak, listen, decipher text queries and get to know users, courtesy of Microsoft's search and machine-learning technologies. According to the software giant's...